Ssshhh dont tell Knotty Ash Saint of this HS2 money appearing !!!Originally Posted by philthompson
Ssshhh dont tell Knotty Ash Saint of this HS2 money appearing !!!
Emphasis on the "almost" in your "almost pointless arguing" was it?! LOL
£8bn to fix pot holes - great news! Should get nearly half of them repaired:
https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/...t-reveals.html
Take note of the noise made in the media rounds along the lines of "we can't make the regions spend it on this but that's what it's been allocated for". Engineered a situation where they can blame the state of the roads on the regions despite knowing full well there isn't enough money to fix the issue - pot holes will still be a huge problem even after this "investment".
Was it £36bn for northern HS2 and this is £8bn for the entire country... Lots more to come then? Already said that it was announced on 4th October that all the money was going to the regions - breaking this up in to smaller chunks and making announcements as if it's new sounds suspiciously like trying to pull the wool over people's eyes which I know is something you don't like?
Who is being naive here? Why are there so many pot holes? I'm sure with your insider knowledge of budgets for the regions you'll know that since 2006 funding for local roads has been cut by 50%. These guys deserve a medal don't they for providing almost half the money needed to fix a problem that is their own doing. Look over there quick though! Stop the boats!
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/l...-b1100256.html
If it's safe to assume from two posts I've made in this thread that I'm a "dyed in the wool Labour voter" then I'd assume that you are one of the unfortunate souls who have succumbed to 13 years of gas lighting and divide and conquer dog whistling by government ministers along with the Daily Mail and The S*n and it's muddled your brain - so almost pointless arguing.
In all seriousness though, I agree this is an example of some of the HS2 money appearing. However, I fully stand by my original post which seems to have riled you regarding the conduct of the Tory government over the last 13 years, the whole HS2 project being folly in the first place and that the money will absolutely not come to the north of the country.
You've derailed this entire thread with your political rant, and just so you missed it last time I wrote it, I have never been a member of any political party and never will be, nor do have any alliegance to any party.
In response to the original discussion and in response to the complaints about the scheme I merely pointed out that this scheme was paid for largely from the regional funding pot not local taxes and rather than being a 'waste of money' as some had said I alluded to the benefits of the town bidding for their share of this regional funding, finishing by stating this regional funding pot would be more than doubled under the next settlement period due to HS2 money being redirected into it.
Oh and by the way roads infrastructure spending under the last labour government actually fell as a % of GDP for the first few years under Blair, before increasing slightly. Throughout that entire period the UK had the lowest spend of all the G7 countries bar 1 year in the mid-noughties at the height of the boom years where our % spend just crept above that of Germany but still lagged well behind every other G7 country. So whatever you think of roads spending under the last 13 years of the Tory government the facts are the country was no better off in this sector under Labour last time round.
Roads spending hasn't been a high priority under any political party for a long long time and nothing that the current opposition have said so far indicates that going to change if they win the next general election.
This is off topic forum and such no issues with political debates subject to none of the forum rules being broken.
Just on that, the Bliar government made an electoral commitment - which they stuck to - to retain the budgets announced by the Tory government.
It's one of the reasons I hated that Bliar government (and, FWIW, never voted for them)
He's not the Messiah, he's a naughty boy.
Absolute lolz
Not seen much from you regarding the Bull & Dog roundabout either? You don't have to be offended if you don't agree, I'm not bothered if you vite for the Tories, they'll never get elected in St Helens or Liverpool anyway.
We probably shouldn't discuss politics on here as it never ends well in the pub does it?
No time for Tony Blair other than him being the subject of one of my favourite Profanisaurus entries; Roger's Profanisaurus is, IMHO, up there with the greatest ever works in literature - look it up if you're not already acquainted:
vote for Tony Blair v To rush enthusiastically into the cubicle expecting big things, only to get a pathetic little fart. To be constipated
Last edited by Knotty Ash Saint; 25th November 2023 at 23:42.
Because I don't see what all the whinging was about, the vast majority of people who complain about roadworks have little to no idea about construction. The only companies who blatantly try to bypass all the laws and rules that are in place to try and minimise disruption with roadworks are utility companies (or should I say the sub-contractors they generally use). Some councils are better than others at managing these companies, enforcing the rules and punishing them when they dont comply.
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