I’m sure they can manage to fill a few holes in their pockets with it.
If we had moved a bunch of freight off the roads with HS2 we would have saved making them.
And why are the repairs not being paid by the cars and trucks that make them! We should have additional road maintenance tax on all vehicles over 2tons
I can’t believe he unironically tried to use the tagline “long term decisions for a brighter future” while scrapping high-speed rail in favour of filling potholes
We don’t need more pothole funding.
Potholes are evidence that the road surface is in poor condition. Repairing potholes is just patching that damage. It’s cheap and not long term sustainable.
We need funds to improve the roads, which means resurfacing them and, for fucks sake, could we actually paint the lines now and then so it doesn’t look like a third world country at every junction?
Also, we need competent light rail and high speed rail to displace car usage where practical.
There is no such thing as HS2 savings…
GE asap this is embarrassing.
I assume they’ve manager to line up their donors, I mean anonymous contract bidding.
So where is the money originally for pot holes gone? This is 12 years underinvestment while the tax burden has increased, so where has the money gone mr ex chancellor?
The only holes this money is going to be used to fill are the ones in some Tory mates pockets.
Jesus fucking christ. They’re using HS2 funding to fix the roads?
Wonder if those ‘savings’ included the billions spaffed up the wall
Maintenance is a revenue expenditure.
Building railways is a capital expenditure.
Transferring your capital to revenue budget is not investment. It’s just a spending cut.
And so the attempts at vote buying by suddenly “fixing” issues that were made by the government in the first place begins.
I’m sure I can remember when filling potholes was just routine maintenance, rather than a special treat.
If this is coming from HS2 savings, why has my council tax gone up by around £40 a month in the last 3 years, when we weren’t getting HS2 anyway, and have some of the worst roads within a 10-mile radius?
Sunak: wanker.
You know that you are living in a third world country when the PM has to look down his sofa to find the budget to fix potholes!
350 million for the NHS! No wait HS2! No, no, no I mean POTHOLES!!
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I’m sure they can manage to fill a few holes in their pockets with it.
If we had moved a bunch of freight off the roads with HS2 we would have saved making them.
And why are the repairs not being paid by the cars and trucks that make them! We should have additional road maintenance tax on all vehicles over 2tons
I can’t believe he unironically tried to use the tagline “long term decisions for a brighter future” while scrapping high-speed rail in favour of filling potholes
We don’t need more pothole funding.
Potholes are evidence that the road surface is in poor condition. Repairing potholes is just patching that damage. It’s cheap and not long term sustainable.
We need funds to improve the roads, which means resurfacing them and, for fucks sake, could we actually paint the lines now and then so it doesn’t look like a third world country at every junction?
Also, we need competent light rail and high speed rail to displace car usage where practical.
There is no such thing as HS2 savings…
GE asap this is embarrassing.
I assume they’ve manager to line up their donors, I mean anonymous contract bidding.
So where is the money originally for pot holes gone? This is 12 years underinvestment while the tax burden has increased, so where has the money gone mr ex chancellor?
The only holes this money is going to be used to fill are the ones in some Tory mates pockets.
Jesus fucking christ. They’re using HS2 funding to fix the roads?
Wonder if those ‘savings’ included the billions spaffed up the wall
Maintenance is a revenue expenditure.
Building railways is a capital expenditure.
Transferring your capital to revenue budget is not investment. It’s just a spending cut.
And so the attempts at vote buying by suddenly “fixing” issues that were made by the government in the first place begins.
I’m sure I can remember when filling potholes was just routine maintenance, rather than a special treat.
If this is coming from HS2 savings, why has my council tax gone up by around £40 a month in the last 3 years, when we weren’t getting HS2 anyway, and have some of the worst roads within a 10-mile radius?
Sunak: wanker.
You know that you are living in a third world country when the PM has to look down his sofa to find the budget to fix potholes!
350 million for the NHS! No wait HS2! No, no, no I mean POTHOLES!!