Hs2

Froggitt

dggar wrote: »

Froggit, you're a genius ,I can't understand why you aren't running the country.

Indeed. I have a few policies to share.


1 - end all unemployment benefits, and offer government funded jobs at a similar level, dredging rivers, building houses, mending roads, childminding and nurseries etc. No job, no special brew.


2 - pull out of EU - too many centralised rules that don't suit the UK.


3 - scrap the Barnett formula that means English taxpayers fund Scottish free universities - how can that be fair


4 - build nuclear power without giving billions of pounds to private companies, by reinvesting in nuclear skills in the UK, and then exporting those skills


5 - reduce the annual budget deficit to zero through savings in government expenditure, and then pay off the national debt, currently over one trillion pounds, and costing 50 billion pounds in interest a year - then use the 50 billions in annual interest savings to rebuild the country and cut taxes now at virtually an all time high


6 - stop funding foreign countries, through the international development budget, would can afford space missions and other fripperies


7 - link HS1 and HS2 - I have visions of hoards of Chinese tourists dragging suitcases down the Euston Road.

giraffe69

Originally Posted by dggar View Post
Froggit, you're a genius ,I can't understand why you aren't running the country.

I think we have just been told why not.

Froggitt

care to elaborate?

Laz123

Froggitt wrote: »

Indeed. I have a few policies to share.


1 - end all unemployment benefits, and offer government funded jobs at a similar level, dredging rivers, building houses, mending roads, childminding and nurseries etc. No job, no special brew.


2 - pull out of EU - too many centralised rules that don't suit the UK.


3 - scrap the Barnett formula that means English taxpayers fund Scottish free universities - how can that be fair


4 - build nuclear power without giving billions of pounds to private companies, by reinvesting in nuclear skills in the UK, and then exporting those skills


5 - reduce the annual budget deficit to zero through savings in government expenditure, and then pay off the national debt, currently over one trillion pounds, and costing 50 billion pounds in interest a year - then use the 50 billions in annual interest savings to rebuild the country and cut taxes now at virtually an all time high


6 - stop funding foreign countries, through the international development budget, would can afford space missions and other fripperies


7 - link HS1 and HS2 - I have visions of hoards of Chinese tourists dragging suitcases down the Euston Road.

I agree with most of it. If you run for office you can't do any worse than the Libdems just did in Manchester.

Froggitt

Woohoo - my first vote. Downing Street here I come. Who else wants to vote for me? Maybe the two earlier posters?

martindow

Laz123 wrote: »

What is space age? Aren't we in it already?
How do you mean by 'much more flexible through running'?

By through running I meant that trains on the new line can run through on heritage lines albeit at lower speeds as TGV in France do. One reason French lines are cheaper is that they only construct high speed sections through countryside often alongside motorways. The trains go onto old lines to get into Paris, Lyon, etc. avoiding expensive tunnels.

If/when HS2 is built you could have through trains to all sorts of destinations running partly on the new lines and partly on existing routes.

If you build a new incompatible system like monorails or maglev the trains are limited to that line.

Laz123

martindow wrote: »

By through running I meant that trains on the new line can run through on heritage lines albeit at lower speeds as TGV in France do. One reason French lines are cheaper is that they only construct high speed sections through countryside often alongside motorways. The trains go onto old lines to get into Paris, Lyon, etc. avoiding expensive tunnels.

If/when HS2 is built you could have through trains to all sorts of destinations running partly on the new lines and partly on existing routes.

If you build a new incompatible system like monorails or maglev the trains are limited to that line.

A bit like Tramlink. But that links up with existing heritage lines like Wimbledon and East Croydon and works very well.