Transport Twitter told you all this is what would happen, but loads of you decided to believe the NIMBYs instead.
Still want to believe
#HS2
was “only about saving 20 mins to get to Birmingham”?
Scoop: HS2 cancellation will mean fares increase between London and the north to reduce travellers amid capacity problems.
There will be 8% fewer seats on future trains after the high-speed line was scrapped, and prices are set to go up to reduce demand
@DailyKumail
Greens: ban domestic flights!
People: are you going to build a high-speed train to places currently served by internal flights?
Greens: LOL No. Some of our southern middle class supporters might lose their pony paddocks!
@cbouzy
She looked like every ounce of strength was going into sitting up on a bench to make that announcement.
So I’m still not convinced it was her carrying a shopping bag and striding through a garden centre last week.
Why does that make me a horrible person?
@IsabelOakeshott
Hi Isabel.
Is this you? Saying we should cancel new train projects designed to relieve overcrowding on our existing train network?
If so, why is it"vanity" for the people in your video to expects their own seats etc?
#HS2
@linsayag
@danwootton
@MailOnline
The Press that hounded Harry’s mother to her death now want to hound Harry’s wife to hers.
It’s not as if Dan Wootton doesn’t have previous form for this. Ask Caroline Flack’s surviving family if still in any doubt.
Someone had to be kicked out their own bed this Christmas because of visitors, but I think we’ve been able to make lemonade out of lemons by making a den for the littlest under her own bed
#duvetknowitschristmas
@danwootton
Hi Dan,
As a journalist, can you clarify if this assessment of being a “sad little man” includes how you bullied a woman into taking her own life? Or excludes it?
@hutch__man
@mrjamesob
I don’t despise Tufton St as much as I despise the journalists and bookers who serve them up without telling the audience who they actually are.
@tomhfh
Buckinghamshire Tory NIMBYs demanded unnecessary tunnelling & cuttings for HS2 to protect their views.
And when they got them, they STILL moaned about it.
One of the most selfish cohorts of people in the United Kingdom.
@paullewismoney
Incredible how a political party polling 15-20% in approval ratings aren’t liked by 80-85% of a television audience.
Must be bias.
There’s no other way to explain it 🙄
@RE_DailyMail
A legal action that wouldn’t have had to take place if the racist Daily Mail hadn’t been whipping up hatred towards Harry and his wife.
You disgust me.
@mrjamesob
Of course it should always be mentioned that this racist alcoholic coward hides in Ireland to avoid U.K. libel laws.
Just in case there’s someone out there who doesn’t know it.
Lots of interesting responses to this Tweet from The Late Show regarding the behaviour of much of the British media.
British treatment of
#HarryAndMeghan
is being watched around the world. And what they see of us is not pretty.
"Without a doubt, the most dangerous lie that they have told, is that I somehow boasted about the number of people I killed in Afghanistan." — Prince Harry tells
#Colbert
, adding that his "words are not dangerous," but the spin on his "words are very dangerous."
#Spare
@RobertLindsay
Following on from criticising a
#HS2
rail line in the process of being built, we have this next up from Robert Lindsay:
"Just look at this cake! It's rubbish!!"
@implausibleblog
During the 2016 Referendum, Gove went on national TV and lied about his own father in order to win for Leave.
What kind of person does such a thing?
@nandmeister
@BehavinAint
You’ve missed the point - this isn’t about a person going to Eton; it’s about the class of people who send their children to Eton generation after generation.
“Labour could revive
#HS2
Northern legs after Govt fails to sell off land”
It’s a no-brainer if Labour really do want to invest in infrastructure that will raise the country’s fortunes.
@TimothyJonas
@Eyeswideopen69
They’re businesses.
With a market made up of people who don’t want their children in the state system, and therefore exhibit the properties of inelastic supply.
95% will pay the VAT to maintain educational apartheid for their offspring. They can and will pay more.
@danwootton
Next time you talk about kindness, can we all literally laugh in your face and remind you of how you bullied a woman into taking her own life?
