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It looks as if Labour are in favour of the Exteter-Tavistock-Plymouth alternative route to Cornwall. Or is this just political rhetoric?

http://www.exeterexpressandecho.co.uk/Labour-accuse-Government-turning-alternative-rail/story-28469441-detail/story.html

The latter, possibly using money from abandoning Trident.

No it doesn't! All she said was:



Judge for yourselves, people..! The context is slightly different, but this says it all:


So that's it, categorically: They definitely might think about it.

Depends how marginal the government Tory Party think the seats are come the next election.  Look out for money spent on further investigations (no not on actually doing anything just more thinking about it) as 2020 approaches.

A good thing too to keep an eye on Lib Dem policies in the West Country, they might always take some of those precious Tory seats back..

Ask yourself what Labour did about it between 1997-2010.

Ask yourself what the Conservatives did about it between 1979-1997.

...the above 2 posts only going to prove that they are all as bad as one another, and mostly in it for themselves ;)

But the far South West does not contain many Labour marginal.  So its only really a Tory/Lib Dem thing. 

So we're agreeing that if the Tories think there's a possibility of a LibDem resurgence in the South West, they'll pretend they're thinking about the possibility of building a new route; if they don't think there's any such possibility then they won't even bother to pretend. Is that about right?

To be fair, both Plymouth seats are Labour-Tory marginals...

No, I think we're saying that politicians will speak rhetoric no matter what, especially if they have no intention of doing anything about it.

Labour had 3 terms to try and doing something about the railways and didn't.  Prescott was very gung-ho in his term as Transport Minister, but it was all hot air in the form criticism because he was impotent in action.

I think you're being very unfair to the last Labour administration - I seem to remember reading somewhere that during their three terms they built 400m of new railway in England. (What? Metres? Oh, that doesn't sound quite soimpressive...)


You set em up... ach, someone else can knock em down.

Who needs trains when you've got two Jags?

Who needs trains when you've got two Jags?

Who needs Pauline when you've got Tracy Temple  onboard,in the office...on the desk, on the floor, or indeed anywhere else for that matter...... ???

That escalated quickly.

Labour did (effectively) renationalise the track (NR never really was a real private company).

I sure they would have done better but for the dead hand of the Treasury (under Gordon Brown) who was trying to emulate the Tories in the early years. 

  What a dreadful image.......almost brought up my dinner.....then Corbyn & Diane Abbott sprang to mind...........