Mediaballs - Grauniad on Dave's China jolly

This from the Gruaniad...

China wants involvement in Britain's first high-speed rail line and an increased role in civil nuclear power, the country's premier said in Beijing after talks with David Cameron on the first day of the prime minister's visit.

Hmmm... admittedly UK PLC may be a little behind the People's Republic on high speed rail but Li Keqiang may find a clue in the new railway's title: HS2.

No matter.

Meanwhile, there is one area where Britain could certainly learn from our Chinese friends.

An equally robust approach to our own former railway ministers would do much pour encourager les autres!

Jobs for the Choys?

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Presumably the recent farago over Gordon's promise of 'British Jobs for British Workers' hasn't escaped the notice of Crossrail.

With the CLRL executive team nicknamed the 'Hong Kong mafia', one of the plans for building Crossrail is to subcontract the tunnelling to the Chinese.

One piece of good news, it wouldn't be long before London was hungry for Crossrail 2...