Stuff The Nhs, Let's Splash Out On Another White Elephant . . . .

[Canary42]

. . . . like HS2, Garden Bridge, scrapped 50p commemoration coin, Water Cannon.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-51443191

[fiction-factory]

I thought you'd welcome infrastructure investment and jobs for workers, but perhaps if Jeremy rather than Boris was supporting it you'd be delighted.

[Cloverjo]

Another distraction by Johnson. There is so much to be sorted out before he should even think of spending £200 billion on a bridge. As far as I know no one in Scotland or N Ireland has said that they want or need one.

[emmie]

does seem a lot of money, but if it were to create jobs who knows.

[Tilly2]

I agree with Nicola...'But Nicola Sturgeon said there were "more important priorities".'

[douglas9401]

https://twitter.com/haveigotnews/status/1226893962423738370?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet

[maggiebee]

Not interested in the politics of this move, but in financial terms and as a Scot, I say no thank you.

[CrapAtCryptics]

lets spend trillions on things like Corbyn wants to - I guess not as their vote share tanked.

[Old_Geezer]

Yeah ! Yay !

But if a tunnel was preferred to a bridge from England to France, why is the Scotland to Ireland proposed link a bridge ?

[JimF]

A bridge between an independent Scotland and a united Ireland would be lovely, of course, just as a bridge across the Pentland Firth supported by a massive hydro-electric plant would also be lovely.

But we have far more pressing issues to resolve, not to mention ferries.

Perspective. Priorities.

[shoota]

Didn't Simon and Garfunkel make the same suggestion years ago?

[woofgang]

so far as I understand, he's said its an 'interesting" idea. That's what I used to say at work when rolling on the floor laughing was not appropriate.

[douglas9401]

One should also distance onself from linking Johnson and splash out.

[woofgang]

[JimF]

Couldn't agree more, Douglas.

[ToraToraTora]

I too doubted we needed HS2, mushroom convinced me otherwise see here:
https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question1689597.html