ACORN STANDS WITH THE OUTCASTS, THE BADLY HOUSED, THE FORGOTTEN

Is my subject field correct or, is it what Acorn aspires to, perhaps?  Or how would you put it?

1. The following scandal, I think, must have the concern, the interest, the action of Acorn.  It is the ongoing, fifth decade of converting two mainline railways into tramways!  On the 25 July 2023, on Radio WM, Andy Street told me that "it is full steam ahead" with the Dudley Tram between Wednesbury and Merry Hill Shopping Centre on the railway
   
    "of national strategic significance".pdf
   This is incompetent, it is idiocy and, it is costing hundreds of millions of pounds in both price and in weight of deadly greenhouse gases to accelerate climate breakdown.  And, it is hardly "full steam ahead", too - even after 40 years.  Only the first half, from Wednesbury, of the full 10.7 Kms opens by Christmas, supposedly.  And this, after five years of work on the ground, too!
2. What is more, the totally ineffective £6.1 BILLION between 2017 and 2032 for mainly Metro and Sprint extensions is also scandalous when that money should be used to insulate the homes of the poorest and, to house the most badly housed in 1/2 bedroom apartments at High Plateau but, which is due to have the totally unnecessary Dudley Tram running across one corner of it, as here:
   
    WBHE plan for Merry Hill.jpeg
3. In my opinion, this current misspending of £6.1 billion by 2032 (12 March announcement from Tram HQ) is verging on being a scam.  Metro's track record shows that in no way has it reduced road traffic congestion or polluted city air.  Sprint is also all style over substance, is grossly over specified to make it, like Metro, wealth flaunting and grandiose beyond measure!  In other words, such bad value for money it IS a waste of money - an Establishment scam.
4. Andy Street's Independent Review into Metro - ordered in 2021 after things going so very badly wrong with Metro - I believe has never seen the light of day.  What the hell is going on?  This all points to wrong priorities, of misgovernance, of failed governance, of useless governance.  Max Caller must be told but no-one will give me his contact details!
5. Tram HQ (16 Summer Lane) has a large force of employees devoted to transport to spend their enormous transport budget on Metro and Sprint Grandiose Stupidity.  Those employees must be redeployed into retrofitting the homes of the lowest incomes.  To insulate and solar power, first, smaller homes of those on State benefits.  And then take it from there.

My bus/business lane suggestion to reward car commuters who give up their cars for bus, train, tram is far more helpful in every way.  See

 Bus and businesses at the centre of a virtuous circle

Can we all discuss/debate and agree something on the above lines for a motion or motions to be ready for twelve months time, perhaps?