This is one reason why Britain is less productive than Germany

This doesn't work, sorry. The assumption is that people cannot work on a train. With mobile internet people can work on a train. Therefore train speed is not a constraint upon productivity. We went through all this in the cost benefit analysis for HS2, recall?

Britain HS2: £396 million per mile Germany Wendlingen–Ulm: £84 million per mile Whitehall and bureaucrats did that.

This is another reason why Britain is less productive than Germany.

You are a Scottish MP. Wtf are you on?

Its not the main problem maybe a small part of it. America has an awful train system and is way more productive than the UK and Germany It all comes down to taxes and regulations You are making it worse And you're intelligent enough to know it so you're doing it on purpose.

Labour are finished lad. Best thing you can do is support an independent Scotland where we can take control fully of our own resources and affairs.

Here's the 'School teacher' treating people like they're thick again 🙄

Productive Germany lol.

The fact is simple: Germans are more hardworking and the British are lazier thanks to the welfare sysytem and the current Labour government incentivizing people to stay at home and claim welfare.

Its 146 miles from Manchester to Newcastle.

Gordon McKee admits not building HS2 in full is one reason why Britain is less productive than Germany.

Another talking down to people video from one of the least talented Labour MPs A result of the purge of socialists and people with talent This is the result #MuppetMcKee

You tried getting a DB train in Germany lately, wee lad? Check out the punctuality rates.

Mostly it's due to the low quality of our MPs. 🤷‍♂️🤡🤦

1. Are you aware of German Railways' disastrous punctuality performance? Internationally notorious for dreadful delays. 2. Very few Germans commute long distances to work by train. 3. Most Germans travel to work by car. But yes, of course we need better train links @Danjsalt

Giving billions to garbage immigrants using taxpayer money makes the uk less productive. Do keep up 🙄

Labour is why we are less productive. More jobless. More immigrants living off benefits. Work harder and longer? More tax. Who bothers to work more when HMG helps itself to our money?

This Govt has some great ideas, especially with transport, renewable energy, and pension mega funds. But you’ve gotta stop killing jobs with national insurance tax and minimum wage increases!

This is nonsense.

What complete bollocks. The German economy is tanking.

What a wanka!

They have sent out the new boy to throw under the bus

The self importance you cunts have is ridiculous.

British are less productive as there is less incentives to work, Germans are paid better with more incentives . With such bad governments in the UK we are all left thinking what is the point as all you do is punished us more with more taxes which you then waste.

Unions and socialists

There's always Manchester and Sheffield, miserable train service as an alternative to a couple of very scenic A roads. Pretty, but not efficient.

You’re an imbecile

As of February 2026, the German labor market is experiencing a period of stagnation, with unemployment remaining above the 3 million mark due to a weak economy and industrial structural challenges.   Trading Economics

It’s called a Labour government you clown

Most British travelling to work do so in their own time, if is take longer to travel they leave earlier and arrive at work at the same time as a German would get to work, Germans work 36-40 hours and Brits work 36-40 hours faster trains wont change the working hours

😂😂 please stop talking..

You are in power, you can fix it. Time to make @Eurostar into a UK wide network. It's your job to fix as many problems as possible.