Behold my works ye mighty and......despair.
So HS2 is not going to make it to central London but we are “assured” it will reach Manchester. Great, a rail line designed to bring the country together will fail to link its two principle cities. Cheese paring has won again.
To be perfectly clear after the cancelling of the HS2 line to Leeds and Yorkshire levelling up was dead, now it has been buried.
The one new, important, productivity enhancing, desperately needed infrastructure project that would bring work and jobs and wealth to the North from London is being strangled at birth.
With Jeremy Hunt giving a speech today on his new economic strategy, he couldn’t have found a better way to shoot himself or the country in the foot.
If Labour wants to win back the Red Wall, it knows what it has to do, build a single railway, between the two most important cities in England.
It’s not rocket science.
Economics, trade and Brexit, not necessarily in that order but the dog always comes first.
By Jonty Bloom Media