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Q: How do you tell when a politician is lying?
A: Their lips move!
I have to agree with the above posters. No politician can't see a bandwagon without jumping on it. The only thing they care about is power. They seduce us with promises of this, that and the other, but it all gets conveniently forgotton when the b#st#rds get into government.
I don't think a high speed rail link is a good idea. The upheavals that happen when building the line, the 'land-grabs' that will be necessary, plus the destruction that will be inevitable in the cities don't justify it, in my view. Not only that, but the vast tracts of land that will be required in the rural areas won't benefit the people in those areas. I'm well aware that if France want to build a TGV line, they just go ahead and do it. That's because they've got the Capitalist disease of short-termism - they want a line, they build it, but they don't take into account ANY long term considerations.
If there is that much money sloshing around waiting to be spent on a runway or a high-speed rail link, then I'd like to see it spent on the existing network. IF a new line needs to be opened, then I'd sooner see an old line reopened. Yes, I admit that some demolition will be necessary, but it won't be to the same extent as a new link, AND the sites of existing track-beds can be used.
I fully expect to be shot at. Let's have it!
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