Derailed UK
THE shocking waste of money and sheer ineptitude of those running HS2 has been beyond staggering.
The Sun warned over a decade ago it would be a costly white elephant — and that was when it was predicted to cost £50billion for the whole network.
By the time it’s finished — assuming it ever is — it will have blown at least £81billion at today’s prices, even though the line will now only go from London to Birmingham.
What a miserable economic benefit for such a colossal price.
HS2 is symptomatic of widespread uselessness in our public services.
Instead of getting the job done, bosses spent £8million hiring 167 PR managers and diversity advisers.
No one seemed to care that huge sums of public money simply disappeared down the drain.
Instead, State failure is routinely rewarded.
One HS2 board member is even now the head of the Government’s new Office for Value for Money.
Britain — once a builder of the world — is now a global laughing stock when it comes to major projects.
At this rate you wouldn’t trust anyone involved to put together a Hornby train set.
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Licence to idle
MINISTERS must ignore the whinging of left-wing Labour MPs and stop the current insanity of benefits being more worthwhile than work.
The incentive to take handouts rather than a job is far too great.
Somehow a welfare system that was supposed to be a safety net has become a lifestyle choice for many.
Not only is this a huge burden to those who DO work and pay taxes.
It has also written off millions of people entirely unnecessarily.
Labour worries that taking benefits away will be seen as cruel.
Far crueler to preside over a system which does nothing to help people to improve their lives.
True reform
JUST how far is Labour prepared to go to win genuine reform to European laws which make it almost impossible to deport dangerous foreign criminals?
The Government wants to make it harder for offenders to fight deportation because of “exceptional circumstances”.
That might stop paedophiles claiming they would face “hostility” back home or drug-dealers insisting their children would miss eating chicken nuggets.
But abuse of the European Convention on Human Rights is now commonplace.
It will take major surgery — not minor tweaks — to stop soft judges repeatedly putting the public at risk.
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