1506 wrote:
Is Watford normally a Tory voting area? I suspect that it is. In
which case, this has a small chance of going forward. That said I am
not especially optimistic.

After years of that happening under New Labour, do we still believe it
to be the case under an alternative government? The PTE areas did very
well for themselves in the '80s and early '90s with new stations,
electrification, more services and not to mention LRT projects in
Greater Manchester, Sheffield, West Midlands and the Airport extension
to the Tyne/Wear Metro, all initiated under the Conservatives despite
the fact that the Metropolitan Counties were mostly controlled by Labour.