HS2 is officially ‘unachievable’ after being given red rating

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• hellothere@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I try not to be all doom and gloom, but this is the exact sort and scale of project the UK needs to be successfully completing to combat climate change. The fact we can’t is legitimately terrifying.

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  • li10@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Stuff like this just makes me wonder what’s the point of working and contributing to the country.

    Things like this and funding the NHS are what people need, yet apparently it can’t be done.

    How can every single thing that benefits regular people be too expensive, what else is there to spend money on??

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    • sadreality@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Best use of the money is to give it to the rich based on whoe governments are acting aroundthe world.

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• FlyLikeAMouse@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m shocked I tell you, shocked.

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• mannycalavera@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Jaysus H Christ. Can we not build any new infrastructure?

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  • Syldon@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    With a government that literally could not organise a piss up in a brewery, the answer has to be no. They are just grifters conning the country out of money for themselves and anyone who will support them. Nothing else has any importance. The covid inquiry outcome will be very telling just how little these scumbags actually wanted to help the people they serve.

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    • mannycalavera@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The delay and spiralling cost seems to be a mixture of government failure, local issues, national anti HS2 campaigns, poor planning by the contractors building the thing.

      What, in your opinion, could this government (or the next Labour government) do to enable 21st century transport infrastructure to be built across the country (north to south, and east to west)?

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    • sadreality@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      People make real money on government contracking and it is a good place for corruption where state actors and private sector fleece tax payers. Boomers are getting extra greedy tho, back in the day at least they delivered something, half the to now project isn't even delivered or delivered without poor condition or not fit for the use case.

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