This is what happens when you appoint halfwits to the cabinet. Appointing Dorries is a huge **** you to the country.
“We are now getting dangerously close to the “elected dictatorship” that Lord Hailsham, the former Lord Chancellor, warned us about half a century ago.” - Loony lefty, Ken Clarke https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/johnson-ken-clarke-elected-dictatorship-b1960009.html
Channel4News interview with Johnson is interesting...interesting in a total ****ing car crash type of way!
The PM wears a ****ing hard hat when nothing is above him but refused to wear a mask in a ****ing hospital...what an absolute **** of the highest order
I can't get too upset in the sense that I'm not sure there was a case for HS2 to be built anywhere. Invest in rail yes (though it would be better if it was all in public ownership obviously), but I can't see the case for high speed rail. It's the modern world. People can arrange their timetable according to how long a train journey takes. I understand that you can even use your phone on trains these days! Wow! They'll be moving away from steam engines next. More reliable trains arriving in greater quantity is surely better than increasing the speed of a few? As for how they calculate that a train going faster can generate £N for the economy is beyond me, and I'm sure requires quite a bit of creative accountancy (perhaps as creative as the original estimates for the line?)
The case for high speed rail is not principally based on journey times. Doubling the speed means each train to can do nearly twice as many journeys so making the capital cost smaller per journey.
Absolutely, the new work was about capacity. Not just the speed, but the extra lines would have given more space for trains. The cross Pennine train is slow, outdated and rammed at rush hour. Just speeding that up won't solve that.
I hate to say I told you so, Carrie...but you were shagging him while his previous wife was being treated for cancer
Point taken, but the high speed lines appear to be fantastically expensive. So just wondering if they would be more expensive than say adding another conventional line and moderninsing the signalling on existing lines?
I am pretty sure that if you build a new line the most economically efficient one is a high speed one. Upgrading an old line is a cheaper way to get more capacity but is very disruptive and limited in the amount of capacity that can be installed.
She complains criticism of her is "misogynistic" yet complains that those who accuses others of bring racist, sexist, homophobic etc are beng "woke". She complains that people are "rude and cruel" online yet she defends her own rudeness and cruelty as "justified". Her being the Culture Secretary is as insulting as Cummings not being sacked. We are governed by self serving, vile hypocrites. The Government is stuffed with people like Dorries and it will remain so for the foreseeable
