Here's a breakdown of the HS2 opposition. Basically you can break it down into five, often contradictory, mutually loathing groups.
There's the right wing petrolhead mob, who view all railways as bad for either being 'Socialist', as a form of collective transport for those too lazy or ****less to get a car, or too 'green' and part of the whole 'global warming myth' who are simply opposed to railways full stop, so naturally are against one being built by the government.
Then there's the left wing mob, who think that it's a service for rich city fat cats only.
Third is the hair shirt environmentalists, who think we not only shouldn't build a high speed rail line, but we should retreat to a rural pastoral lifestyle, and pretty much stop travelling anywhere that can't be reached by foot, bicycle or horse.
Fourth, there's the rail traditionalists, who think that before we should even consider building new railway lines, we should first reopen all the closed rural routes we lost under Beeching, and also bring back semaphore signals, Mk1 carriages and the pick up goods trains.
Then finally the full on Nimby brigade, who think that the building of a railway line will reduce the Chilterns to a devastated wasteland, populated only by wind and ghosts, and who's prophecies of doom have been so pervasive, that they have pretty much created the very housing blight that they were constantly moaning about on the Telegraphs letters pages.
.... oh, and then there's mccoy, which makes six
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