Never one to mince his words, Dennis Skinner launched a blistering attack on Chris Grayling this week, for his continued support of HS2.
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HS2 and Public Sector Pay on Question Time
For the last two weeks, HS2 has come up on BBC Question Time, both times being mentioned as something which could be cut to help pay for public sector pay increases. Jacob Rees Mogg and Nick Ferarri have basically made the same point, that if you don’t want to increase borrowing or taxes, then to increase Government spending on one item, something else has to go, so why not pick the most useless item of Government spending?
We’ve added these clips to our playlist of the times HS2 has got a kicking on Question Time.
Minister says HS2 should be cancelled to save money
Foreign Office Minister Alistair Burt has reopened the debate about HS2, questioning whether it is worthwhile spending the money on it when cash is desperately needed for public services.
Here’s how this was covered by Roberto Perrone on BBC Three Counties Radio;
Greens & Ukip say stop wasteful HS2 to help solve this mess
In the BBC Debate last week, both Ukip & The Green Party very much stuck to their guns, pointing out that HS2 is simply an extravagance.
Has Tim Farron got the point about HS2?
For years, whilst the Green party & Ukip have opposed HS2, Labour Conservatives & Lib-Dems have supported it. Whilst that support has at least seen dissent and wobbles from both the two main parties, the Lib-Dems have been the most resolutely pig-headedly committed to it. And whilst a commitment to HS2 is in their manifesto, does it seem that Tim Farron is starting to get the point of what HS2 is really about?
Dance for the Trees
Video from the Dance for the Trees event, protesting against HS2:
“The whole area is going to get devastated.”
Royal Assent for a White Elephant
How Royal Assent was reported on BBC Three Counties, with Penny Gaines
HS2 “Do not understand how this aquifer works”
If you use tap water in Buckinghamshire, whether that’s for drinking or anything else, you may want to
listen to this.
“The political elite ignored professional advice” to stop HS2
When Phase 1 of HS2 got Royal Assent, there as lots of media coverage. This is just one of those pieces, from Radio 5 Live.
No-one was prepared to argue for HS2
As HS2 was just about the get Royal Assent, oddly enough no-one from the DfT or HS2 Ltd was willing to come on to BBC London was willing to come on and say how great it’ll be!
It wasn’t all bad, that just meant Keri Brennan from Hillingdon Against HS2 had a bit more time. This is by no means the first time this has happened, and indeed it happened later the same day, as Fraser Pithie had been lined up to do a head-to-head on BBC Coventry & Warwickshire (or was it BBC WM?), but as we’d predicted in the Stop HS2 virtual office, backed out when told he’d be up against Joe Rukin.