Don't be an a**e. Nobody said that at all. Stats, Stat Brother, stats.
I think you are probably also aware that we have one lowest road death tolls / 100,000 population in the world.
The UK population grew by about 2.5m in those 5 years, so if the number of deaths remained the same would that count as a percentage fall in the number of deaths ?
I am happy for you getting a seat on the Birmingham train.
I didn't realise we were having a poll to choose either/or where the money was spent. I wouldn't like to have to choose between education or health or anything else.
Have you ever heard the expression ' Assumption is the mother of all...
As has already been mentioned on this thread, the small time saving is merely a by-product of the real purpose which is increased capacity. This is badly needed.
How about infrastructure ? Oh that might include HS2.
A lot of south east based contributors here wanting to scrap HS2 but what about the London centric Crossrail and Crossrail 2 with total costs estimated at £59bn. Should we scrap that too ?
Yep, In Leeds you can't move for sports shops, large and small selling loads of cricket equipment.
For anyone in Yorkshire highly recommend Warrior Bats in Wakefield, hand made, your spec, very reasonable prices, no more than a G&M etc in a sports shop.