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Misery for motorists as Sunak’s HS2 cut set to add 500,000 lorries to traffic jams
(www.independent.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 12 Oct 2023
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Those motorists who voted for Brexit can console themselves with the knowledge that the smug liberal elites who would otherwise be breezing past them on a high-speed train are stuck in the same traffic jam, breathing in the same diesel fumes.
Brexit hasn't done us any favours, but I don't really see what it has to do directly with the scrappage of HS2 phase 2?
It’s the common crabs-in-a-bucket mentality of opponents of trying to improve the world.
And anyone that isn't a "smug liberal elite" and also can't drive for whatever reason, is either sat on the floor next to the toilet on a packed cross country service, or just staying at home because it's too expensive to travel.