HS2...not best value option...report.

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• Captain Haddock

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  5 October 2023     15:04382779
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  Having time on my hands as a pensioner (average savings made by retired people aged 65 and over amounts to £113,600. This figure includes cash ISAs, savings and current accounts, trusts, stocks and bonds) lets have a quick Google on France (for example) and Covid..
  
  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8792773/
  
  https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20210910-french-ex-health-minister-agn%C3%A8s-buzyn-charged-over-handling-of-covid-19-pandemic
  
  https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/17/world/europe/france-coronavirus.html
  
  https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2020/4/20/frances-covid-19-failures-are-the-result-of-decades-of-austerity
  
  And Germany https://www.ft.com/content/85c06c2d-2c80-4e94-a792-1539ad306a5b
  
  https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-bundestag-mask-scandal/
  
  And across Europe https://www.occrp.org/en/coronavirus/europes-covid-19-spending-spree-unmasked
  "The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
  
  Dr. Hunter S Thompson
• Dover Pilot

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  5 October 2023     15:16382780
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  HS2 will not be extended to Euston unless enough private investment is secured
  
  https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/oct/05/hs2-not-extend-euston-without-private-funding
• Jan Higgins

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  5 October 2023     17:10382781
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  HS2 was really just for a few business people who since lockdown have probably discovered they no longer need as many trips to London.
  
  However I wonder how many forcibly moved media people now based up north are the reason it is still dominating the news.
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• Captain Haddock

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  5 October 2023     18:11382783
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  Meanwhile in China.
  

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• Captain Haddock

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  5 October 2023     23:42382786
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  If only Isambard Kingdom Brunel had scrapped the GWR beyond Bristol and terminated the other end at West Drayton rather than Paddington they could have spent the money saved improving turnpikes countrywide to improve transport.
  
  It's a no brainer when you think about it.
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  Dr. Hunter S Thompson
• Button

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  6 October 2023     07:00382787
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  Yeah, but Box Tunnel - bit of a vanity project, don't you think?
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• ray hutstone

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  6 October 2023     08:37382788
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  Meanwhile, in Japan.....
  
  
• Captain Haddock

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  6 October 2023     09:18382792
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  Fifty years of bullet trains in Japan
  
  https://www.uk.emb-japan.go.jp/en/webmagazine/2014/11/shinkansen.html
  
  And the idiots are about to sell off all the compulsorily purchased land on the route to stop anyone building HS2 in the near future .................................
  "The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
  
  Dr. Hunter S Thompson
• Captain Haddock

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  20 December 2023     19:32383445
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  But I thought HS2 was to free up the track for freight?
  
  Still, mustn't waste the money saved.
  
  

  
  "The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
  
  Dr. Hunter S Thompson
• Keith Sansum1

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  12 January 2024     08:49383574
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  Of you keep borrowing the debt rises
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