I thought the anti Hs2 campaign couldn’t find any more of the barrel-bottom to scrape but their cynical attempts to exploit the steelworkers has proved me wrong.
One might have thought a campaign to stop the biggest civil engineering and railway construction project in the UK and possibly Europe would have the integrity, morality and PR nous to steer clear from trying to link stopping Hs2 with saving UK steelworkers jobs – but this is the anti Hs2 mob we’re talking about. Morality & integrity went out of the window years ago…
First out of the traps was the main Chiltern Nimby group, Hs2aa with a tweet of such breathtaking stupidity it spawned this blog.
Obviously, they’re so ‘concerned’ about the UK steel industry they didn’t even realise Redcar isn’t the country’s last steelworks.
We’ve had a number of people jump on the bandwagon since then. Here’s a sample of some of their tweets.
So, what do a Bucks Doctor, A Devon Reiki Master and a Camden ‘activist’ have in common? Well, you can bet your bottom dollar it’s not the welfare & jobs of UK steelworkers. If they really were so bothered about steelworkers they’d be campaigning FOR Hs2 to be built and for the steel to do it to be produced in the UK – but hell will freeze over before they do that.
Their level of intellectual & moral bankruptcy says an awful lot about the anti Hs2 campaign – as does their efforts to defend their cynical exploitation of others misfortunes for personal or political reasons.
The sooner their increasingly unpleasant campaign is put out of its misery, the better.
Paul Bigland 
HS2 damages the English countryside and village communities with no real benefit. What difference does it make getting somewhere 30 minutes or an hour faster. Take the slow train and enjoy the countryside! I don’t see the argument to build things just so we can make them to create jobs. Jobs work on supply and demand and this is an artificially created demand. Protecting the countryside is more important. There is reality gap between needs here. Morally bankruptcy is demonstrated by the passion to build over our greatest asset – our green and pleasant land.
I think you are missing the point. HS2 is not just about speed, it is also about creating much needed extra capacity. So taking the slower train is not the solution.
Protecting the countryside? When do you want it pickled in aspic? The current countryside is man made and has been for hundreds of years. Perhaps you’d like it “preserved” when we were all subsistence farmers. Perhaps we could preserve it back in the 1960s by putting all those old railway lines back?