WHere’s the elephant in the room? It has not received a discussion of spending review. In the midst of hospitals and schools, the highways and prisons, the great beast wander, a ghostly spirit that cursed all that was stolen.
I found it on a handout of Whitehall, sandwiched in a place between Leeds station and a level of Welsh levels crossing. The transport department does not include it in its train plans for Parliament. This is transferred, as if a small species, in just one short sentence. It is said to spend it £ 25.3bn “to meet long-term shipping challenges” for HS2. Are you a train or not a train?
This means that the rest of this parliament, the Rachel Reeves treasury seeks HS2 to eat between the fifth and a government quarter The entire investment budget of £ 113bn. However this annoying fact is less compliant with Commons or any subsequent media comment.
There is definitely no reference to the constant project dug costs to complete the middle of 2030s. According to the end Public Accounts Committee ReportEven slimmed rails run over £ 80bn and usually says £ 100bn is about to come. Excessive nuclear nuclear reaves reactions cost less than that And he was glad to boast of them.
Because few know the billions of millions from millions, let’s see the comparisons. Reeves now want to build a rail from Birmingham to eUstat at a price more than double £ 39bn he wants to spend Within the same decade, 2025-2035, in social residence. Within this parliament, £ 25.3bn extra that reeves spend HS2 more than the jails and new classrooms.
So by next election, HS2 Did £ 25.3bn receive, while two railroads in the east-west, in midlands and north, receive £ 6bn between them 300m. These projects discuss, but why not HS2? Could it because reeves are embarrassed? He knows that HS2 has a configuration with the welfare of commuters in London. London often won with vanity projects.
At first HS2 constructed high speed – which requires multiple tunnels and paths – and then reduced speed but not at cost. Then said part of the capacity not speed, but it does not appear to reduce the cost. Then cut it from 11 platforms in seven of Eusta. It’s a real stupid train.
The project shortly lost any serious supporters outside of train addictions and political cheerleaders. Of 2021, after Rishi Sunak as Chancellor Leeds extension canceledGovernment project infrastructure provides HS2 Authority A “Red rating”with no reason “project delivery appears incredible”. Public Account’s public committee said “The amount for money is at risk“. After 2023, Sunak as Prime Minister Second Northern Teg canceledin Manchester. This makes the project all the value “level up”.
The more common minutes I know are The Public Account Committee question in HS2 in December. They read like a banana Republic at work. Company’s main executive, Marcos Wild, 17 days at his job, perhaps something like His primary £ 650,000. Forty-three HS2 staff is recognized as Got more than £ 150,000 one year. Meanwhile, whistleblowers say that councilors costs are manipulated to obtain the fund. One of them last week pays more than £ 300,000 Compensation after being excluded from two roles as a result of his whistlightblowing.
Pac Champ, Geoffrey Clifton-Brown, said HS2 is “a conversation interview … how to run a major project” and the department for transportation transportation “is likely to waste billions of money taxes and overdends.” Despite 33,000 employees employed and 2,000 sub-contractors and consultants who have already moved billions of prices at the current price, HS2 clearly knows how to relieve money taxpayers. It is tried to claim that, unlike schools or hospitals, it is because of the money “under contract”. The PAC entered. It only suggests HS2 team that makes a “reset”. This week reset brings clear form of a need for more money. The store-over-the-shape.
The final fiasco surrounds the HS2 destination fund. It is planned to be OK-Oak common to Acton, due to completion between 2029 and 2033. The belief eUSTATA extension is no longer visible today Up to 2038that in public investment is almost not. Working in eustaton stopped, leaving a reported 400 families driven by from their homes and 25 hectares of dirt. It’s Starmmer’s Constitution.
Sunak says Eustahon a day will be built “in the private sector”, which can implement a cluster styter in Canary Whyf Whyf Whyf whats on Skyscraper. Even disgust does not realize what is needed £ 6bn – if not £ 10bn. The new EUSTAHON will only send a few trains at a time on a less convenient Birmingham station than the old. In railroad travel still not back to pre-pandemic levels, eustaton requires another train but a politician with guts.
The whole Whitehall now knows HS2 without meaning. In times like this, parliament is hopeless. Most MPs, for some time in the past, voting for different mistakes and hatred for changing their thoughts. HS2 is the Iraq War of Spending a blacksmith. Starmer is sure to know that, on the day he takes office, he must do what Chris Christie did in New Jersey. The Governor only told contractors with two large Hudson subson tunnels Pack up and back.
Starmer can kill it, again some billions from selling HS2 land. At the same time, the reeves can be wild. He can double the number of projects he lists this week. Hospitals can be shocked by numbers, schools have increased, prisoners have changed. I can’t believe Reeves really think Britain needs them less than it needs a new Birmingham train. As before, he launched it. He took a weak decision, and could not bring himself to mention it.
