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The election campaign goes from bad to worse for the Hs2 antis…

15 Wednesday Apr 2015

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As if the fact all the major political parties have now endorsed Hs2 in their manifestos there’s yet more disastrous news for the anti Hs2 campaign, c/o newspaper ‘City AM’ & polling company electionforecast.co.uk. They’ve looked at how UKIP are polling in their 12 target seats.

Here’s a link to the ‘City AM’ article:

http://www.cityam.com/213755/general-election-2015-how-are-ukip-and-nigel-farage-doing-peoples-armys-target-seats?utm_medium=Email&utm_source=Email&utm_campaign=150415_CMU

The result that is especially interesting is Aylesbury. It’s this:

Aylesbury

The relevant percentages are Tories 54% Labour 16% LD 16% UKIP 11% Greens 2% others 1%

Hang on, UKIP on 11% and the Tories on 54%? This is meant to be a bastion of the anti Hs2 campaign, a veritable hotbed of irate citizens itching to show their displeasure at the ballot box. For weeks they’ve even been insisting that the anti Hs2 vote could swing the election! Now it seems it can’t even swing a seat in their very heartland…

All this shows is what I’ve been saying for years. The anti Hs2 campaign has lied about how much public support it really has and UKIP fell for it. There’s going to be one hell of a reality check coming for the anti Hs2 campaign after the general election.

Talking of reality checks. I hear that the Hs2 Action Alliance haven’t filed any accounts since 2013. I wonder why? That can’t be good for their credit rating…

Stop Hs2’s Vicky Pollard moment.

14 Tuesday Apr 2015

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The anti hs2 mob are having a terrible election. Their ‘ no votes for you with Hs2’ has been as much use as a chocolate teapot. None of the major parties (or even a single MP) have been persuaded to change their minds. Yesterday it went from bad to worse as the Labour party released their manifesto containing a clear commitment to build Hs2.

Desperately looking for any crumb of comfort Stop Hs2 Chair Penny Gaines had a hilarious ‘Vicky Pollard’ moment – along with one another anti (who’ve featured here before).

'What,the labour party still support Hs2? Yeah, but no, but yeah but no...'

‘What,the labour party unequivocally support Hs2? Yeah, but no, but yeah but no…’

Here’s the ludicrous press release from Pollard – sorry, Gaines:

Labour’s support for HS2 leaves a get-out clause

“they claim to support HS2, but their support leaves a large get-out clause in the form of costs” Thunders ‘Vicky’, neatly falling for her own spin.

Why? Because Hs2 costs haven’t actually risen. What has happened is the economic case which contains detailed costs & revisions after some projects have been scrapped hasn’t been re-issued yet. And remember, those costs already contain a huge contingency. Hs2 are designing the line without using that contingency in their calculations. So, when Labour talk about costs, they they know they’re on pretty safe ground.

Poor ‘Vicky’ can’t mention this as it would expose StopHs2’s years of deception on ‘rising’ costs. Instead, she tries & fails to find some political tea-leaves to read & give false hope to the poor people who still fall for Stophs2’s lies & deceit.

Meanwhile, what does Labour leader Ed Miliband think about Hs2? His recent Yorkshire Post interview answers that:

http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/latest-news/top-stories/labour-will-back-hs2-miliband-1-7194044

“But asked whether Leeds voters who back Labour can expect HS2 to be delivered on the current timetable if the party wins power, Mr Miliband told the YEP: “Yes.”

He continued: “We support HS2, absolutely, we support HS2. We are not backing off it, we are not changing our position on it. We are supporters of HS2 and that’s clear.

“What Ed Balls has said is that we need the east-west link as well and that’s right.”

Mr Miliband’s commitment on the issue means the election campaign has now produced unequivocal backing from both major parties on pushing ahead to connect Leeds to London and to Manchester and Liverpool with high speed rail.”

Now,’Vicky’ Gaines. Which bit of unequivocal’ don’t you understand?

‘Yeah, but no – but yeah, but no…’

Attempts to intimidate only backfire.

02 Thursday Apr 2015

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Over the years I’ve supported the Hs2 project I’ve seen first hand the nasty underbelly of the anti Hs2 campaign. It’s not just the way they’ve deliberately tried to mislead the public about the project, or the fact some of them will tell the most outrageous lies. It’s that some will stoop to far, far worse – downright thuggery & blatant attempts at intimidation.

Personally,I’ve been on the receiving end of many different attempts to frighten me off supporting Hs2 & exposing their campaign. There’s been mild stuff like trying to get me banned from Twitter, then there’s been more serious stuff like accusations of criminality (such as pedophilia). Several times I’ve received threatening phone calls. I’ve even been physically threatened by a member of the Mid-Cheshire anti Hs2 campaign.

Of course, I’m not alone. Many others have suffered from similar threats – including racism.

What’s telling is the way members of their campaign are quick to accuse others of all sorts of behavior but are happy to turn a blind eye to the extremists within their own ranks. Of course, most of the cowards who indulge in such behaviour hide their own identity. Here’s an example from Twitter, published yesterday. This person has a history of trying to intimidate, having published my personal details on social media before:

Intimidation

I have one very simple message for these people. It won’t work.