@matt_dathan
Seem to recall Tories and their supporters saying we shouldn’t arrest people for causing hurt feelings, so I’m at a loss to see what’s being complained about here.
Amazing that
#RebeccaEnglishIsALiar
is still trending over a day later from when this Daily Mail “journalist” lied, then tried to cover it up with a deletion after the world saw they were a liar.
@lukemcgee
What the anti-Starmer left want is for him to do worse than Magic Grandpa.
Even if it’s just one metric (e.g. fewer Labour votes than in 2017), they will dine out on this FOR EVER.
@implausibleblog
Grace’s pick lost two General Elections facing two of the worst Tory Prime Ministers in history, and handed the second one a massive majority allowing him to loot the nation’s coffers.
She has nothing to offer any current discussion.
@SussexHenryVIII
You don't have to think Kate's been abducted by aliens or murdered by William in a fit of rage to doubt it was them in the garden centre video.
And the fact that the sympathetic media were basically beating the public into silence with that video makes it all the more suspect.
@wilkinsonphoto
@StellaPicsLtd
Yeah but the house wasn’t wearing a helmet or high-viz clothing, so it’s the house’s fault really.
On top of that, I once saw a house go through a red light. They deserve everything they get.
@b4sed7
@trussliz
Liz Truss was leader for 44 days and crashed the economy.
Keir Starmer has served 41 days so far and not crashed the economy.
Hope that helps.
This anti-
#HS2
Tweet hasn't had the effect Wildlife Trusts thought it should have.
Comments show increasing hostility to their cherry-picking of environmental issues for personal financial gain.
But it gets worse... 🧵
We are shocked.
HS2 was meant to be improving the world for future generations, not destroying it.
Help give wildlife a fighting chance against
#HS2
. Sign on to our open letter! 💪
@sophielouisecc
And you've been _so_ concerned about the plight of Qatar workers in the past few years, haven't you Sophie?
Pretty clear who's actually 'virtue signalling' here.
Hope you didn't hurt yourself jumping on that bandwagon.
@GBNEWS
British public not very impressed with Royal Family's decision to say nothing regarding Jeremy Clarkson's aggressive and bullying comments.
And if the piece was ok, why has it now been taken down?
@MikeStuchbery_
This doesn’t automatically mean they were trans as we know it.
Maybe women warriors were allowed to exist in some 6th century societies.
@CamillaTominey
You’ve not been in the public eye recently yourself, Camilla.
Is that because you were trying to think of a way to say this is all Meghan’s fault, and gave up?
@slagmaxxing
The jury isn’t the issue with the Letby case.
And I don’t really care for the widespread social media inference that “our system of justice is better than America’s, therefore Letby is guilty”.
@mrjamesob
I noticed two things we don’t have these days:
1. They allowed each other to speak
2. They didn’t have a constantly interrupting host skewing the debate for their own ends (eg Jo Coburn on her daily Tufton St show)
THREAD: Got lots to say about last night's Woodland Trust webinar for
#HS2
(and will post it below when I can).
But one thing struck me overall - their unspoken determination to not ask themselves this
- "if HS2 is not going to be built, what will happen in its place?"
@sturdyAlex
The other great thing about Andrew Bridgen losing his job is that the chances of him getting his old job back in the family firm are slim-to-none.
@geanina_iosub
Given what Caroline Flack's mother has said about the way Harry and Meghan have been treated by the British Press, it looks to me that this 'former publicist' cares more about getting work from said media than they do about their former employer.
@warden1003
@caitlinmoran
@mrjamesob
"If he had just quietly settled down in the US in obscurity, they would have been quietly forgotten."
So you don't know how the British Press works.
Understandable if you don't live in Britain; unforgivable if you do.
@mrjamesob
I’m still astounded that one of these journalists - Angela Levin - was once told what Jimmy Savile was like by a victim of his, and she never reported it to anyone.
Yet another example of how the rest of the nation gets on with it with no fanfare vs. the affluent south of England’s public complaints about much-needed national infrastructure.
