HS2 the great train robbery ?

[lardy]

In my view they are overpaid and will always want more by holding passengers to ransom, any group of people who call a 27 day strike must be financially well set ,earning far more than the ordinary people trying to get a train to work.

Denise Coates, head of gambling empire Bet365, was Britain’s biggest taxpayer last year, according to the annual Sunday Times Tax List.

She and her family paid an estimated £276m.

Does that apply to the miners, back in the day? They lasted a year, so must have been rolling in money.