Tuesday 24 September 2013

The Right Lines

Like fracking, HS2 may or may not be a good idea; UKIP certainly thought was it was until the very recent past.

But it is massively unpopular in the areas where the Conservative Party had for decades assumed that any opposition, improbable in itself, would come from the odd Lib Dem Councillor occasionally.

If Ed Balls came up with specific ways of spending at least a lot the money saved in the communities through which this would otherwise have gone, then a world of electoral opportunities would open up.

The first step in that process would be to ask them. Not something that anyone will ever have done before.

Fight every seat, some of us have been saying forever. And now, that is finally happening.

2 comments:

  1. The only good thing Ed Balls has ever said was this weeks denunciation of HS2 as a colossal countryside-wrecking waste of money-does he not realise that, like privatised Post Offices, it's an EC Directive and we thus have no choice?

    We may yet be able to win this one. After Syria, anything is possible.

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  2. Except that isn't an EU Directive at all. Why was UKIP in favour of it, and on a larger scale than this, in 2010?

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