Leeds is almost in Scotland, isn't it?

[BrilloPad]

There's no point having a London to anywhere rail link, since Londoners don't believe in anywhere else apart from London.

Plus it only encourages those foreign types! They tell me those northerners not only drink beer with no lemonade in - but without a cherry and umbrella either!

[bogeyman]

Fair enough! Also, why provide transport to ginger, prismatically pale & translucent shiftless folk with appalling teeth, who won't use it anyway because they can't smoke or play pool for the duration of the journey?

I'm liking your prose style chap. Can I subscribe to your newsletter?

[TheBigYinJames]

Fair enough! Also, why provide transport to ginger, prismatically pale & translucent shiftless folk with appalling teeth, who won't use it anyway because they can't smoke or play pool for the duration of the journey?

Come on, not all Londoners are like that. Some of them are almost human.

[expat]

I presume the High Speed Rail Link will be a "national" project so we will all pay for it. Like the Tunnel, likewise fat use to Scots but paid for by all.

[Bob Dalek]

I presume the High Speed Rail Link will be a "national" project so we will all pay for it. Like the Tunnel, likewise fat use to Scots but paid for by all.

We gave you the Forth bridge, and all your lot have ever done is whinge and pawn your relatives' goods to buy smack.

[TimberWolf]

I've never been to Leeds, but I'm sure it's very near Scotland.

WHS

[swamp]

It's actually a great time to start major public construction projects.

During the Great Depression the Americans built the Hoover Dam, the Aussies build the Great Ocean Road, and the Kiwis also build a road to Milford Sound.

Now it's our turn and we're going to build a railway to Leeds (wherever that is). Of course we've saved up loads of tax money in the boom years to pay for it all...

[DodgyAgent]

It's actually a great time to start major public construction projects.

During the Great Depression the Americans built the Hoover Dam, the Aussies build the Great Ocean Road, and the Kiwis also build a road to Milford Sound.

Now it's our turn and we're going to build a railway to Leeds (wherever that is). Of course we've saved up loads of tax money in the boom years to pay for it all...

Didnt we build the great benefits system?

We should invest in rebuilding Hadrian's wall

[TheBigYinJames]

We should invest in rebuilding Hadrian's wall

Only this time, around Dover.

[VectraMan]

The Conservatives were last night accused of "snubbing" Scotland after unveiling an ambitious plan to create a multi-billion pound high-speed rail link from London ... to Leeds.

They mean Leeds Castle. In Kent.