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High-speed rail line highlighted as political opportunity for UKIP

Amidst the ongoing war of words surrounding the HS2 high-speed rail network, sections of the media are starting to suggest that the scheme could be a significant vote-loser for the Government, with the UK Independence Party being the main beneficiary.

Rik Thomas
19 April 2013
The UKIP­­­­­political party could form a beneficial alliance with single issue ‘Stop HS2’ campaigners, Spectator columnist Mellisa Kite has suggested in a Guardian article
The UKIP­­­­­political party could form a beneficial alliance with single issue ‘Stop HS2’ campaigners, Spectator columnist Mellisa Kite has suggested in a Guardian article

 

THE START of construction work on the Government’s proposed high-speed rail link between London and Birmingham may still be several years away, but the project seems capable of generating an endless stream of news stories and commentaries in the media well in advance of anything actually happening on the ground.

On 1 April, for example, Spectator columnist Melissa Kite was scathingly critical of the Government’s attitude towards people whose homes are along the route of the proposed...

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