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HS2: Osborne urges China to pitch for £11.8bn contracts

HS2: George Osborne urges China to pitch for £11.8bn contracts - BBC News
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-34341352

If Corbyn can't pull something out of the hat, we'll all be learning Mandarin at this rate.

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Thu Sep 24, 2015 10:29 pm

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Re: HS2: Osborne urges China to pitch for £11.8bn contracts

This has to be something the opposition can make mischief with. Osborne is touting the contracts to build something Parliament hasn't even agreed to go ahead with yet. MPs may take the majority of their constituents for granted but they really, really don't like being taken for granted themselves. Cameron's own backbenchers won't like this at all. Whether the whips will be able to keep a lid on it is going to be interesting to watch.

Fri Sep 25, 2015 10:32 am

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Re: HS2: Osborne urges China to pitch for £11.8bn contracts


	jonbwfc wrote: This has to be something the opposition can make mischief with. Osborne is touting the contracts to build something Parliament hasn't even agreed to go ahead with yet. MPs may take the majority of their constituents for granted but they really, really don't like being taken for granted themselves. Cameron's own backbenchers won't like this at all. Whether the whips will be able to keep a lid on it is going to be interesting to watch.

Not really - for big contracts like this the bid process can last years so telling Companies to start to gear up to bid is not promising then that either a) they will win it or b) that it is guaranteed to go ahead

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