HS2 versus TGV redux

The UK's automotive sector - and it had one in 2019, I was employed in it - was crippled by EU manufacturer retaliation against our Brexit vote.

The entire EU initiated a plan to destroy us. They made the utterly bogus claim that the UK would no longer be able to supply materials to the EU and demanded that any UK automotive sector manufacturer wishing to continue supplying an EU car maker initiate a programme AT THEIR EXPENSE of manufacturing and warehousing AGAIN AT THEIR EXPENSE a FIVE YEAR SUPPLY of every part demanded by an EU manufacturer

The EU did this knowing fully almost every vehicle is redesigned every year, and parts change which is why the world adopts just in time manufacturing in which it is viewed as barking insanity to have more than three months stock not assembled, and the further insanity of twenty seven countries indulging in an automotive equivalent of airbus's flying parts around the fucking world just to placate unions and socialist governments means at any one time one months worth are on trucks being driven along EU motorways.

And half way through this deliberate destruction of the productivity of UK business unchalleng d byba Tory government that did not want to leave the bloody EU and were happy to see British industry destroyed so they could tell Brixiteer Tories 'we told you so', the EU wide limp dick border security let a bunch of pix laden chi ese state agents infect the whole fucking continent with the yellow death.

And the shutdown that was allowed to cause killed of anything else this country had going for it

We're fucked and we've been fucked by a mix of Chinese and EU extermination

We used to have an industry in which

I just dont know why though some people persist in this whine about brexit. It's done for the foreseeable , and there is no public or political will to rejoin. I have argued mainly because whatever the rights and wrongs of brexit , the uk cannot go back because it will look weak if it does , and be internationally laughed at , as some diminished  entity crawling back .

With the state of the EU economies , I am struggling to understand why anyone would want to take economic lessons in the UK from them.

I wasnt suggesting you were whining about brexit John. You have no reason to whine , as you won the referendum.

You need to read the entire thread ( I know I know if you can be bothered) to see what im getting at.

Well it's easy to sneer I suppose, but the fact is, and it is a fact, that High Speed Rail or the Trans-European Union Railway (TEN-R) was intended to cover the whole of the EU including the UK, HS2 was the main part of its High Speed design in Britain as was HS3. But along with other HS rail lines this, as several EU directives show, was conceived in Brussels. 

When John Major signed the Maastricht Treaty in 1992 and handed the UK to the EU, he also signed us up to the the EU's Trans-European Railway (TEN-R) as defined by EU Council Directive 96/48/EC. High speed rail makes absolutely no sense in this country, but thanks to John Major, there was nothing the British government could do to stop it.

Dan: A high speed trans European rail network was outlined as far back as the Treaty of Rome, at that time the original Trans-European Network Member States (TENs) were not obliged to upgrade or complete existing infrastructure. But this changed when such obligations became EU law and were included in the 1992 Maastricht Treaty. High speed rail linking the UK to the EU was a condition of John Major signing the Maastricht Treaty and had nothing to do with the British government.  

Are you seriously suggesting that EU Commissioner Kinnock would have objected to EU expansionism?