The day the HS2 money pit opened...

Today is the official ground-dig start of the HS2 build. At a time when the country, ravaged by a disease which it, apparently, didn't see coming is financially broken by the cost of deferring redundancies and bankruptcies and has discovered new, travel free ways of doing business, the government is undertaking yet another Bob the builder project which will inevitably spiral out of cost control, take far longer than has been planned and ultimately, be of little benefit to the commuting population that will pay for it.

There really is little defence of this project on any level. The idea that the save in time will be of benefit to the business community in 2050 is ludicrous. By then technology will provide us with instant visual communication anywhere in the world and electric helicopters to take us anywhere we need to be in the security of our own space. 

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