Government borrowing for last year = £107,700,000,000
 

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run for prime minister
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Profit.

Re: Government borrowing for last year = £107,700,000,000
 

Actually the first sovereign borrowing was Edward V (or Henry V I get names mixed up occasionally) specifically to fight the 100 years war. But that was his personal debt as a sovereign. The first Govvie came a few hundred years later.

Re: Government borrowing for last year = £107,700,000,000
 

Shake someone's hand, touch a new product, see the reactions on the juniors faces to what a senior colleague is saying. Don't get me wrong, communications technology is amazing now, but in some situations you simply cannot replace face to face contact.

Having said that HS2 has not been properly thought out/costed.

Government borrowing for last year = £107,700,000,000
 

So, for those special cases, would a slightly longer commute be that much of an inconvenience? Can we get a confirmation of the actual amount of time saved by travelling on HS2?

Re: Government borrowing for last year = £107,700,000,000
 

But you need to remember the amount of jobs that will be created from the start to finish of hs2.

Government borrowing for last year = £107,700,000,000
 

And what will those people do when it's over? Go back on the dole?

Government borrowing for last year = £107,700,000,000
 

It'll probably be obsolete by the time it's done anyway.

Re: Government borrowing for last year = £107,700,000,000
 

Fixed it for you

Government borrowing for last year = £107,700,000,000
 

Well thanks...

Re: Government borrowing for last year = £107,700,000,000
 

Other construction jobs, probably with additional skills learnt and experience gained from working on the HS2 project.

Also those "special cases" happen A LOT. I used to work in a team split between London and Bristol and would make the trip one way or the other about once a month. Each time there were about 6 trains each morning that would be rammed. Every seat taken.