Yep, that is where all the resources go, such that, in April last year the Chief Constable of GMP reported that 600 offences each day, mostly thefts, were not being investigated.
Phase 1 will speed up travel between Brum and the Smoke, but as with all such schemes the trend will be to move the commuter belt for London further out rather than move investment to the Midlands. Phase 2 won't be 'live' before 2040 at the earliest, and without huge investment in the surrounding ancillary transport links, will deliver eff all improvement - currently the fastest trains from Manchester and Liverpool take a little over 2 hours to reach London. Trans-Pennine is in much more need of investment, and of greater economic importance.
"A man has been convicted of planning a terror attack at London tourist hotspots, just over a year after he was cleared of attacking police with a sword outside Buckingham Palace."
At least he was clear as to his motivation;
"....made a list of what he was going to do when he got to heaven. Top of the list wasn't meeting his maker, though. It was a tour of the palace he assumed he would be given.
Second on the unmarried chicken shop worker's list was to meet and consummate his relationship with 72 wives.
Only later - seventh on the list - would he find time to meet God..."
( How ungrateful. )
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51449757
GM doesn't have a point, he's just blasting out random articles to try to reinforce an already debunked line of ******. Trump does it much better.
Edit:
Or perhaps he just finds amusement in images of peoples houses being destroyed by fires or floods.
( To quote GM; "You've got to laugh..." )
According to The Sunday People, people were discovered hidden in a lorry at Calais, having crossed from Britain trying to escape Brexit. They are to be sent back.
Well you know what they said; If you had somebody as blond as Hitler, as athletic as Goering, as tall as Goebbels,as intelligent as Hess, and as perfectly sighted as Himmler, you would have the ideal Aryan.