Yuck, #Nationwide Building Society, #UK, have changed their #logo from their classic house and tree to a dangerously close to fascistic horribly stripped down and stark two colour unrecognisable shape.
Oh wait, I see now, it’s an evil harshly cackling crow cawing in front of the dying sun as it spreads blood and doom over the land…
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@1d7ca1eb Sounds a good plan! I was just about to write a further reply to add that many politicians in England north of London (including Birmingham) are of course rightly very annoyed that the money has all been squandered on more long tunnels to London than really needed (to placate NIMBYs), and that there have been many rail improvements in England too (especially by local PTEs), but for “national” projects it’s always London first and not spread properly fairly.
@1d7ca1eb Objection: •England• is too dysfunctional to do this. #Scotland has been reopening and electrifying railway lines near continuously since 2010 (and, in #Strathclyde, on a fairly regular basis before that). #Wales is also making good progress.
If instead we had started #HS2 from Edinburgh/Glasgow, we would probably have reached Manchester, Newcastle and Leeds by now, and on the way to Birmingham, w/ enough built momentum to make the expensive stretch to London then a certainty.
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