More HS2

So the budget has been increased to near on £43bn today. I seem to remember the cost-to-benefit-ratio was charitably 1.4 last time, so the extra ten billion brings that down to 1.05. The associated costs of raising the money (i.e. economic activity that doesn't happen because people are taxed that bit more) I would guess put the 1.4 figure into the not-worth-bothering-with category. Now with a BCR of 1.05 it's in the let's-criminalise-wreckless-politicians category.