THE £2 TRILLION GAMBLE

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THE £2 TRILLION GAMBLE – WILL BRITAIN BUILD ITS WAY BACK TO GLORY?

In a move that makes Monopoly spending look like pocket money, Chancellor Rachel Reeves has revealed a £2 trillion investment blueprint aimed at jolting Britain out of stagnation and into something vaguely resembling 21st-century competence.

It’s being called the biggest infrastructure push in modern UK history – with a headline promise of £725 billion over 10 years, spread across railways, roads, housing, hospitals, and a much-needed revival of the bits of Britain that look like they haven’t seen a paintbrush since the 1970s.

Yes, there’s something almost Churchillian in tone about it – not in war but in ambition. But instead of sandbags and speeches, we’re getting bridges, buses, and broadband. Not a bad start.

Among the first cash drops:

• £1 billion “Structures Fund” to fix the cracked bones of the country – bridges, tunnels, overpasses.

• £590 million to the Lower Thames Crossing, which may finally move from blueprint to bulldozer.

• And a whole shopping list of regional regeneration packages still being sketched by eager civil servants in regional offices with flickering fluorescents.

Reeves, fronting the rollout like a no-nonsense builder in a hard hat, is betting the national piggy bank on the idea that building equals growth. But with the debt pile already high and inflation still clinging on like a bad cough, critics have accused the Treasury of using Lego logic – throwing bricks at problems and hoping they stick.

Still, Britain’s infrastructure is in no position to argue. From NHS hospitals bursting at the seams to trains that turn up whenever Mercury is in retrograde, the country is begging for modernisation.

The plan is bold. It is, quite literally, massive. And in a nation where potholes outnumber pensioners, it might just work – assuming the money lands where it should and doesn’t vanish into consultancy black holes.

So now we watch – shovels in hand, hard hats on heads, and optimism tethered tightly to reality.

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Author: @grassmonster