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Interesting, but no reference to Salford-Leyland. Does this mean that Preston-Blackpool will be finished first?...If so the only benefit at that stage will be the extension of the Liverpool-Preston 319s to Blackpool. There were notices at Man Vic last Saturday (20th) saying that TPE trains...

What about the impact of Brexit on all this? If there is an economic downturn public spending will be cut. Government borrowing is now more expensive because of the loss of AAA rating. How many components have to be imported? These are presumably now 10% more expensive because of a weaker pound.

Agree with you there Paul, the scale of the problem really does require a Hercules and there is not one in sight.

Now that ghastly old douche bag Leadsom has been assassinated this must be the "Cleaning of the Augean Stables". My Greek mythology is a little rusty but I seem to recall that they had not been cleaned out for 30 years.

Perhaps those people in England and Wales who voted Leave for 'patriotic' reasons should have thought of that. The country they are likely to end up with will not bear much resemblance to the one for which they seem to have a romanticised nostalgic yearning. That said, very few English people...

It is worth having a read of this, anyone who has not already seen it: www.opencanada.org/features/brexit-post-mortem-17-takeaways-fallen-david-cameron/

Every non UK EU national living in the UK should be writing to their respective London Embassy, Poland, Lithuania, Spain etc etc. (they can of course do this in their own language) asking what is being done to protect their residence and employment rights, access to benefits, pensions etc...

After the outpouring of racism, xenophobia, bigotry and downright rudeness during the campaign, plus the very negative signal sent by England and Wales to the rest of the World by the vote, it will take an enormous amount of tact and skilful diplomacy to restore the reputation and standing of...

I agree, and this is one of the many things that seems to have gone wrong with the 'mother of all democracies'.

Has anyone done a survey of public trust in politicians SINCE the Referendum? I think we are now in a very bad place.

The worrying thing is, as I have said on the Tory leadership thread, that the Conservatives will now lurch to the Right to embrace UKIP. They have been falling over each other today to say explicitly that people could be deported. I am disgusted with the lot of them. --- old post above --- ---...

Now Farage has gone they will all lurch to the Right to embrace UKIP. Maybe this was Farage's strategy all along. These are utterly disgusting spineless political cowards, falling over each other to openly talk about deporting people today. They are just making up policies on the back of a...

I have said to many people that Murdoch cannot have many puppets left to hide behind now. Soon he will emerge from the curtain as uncontested dictator of Project UK. When people complain to me about the unaccountable, undemocratic power of Brussels, without being able to give me any evidence of...

Yes, I agree with you about the uncertainty. We are in a bad place and it's difficult to see what the least worst option is, i.e. damage limitation. We are where we are as a result of quite appalling political incompetence and misjudgement, made worse by the irresponsible behaviour of some of...

I do not see a General Election later this year as being in the interests of the country. The result has exposed a deep fragmentation of our society. However, I cannot see anyone who becomes PM being able to get a grip on any one of the multiple problems that they will be confronted with...

I had been predicting that a slow economic decline might lag behind a period of political turbulence. However the latest News seems to imply that the result alone might have been the trigger for a meltdown even before anyone has had a chance to invoke Article 50, which T.May is saying she would...

I wonder how much of the electrification steelwork, cables, switchgear etc. is imported? I would suspect quite a lot. As the constitutional and economic crises gradually unroll and the currency, which the 'patriotic' segment of our population are so deeply attached to, is reduced to worthless...

A referendum is a very blunt political instrument with which to approach complex problems. We do not have a politically sophisticated electorate, outside of clusters of well educated people in big cities, and most people do not have the time or inclination to confront complexity. This is why...

A majority of even Tory MPs as well as most Labour and all the SNP are pro Remain. They will make his life a misery and soon bring him down. His destructive political career will be over and as far as I'm concerned he deserves all he gets, although of course he will be left to enjoy his...

Under the old franchise Northern ran this offer 3 times last year, in late winter, early summer, and autumn. It is generally for periods well clear of the major holidays of Christmas/New year, Easter, and mid-July to mid-September; and excludes school half-term weeks. I was unsure whether the...