I’m exciting to have beeen nominated as the Green candidate for Romsey + Southampton North! I hope to serve my constituency well and I’m grateful to have the opportunity!
Fun fact: the technology behind tilting trains comes from British Rail engineers — imagine the great things BR could have done if it was allowed to become a statutory corporation and compete globally?
Reminder that in the test valley, including in this area, Stockbridge, the Green Party saw vote growth.
Is a 0.0% Muslim area full of “sectarian Islamists” too?
246,000 Brits left last year.
Net, 136,000 went. A city the size of Watford.
Many are entrepreneurs, investors, small businesspeople.
It’s the Starmer Exodus.
Reform will Bring Brits Back.
@thelefttake I’d like a full investigation into corruption, now I’m not alleging there’s any corruption but how do you piss all this money down the drain without any???
We like to blame the costs of HS2 on tunnelling (myself included) but look at the amount of tunnels THROUGH MOUNTAINS that France and Italy built.
Instead of subcontracting bs firms why don’t we just pay the French govt at this point 😭
@neheritagelib What is rail twitters take on sectorisation? From what I can tell (as someone born almost a decade into privatisation) is that sectorisation started to see real progress
You have to read the room, GBR, this is horrible.
Hopefully this will be the only one, a sort of "promotional" train, while we rethink our design strategy.
Until then, GBR, don't waste anymore money!
🚨 NEW: The Government says HS2 is now set to cost up to £102.7bn
The first trains from Birmingham to west London are expected between May 2036 and October 2039
Services from Euston to the North West and Scotland are expected between May 2040 and December 2043
EXCLUSIVE: Rachel Reeves will next week scrap parts of the bank ring-fencing regime introduced after the 2008 financial crisis, with reforms aimed at freeing up billions of pounds of extra lending as the government urgently seeks ways to boost the economy. https://t.co/yBDHHH76kp