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Let's compare apples with apples, eh. How much of that 1.18 trillion went on infrastructure investment? The actual spend so far, is £24.7bn. And in case you'd missed it, it's nowhere near finished and everyone accepts that even when it is, it's not coming in anywhere near the original...

Jesus, where did I say that I'm against large-scale infrastructure spending. Put me in charge and we'll have an awful lot more renewable energy investment, and maybe the odd gigafactory. Boris can finally have his forty new hospitals, and we need a lot of schools building and fixing. We'll...

I don't trust the Tories any more than you mate. I've always been of this opinion in regards to HS2. Of course Sunak is probably lying about using the money elsewhere, but I still think the whole thing is an enormous waste of money. Not big numbers, *vast* numbers. No other infrastructure...

And that's me done on HS2. I appreciate others differ but for me it was flawed and hugely over-expensive from the start, with original cost/benefit justifications based on completely made up figures. And then it got worse.

I don't know how many times I need to say that I've no objection to infrastructure spending, until it sinks home. Who is saying cancel all infrastructure projects? The cost of HS2 isn't "high", it's massive. 100 billion pounds. I don't think people get how big that number is. Over twenty...

The idea that a clearly fascist state, Russia, is invading a neighbouring democracy to rid it of other fascists, is for the birds. That said, there's no doubt that Ukraine has issues with the far-right too, as do a number of Eastern European countries, like Serbia. We're not exactly perfect...

Can I just put this out there. Start from scratch, and assume you've got 100 billion to invest in the country. Consider what's going on in terms of the disparity of wealth, the lack of housing, the state of schools, hospitals, and prisons, and the climate crisis, and tell me that you still...

But the point is that it didn't make the case to *everyone*, unless you cherry pick only the people that agree with you. Plenty of other independent assessors questioned the value then and since. But like you once the idea that a gold-plated, fastest railway ever built, was the way forward...

Is everyone who disagrees with you a crank? You don't half get emotional over this sort of stuff which doesn't really help your argument. This obviously isn't Brexit, and it's not just a few Tories in the shires. It's 100bn pounds worth of investment that an awful lot of people from the...

If you think HS2 isn't already making some people very rich, you've not been paying attention. And why are you banging on about Brexit, it's completely unrelated unless there was a referendum on HS2? Politically HS2 is neutral to me, it's simply a matter of the vast cost on a huge white...

It's literally not everything I'm asking for. I want the money to be spent, but intelligently. The case does not stand up for HS2, never did. And that's me speaking as one of the few people in Coventry who live near enough to the thing to benefit (very slightly). As opposed to anyone from the...

My plan would start by not literally making up the numbers to justify a vast white elephant that sucked the the juice out of every other potential project, and I'd take it from there. I assume from your response you disagree, so which bit of the article specifically do you dispute?

That would have been better, but even better than that would have been to kill the fecking thing from the start. The whole cost/benefit analysis used to justify HS2 was the biggest crock of shit ever. It was literally fictional. I'm all for spending money on infrastructure to stimulate the...

Gambon was pretty incredible in "The Singing Detective" too, for anyone who remembers that.

I don't know what the odds are of us making the playoffs again this season, but I'm pretty sure they're nowhere near the same as you spontaneously materialising in Borneo. Personally speaking, I think it's far too early to say how this season pans out. If I had absolute belief that there was...

I've watched a few hours of the eldest playing it, seems very slow and somewhat complex to me; but I am old now and unlikely to be the target market. I'd guess it depends what floats your boat and how much spare time you have on your hands. :)

No mate, not a joke. An opinion. Get over it if yours differs. Down the channels Simms looked quicker and keener when he came on, I thought. Simms was probably tiring by then in fairness. I'm interested in your genius though mate, you're of the opinion that Simms is a striker that doesn't need...

It's not an unfair point, but daft as it sounds I think we're back in a kind of rebuilding phase. If either Simms or Wright had clicked straight away then it's a different story, but that's football. For me personally, Robins has done enough to earn a bit of trust. He's shown he can turn...

Fair enough mate. I doubt there's many on here who haven't lost it watching City at some point. It's good to let it all out from time to time. 😁

In fairness to Wright, and this won't be a popular opinion, I actually thought he offered a bit more than Simms when working the channels and perhaps added a bit of energy when he came on. But the miss was hideous I'm afraid. Anyone who thinks Godden doesn't add anything except goals...