Double down on your ignorance by all means. The company is a government owned entity that does as it’s told by the government, and is bound the act. It existed well before the budget was set and well before things like land compensation were agreed.

So tell me you don’t understand without saying you don’t understand.

The HS2 act, which effectively set the costs (known, unknown and unknowable) was passed by a Tory government desperate not to upset their financial backers in the Home Counties.

lol for water pollution elephant!

It looks like they might be made to replace the roof lining (otherwise they would be contravening their planning commitments) so that will cost them.

Unfortunately it won’t take. But… it is possible to transplant very large mature trees if you have enough money to do it so I really hope they give it a go.

Russia has a lot of grain it can’t sell, NK has a famine and a lot of (probably rusty) soviet shells. It’s a match made in a goulag.

No, it’s a Froot