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Originally Posted by Gordon Booth
Osborne is borrowing more money each month just to pay our way!
So we'll have to borrow the £33 billion as well.
It will only create 9000 jobs to build it, no one is saying the contracts will go to British companies employing British workers. The multi billion order for rolling stock went to Siemens in Germany so no guarantees. Still, it'll keep 9000 Romanians occupied!
The other 31,000 jobs it will create will be in running it and servicing it so no export wealth will be created, just more service jobs.
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It's only History repeating itself, when the original railways were built it was by using Irish Navvies, so they can now claim that it's traditional to build using foreign workers.