HS2 line north of Birmingham will be scrapped | Grant Shapps
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- Grant Shapps confirms HS2 line north of Birmingham will be scrapped.
He tells #TimesRadio HS2 trains "would run to Manchester. Indeed, they're actually going to run to Leeds as well", but adds the line will not be "as fast" to Manchester.
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Blimey. She might as well have just given him a lap dance and had done with it! Been a while since I've seen such a softball interview.
How did she allow him to blatantly lie about Starmer's position on Nato among other things?
Primary skills of a conman include gaslighting and influencing.
The world has changed also because the Tories wrecked the economy
I know let’s scrap Shapps.
I like that idea 😊
best idea yet like the way he brings cov 19 into it all the while
Goodbye the Tories qnd your vile dictatorship
My thoughts exactly
The alternative is Beijing.
@@ThePierre58cities don't stand for election under the UK system.
@@ThePierre58 At this stage, seeing how anything could be worse than these people is hard.
@@knightsnight5929unfortunately, from the outside it looks possible that the UK will go further right then ever before. Maybe not the next election but when Labour can’t and don’t change anything over the next 5 years then look out for fringe figures and new fringe parties. For me Britain’s story is a double edge sword- I left, I’m ok but now I watch people, family, friends suffering from the decline of empire.
It's always the working class on the end of difficult decisions. Tories deserve a long painful winter in opposition.
Ah yes, because the non-british labour party will definitely do what it can to benefit Britain. Starmer reasonable, the rest are mental. The cons are corrupt, out of touch, ineffective scoundrels however with labour the country will cease to exist.
And labour will be better? Not sure about that one, we in the north want parity.... not handouts.
Poor effort by Sunak. The whole thing is a diisaster. However a Labour government is nothing to look forward to either imo.
A posse of rabid racoons could not do a worse job than this shower.
Labour will be better but will need time to clean up the mess.
With you on that. Tory Lite, not The Labour Party.
@@chrishyde1216-I have lived under enough Labour governments to know that is extremely unlikely. This government is disaster, but
The incoming Labour government will not be better, it may even be worse. ‘Democracy’ in this country is an illusion, a game, where we flip from one shower of clowns to another to keep us quiet.
Shapps critising Starmer for u-turns in opposition while discussing a huge u-turn on HS2 after a week of net zero u-turns. This shower need a mirror.
Northern Power House just got foooked again
They hate the north....
Shapps promised to take care of sacked P&O workers too. How did that work out?
The decision was between CV19 Track & Trace or HS2. Much more money was available to be skimmed off Track & Trace so HS2 (and the North) suffered.
Nonsense, they cancelled HS2 as it's am unnecessary project started by Labour, a Conservative government knows what's good for business and for the country without bankrupting it and people need to give them far more credit, they are doing a good job and if they can follow through with public spending cuts then the debt left by Labour can continue to be reduced
is this Mr Green????
Yes it is. And also Corinne Stockheath and Sebastian Fox.
For Richi Rich’s ‘Longer term decisions’ read ‘reversing Tory policies’ 😂
How can anyone call this a long term decision? Or any of the other u-turns lately. They're all quite the opposite.
He's the Tory leader. Tory policy is what he says it is.
Lets blame Brexit not our incompetent government 🙄
Brexit is the result of a corrupt tory government, and the Hs2 is a result of the corrupt and incompetant tories. Totally different!
This is 100% mismanagement, nothing to do with brexit.
Such is life in The Global Laundromat.
Brings a tear to a Tory eye.
Remember when Maggie cancelled the manufacturing industry in the North.
Dont forget liebours great sell offs
Living through the Thatcher years, one thing I became acutely aware of whenever I listened to the news was that the lists of industries I had memorised for British towns as part of geography were rapidly going out of date, but only because every day we heard of more factories closing down for ever. Whole industries disappeared and some were replaced by outsourcing, often from the Far East. Coal began to be imported from Poland!
@@faithlesshound5621 Your comments show that you have no understanding of economics...!
They hate the north.... they want the north to be impoverished. This is by design not accident.
The truth is that Thatcher was a reluctant convert to monetarism, but what monetarism meant was that because Britain was a small nation with a major banking & insurance sector, when this became dominant the pound rose in value & numerous businesses ceased to be viable, the only way to have prevented this would have been to put the financial sector into some sort of free trade area isolated from the rest of the economy.
works on HS2 should have started in the north, starting in London ensured it would never be completed.
Grant taking inspiration from Arsène Wenger with his observation skills.
Need the money to give to Ukraine and pay for the RNLI to bring in the new Uk Citizen’s🤣🤣
🐂💩
@@tonupharry clown.
