If certain candidates are elected as the next Conservative leader, and/or if The Brexit Party has an electoral success which wields significant influence on the Conservative Party, it becomes far more likely that HS2 will be curtailed, mothballed or scrapped. That's not wild accusations or wishful thinking, we know that's possible.
I would love to be on this thread the moment it is announced that a new decision is made regarding HS2 which means, say, the regeneration around Euston will be completed but the entire scheme other than that has been dropped; or that it will be built from OOC to Watford and that's it;.or some other decision relating to it's closure. Because a lot of people will have to think outside their HS2 blinkered vision and come up with a new world view.
I'm afraid that it's true that pro-HS2 voices think they can get away with claiming that the WCML was almost full twenty years ago when the scheme was first launched, yet apparently it still isn't full today. If the southern WCML truly was almost full in 2009 and still not full in 2019, then HS2 is simply and self evidently not required.
I do wonder why it's allowed for pro-HS2 people to demand of antis far more evidence than they require from each other.
I would love to be on this thread the moment it is announced that a new decision is made regarding HS2 which means, say, the regeneration around Euston will be completed but the entire scheme other than that has been dropped; or that it will be built from OOC to Watford and that's it;.or some other decision relating to it's closure. Because a lot of people will have to think outside their HS2 blinkered vision and come up with a new world view.
I'm afraid that it's true that pro-HS2 voices think they can get away with claiming that the WCML was almost full twenty years ago when the scheme was first launched, yet apparently it still isn't full today. If the southern WCML truly was almost full in 2009 and still not full in 2019, then HS2 is simply and self evidently not required.
I do wonder why it's allowed for pro-HS2 people to demand of antis far more evidence than they require from each other.