General   (General discussion, talk about anything.)

Only one day after the announcement, and already signs that the government is trying to get developers to build on land that had been reserved for HS2.

Has all the appearance of an unseamly and spiteful endeavour to ensure no future government can reactivate the proposal with a more realistic budget or financing option.

Considering that Sunak thought trying to recover Billions of fraudulently claimed Covid relief was "not worthwhile", I have reached the conclusion that cancelling HS2 is a POLITICAL decision harnessing dubious economic arguments to sell the decision.

Almost parallels Brexit in the way this is the cumulation of a now long running campaign in the far right press and TV.

The alternative projects place us back into a familiar repertoire of re-announced projects were nobody can tell if budgets are new money or what was already in the pipeline.

Now that the Conservative party has abandoned any bid for the centre ground and is tilting to the hard right, who have long indicated their hostility to North levelling up agenda, Sunak is giving them what they have campaigned for.