Who believes a single word that Michael Green/Sebastian Fox aka Grant Shapps says. It’s frightening to think that he’s now Minister for Defence who hasn’t got the ability to defend the promises he made in relation to PandO workers and HS2 3:49 coming to the North.
The British people are to blame for not demanding a dissolution of parliament by the monarch
The north needs independence from the south
Michael Green, Corinne Stockheath, Sebastian Fox aka Grant Shapps, whoever he is today, is a grifter.
He "thinks" he's 3rd generation immigrant stock; he can't even be sure of that either apparently. No wonder the Watford w**ker nickname sticks.
The savings can be ploughed back into Hotels and Housing for Rubber Boat Folk and Ukraine... and an "Hs2 Bus Replacement Service" obvs.
Exactly a waste of money all of HS2
Should of spent 50B on current network and 50B on NHS
UKdoes not exist north of Brum .Brum is next target for stanisation which will be facilitated by HS2.
That's the best... "she's brown so she's not being racist" comment I've ever heard
Brexit made the country poorer, sadly we need to get used to cut backs, high taxes, and decay as we sink to our new post-Brexit position in the world.
And an apathetic population who let the government rob them blind.
True, it permanently shrunk the economy. Political decisions have consequences. Enjoy.
Austerity has not helped whatsoever
Brexit has left the country £2 Billion per week worse off ! - That quickly adds up.. Week after week..
Stop the hotel bills scrap foreign aid stop giving expensive weapons to ukraine and we have MONEY
The railways are losing passengers hand over fist. -20 % and falling. The work from home is killing it. The cost of living crisis is halting passengers. Retail and Tourism internally is being crushed. Staff numbers have dwindled on the vine as the lack of recruitment and retention has been used . Not enough rail freight is killing growth and investment. HS2 was never about speed. It was investing in growth , opportunity and equality of economic opportunities outside of the Global M25 Bastion. Cheap energy is dead as are the goods and services from that energy continue to rise. Food 10% higher than last year even though it has fallen slowly. Bad policies delivering bad results with no one responsible for the failures. How do you vote for more of the same. It was inevitable that reality would come back to bite the hubris of our expert Politicians.
And rail workers think they're going to get 8% in a declining business... 🤣🤣🤣
They’ve already returned to pre covid levels. We’re talking 40 years time, not now. Population will have doubled by then. Rail freight is also at record levels.
@@ukstormwatch1793 rail travel is in steep decline, where did you get that idea from?
@@MyName-cw4yr Rail freight, certainly intermodal is at record highs. It’s on the ORR. Passenger usage is also sharply increasing. Back to 98% of pre covid levels. Look up facts instead of the Daily Fail comic
I wonder when people are going to prison for corruption 🤔
Not sure attacking labour for changing party direction when he became leader is quite the goal they think it is as they u-turn on all their own policies
The British political system is by starting projects running up the costs and then scrapping the project and using the money for something different. British aircraft, missle systems, railways eg modernisation program, electrification, privatisation
Londinistan to Birminghamstan still good to go though 👍
Kick all uninvited guests out of hotels
7 million a day of waste.
Hopefully this will reduce the number of working class people in the north voting Tory at the next general election!
Goodbye.
You people, wah, wah, wah.
It's already cost 0ver £80 BILLION of Taxpayers mone, up from an initial projected cost of £25 billion.
Y'all wanna keep ploughing more money in?
What a mess.
The cost has gone from £30Billion to over £100Billion and they want to cancel the Northern lines ? It should be the London end that is cancelled, that would be proper levelling-up.
And… we have “leaders” who are investing in 250-year-old technology while China is building hundreds of miles of magnetic-levitation train track; unbelievable.
What a mess.
Fraction of the line, no real capacity upgrade north of Birmingham. Money wasted by the Tories throughout the project. Utter disgrace. And now the gaslighting begins.
Stand by for repeat of all the mistakes made 25yr ago on the existing Euston-Manchester railway; years of chaos during yet another mismanaged "upgrade" project.
We all seen this coming no GS 2 to Manchester as usual London first as a kid we were told beyond Watford there's nowhere north of London, HS 2 was always going to be a white elephant, if the government stopped waisting the tax payers money keeping the ilegal migrant's then HS 2 may well have gone north of Birmingham,
Levelling up? How clever to start such a huge project having done a few desktop calculations which rapidly escalate. How clever to reward those executives with huge salaries and payoffs as it falls apart…and how clever to start at Old Oak Common and not start in the north. Well done for all the tax payers funds wasted so far….
