Crazy Cat

How many tickets must one sell to recover the cost of a £50 billion railway? 50 million tickets at £1000? Then there is operating costs to add in. 500 million tickets at £1000? Britain already has the most expensive railway tickets in Europe. Is this railway really about transport need or more likely about filling the pockets of property speculators along the route of the railway. Who would take such a train when its cheaper to fly?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2402433/HS2-grand-folly-say-business-chiefs--50bn-rail-link-NOT-boost-productivity.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/road-and-rail-transport/10470092/HS2-Its-50bn-wasted-on-a-silly-line-for-tycoons.html

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/transport/china-well-invest-billions-and-help-britain-build-hs2-8977508.html

What's easier to believe...
extreme stupidity or extreme corruption?

The government is floating a new idea to keep Bulgarians and Romanians out of the country. An organ bond, that is economic migrants will donate a non vital organ or two. In the case of Romanians also a few pints of blood on a weekly basis. Migrants that reach the upper tax band within 3 months will be able to buy their own non vital organs back. Ministers are already rubbing their hands over the idea.

A Member of the House of Lords, Lord Hanningfield, who has just gotten out of prison (where he spent very little of a very short sentence) for fiddling has been caught fiddling again. He must be very happy he's sighing on at the House of Lords and not the local job center where sentences for fiddling even a few quid (never mind £300/day) are much harsher.
I guess this is the difference between a Lord and a Pleb.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/lord-hanningfield-expenses-scandal-peer-2935017

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9681109/Lord-Hanningfield-spent-public-money-at-luxury-hotels-in-India-China-and-Bahamas.html

http://www.theyworkforyou.com/peer/13139/lord_hanningfield?gclid=CImEx7-XursCFXDJtAodYCEA-Q