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Global Britain can’t build a railway from London to Birmingham *in a straight line* What better metaphor for the state of the continent 🤪🇬🇧

Country. The European railways are fast and some lines are double decker and managing 300km/h.

Damn you corrective text *shakes fist*

The trouble with the UK is that all infrastructure projects have default gold plating. HS2 was doomed from the start. It was over engineered and to assuage home county rebellion vast swathes of it were set in very expensive tunnels. Every inch had to be combed for endangered wildlife and Roman sites

When constructing the M1 motorway they were bumping into archaeology constantly yet they managed to complete a large London to Leeds road within 10 years. I imagine a railways are more complex to build, but I don't think preserving nature and archaeology are the problem here!