I SEE the jokers trying to run our country have agreed to go ahead with the high speed train system at a cost of £32bn to taxpayers when the country is deep in debt and most people have had to suffer cutbacks.

How can we have irresponsible idiots like this joke of a Government running our country?

They are so much out of touch with the real world. Old people have had their daily trips to hospitals stopped, they have had £25 cut off their winter fuel allowance, carers made redundant. There are three million people put out of work owing to the cuts, and firms closing down every day, yet this stupid high speed train is so important What is the point in a high speed train when train fares go up every two months and are now at a rip-off stage?

By the time this project is up and running, you will have to be super-rich (such as MPs) to afford to travel on it.

Probably you will have to stand up like you do now. For the amount people have to pay for train fares, I think it is disgusting that they should have to stand up. Don’t talk about a super train with the cost seen on the ones we have now.

RON LEWIS, Grays Road, Headington