HS2 to Manchester officially cancelled: a “betrayal of the North”
It was probably the worst kept secret in British political history. Prime Minister Richi Sunak stood up at his party’s annual conference this Wednesday, and told the nation that Britain’s high-speed rail project, designed to bring the north and south closer together, has been cancelled. Civic leaders in the north of England have already called it a “betrayal of the north”. Some have even said it is a betrayal of the future. Those outside the conference, held in a redundant railway station no less, say that they don’t believe this truth, and it is a sell-out of Britain’s credibility.
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Tory-otally IRRELEVANT thing for him to say/do.
Nothing is due to start/break ground over the next 14 months… so anyone whosoever were to win the next election can Instantly Reverse it and still be years ahead of when the YES NO YES NO YES NO YES … makes any difference… LOL
If there was ever anything that sums up 13 years of Tory misrule it is the cancellation of HS2 to Manchester.
£ billions have been spent on the southern section which will now progress into London’s Euston station, but the people living north of Birmingham have been betrayed by a government that seems to have never really intended to ‘level-up’ our Northern cities.
The bits and pieces Sunak has tried to placate the people of the North with are highly unlikely to ever see the light of day.