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Actually, quite a lot of those billions are things that were being spent already on the bits of hs2 that are going to go ahead, so theres a little asterisk next to that 96 billion. the other asterisk against kind of the new tory voters is, remember, there were constituencies that this bit of hs2 were going to go through that werent going to have any train stations in them... but would get the downsides. exactly. so there will be new tory voters will be really happy tonight that that railway they...

Develop, a few showers, a chilly winter. temperatures six to 9 degrees as we go into saturday. mild enoughin degrees as we go into saturday. mild enough in the south. the weather front pushes its way south on saturday night, a frosty start to sunday for some and a big drop in temperature. colder still as we go through next week. more details later. the thing is, there is sunshine, so it does make you happy. it does brighten your day. it does. a little bit of sunshine to lift the mood. who needs ...

The problem here, isnt it? they are not doing what they promised they would. you guys have been looking more closely at the details of it. does it stack up to something that feels like a promise thatjust hasnt been delivered? i think you are right. that sense that borisjohnson has a ways tried to rebrand that idea of what being a conservative is, what being a conservative prime minister is, particularly to those people who voted conservative for the first time and may or may not be tempted to do...

Transform local transport networks in the tea valley.— in the tea valley. the prime minister says _ in the tea valley. the prime minister says he _ in the tea valley. the prime minister says he is - in the tea valley. the prime minister says he is a - in the tea valley. the prime minister says he is a fanatic| in the tea valley. the prime i minister says he is a fanatic of buses but what about trains and not just in darlington? last wednesday i was notified that a proposal to reinstate the lin...

Shopping. elon musk is still the richest man on the planet. tesla c.e.o. widening that gap as the worlds richest person. his net worth $222 billion. amazon founder jeff bezos sits at $196 billion. this is a bloomberg index. musk bragged about the news like this. a second place medal to bezos. its not the first time musk has trolled bezos. the two have been in a space race for years. musk often teasing bezos, also about the shape of the blue o ore -- origin rocket. locker room humor. the missio...

Too big a number for them to digest. and i have been saying for several weeks now, that i think that it would be good sometimes if we would calculate the cost over the next ten years of not doing something than to calculate the cost of doing it. so i think that people are beginning to see now that the so-called bipartisan infrastructure deal, 1.1 trillion, that lays the foundation upon which to build something. for instance, if youre to take broadband, we know from all the studies that a compreh...

Goes into this, a better number, a more realistic number is from brown university. $2.2 trillion. heres the catch. 296 billion spent on veterans care. you know, once they come back from the war. how about this number? 530 billion spent on the interest on the interest on the money that we have had to borrow to fight this war. 530 billion. $300 million a day. i want people to put all of this into focus. now, think about the images we saw this he can would. a plane loads, plane loads, cargo planes ...

Through a few recessions, this one is going to end the same way a whole bunch of people do coming out richer and a bunch of people with circumstances coming out a lot worse. >> it is a different wealth gap. it is the wealth gap of people who could have worked the way we tend to work that could do this. there is a technological solution to a physical conundrum that allowed a set of people, the driver of this, a $96 billion company now than a $16 billion company 14 months ago and you can go down t...

A previously unschedule third day, lets look at the core issues many u.s. administrations have faced involving china. a long time complaint is forced transfer and theft of intellectual property from western companies that are doing business in china. to chinese businesses allowing for technological developments and a booming counterfeit consumer goods industry. a top motivation cited by the president, chinas steel exports were declining since hitting a high in 2015. while they declined further i...

Question do to reduce spending f. there are things that dont reduce benefits that reduce spending. we have to address that. >> were really going to go with the mitch mcconnell argument, lets cut corporate tax in half and go after entitlements. thats the answer? >> this is like the slow pitch over the plate. you could see this coming for the past two years. they come up with a massive tax cut that goes to the upper 1% of the american peep and argue the only way to solve it is medicare, medicaid a...