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SPOTTING A SLOW TRAIN CRASH
AN ESSAY
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HS2 is a dreadful aberration of the social contract.
This promised “high speed rail link from London to Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds and beyond” is already fifteen years late just six years in, and falling apart before one inch of track is laid. Plans are being laid bare for the waste of space they are, finances have been out of control right from the start, and crimes are being committed on a daily basis across the whole route. Government and indeed Parliament are at very long last considering what dreadful folly they have perpetrated on the British public and the land they live on.
The whole fantastical nightmare was born and nurtured in Parliament in ignorance of the people they serve. Only once, in 2011, did Parliament refer to the people with a public consultation, asking us what we thought about having a high speed rail dumped on us. The response was resounding, with many of the questions attaining upwards of 90% against. Right from...
WORDS: MARK KEIR
