Much has been made of Ed Balls in his speech yesterday seeming to renege on the HS2 project.
This now provides a window of opportunity for the Conservatives.
We can say that because cross-party consensus has broken down over this expensive long-term project (originally a Labour initiative) we are putting it on hold while Labour makes up its mind.
We can accuse them of dithering, we can accuse them of short-termism, we can accuse them of starting things they are not able to finish, we can accuse them of wasting money on all the initial preparation work, we say same old Labour all talk and no delivery, we can say same old Ed Balls wanting to spend the same money over and over again in a let's pretend game of faux fiscal responsibility.
It will allow us to placate the rebellious Tories in the shires along the HS2 route.
It will allow us to shoot another of Nigel Farage's foxes.
It will loosen up a big pot of money to spend in the pre-election period.
Indeed we can argue it would be irresponsible to go forward with the project and put taxpayers' money at risk when Labour is chopping and changing and saying they might cancel it if they get back into power.
This now provides a window of opportunity for the Conservatives.
We can say that because cross-party consensus has broken down over this expensive long-term project (originally a Labour initiative) we are putting it on hold while Labour makes up its mind.
We can accuse them of dithering, we can accuse them of short-termism, we can accuse them of starting things they are not able to finish, we can accuse them of wasting money on all the initial preparation work, we say same old Labour all talk and no delivery, we can say same old Ed Balls wanting to spend the same money over and over again in a let's pretend game of faux fiscal responsibility.
It will allow us to placate the rebellious Tories in the shires along the HS2 route.
It will allow us to shoot another of Nigel Farage's foxes.
It will loosen up a big pot of money to spend in the pre-election period.
Indeed we can argue it would be irresponsible to go forward with the project and put taxpayers' money at risk when Labour is chopping and changing and saying they might cancel it if they get back into power.
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