HS2 'Disaster Film’
A hard-hitting new film highlighting the families whose
lives are being ruined by the ‘HS2 Disaster’ has been viewed by more than
100,000 people in its first week.
An accompanying petition calling on transport secretary
Chris Grayling to cancel HS2 immediately and cut all of its funding has been
signed by over 7,600 people.
And nearly a quarter of a million people have also connected
with the campaign’s facebook page.
The campaign has been launched by West Midlands MEP Jill
Seymour, who sits on the European Union’s transport committee.
She insists it is not too late to cancel the multi-billion
pound ‘vanity project’, which has a budget spiralling out of control. “It will
be our children – and their children – who will be paying this debt,” she said.
“When the £111 billion could be spent on our NHS, emergency
services, new housing, and social services, why is the priority on a railway we
don’t need?”
The six-minute ‘HS2 Disaster’ film reveals how it will wreck
the lives of families across many parts of the country, from Middlesex through
to Warwickshire, Staffordshire, and further north.
Crystal Ryall holds back tears in the film when she says:
“How can you honestly tell people that their children and their parents are
just going to be kicked out of the house they own?
“You’re not safe, because if the Government want it, they
are going to take it, and that’s that. They should stop pouring all this money
into something that’s never going to be any good to anybody.
“Pour it into the NHS, pour it into the police service and
the fire stations they are closing down, or pour it into the existing railways.
But don’t spend taxpayers’ money like this. It’s just stupid.”
Jim from Staffordshire says: “I haven’t a clue how the
Government can say it is needed, when it is only going to affect a few people
down the side of each line who can use it.
“If they put the money into the National Health Service
instead of this railway, there will be more people in the next 20 years needing
a hospital, than ever they will need a railway.”
