The Chunnel
°ugh it looks increasingly likely that some Maj Re or measures — like the New Deal's Ten sVseeValley Authority — will be kept at the cart-of-construction stage as part of the is!vernment's strategy to resist economic slip, it ellrettable that the enabling Bill to permit the (-gannet Tunnel Bill to proceed has been passed. 4ne ranks of the Conservatives resisting this tp:e,°fligate measure were swollen predictably by iltiernbers who have some direct interest in the tnnel, should it ever be built, as representaves or south-eastern constituencies that will be
the initial victims of the increased traffic and funnelling to a single Channel link.) Inevitably it looks as though further good money will be thrown after bad before the Channel Tunnel scheme is seen for what it is; a vastly expensive and antiquated transport arrangement, the original purpose of which — the placating of French opposition to our entry into the EEC — may thankfully be a memory before the work is completed.
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