Shortermism, just like the other PM HS2 up the whole country would be amazing for the UK in the long term
How many people actually have a luxury to work from home? He gave an example of group of people that does not represent the majority of England..
What a joke. To criticize what Labour would do while they have driven the country into the ground over the last 13 years.
This was the plan all along, why else would you pick a new network that don’t need to be compatible with anything since it was supposed to be separate, to be cross compatible with existing rail networks , it was a lie all along
If we had worried about the cost we would never have built the motorways, the money spent goes back to where it came from via the tax system any way.
Nice to see the times holding these people they've supported for a decade and a half to a nice conversation woth no difficult questions
IT WAS NEVER GOIN TO HAPPEN, WHY WOULD THE TORY TOFFS BE HAPPY WATCHING THEIR GRAVY TRAIN MOVE NORTH, IT WOULD HAVE STARTED IN LEEDS NOT LONDON
You know that something’s a shambles when they sent this hapless apologist out to defend it. The only one that’s worse than him is Chris Philp.
f they have run out of money well at least finnish the rail connections to the nearset point open a station there and in the near future carry on with extending it. makes scence.
Grant is such a star - as with real stars, he's full of hot gas....
I'm starting to worry - I have two northern legs!
"defence secretary"
Just build a damn railway. 🤷🏼♂️
He wants to send uk troops to Ukraine, which is a very dangerous escalation... which only effects working class family's as their sons fight and die.
Great to see Sebastian Fox is doing well.
He can't even tell the truth about his own name.
Corruption, breeds incompetence
Grant Shapps is straight??? Are Times on another planet??
We must be a laughing stock.
Tories wasting money again.
Grant Shnapps is broken
That bit about short term decisions ignoring the long term is something that Rishi Sunak knows about, since he was the Chancellor who ruthlessly slashed the budget for repairing/rebuilding schools. All the recent Tory governments (Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss and Sunak) have ignored the fabric of our hospitals. Johnson had a bogus plan to build completely new ones instead, which got as far as the bridge to Northern Ireland did.
Wot a joke.
I live in Manchester it takes 2.5 hrs to get to London. Hs2 was going to take 2hrs. This is a good decision, hs2 complete waste of money.
Hs2 would actually get you to london in 45 mins direct, the current direct trains take just under 2 hours, I should know I catch them all the time.
I wasn’t talking a direct train with no stops. You sure about 45min., Birmingham to London on hs2 is minimum 52min @@MyName-cw4yr
Anyone tried Birmingham New St to Newcastle or Sunderland by rail?…takes half a day (even without time spent in duty free/border/passport controls)
@@Montana909 I'm pretty well read on the subject, hs2 would've been a massive boost for my business, not sure what to do now....
Good news is the existing times will get faster. Hopefully this will help you
@@MyName-cw4yr
Huge mistake. . . high speed rail would be fantastic in the UK and would be a massive boon.
Investment is key to growth - constantly cutting only degrades the whole system - austerity is not the answer, focused prioritizing is what is really needed. . . the UK lacks real political leadership.
About bloody time.....should never have been started....just to save 20 bloody mins.
Its East West thats needed.....that were Rishi say the balance is going.
20mins, more like and hour and a bit.
And you think he will deliver that? LOL
No 20mins...crazy aint it.....manchester to london now it just under 2 hours.....that very good isnt it was never any real point in HS2....bar making a lot of dosh.@@MyName-cw4yr
We should have gone with Corbin
Nah, hes a massive hypocritical clown.
This Ukrainian funding should have been used to complete HS2
The ruble is collapsing
ruzzia has lost 1,000 vehicles this month alone
The front line soldiers have been abandoned are not being paid or supplied .
4 ruzzian pilots have defected
A senior officer and 11 of his men defected
Ruzzia is all in, all reserves have been commited, but they are being over run .
sure thing fascist
@@knightsnight5929 so I'm guessing you don't know what azof is....
Basically Grant is telling us "the Norf can Eff Off !" You would think Northerners could have sniffed out the BS with the "Northern Powerhouse" and then with "Levelling Up" and now "Hs2". What "Wonderpony" will the Tories bring out for the 2024 election ?
And what are the Tories going to do to clear up the mess that has already been made of the landscape? The building sites, the concrete pours, the lives, the forests and fields destroyed.
Nothing they'll do nothing and just shrug... they don't care how much they destroy especially when its in the north.
Yes, I agree Grant Shapps 'played a straight bat', but then, he always seems to and this is what I really like about him - we always get a clearer picture with is this guy. A very nice video presentation by Times Radio. 😊
Are you being serious?.....or ironic?