The
#NIMBY
moaning with
#HS2
is but one small dimension of this big picture…
1/2
@angelalevin1
“…she could have launched it at any time…”
Yep, she could change an entire marketing project and event management just like that 🤔
Which reminds me - you could’ve gone to the police with your evidence of Jimmy Savile’s abuse at any time, but you didn’t.
Why?
@implausibleblog
Sorry, lady, but if you want to keep buying privilege then you’re just going to have to pay a little bit more for it.
Do we hear this whining when BMW puts its prices up?
@xAlphaWarriorx
@OzKaterji
Zelenskyy was an actor and comedian before become a politician.
And the only achievement in your life is paying Elon Musk $8 a month to get a blue tick.
@tomhfh
It’s a crank problem.
Created by Andrew Wakefield and amplified by tabloid journalists who wanted to use
#MMR
as a stick to beat Labour.
What we are seeing is the legacy of that, further amplified by COVID cranks.
@Melanated_Mona
Just like how the Spencers knew Diana was being treated appallingly and leapt into action, right?
Never underestimate the chilling effect of money and power. The Middletons have even less of that than the Spencers (who did nothing at the time).
@PatriciaApicel3
@Rob_Kimbell
BBC had some grants from the EU for technological development; NEVER for programming and certainly not for News & Current Affairs.
How typical of a brexiter to be dishonest.
@mrjamesob
Why isn’t Birbalsingh known as “Britain’s Laziest Headteacher”?
All the heads I know are run ragged doing their job. They don’t have time to go on GBNews, feature in the Telegraph or write pompous letters to public companies.
@GeorgeMonbiot
Fancy calling yourself an environmentalist & then oppose one of the most sustainable methods of long-distance transit in the world.
When those Heathrow-Leeds flights start up again because our rail system is so poor, I'm sure I won't forget you and your shortsightedness.
Really looking forward to
#BBCLauraK
this morning.
I’m certain a journalist of her calibre will heavily feature the top political story of the moment - the quid pro quo of Boris Johnson & the BBC Chairman 🤔
Have actually never seen this before - it's a 2009 paper from Network Rail (not
#HS2
) stating that *new* lines were needed to address capacity issues, as upgrading was no longer a realistic option.
Well this is interesting - Camilla biographer and media cheerleader for hatred against Meghan Markle was part of the circle keeping quiet about Jimmy Savile.
So it's unsurprising Angela Levin prefers to attack Meghan than Prince Andrew.
I see gammons are upset GOODBYE GB NEWS is trending.
Can’t be fun discovering your favourite ‘news’ channel has lost an investor & needs an extra £60m to keep it afloat.
Still, not as funny as it regularly getting fewer viewers than the Welsh language version of ‘Paw Patrol’ 😂
Absolutely shocking a member of
@TheGreenParty
would be quoting pro-road, pro-fossil fuel, climate-change-denying lobbyists IEA in attacking electric-powered public transport like
#HS2
.
We’re now at the state this is plain embarrassing.
It’s 2059. HS2 is not only busy, but has been extended to Inverness & Exeter, killing off a substantial chunk of the internal flight market.
For the 40th year in a row, The Green Party has once again failed to debate their opposition to it, yet again “running out of time”.
@CimonWoodward
@Femi_Sorry
It’s not rocket science. Labour wins its occasional election with FPTP, and then implements PR to stop the Tories winning their frequent elections under FPTP.
@BrightGrn
Not my circus not my monkeys, BUT any GPEW members with 1oz of self-awareness must realise how stupid they look being the only Green Party in the world opposing their own nation’s high speed rail implementation.
The official stance on
#HS2
makes them a worldwide laughing stock.
@Dr2NisreenAlwan
My conscience tells me that Britain needs the Tories winning so few seats that they can’t even be the Official Opposition.
Because otherwise they’ll be back in five years time.
@mrjamesob
BBC: There’s a number of shadily-funded lobbyists that are subverting politics and public policy in the United Kingdom
Us: We know. Are you going to stop inviting them onto the BBC and having them pretend otherwise?
BBC: No.