""HS2 is all about providing the companies who get to build it with big profits. Currently they're all lobbying away like mad and competing with each other to get the big, fat, juicy contracts. In the world of politics and high finance no-one does anything for the public good any more - it's all about profit.""

What a sheltered life you must have led Shim, if you think that greed for profit is a modern concept.

With the exception of the altrists who started the NHS, this has never been the case.

Even the introduction of a National Welfare system, owes its very existence to companies that made fat profits on the building of necessary infrastructure.

And who do you think built the existing railway system, and the existing roads, the water supply system, the gas supply system and the electricity supply system, ALTRUISTS?

Not so's you'd bloody notice!

Don T.