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Originally Posted by Hugh
tbf, Pierre has made a good point - it would cut the legs off of all those saying he/the Tories don’t care about the North…
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I agree with you and Pierre that announcing it in Manchester is a poor look. But if he had to announce it at the conference, getting it out of the way first would have been preferable to the current situation.
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Originally Posted by Damien
He is obviously going to say the money is going elsewhere, it's just how realistic and credible it is. If it's something else that requires years of consultation then it's meaningless.
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Trouble is to be meaningful, the infrastructure projects are probably going to be of the scale to require consultation and the pay off won't be quick.
Another side to this is the UK is running out of work for its train-builders and a delayed and shortened HST could result in redundancies.