That’s the first episode of Question Time I’ve watched in any part since before the Referendum.
It's still f***ing dreadful.
There was a comment on HS2 by the trustafarian banjo twanger. First of all he calls it HS1, Fiona Bruce corrected him and asked if he meant HS2 because she'd never heard of HS1. HS1 is the Eurostar line through the Channel Tunnel you dumb bastard. Then the banjo twanger goes on about getting to Manchester 15 minutes quicker and not one person picks up on this nonsense. Then a woman in the audience talks about not being able to get more local trains across the country and she doesn’t care about getting to London. Not one of them actually knows or realises that HS2 is all about capacity on the railway not speed, the speed is just the side effect of building new modern lines. The capacity the new lines will take off the old East and West Coast mainlines will enable more local trains and more freight to be carried on the network. It’s the solution to the sodding problem they are complaining about (and more.)
Not one of the panel, not the Labour woman, not Campbell, not the Tory, nor even Tim Stanley all of whom should know managed to even challenge this speed nonsense. Complete bunch of morons. Anyone watching it with no knowledge still thinks it’s about getting somewhere a bit quicker and it won’t do anything for them.
If this bloke can explain it, why can't they. Listen to Gareth!