Yet we keep failing to impose conditions which would get things finished.At least they are only friends and supporters. You may remember the days when accountant Ernest Marples together with engineer Reginald Ridgway started the Marples Ridgway construction company. He then became a Tory MP and was appointed Minister of Transport.
In that role he was in charge of the Beeching railway closures while his company was building the M1 motorway and he even officially opened the first section of the M1.
The multiple conflicts of interest could hardly have been more blatant.
Anyway, don't worry, HS2 will be cancelled half built. From cycle lanes to the London Motorway boxes to TSR2 to Brexit, it's what we always do, never finishing anything.
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I'd love to see each new gen of mobile phone technology have the condition that at least one of the previous technologies provided genuine 100% coverage before they could start another. For example, 3G 100% before 5G. (Arguably, allow adding 3G plus 4G coverage so either technology could be present - but at least one of them.)