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Why HS2 is FIVE TIMES over budget? 107 Bn Railway Scandal
  • Double down on your ignorance by all means. The company is a government owned entity that does as it’s told by the government, and is bound the act. It existed well before the budget was set and well before things like land compensation were agreed.

  • Why HS2 is FIVE TIMES over budget? 107 Bn Railway Scandal
  • So tell me you don’t understand without saying you don’t understand.

    The HS2 act, which effectively set the costs (known, unknown and unknowable) was passed by a Tory government desperate not to upset their financial backers in the Home Counties.

  • Labour gain Tamworth
  • So… it seems that with a low turnout from tories, between them reform uk, Britain first and ukip took enough votes from the conservatives for labour to steal a win. I desperately hope that we send the tories packing next election but it’s hard to see this as anything other than a protest vote.

  • HS2 is officially ‘unachievable’ after being given red rating
  • Obviously blocking you doesn’t work otherwise I wouldn’t see this nonsense. I’m not your personal Fucking google assistant.

    If someone tells you it’s raining outside do you ask them to prove it or do you look out of the fucking window?

  • HS2 is officially ‘unachievable’ after being given red rating
  • I’ve only got two decades of civil engineering experience in Europe china and now the uk to draw on. I can’t provide a source for the absence of Chinese reporting on land costs because you can’t prove a negative. Although it should be blatantly obvious that comparing the cost of building something in the uk to the cost in china is simply pointless. Here’s a link to a high speed train collision in china that killed a heap of people: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wenzhou_train_collision And another one: https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/high-speed-train-derailment-china/ … and a link to construction labour deaths https://clb.org.hk/en/content/china’s-most-dangerous-industry-getting-more-dangerous

    The point being that china has a very different equation when they go about doing things to here in the uk.

    Frankly I shouldn’t have to do this for you.

  • HS2 is officially ‘unachievable’ after being given red rating
  • You only mentioned china, where they don’t report on land costs because all land is state owned but yes I do believe land compensation is much less in china, not least because HS2 land compensation is significantly above market rate. Also; an authoritarian regime with only superficial regard for the health and well-being of their workers, that are paid almost nothing is certain to be cheaper. Suggesting otherwise is banal.

    Edit to add Troll alert.

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