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European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 6. January | 59 comments (59 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: European Salon... - 6. January - ThisThat (none / 0)

Neither side is being honest here. I'd love to think a Hi-speed rail link might be built north of london, but barring miracles, it won't be in my lifetime. The UK political establishment are about as hostile to railways as it's possible to be.

So, this is just the usual political bs of bidding about nonsense to avoid dealing with other problems.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Mon Jan 5th, 2009 at 04:33:39 PM EST
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Heh (none / 1)

Last week's economist calls UK rail (or at least plans for a new North-South line) a subsidy by poor Southerners to rich Northerners...

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Tue Jan 6th, 2009 at 04:02:38 AM EST
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Re: Heh (none / 0)

How interesting. Commuter railways are the most heavily subsidised in the country because of the unbalanced anture of the load, which means that hte South East receives the overwhelming majority of govt money.

Now, either the economist knows this, which they should, and are lying. Or they don't know it and reveal themselves to be not just ideologically blind, but incapable of basic fact checking.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Tue Jan 6th, 2009 at 05:55:21 AM EST
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Re: Heh (none / 0)

Rich Northerners? Aren't incomes in the North about half those in the South?

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Tue Jan 6th, 2009 at 09:35:39 AM EST
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