I'd like to see all existing roads brought up to a decent standard and for footpaths and cycle lanes to be introduced either alongside them or linking towns and villages. Most of the railway lines destroyed by the Beeching cuts are still there in one way or another and would make excellent bridleways.

When deep in hole stop digging.

The national debt is spiralling as our drunken sailor polticians of all parties contnue down the well trodden path of spending other people's money as fast as they can, money which is borrowed for taxpayers of now and the future to pay back.

Govts don't have any money, only the taxes they take from their populations, i do wish people would realise this.

HS2 is a while elephant that should never have been started in the first place (it doesn't even go into central London for goodness sake (what bright spark came up with that howler), the country is too small for it, if they were desperate to chuck wonga at their construction mates far better to have brought existing railways up to scratch and re-open feasable lines that previous equally useless politicians decided should be closed.

There should be an inquiry, chaired not by one of the usual suspects (here have a gong), to find out exactly who/why decided this white elephant needed so desperately to be built when the country was already heading rapidly towards £2 trillion in national debt.

Thomas Sowell would have some eloquent descriptions for the politicians that have infested the House for the past 3 or more decades.

HS2 was.never going to go any further than Birmingham. It was a compromise between the Tory donors' demands for a third runway at Heathrow and the Tory voters' demands for it to be anywhere else. A faster route from London to Birmingham airport was the answer.

Now the Elizabeth Line has opened, it's actually quite good so it makes sense (in this context) to use that from central London to Old Oak Common, which then goes north to Birmingham and west to Heathrow.

As it stands I am quite pleased with the choice by Rishi. Spending that amount of money on public transport didn't really make sense to me, hopefully A LOT of road building and surfacing will happen now. Well here's to hoping..

Not a single penny of it will be spent on anything. Improving the roads and so on, as promised, will be a manifesto pledge. The money saved will be used in tax cuts to bribe the greedy and stupid ahead of the next election.