HS2 is now officially on the skids, M. HR3 will be following shortly. There's a slow, creeping, very Archived Message Posted by Rhisiart Gwilym on August 21, 2019, 7:31 pm, in reply to "Heathrow expansion" unwilling realisation spreading through the people of Britain, including increasing numbers of the English raj class who customarily usurp the power of our - alleged - democracy. That realisation is that these are hare-brained, reality-deficient schemes, which no-one needs, and which are never going to show any net profit over their construction and running costs, for several reasons: 1) They're always enormously over budget. HS2 is already estimated to be nearly double the original costings, and - if it were ever to be made - this doubtless would be going a lot higher in the end. Fortunately, further preparatory devastation of the land - which I've been observing close up - is now likely to pause, and the longer it pauses, the less likely is it that it will ever get going again. It's for the scrap-heap. 2) Britain just hasn't got lots of ready cash or spare credit in the world to afford these grandiose delusions any more; and the future prospect is for more, seemingly irreversible, loss of WealthPowerStatus for the uk-state (soon, all being well, to be the ex-uk-state). 3) There's no need, nor any actual use, for these mad - allegedly profitable - schemes, because economic growthforever is now over, and is never coming back. This is the new era of the Long Descent (already begun). These daft hyper-transport schemes - like the Mrs. Windsor aircraft-carrier-without-aircraft-that-we're-never-going-to-be-able-afford - are white elephants from their conception. No-one is going to make successful use of them, and certainly none of them will draw in lots of wealth to Britain. We're slogging through a bad transition time, when useless cretin figureheads usurp power in both parts of USuk, and the whole of government is in chaos, whilst these highly unwelcome perceptions spread through the populace, and the public mood becomes ready to take the radically-different tack that good government in our still temporarily over-prosperous states will now have to undergo, to face the changed reality adequately. A Corbyn government would probably help - somewhat - with the painful business of facing up to these changed prospects Message Thread: Heathrow expansion - Mary August 21, 2019, 11:51 am HS2 is now officially on the skids, M. HR3 will be following shortly. There's a slow, creeping, very - Rhisiart Gwilym August 21, 2019, 7:31 pm Dmitry Orlov has just published an updated essay which speaks starkly to this underlying reality - - Rhisiart Gwilym August 21, 2019, 7:33 pm   Searching