I remain confused, unless someone can enlighten me. The NHS is on its knees, the police force is on it knees, along with the prison service, elderly care is almost none existent, we have a rapid growing number of homeless families, the list is endless, put we can find an insane amount of money to get to London faster. What happened to priorities and common sense, or learn to walk before you run. You have China at present in the process of building two hospitals in hopefully two weeks, we take years in the planning of such, and years to complete, if they do build HS2 it will be out of date by the time they've completed it, as for maintaining hs2, we can't maintain what we already have.