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Friday 15 September 2023

Steaming ahead



Minister unable to say if HS2 will reach Manchester - but insists levelling up agenda 'steaming ahead'

Chris Philp said he didn't know whether the line would go to Manchester as planned but that trains would go "very fast from London".



6 comments:

Sam Vega said...

trains would go "very fast from London".

dearieme said...

A line from Brum to somewhere obscure in NW London: a folly.

It's hard to believe that Gordon Brown was an able chap when he was young, but he was.

Maybe years in the Blair orbit endimmed him.

Doonhamer said...

As with most pollies, the devil is in what they did not say.
The trains will not be fast going to London.
Young Able Broon. Yes. If only he had not damaged his eye he might been a a very capable Broon in international rugby. And maybe we would have been spared Blair, who really just took advantage of Broon.

A K Haart said...

Sam - so would I if I inadvertently found myself there.

dearieme - I can believe young Gordon Brown was an able chap. He always struck me as someone who wasn't pursuing his own interests but he did have a severe dose of politics and never shook it off.

Doonhamer - the project has disaster written all over it. Everyone concerned will be staggered if it ever turns out to be worthwhile, but the perpetrators will be long gone.

James Higham said...

Vanity project?

A K Haart said...

James - and nothing else from the look of it.