“I’m really, really angry, I think it’s a way of keeping the north down”, one passenger told @Channel4News after reports the Manchester leg of HS2 will be scrapped.
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25 Comments
UK is innovative in train system 100 years ago but now UK is polluted and outdated train system compared with other big metropolitan cities.
Surely its better to encourage businesses to move north out of the 💩hole that is now London . Reduce business rates significantly oop north for companies transferring permanently .
"keeping the north down.". Sigh. No. As much as i don't like the Tories, this is a really overblown way of putting it.
Can we have a little more intellectual honesty in our politics please?
How about "it will unfairly affect the economy of the North, further perpetuating a divide that we should have long ago healed."
Keep north as far away as possible from civilisation please
Imagine all that daily £7MILLION migrant hotel bill was spent or invested on building the country's core infrastructures, it would be much more beneficial to the prosperity of this nation.
If it's money that is posing as a barrier for committing towards the HS2 project, then it raises the question, why is the government and politicians of this country so blindsided towards paying for 5 star hotel rooms for illegally arriving people?
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Awww bless! Are you angry the big choo choo isn't coming? I can guarantee you aren't anywhere near as angry as the people who have lost their homes and businesses and had years of their lives blighted by worry and uncertainty.
A lot of it is the ineptitude of the government and the stupidity of some people,, its constantly being blocked, taken to court by the climate freaks and tree huggers.. Instead of looking at the plus point of thing's, its always a negative,, if it was China, it would have been built and running for years but again, idiots are the problem..
Welcome to Scotland honey
It of course shud never had started.🗑Boris mates rippin us massively off.Another treasonous con that the people have to pay for🎯
This isn’t north vs south This is just poor planning and just a joke in all honesty
We don't count when it comes to the tories .
Perhaps, it's just not needed……….
Cost out of control, this government can’t plan and do anything properly.
HS2? Would have been up and running now if they'd started in Manchester. Now, what about all those properties bought for this projest and the ruination of the village of Ringway?
So ruining rural Staffordshire with HS 2 is good for the North.
All governments have sold out to a one world govt.
It really sadden me that we still have this North and South divide in Britain, What has the North ever done to the South, it like the Battle of Britain.
got the truth now
Tree huggers and Vandals have kinda fkd it up to be fair.
Having to get extra security and trying to clear blockers, all mountd up the cost but people seem to forget about this and argue down bs party lines.
It's depressing.😮💨
We don't want long distance commuters, go make your money where you live 😂
What about the farmer that they forcefully bought 40 acres of farming land from his 100 acre land including his own driveway 😂 he then needs to get a licence to access his own property.
Great progress its a shame the heaper northen leg has been scrapped and the most expensive bit is stil being built why does politics ruin everything in britanwe cant anything nice wioithsome politician ruining it for us
A national disgrace. One of the reasons I did not vote Tory 2024
Trident,bailout brexit and hs2 . The taxpayer in the last 20 years has been shafted and continues to be. New Labour and torys are one of the same.