bickster

Apples and pears I agree with you but conflating pricing of fares with building and improving the infrastructure are two entirely different issues. Conflating those issues is a bad idea. Making that connection is what people opposed to such schemes want you to do. The "trains are expensive enough as it is without having to pay for this on top of it." The rail structure needs massive improvement and investment that is a good for everyone The fare structure needs decreasing and yes Nationalisation would massively help that but the two are not connected. The sooner this country wakes up to the fact that we are the only country in Europe that generally runs trains as a for profit business the better. The rest of Europe views the railways as crucial infrastructure, not just for people but for business too, they go hand in hand.

The point wasn't about wrongs and rights. It was about the relative costs of stuff. People quote numbers in billions and think they are huge sums of money HS2 (phase 1) started in 2017 and will complete in 2029, The cost is £44bil across 12 years that is less than £4bil per year. It isn't huge sums of money being spaffed up a wall

You haven't defended "them" saying "they broke no rules". You quite clearly have said that crossing the channel is illegal. No-one I'm aware of has said they defend crossing the channel in small boats. Plenty of people have defended asylum seekers right to be asylum seekers, quite rightly, pretty much everyone minus 1

Test and Trace - £37bil and it ran from an excel spreadsheet.

Beware the Ides of March

Because separating Fast services from the semi-fast and slow services increases rail capacity. The bottleneck isn't on the line from Holyhead to say Crewe, the bottleneck is on the WCML it doesn't have the capacity for freight to use much of it because of the Fast / Express passenger trains. The Fast Services require huge gaps between the trains for safety. Slow services and freight do not need the huge gaps and more of the line can be filled with trains safely

I'd say she was the exception not the rule though

It doesn't actually do that. It replaces one route to London with another. People won't be travelling to Euston on the same lines as they currently are. You won't be able to get a fast train from New St to Euston any more, that franchise will not exist, which is why the franchise for the NW Mainline had a condition of running High Speed networks There is no extra route, there is no extra focus. The express train to London will only use one route. The current routes will be used by more local services and freight. Slower trains require shorter stopping distances and that massively increases capacity on the lines. Separating the express trains from the slow and semi-fast trains adds huge capacity

Go on, quote one person defending "them" whoever them may be

Improving Public transport is a good thing No? Lots of people don't understand what the aim of HS2 is? They just see it as another railway line that enables you to get to that London quicker. It really isn't that, the aim has been badly explained from the off. I've posted this before but a railway engineer explains why HS2 is really important to public railways and the advantages it will bring across huge parts of the rail network. The getting to London so many minutes faster is just the by-product of building a new modern railway. That isn't it's purpose

Bunch of flakes the lot of 'em

Thats another fine knot you've just tied yourself into

He'd only be repeating what everyone else said to you so why bother, you took no notice of anyone else's posts

You'd prefer 30,000 people on the dole? Capital Building projects are mainly good not bad in times of economic hardship.

What was said and what was broadcast. Compare and contrast

Her agent would have a point tbh As much as Russell Grant may have a claim, his name wasn't used by people in sentences like "When did you become Mystic Meg?" That just tips the scales I think

Her number was up

You did

Engineering stuff that doesn't fall out of the sky is kinda his day job

Thats a very small part of what you said and no one has disputed it, it's prety undeniable, of course they do. I've been on a bus with a wanted criminal, it doesn't make me the same as him.

Just the last three examples of you conflating illegal immigrants and asylum seekers

You've conflated the two very regularly today, so without directly saying it, you've said it

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