Levelling downstream? Tories float idea of ‘Great Boris Canal’ to ship water from north to the south

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  1. Parts of the North have now declared drought, so yeah, take from the North again I guess.

    Usual tory way, the North has a problem? “its too expensive to fix it”. The south has a problem? “Well we can put a big bag of money at it and take from the less wealthy regions of England/the UK, so what if it could cause major damage to those areas due to a short, half cocked plan”.

  2. This has been around for decades, promoted by canal enthusiasts to get funding for restoration. Several feasibility studies have shown that the restorations were not feasible, usually due to cost, the route having being built over, lack of water etc.

  3. Yeah nah fuck that. North has been left behind for decades while all investment was poured into the south and London especially. Now they expect the north to help them with water ? Sure some of that money they invested in London could have been used to build some new water retainment system or a plant to extract water from the sea.

  4. The Grand Union Canal already runs from Birmingham into London so possibly they could use that.

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