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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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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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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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