Starting Hojlund.
Persisting with Onana.
Shaw clearly not game-ready.
Bruno too deep.
The subs were too late.
The players let us down, as usual, but it’s hard to defend the manager tonight.
Nationalise it. Invest in it. Protect it. Introduce trade barriers to defend it and mandate all public procurement to use it.
Owned by the UK, employing British workers, rebuilding Britain.
Today’s decision on HS2 is the wrong one. It will help to fuel the views of those who argue that we can no longer think or act for the long-term as a country; that we are heading in the wrong direction.
HS2 was about investing for the long-term, bringing the country together, ensuring a more balanced economy and delivering the Northern Powerhouse. We achieved historic, cross-party support, with extensive buy-in from city and local authority leaders across the Midlands and North of England. Today’s announcement throws away fifteen years of cross-party consensus, sustained over six administrations, and will make it much harder to build consensus for any future long-term projects.
All across the world, we see transformative, long-term infrastructure projects completed or underway. They show countries on the rise, building for future generations, thinking big and getting things done.
I regret this decision and in years to come I suspect many will look back at today’s announcement and wonder how this once-in-a-generation opportunity was lost.