Every little boy dreams of owning a train set at some point in their lifetime. David Cameron obviously is no exception having just agreed a 35 billion pound project to create a new rail link from London to Birmingham.
Seriously?
I thought we were trying to recover from a deficit here? It seems for every penny we save a pound is being squandered. Can David Cameron really not find anything more important to spend billions of pounds of our hard earned moolah on? Perhaps, say, on our crumbling NHS? Or how about a few more bobbies on the beat armed with more than just water pistols? Or maybe a little concession on fuel duty so that people can choose to travel to work in the comfort of their own car instead of squashed in the Tube beneath the armpit of some dirty smelly bugger that hasn't washed in a week?
It seems to me that for a Government hell bent on making everyone's lives a living misery in order to recover from the actions of a few greedy bank managers they seem to be finding ever increasing ways to fritter away whatever we manage to save.
Cable car projects along the Thames. A crossrail project nearly 100 years in the making. Millions daily to an EU no Briton wanted to be part of. Overseas aid to make sure OAP's in other countries don't freeze to death. At what point are we, the common taxpayer, actually going to see any benefits from the austerity being foisted upon us? We're all breaking our backs so we can afford beans on toast and for what? So some private contractor can make a killing building a pointless railway line nobody is ever going to bother using because it's going to cost 25% more in fares than the existing train that only takes a mere 20 minutes more? We don't need a new railway line to Birmingham. There's nothing bloody there but an army of Frank Skinners. Do we really want to make it easier for Frank Skinner to get to our doorstep?
Of course none of this means anything to the little boy who simply wants his trainset. It's just a pity that his bastard parents never bothered to buy him a toy set because now yours truly is financing his real life one.
Choo fucking choo David.
Tosser.
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