HS2 is making Britain an international laughing stock - CapX
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It’s finally official: HS2 is ‘unachievable’, according to the UK’s Infrastructure and Projects Authority. That doesn’t mean the project isn’t still happening, or that it won’t cost us billions, it just means that years – decades, probably – ahead of its launch we know it isn’t going to deliver what we need from it. What’s […]
  • guriinii@lemmy.worldEnglish
    162·
    1 year ago

    Making? I think we have been for years.

    I was on holiday in Spain when Johnson became PM. A Canadian preceded to take the piss.

    • mackwinstonEnglish
      111·
      1 year ago

      I always liked the way BoJo was sometimes called the “Poundshop Trump”.

      • SbisasCostlyTurnoverEnglish
        38·
        1 year ago

        To be fair I think that says more about the person making the joke than anything, BoJo certainly ain’t no Trump.

          • SbisasCostlyTurnoverEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            Wasn’t trying to imply the person making the joke was an a** or anything, just that I think it’s a lazy joke and the sort of thing I’d hear from someone who maybe doesn’t pay that much attention to politics.

  • AMoralNihilistEnglish
    9·
    1 year ago

    I’ve been using the term “post-developed” for a while now, mostly as a crude joke. However, unfortunately I think as time is going on it is becoming more and more apt to describe certain western economies.

    Perhaps something along the lines of “when a society shifts from long-term investment to short-term cost saving, it is at risk of becoming a post-developed economy.”

    So much of the UK’s decision making seems centred around how “we are so great” (cough EU is stopping us from achieving our potential cough) rather than “we need to invest to be able to compete.”

    Even Thatcherism, as toxic and awful as that was, was centred around pushing the economy forward to a new level of (horribly misguided) development.

    Of course, I’ll caveat that I am severely under-educated on these topics, but it is a running theme I’m starting to see emerge.

  • abraham_linksys@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    63·
    1 year ago

    Conservatives can’t stand the thought of tax dollars being used to help people. Those are for tax cuts for the wealthy!