Tunnel to nowhere
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iE CHANNEL TUNNEL issue is back in the news but this time with a Fference. In Brussels last week it was suggested that it and a section of otorway in East Anglia could cancel the £1000m which represents our cessive contribution to the EEC and which we want back.
The Prime Minister's reaction to that nonsense should be a firm and solute "no". Quite apart from the financial considerations there are enough her good reasons for rejecting the proposal.
To ensure that the tunnel is used, legislation would almost certainly be wired. Its enforced use would lead to the demise of competing ferry services d a monopoly for the tunnel operators — presumably the British and French vernments.
Our administration is against more government intervention and does not end to expand the public sector; moreover, a monopoly would lead to ronornically high rates. Power would move into the hands of people who ild stop traffic moving at the blast of a whistle or the wave of a red flag. The ferry services are running efficiently and competing in a free market.
are expanding each year and they use private cash. Only if private estors can be found to finance the inel should it be sanctioned. Concorde, the last Anglo-French astigious engineering project, ould not be repeated.
cannot afford it.