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It's given because most of it then gets spent with companies who are run by mates of UK ministers.
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Exactly. It takes tax money out of the visible area of the economy.
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India has spent 45 million to get to Mars.
We want to spend 42 billion to get to Birmingham.
Discuss.
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Blimey! Rail tickets are getting dear.
speramus in juniperus
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ChrisElston wrote: We want to spend 42 billion to get to Birmingham. What do you mean "we", paleskin?
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Well, quite.
My main objection to HS2, despite the second phase crossing near where I live (my car actually came to a rest next to the sign saying "HS2 crosses here" on Sunday) is that it is not imaginative or interesting enough.
If you must spunk billions away on a pointless project, at least make the finished product entertaining.
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A huge roller coaster to Brummigem?
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Cold, Devoid of of life, Unwelcoming atmosphere.
Probes have been sent before and there is very little reason to go back.
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Birmingham isn't that bad
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
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I'll tee them up, you hit them.
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I take it you've never been there.
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I live about 30 miles from Birmingham. Been many times
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I lived in Edgbaston for almost 8 years, and have learned to hate few things in my life more than the five-ways roundabout.
It's a shame that the geniuses in the planning department can't be subject to capital punishment.
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I think those geniuses are now working in Worcester!
but my first IT job was Erdington during the petrol strike in 2000
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Nobody want to get "to Birmingham".
Many want to "get away from Birmingham" and preferably as fast as possible...and the same applies to the other cities HS2 will service.
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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Ah yes, it is the Fast Conduit to the south.
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Dalek Dave wrote: Discuss. No.
Never discuss money with capitalists or tories -- they've spent far, far more time and energy on thinking up spurious, self-serving arguments than you have.
If you want to discuss people, peoples, nations, the future, aspirations, and/or things that will benefit mankind, take money off the agenda.
Here's one for you personally: How much time does your precious Doctor Who spend on working out how much money he can make?
There's not much point in having heroes if you decide to live a life that is completely antithetic to theirs.
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Why give £300,000,000 to a country that can afford nuclear weapons, a space programme and warships at a time when our own people are dying from poverty?
Socialists are dangerous and idealistic and hate the idea of wealth being used to protect their own.
Communism prefers all to be levelled down rather than levelled up, for enter comfort and wealth, exit socialism.
I would prefer the £300,000,000 to be spent on policing, teaching, road maintenance, NHS and Border Controls.
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I don't know why they want to give that much to India, lets ask a Tory why they haven't stopped it etc.
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Because it is tied up in law.
A law created by the Trots when they were in power.
TB and GB should be hanged as traitors.
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Dalek Dave wrote: A law created by the Trots when they were in power. Never mind the truth (i.e. that the government under a certain Thatcher was involved), eh?
Just keep putting forward fake arguments to attack anyone who refuses to discuss everything in terms of filthy lucre.
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And yet you fail to convince us why we should spunk this money away on foreigners whilst our own people are cold and hungry.
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Money, money, money.
Get mp3s, they don't break like records.
And **** reaching for the stars, eh? You can't immediately profit from that.
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So that the the reason you give for pissing money away on foreigners?
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