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Post by zanygame on Oct 8, 2023 20:36:29 GMT
that are better value.
By which we mean all those things we already promised to do but can't afford coz we've screwed the economy will now get done with the money from HS2.
And the money will go to the Northern powerhouse.
That's north as in Bristol, Ely and Cambridge to Oxford.
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Post by Pacifico on Oct 8, 2023 21:43:00 GMT
How much do you think would be too much to spend on HS2? - or is there no limit?
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Post by zanygame on Oct 8, 2023 21:50:30 GMT
How much do you think would be too much to spend on HS2? - or is there no limit? What's that got to do with it. I'm against HS2. I'm also against the Tories pretending its extra money for other projects. |
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Post by Pacifico on Oct 8, 2023 22:01:40 GMT
if the Tories save £100 billion by scrapping HS2 what is preventing them spending that money on something else?
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Post by zanygame on Oct 9, 2023 7:20:56 GMT
if the Tories save £100 billion by scrapping HS2 what is preventing them spending that money on something else? The fact the economy is so shot that they haven't got £100Bn to spend on anything. |
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Post by Pacifico on Oct 9, 2023 7:24:08 GMT
if the Tories save £100 billion by scrapping HS2 what is preventing them spending that money on something else? The fact the economy is so shot that they haven't got £100Bn to spend on anything. so we cannot afford HS2 then.. a good decision by the Tories. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 9, 2023 7:24:10 GMT
Some of the things Sunak promised to do where finished years ago.
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Post by dappy on Oct 9, 2023 7:41:23 GMT
Just for the record, we haven’t saved £100bn by scrapping HS2. In the real world you don’t recover monies already spent or contracted if you scrap a project midway.
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Post by zanygame on Oct 9, 2023 7:44:31 GMT
The fact the economy is so shot that they haven't got £100Bn to spend on anything. so we cannot afford HS2 then.. a good decision by the Tories. Indeed, just stop pretending the money is going to be spent elsewhere. They're so broke they can't even repair the roads. |
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Post by zanygame on Oct 9, 2023 7:45:52 GMT
Some of the things Sunak promised to do where finished years ago. And who knew the Bristol underground system was in the northern powerhouse.  |
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Post by Dan Dare on Oct 9, 2023 8:24:54 GMT
Acccording to the Command Paper "Network North: Transforming British Transport" presented to Parliament last week, scrapping the northern leg of HS2 will save £19.8 billion:
"Every penny of the £19.8 billion committed to the Northern leg of HS2 will be reinvested in the North; every penny of the £9.6 billion1 committed to the Midlands leg will be reinvested in the Midlands; and the full £6.5 billion1 saved through our rescoped approach at Euston will be spread across every other region in the country."
It's created a huge controversy about the legendary "£36 billion", whether it exists at all, and if it does how much is new money and how many projects were actually already funded.
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Post by andrewbrown on Oct 9, 2023 8:46:03 GMT
Acccording to the Command Paper "Network North: Transforming British Transport" presented to Parliament last week, scrapping the northern leg of HS2 will save £19.8 billion: "Every penny of the £19.8 billion committed to the Northern leg of HS2 will be reinvested in the North; every penny of the £9.6 billion1 committed to the Midlands leg will be reinvested in the Midlands; and the full £6.5 billion1 saved through our rescoped approach at Euston will be spread across every other region in the country." It's created a huge controversy about the legendary "£36 billion", whether it exists at all, and if it does how much is new money and how many projects were actually already funded. Watching Mark Harper on Victoria Darbyshire yesterday it looks like much is for already announced projects that they didn't have the funding for, but will pass the buck to the elected mayors... |
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Post by zanygame on Oct 9, 2023 14:09:14 GMT
Acccording to the Command Paper "Network North: Transforming British Transport" presented to Parliament last week, scrapping the northern leg of HS2 will save £19.8 billion: "Every penny of the £19.8 billion committed to the Northern leg of HS2 will be reinvested in the North; every penny of the £9.6 billion1 committed to the Midlands leg will be reinvested in the Midlands; and the full £6.5 billion1 saved through our rescoped approach at Euston will be spread across every other region in the country." It's created a huge controversy about the legendary "£36 billion", whether it exists at all, and if it does how much is new money and how many projects were actually already funded. Watching Mark Harper on Victoria Darbyshire yesterday it looks like much is for already announced projects that they didn't have the funding for, but will pass the buck to the elected mayors... As an aside. I find Victoria Derbyshire gets far better answers than Laura Kunsberg. Victoria addresses the answer given while Laura just keeps repeating the original question. |
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Post by Fairsociety on Oct 9, 2023 14:17:23 GMT
The problem Labour have they are shit at maths, Abbott is a example, when asked where 'all this money' is coming from for this, that and the other... they sing dumb, because they realise what they've already 'promised' if they get in, means they've already run out of other people's money ... LOL
So where is the Labour Magic money tree?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 9, 2023 14:24:15 GMT
The problem Labour have they are shit at maths, Abbott is a example, when asked where 'all this money' is coming from for this, that and the other... they sing dumb, because they realise what they've already 'promised' if they get in, means they've already run out of other people's money ... LOL So where is the Labour Magic money tree? It's already growing at Tory headquarters. |
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