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Category Archives: Network Rail
Our demand for HS2 is clear and unquestionable
Nusrat Ghani MP spoke on Monday in the House of Commons “I am indeed the Minister responsible for this project[HS2]. Not only is the project this Government’s policy, but it was in the Conservative party’s manifesto as well as in … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Network Rail, Parliament and Democracy
Tagged Andrew Bridgen, Bill Cash, Brexit, Cheryl Gillan, Chris Grayling, HS2, Judith Blake, Leeds, Nusrat Ghani, Victoria Prentis
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We need to overhaul Parliamentary answer processes
A couple of weeks ago a Labour member of the House of Lords asked a rather simple and basic question and got what could be described as an absent answer. The person who asked the question is Alan West, Baron … Continue reading
Posted in Network Rail, Parliament and Democracy
Tagged Alan West, Chris Grayling, Elizabeth Sugg, Steve Bassam
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Complete un-accountability regarding Grayling
A few days ago Steve Bassam asked a very simple question directed at the Department for Transport regarding their senior Minister. On Wednesday the department took the trouble to answer the question or perhaps more accurately they responded by acknowledging … Continue reading
Sussex travellers need some justification for todays 3.1% railfare increase
Parliamentary rules suggest that under most settings local people can only expect to hear from their own MP if they want to ask a question. However there are always going to be exceptions and the following is surely one of … Continue reading
Will Govia be an effigy at the Bonfire Parade?
Sussex bonfire associations are all busy participating in the last few local events of this season and preparing for the highlight for most as they gather together in Lewes. It is fascinating to see how a similar amount of diversely … Continue reading
Posted in Network Rail, Parliament and Democracy
Tagged Chris Grayling, Govia Thameslink Railway, GTR, Jo Johnson, Nick Herbert
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Three matters all Sussex Tory MPs need to address!
The uncertainty of Brexit and lack of support for Theresa May means that the Government is currently in a weak and unstable position. However for the moment we are led by a Conservative Government and so Conservative MPs are in … Continue reading
Happy New Year
This week is the beginning of the academic year for most schools and shortly Universities will start their year with Freshers weeks. Although the numbers of students across the whole age spectrum is only modest, the impact on most of … Continue reading
Posted in Brighton & Hove, Education, Network Rail, Parliament and Democracy, STEM
Tagged Chris Grayling, IOBY, NIMBY
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The challenge of forming reliable infrastructure
Based on the news about Crossrail that has emerged in the last 24 hours, the project which was approved in 2007 and began construction two years later was due to take 9 years to complete. The fact that it has … Continue reading
Posted in Network Rail, Parliament and Democracy, STEM
Tagged Andrew Adonis, Chris Grayling, CrossRail, John Armitt
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Tim seems to be in no mans land
On the 18th July Tim Loughton the MP for East Worthing, Shoreham and (so my friend Chris feels included) Sompting too! raised a matter in the House of Commons on the way in which Govia Thamselink Railways are performing in … Continue reading
Govia Thameslink Railways supporters change their minds, again!
Looking back over the debates in the House of Commons that took last week it seems as though at least two MPs in Sussex who only two weeks earlier had voted to support Chris Grayling and allow GTR to retain … Continue reading
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