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You can’t have it on budget Can’t have it on time It’s a great British underachiever; It also can’t go Where you want it to go ~ And it can’t be high-speed either.
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May 18
May 18, 2026 at 10:11 AM UTC
Ode to the British HS2 Disaster
You can’t have it on budget Can’t have it on time It’s a great British underachiever; It also can’t go Where you want it to go ~ And it can’t be high-speed either.
A brief ditty on the latest revelations about the High Speed 2 railway grand folly – the out-of-date establishment’s most recent Very British Endeavour to buy land, dig holes and make their mates richer…
TheBoozerCruiser
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May 18
May 18, 2026 at 10:11 AM UTC
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