Originally Posted by
Eric the Half a Bee
According to the Tory government, an electrified railway line (HS2), driven despite massive opposition through housing estates, open countryside and ecological habitats, is ESSENTIAL for the economic development of northern England.
According to Chris Grayling, transport minister, the people of south and west Wales are better off with diesels, and without all that tiresome fuss and bother of putting up steel gantries and wires along existing tracks.
According to a senior Tory on the Bridgend County Borough Council, electrification would be "nice" but not "essential".
So let's all be quite clear, the Tory view is that the north is an economic Power-house, while Wales is some sort of second class Sh*te-house.