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Originally Posted by martyh
No you didn't you said the have it ,
"I can think of many better ways to spend 32billion which the government has now shown they got"
A large chunk of government spending is borrowed money and yes it is fine as long as we can afford it .The reason we can afford it is because of cuts being made in other aspects of government spending
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That isnt saying they got it in a vault, thats saying they got it available to spend on budgets.
What you wont admit is you think the government should cut back on things you dont support under the guise they cant afford it and then when its something you support its ok to borrow and splash the cash. You assuming this is been borrowed when its quite possible its simply been funded from cuts in other departments.
The message is this.
The government cant afford to spend 30 billion on social services, welfare, housing, prisons, border security, police, pensions amongst other things. Yet they can afford it to spend it on 100 miles of rail track. Credibility out of the window.
The fact is and it is a fact, the government sold us the cuts were been used to reduce a deficit, not to shift money to other projects. Especially projects that are clearly overpriced and some contractors will be making a nice wad of cash from it.
Freedom of information request will be going in to see what companies are doing this expensive work and if any have ties to political donations. I expect to be told it cant be provided due to commercial sensitivity tho.
20 mins is a luxury small boost to a journey its not a game breaker. Yes it is nice to have a quicker journey, however not at that cost. Modern business uses video conferencing now days, if they wanted to invest in making business meetings more practical then that would have made more sense and probably cheaper for benefiting more of the country as well. This just benefits london and birmingham plus whats in between. What is sad as well is that people will be paying twice, once via taxation and again via higher fares.