General   (General discussion, talk about anything.)

Surfer Tom

Do you think that the Tories have already sold off all the land on the Manchester section of HS2 ?

Because that is what you keep saying.

So before the project was cancelled on Wednesday, was the land was put up for sale, to which interested parties put in offers for the land, the government, the civil service looked at the offers being made for the land, and they made a choice as to who was the most suitable party to accept an offer from, as in the did the interested party have the funds available to buy the land.

Then after the offers were accepted, were the legal processes started, were contracts exchanged, were certain covenants placed on certain portions of the lands, then were funds exchanged, with the probably billions of pounds being transferred to the British government treasury.

Surfer Tom

Has all that already been done in 'secret' over the last few months, or even years, because that is how long it will take to sell off all of that land.

Or do you mean something else ?