Treasury says 'It's trains or Trident'

From today's Times about High Speed Rail:

Treasury officials acknowledge that the project would compete for funds with Trident, prisons, an NHS database and other capital projects.

So Trident becomes even more of an election issue than it was already. The UK government is acknowledging the negative impact it has on other investment the country needs.

I am actually flabbergasted by today's announcement that the UKG is planning HSR to Manchester, Leeds and Sheffield, but not Glasgow. The biggest obstacle to HSR coming here was supposed to be cost - in the region of £30bn. What the government have announced today is that package of money - but what they've done is served more locations in England through it. Read more in the press release I've put out.