Michael Byng

#goldenwhistles I am interested on comments about cost. Are we referring to operating cost, capital cost of construction or cost of infrastructure maintenance? UK construction cost is between 25 and 35% higher than comparable countries with similar timetable needs,

Excellent result for Coventry City at Swansea City but a special mention of the performance of referee Sam Allison and his assistants Messrs Dallison and Singh Gill who ensured the game flowed with the minimum of disruption

Not just in the Coventry Motor Museum but also at the entrance to the British Ambassador’s residence in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Henri Murison, Times Radio today failed to declare the interest of Northern PowerHouse Partnership lobbying for HS2 to be built in full. NPP members received £300 million from HS2 Ltd before The Oakervee Review and continue to earn from it. No wonder he wants to see it continue!

Back from watching a poor Coventry City well beaten by a very mediocre Stoke City. Not enhanced by display of eccentric and imaginative (?) referee #Sam Barrett, whose decision to allow Stoke's 2nd goal was an April fool's prank made after mid day, and in very bad taste.

With the welcome demise of Boris Johnson, will the deception and alleged fraud that promotes the HS2 project now be fully revealed?

NCE today @HS2 report problems with construction sequencing for Phase 1 due to Enabling Works and Utility Diversions. The 561 Nr enabling works packages, their complexity & interdependence were known in 2016. The costs should have been included in the budget and programme

Outbreak of common sense? telegraph.co.uk/politics/202…

More unnecessary work and expense on HS2 bridge works in the Midlands today when can’t apparently feed needy children. Says it all about the “society” we live in! Although those being paid by this unnecessary vanity project could donate 20% of their earnings to feed the needy.

While #Saracens face the consequences of financial misconduct when will #Premierrugby similarly sanction #wasps for the financial shenanigans used to acquire the Ricoh Arena causing such damage to its rightful occupants and to the City of Coventry?

As we enter the season of good will, let us put our differences aside about #HS2 and other subjects and wish all a Merry Christmas and a Happy, Peaceful and Prosperous New Year.

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Interesting feedback from a meeting today with a group of major contractors, work in the pipeline is at a long-term low partially due to insufficient budgets and incomplete works scope being offered by clients such as #HS2 and NR. Properly prepared and quantified ITT essential

&GarethDennis I am pleased you are looking forward to it I hope that you will not be disappointed! Any questions in the meantime, feel free to ask.

#confidence What does the DUP exactly stand for? It doesn’t represent the will of Northern Ireland - votes to remain - and why does it think it should receive special treatment?

Let’s have second peoples vote on Brexit - not a rerun of the first but after the politician have explained the reality of their promises made in 2016; it seems to me that from the PM downwards, politicians are trying to avoid responsibility for the mess they created.