Another great video! I don't know how to get your channel some traction with the algorithm, other than liking and commenting on every new one you post.
It's really refreshing seeing someone who's also from a rural area talking about specifically rural issues. I'm from a rural area of the US, and I get so goddamn sick of it being completely boiled down to culture war nonsense instead of the actual logistical differences of living in a rural area
I don't know how the algorithm slipped this one onto my front page but rather glad it did! I do like your commentary on both politics and agriculture. Onward, comrades.
You did a great job with this video! Interesting explanations & footage. Keep it going. Decisions made over the decades surrounding public infrastructure continue to baffle... as you highlight!
My late best friend wrote his final year extended essay on the Beeching cuts. It made him so frustrated that sometimes he would pause reading to shake his fist and yell "BEECHING!!!"
"Silly decisions made by people in power"? Well, yes, to you and me, but not always to them. I suggest that getting into power and becoming wealthy are quite well correlated, and that the corruption we accuse people in other countries of, is alive and well here.
We had similar in Suffolk:Norfolk as did a lot of rural uk. Many of the villages and towns in my area were connected by rail. Also , there was once many navigatable waterways some of which have completely disappeared and other now streams or ditches . We do seem to do transport and infrastructure terribly in the uk compared to our European neighbours. I still as if the uk was the kid that couldn’t stop fiddling , staarted off well the spoilt by bearachacy and bad governance …….
Your idea would particularly solve a lot of Tasmania's transport issues with a port serving as a national highway between the Melbourne and Devonport but as is the case everywhere politicians are hirelings and look forward to lucrative positions in the resources sector once they have done their traitorous deeds against the taxpayer's interests.
The heritage line on the old Great Central Railway is one of the best in the world. It’s the only place on earth I think you can ride on a mainline express steam train and see one coming past you on the other line. HS2 continues to depress me. Why spent billions and billions on a new railway line no one will use when our current rail infrastructure is completely rotting? Why not spend the money making what we have actually work properly?! If I ever stooped low enough to become a politician and magically became prime minister I’d have a corruption investigation on all the white elephants of the past 30 years (including all those useless wars) and have half of the sitting House of Commons jailed for the next 30 years. If you vote Tory or Labour in the next election you’re telling the ruling class you’re happy with how the country is going. Don’t vote for either of them - they are basically the same. It might not look like it when the press writes about the 5% of minutia they disagree on, but both will pretend to be principled (although I think the Tories have even given up on that) and yet once in power will think of lining their pocket first, serving their special interests second, and then might throw a bone to the people who elected them now and then….
