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Boris Johnson's failed vanity project, the Garden Bridge, cost £53.3m. Many people such as designers, architects, lawyers and construction companies made good money (fortunes) out of it even though no land was secured and no bricks were laid. That was in London.

Earlier this week British Steel asked for a £30m to try to keep the business afloat and secure 5,000 direct jobs and more than 20,000 in the supply chain. Those were jobs in Scunthorpe and Teeside - the North. The loss of those job will directly cost about £100m in jobseekers alone in the first year and an unknown amount in imported steel, which we always need, in the future.

So, can anybody explain to us how it is fine to throw good money after bad on a concept the country did not particularly want or need, yet it is impossible to secure and support jobs and products the country needs now and in the future?

Absolutely disgraceful! I could say what I think of Boris, but I'd have to ban myself for bad language

Now I believe they will move to keep BS Scunthorpe afloat because if that goes under, we will have no facility in this country left to manufacture the railway rails for HS2. Workington used to produce them, but if Scunthorpe goes, they will then have to be imported. And at what additional cost to an already overreaching HS2 budget?

One offshoot of the steel industry was the production of steel railway rails. Workington rails were widely exported and a common local phrase was that Workington rails 'held the world together'. Originally made from Bessemer steel, following the closure of the Moss Bay Steelworks, steel for the plant was brought by rail from Teesside. The plant was closed in August 2006. However welding work on rails produced at Corus Groups' French plant in Hayange continued at Workington for another two years, as the Scunthorpe site initially proved incapable of producing rails adequately. - Wiki

If British Steel does go under, then as a consequence, they ought to scrap HS2.

Saw an item on the news this morning, showing where work has started on the station a Birmingham.

In the back ground you could see trains going pastto the main staion in the centre of Birmingham.

This new station is several miles from the center and it will mean changing to get into the city.