It's also disingenuous lies. This money is being spent over 11 years so is more in the realm of £750m a year.

This is also a classic trick of the Conservative government and is why the NHS is also in a mess: they steal money from capital investment budgets and use it to spend on day-to-day operational stuff.

In the NHS they took money from the capital budget and diverted it to day to day spending, claiming it as "new money". It was an increase in day-to-day spending but it was not new money. Instead NHS trusts now have big backlogs of equipment and buildings needing replacement and being used beyond intended life cycle because the money was stolen.

Pot hole repair is day-to-day road maintenance, not infrastructure or capital investment. HS2 was a new capital project. This is just more bullshit lies by the government and a huge issue here is how shit journalism is now. The BBC hasn't questioned this spending pledge at all, instead it's posted a bullshit superficial article on potholes.

I'm not a brit, but shit like this makes me want to start putting potholes in the heads of politicians

It’s so funny how the conservatives had a little bit of success in one constituency that didn’t want ULEZ, and they’ve now made “end the war on motorists” one of their main goals…

“Throw shit, see what sticks” really sums up the conservative government under Sunak.

this guy needs a trip to Dallas

I've heard a couple people claim they need an SUV because the roads are so bad. And I admit that driving on a bad road in a normal sized car is not fun. But maybe we'd have more money for fixing roads if we had fewer roads.

"For too long politicians have shied away from taking the right long-term decisions to make life easier for hardworking families"

Im sure 100 years from now we'll be looking at decisions like this fondly. When AC malfunctions are death sentences.

"Oh common, bring cameron already" some british probably