#HS2 and jobs for the boys.

To err is human to err and know it is foolish, to err with billions of tax payers money should have been made a treasonable offence at the start of the twenty first century but I doubt that will ever become a reality and it is with faltering hope for the sake of everyone in the UK that this ridiculous #HS2 idea is put to rest before another penny is spent in conceiving and defending it. I am sure the idea in itself has merit, after all it is no secret that the UK has an appallingly outdated, overpriced and cramped rail network, it desperately needs modernisation but in the same breath you could apply the very same statement to our health service, police service,schools ad infinitum, you name it they are all at breaking point. So you may ask and rightly so why the push for #HS2 when there are already so many other existing issues that require re-organisation and additional funding?
Without being a doomsayer one would need to go back to the days of William The Conqueror, a bastard boy of Viking descent who split England up and gave much of the land to his Norman friends before his death as well as placing his son William on the throne, something his older brother Robert obviously disagreed with as they fought until William's death in 1100 and thus their younger brother Henry became king, if you see a pattern emerging here then you wouldn't be wrong, jobs for the boys is another term for it and that is exactly what we have here today with #HS2 albeit slightly be smudged by political smoke screens and posturing and the inevitable spin, the Norman descended land owners are still of the same dynasty and it is those money men of this once great Anglo-Saxon Isle who will yet again rest assured have their way.
You may now be forgiven for thinking that I have slightly lost the plot and that the men in white coats and a straight jacket are but a street away from closing in on this introspective Shropshire man who paints such a picture of skulduggery and cronyism in these modern times but spare me The Tower and a spell in the stocks just yet, for as an Englishman am I not part of one of the greatest democracy's that was ever formed? Am I not granted the right to peaceful protest and a vote at birth? Well, strictly yes but only if our inherited Norman money men say so.

Too many times over the past few years I have wanted at least a say or God help me a vote on critical decisions that are shaping the country of my birth but it seems that right is slowly being ebbed away like the moon talks to the tides to keep them in their place, "resistance is futile" to quote a well known adversary of Captain Jean Luc Picard.  If the #HS2 were put to a referendum tomorrow it would be voted out, the same as the vote on membership of the European Union, these are but two items that I feel I will be able to play no part in and as an Englishman it makes my blood boil, scarce wonder voting in elections is at its lowest ever ebb when it is but a token voice for a clutch of aristocratic nincompoops who couldn't control a food fight at a kindergarten without having a firm of consultants to asses the risk. We are being held to ransom by people so far removed from the actual reality of daily life that their ability to govern is diminished beyond repair and will be for at least the next two generations and that's if we introduce new blood now, I predict the next great leader of any repute that takes up the mantle for the common man and gets his full support will not be of Oxford or Cambridge University descent and education, I suspect they will arrive from further North. The sooner the better for me, I would love to go to a Polling station and see what all the fuss is about I would also dearly love the right to say where and when my hard earned taxes were spent and that would not include yet another useless firm of consultants to assess the impact of such unnecessary follies as #HS2