Government to Blame

 

 

The cost of HS2 from London to Birmingham  has risen from £33 billion to £44 billion if the cost has risen so much how much could it be in ten years, £100 billion if it does then those who oppose it now  would be fully justified in their complaint about the cost being unaffordable. But if there is anybody  to blame then it is the government. John Redwood on Newsnight (25 June) said that it took major projects at least ten years to go through committees. This has again been proved right as Cross Rail in London has taken 25 years to come to fruition. So governments are the problem and the cause for cost increases in major projects, not the contractors.   

Madeleine McCann

 

The British police at a cost of £5 million are to re-investigate the disappearance of Madeleine McCann from the apartment block in the Portuguese resort of Praia da Luz in 2007. Although this was a tragic occurrence for her parents Kate and Gerry McCann, one has to ask why the couple who are both professional people were never charged with child neglect? They were out with friends eating out at a near by restaurant and although they returned every half hour or so to check on her and her brother, nothing can make up for their gross stupidity. If this had happened to a ordinary working class couple would they have been charged with child neglect? Its to hope that some time in the very near future that they finally find closure one way or another.