SCAM: being taken for a ride, accepting what turns out to be hollow, empty, fake, false, folly

WARNING: strong language.  This is my scathing denunciation of scam after scam!

1. HS2 deception that it will increase capacity on the railways.  It turns out that the thing goes so fast you still need exactly the same intercity service that we've always had, because it can only stop at the very few, most important stations!
2. It gives the most important and wealthy people the choice of either flying through the air in a plane or, on a flash train.  What destruction of nature and of homes to give the big wigs, the wealthy VIPs an even greater feeling of self-importance.  Clearly, they need it for their self-esteem!
3. HS2's little sister is Metro "bus on rails" trams.  This bus on rails must stop at every single tram stop.  The normal bus, going straight on the roads without the expense and chaos of laying down railway tracks, only stops if you push the little button or stick your arm out.  Another deception that makes public transport worse, when it can hardly get any worse.
4. The Sprint scam gives us the bus that thinks it's a tram it's so super duper and flash.  It is all empty style over substance.  All done to impress and give the 'WOW!' factor.  Another disgraceful deception!
5. Grass verges and trees removed and lots of road widening for the wonderful Sprint scam that, like HS2 only stops at the special, few bus stops.  So you still need the 2nd class, ordinary bus for those passengers who need the stops the vanity, swish, smart Sprint is not allowed to stop at!
6. Our figurehead, PR and exceedingly nice ambassador and Chair of the Board for the W Midlands has no official powers!  What is the point of that?
7. He has brought another layer of bureaucracy with the Combined Authority, Midlands Connect, Midlands (wrong) Growth Engine, Midlands Engine Rail, Midlands Rail Hub.  All new organisations and layers of authority we never had - ever before!  How did we ever manage without them?
8. More glossy documents and papers to occupy the pen pushers and give them something to do.  Another scam.
9. "Midlands Engine Rail (MER) is our £3.5 billion plan to transform the region's rail network."
10. SEVEN projects that don't even include finishing the UK's last, principal mainline by putting TRAINS on the middle section that the scammers have clean forgotten all about!!
11. "MER also boosts rail freight capacity by making space for an additional one million lorries' worth of cargo to be transported by rail each year."
12. Yet, these fine transport experts, now in their fourth year of existence, as well as the railway industry's experts, have just destroyed any prospect of freight trains being extended NE to Derby from Worcester, to fill the missing, already built but unused, middle section between Burton on Trent and Stourbridge Junction.

ANOTHER RIGHT FINE MESS OUR POLITICIANS AND TOP OFFICERS HAVE GOT US INTO!