Search the Community

That's awful lot of zeros, and no benefit whatsoever to the North East. We only have vague promises that sometime somewhere we might see a few crumbs from the table. Now you'd have thought that the Labour Party would have opposed this vast public spend, or at least insisted on some balancing project to benefit their loyal supporters in the North East. But, they trotted into the lobbies last night like sheep to support Cameron. Why? Because they know that their support in Birmingham is a lot more tenuous than it is here! The North East is sucker bait for New Labour - that middle-class elitist party still trading on its working-class origins by pretending to be working class! If Labour had held out for the North East they could very easily have swung a major infrastructure project bringing much needed jobs. There were easily enough green-suburb Tories opposed to the mega-spend (ones who's constituents didn't want it in their back yards). Labour didn't because they have cynically calculated that they can get all the mindless support they need from working-class people in the North East, without doing anything at all for the area! UKIP is the only major party opposed to HS2, because it believes that the spend is unjustified, and that there are far better things to do with such a vast sum of public money than shave minutes off the travelling time of wealthy business people who'd work on the train anyway. http://www.ukip.org/aylesbury_s_tory_mp_bottles_hs2_vote This is what Ed Balls thinks about HS2: Whoops a "blank cheque" from Labour then! But, it's fine to wave it through as it buys some extra votes in the Midlands where Labour will really fight the next election. Mindless voting is the sure route to self-impoverishment!