Comments by "John Burns" (@johnburns4017) on "Owen Jones meets Lord Adonis: 'Nigel Farage is effectively prime minister'" video.

  1. Adonis is so out of touch, he was saying Milton Keynes has a bigger economy than Liverpool.
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  2. Bort Wovell The last thing we need is him in charge of transport. He is so South East biased all the budget will be on South East rail.
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  3. Owen speaks too fast.
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  4. HS2 is not needed. ► The MML and the Chilton Line can be electrified, ► The WCML and the ECML can have the bottlenecks removed. ► The Birmingham train can be moved back to the Chiltern Line. ► Fast tilting train can be bought. The current trains only go 125mph The times from London to Manchester will be a few minutes less than HS2. Leeds will be about the same time. We need to spend on local & regional rail, where the need is. Take them off the mainlines and we are left with mainline expressways. Then we get two for the price of one. High-speed rail was to connect provincial cities with the Continent, that is not happening. There is no point in this expensive white elephant.
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