It would be pretty unpopular and therefore unlikely, but there’s technically nothing stopping a law being created specifically to buy the land back at the price it’s being sold for.
Hell, since we’re not in the EU any more, we don’t have the laws preventing the government from just taking it for free, but that would be politically suicidal.
Still makes it harder than keeping the land. They could have finished the first leg, then completely replanned/redesigned the second, using the same path.
Oh don’t get me wrong, I agree they shouldn’t be selling it.
But it’s clearly the Tories being fucking children and trying to make it difficult for a successive government to do the job they were unable to do themselves.
It would be pretty unpopular and therefore unlikely, but there’s technically nothing stopping a law being created specifically to buy the land back at the price it’s being sold for.
Hell, since we’re not in the EU any more, we don’t have the laws preventing the government from just taking it for free, but that would be politically suicidal.
Still makes it harder than keeping the land. They could have finished the first leg, then completely replanned/redesigned the second, using the same path.
Oh don’t get me wrong, I agree they shouldn’t be selling it.
But it’s clearly the Tories being fucking children and trying to make it difficult for a successive government to do the job they were unable to do themselves.
It’s actively malicious