"The case for not building the line at all is weak, but plausible. The case for building half of it then giving up there is non-existent." Why the chancellor should stump up for HS2.
This is Labour's chance to show it is serious about investment.
If they'd started building it at the northern end is it true to say they'd have got more completed and kept the costs from spiralling because they hadn't had to deal with the Tory NIMBYs in the Shires insisting on tunnels? Anyway, they need to complete it.
We shouldn't have built HS2 in the first place. There were better alternatives. But I do agree that we are where we are, and the line should serve central London and go north of Birmingham archive.progressivebritain.org/2012/04/27/h...
in the bad place, incidentally, someone has already accused me of complicity in genocide for this piece
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We all know that they'll build the first half. It will be a genuinely impressive thing, and everyone will ask why we can't have this across the country.
BUILD IT ALL BUILD IN FULL