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Whilst the prime minister is right that HS2 has proved much more expensive than planned, the casting of his decision as part of a reset focused on making long-term decisions is hard to take. The HS2 cancellation is likely to have been at least partly driven by a desire to create short term financial headroom ahead of the general election to fund tax cuts โ€“ the very definition of short-termism.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The Tories are the fiasco of churn.

Imagine taking all the flak for an infrastructure project that wasn't overly popular, and then choosing to take more flak for cancelling the northern part.

Electoral suicide