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Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin has confirmed the government is to scrap the building of the high-speed rail link between London and cities in the north of England after businessmen and women living in the capital agreed to arrange their meetings in the north 20 minutes later.
The surprise announcement to scrap the £80 billion scheme – which was meant to improve economic ties between the north and south of England by cutting travel times by 20 minutes – comes after business leaders confirmed they would be willing to set their alarm clocks 20 minutes earlier or delay the start of their meetings by 20 minutes.
A spokesperson for Downing Street said the £80 billion of taxpayers’ money saved by the scrapping of the project would now be spent on providing assistance to investment bankers who are struggling after seeing their bonuses hit hard by the recession.
In an unrelated move, the government has also announced the simplification of the process where Tory Party donors are given peerages, by putting seats in the House of Lords up for sale to the highest bidder on E-Bay.
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So… no more austerity, right?
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As the government has £80 billion to waste on a vanity white elephant project, then they can pay my lost food money for all women denied state pension payout at 60 since 2013, which loses a couple 7 years payout to cover food and fuel poverty.
The vanity train set denies housewives and widows and divorcees and the poorest workers, any food/fuel money in old age, by denying them any state pension forever in old age.
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/state-pension-at-60-now
For the bulk of those denied state pension, this can be their sole money in old age, or a much needed income to pay for food and fuel, when on low wages and/or tiny works pension. The average women’s council works pension is around £2,800 per year (2013).
Without state pension, and with all benefit delays, sanctions and losses, lose any winter fuel allowance.
The government does not put those 60 and over within the unemployment figures, but the unemployed are only 3 per cent of the total benefits bill.
97 per cent are the working poor and poor pensioners.
The Greens solve starvation in all ages, but say nothing about pensions that I can find. Is this 2015 manifesto pledge for all adult ages, however long we live?
– universal non-means tested Citizen Income, non-withdrawable, in or out of work.
Sought by me is Labour MPs and Labour party members to spread the information to housewives, divorcees and widows, and to the poorest workers about them being forever left with no money in old age.
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/state-pension-at-60-now
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excellent!🙂
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HS2 cost ~ £40 billion
Iraq and Afghanistan war costs ~ £30 billion
Trident replacement cost ~ £30 billion
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Total = £100 billion
That is all money wasted, or used to kill countless innocent people. If you can’t think of better things to spend that money on then you are barely human.
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