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High-speed rail: a disgraceful way to spend public money

Roger Davies, Kendal LA9
09 January 2015
 

£442.8m? You cannot be serious. That figure, the frankly appalling amount spent to date by this austerity Government on the completely irrelevant HS2 should be splashed across front pages nationwide, not just tucked away on page 16 of LTT (‘HS2 Ltd annual spend rises to £208m’ LTT 18 Dec 14). 

Whilst public services are being cut across the board and the NHS is in crisis mainly as a result of local spending cuts, why on earth are 395 staff working away on a project...

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