Tuesday 14 June 2011

Pro HS2 (HS2 Ltd and DfT) are funded by the public. Should STOP HS2 receive a government grant?

Pro HS2 (HS2 Ltd and DfT) are funded by the public. Should STOP HS2 be similarly funded?

Surely this is a valid point. We have seen the Consultation roadshow well staffed by HS2 Ltd and DfT personnel - oh, and some consultants too it would appear; I don't actually know, but I do not think that they attended the roadshow paying their own expenses and agreeing to receive no salary.

Yet the large number of anti HS2 people that also attended the roadshow received no pay for it nor indeed  any expenses.

Ironic really - the same people who were protesting against HS2 were also contributing to the cost of the Roadshow.

Is it time that Stop HS2 people asked, purely in the interests of fairness and a balanced view, for some form of government grant?

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