It is apparent that the Triple Cock of the North is not entirely acquainted with the truth but if you stumble across a website called The Burnham Programme, you will discover his looniness in all its naïve ridiculousness.
It reads like a brain dump – everything he hopes and thinks in one long screed – so let’s consider just one small aspect of this astonishing manifesto: the disaster that is HS2.
Our Glorious Leader promises an Infrastructure Emergency Act to extend the line to Manchester and Leeds. He claims an anytime return from Wigan to Euston will fall in price from £364 today to £300 when the trains are nationalised and a mere £80 when HS2 is built.
And he’s talking about extending HS2 to Glasgow, Edinburgh and – believe it or not – Belfast via a tunnel under the Irish Sea, with a halt at the Isle of Man.
This is all to be funded by the bond market, but off the books. He also confesses: ‘Total additional borrowing above baseline over 12 years: approximately £108 billion.’
Reading this nonsense, you wonder if it was all a dream and then he woke up, became Prime Minister and discovered he was not in fairyland after all. Unless it’s a spoof website, I suppose.
https://theburnhamprogramme.co.uk/
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