HS2, the UK’s massive high-speed rail project, was supposed to unite Britain. Instead, it exposed what’s broken inside the county's political and media institutions.
This episode with Michael Gross unpacks the cover-up and its consequences.
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Lots of accounting but no accountability from Rachel's sham budget.
Tax rises on the people who work the hardest could be avoided if HS2-the gravy train to nowhere- is finally scrapped.
Scrap HS2 and recall the MPs responsible now!
Strong words from @strickia from @the_tpa!
Rachel Reeves should do the decent thing and scrap the national disaster that is HS2 to fill the budget black hole.
There's no denying it now!
@tmlbk discusses a new poll from @JLPartnersPolls which shows conclusively that the majority of Britons would scrap HS2 to fill the budget black hole.
Our @JLPartnersPolls data in the Times showing where the public are on HS2 – not happy. My quote in the piece:
"It’s pretty stark that a majority of the public think of HS2 as wasteful spending that they would not want to see offset with tax rises.
When only one in five of the public think that HS2 represents good value for money, you know that something has gone very wrong with both how a project is delivered and how it has been communicated.”
https://t.co/uW1WoAxEro
One CEO’s £940,000 ≈ the lifetime funding gap for a whole school or community health service.
That's what budget misalignment looks like. #HS2#PublicSpending
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