Richard Murphy's #tax stuff is very good. But the replies to this toot about #HS2 suggest he's on the wrong track about #rail policy
https://mas.to/@RichardJMurphy/111124452182793640
[email protected] - HS2 was always a white elephant https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2023/09/25/hs2-was-always-a-white-elephant/. We never needed a fast train route to London. What we needed were working trains across the whole country and a functioning national grid.
Peter Nimmo /
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2023-09-25 12:26:17
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