NATIONAL AND REGIONAL SCANDALS PAR EXCELLENCE - but only denial or, “it’s of no consequence, Tim. Don’t bother”!
The UK:- united in incompetence and cover-up, OK?
- After decades of levelling up wealthy shareholders, the water companies have been found out in failing to make provision for a fairly fast population growth, all needing more water and sewage treatment. (listen to 'The Briefing Room' on water on Radio 4, 9 May 2024)
- Government politicians and the NHS killed thousands of us from contaminated blood products and transfusions from the 70s to the 90s.
- The Post Office scandal also lasted decades and killed, imprisoned and made bankrupt their very own frontline workers.
- Julian Assange told the truth. He exposed war plans, torture and the gravest of crimes by the State. He exposed monumental wrongdoing by a deceitful and barbaric superpower now applying its laws in the UK. He revealed state criminality and impunity. (Radio Four, 'Today', on 20.5.24)
- £5 billion is being spent on border Brexit controls. ('Today' on 20.5.24)
- The UK's only 120 Kms railway "of national strategic significance" that was successful for 100 years, continues to be broken up into a tramway, cycle-walkway and the rest is wasted and unused.
- Over the decades, the Severn Valley Railway refused to send one email to support my campaign to save the 120 Kms Black Country Railway that was on their doorstep.
- The UK's second city, after less than 20 years, turned its free-flowing inner ring road into traffic lights and one-way streets in two places.
- Its Centenary Square was built, demolished and rebuilt three times in less than 20 years!
- Bankrupt Brum destroyed one of its two mainline railways between its city centre and Wolverhampton - for a tramway! It meant:
- 25% of the platform capacity at Snow Hill Station is now gone, along with 4 or 5 Kms of railway lines at the Wolverhampton end.
- Wolverhampton Low Level Station is now a conference and events centre.
- From the 1980s to 2016, the Brum to Bristol railway was destined to have a tramway on the section between Kings Norton, Kings Heath, Moseley, Balsall Heath, to terminate at Grand Central!!
- A half-hour commuter service may return in 2025!
- About one-third of the UK railway network was obliterated, in the decades after Beeching, to be used for roads, homes, trading estates and offices.
- Thousands of miles were sold off and wiped out to save the expense of maintaining fencing, bridges and viaducts on the surplus to requirements railway network.
- The one UK railway that was safeguarded because of its "national strategic significance", was turned into a Very Light Rail test track and tram stop.
- This, was in the town (Dudley) with the largest population in the UK without a railway station! (Stourbridge Jct station is in the borough, however.)
- And, after 100 years of having a very successful one! On this railway:-
- Through failure to lock the door and more negligence over security, in 1994 or '95, the Round Oak signal box was destroyed by fire and later demolished before it could be re-located to the Black Country Living Museum.
- Bankrupt Brum has two high-speed railway stations to serve plane passengers between Brum and London, instead of them having to fly.
- All the trains on the intercity line must remain to serve the intercity stations that High Scam 2 is too fast to stop at.
- So much for the lie of increasing capacity on the railway to bring more trains and services.
- Thus, £66 billlion for HS2 and, in weight of GHG emissions. is going up in smoke and, in worsening human-induced climate disaster!
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