Big mistake even as a Londoner I was delighted to see infrastructure for the north being such a priority have to say I'm gutted this has been cancelled

Embarrassing. You can travel 600kph on a train in Japan (basically London to Edinburgh in less than an hour) and we can't even get a second high speed line open. Countries have had high speed rail since the 60's while we've dragged our heals for 60 years.

well, Im already reading conservatives minds: "how can we blame the EU? MMMMMM"

Anyone who ever believed the Tories would go through with their promise of HS2 in the north is gullible. I said from day one it would be scrapped once the south was satisfied. So predictable.

Yes like everything else he does and says.

2:24 this lady hits the nail on the head

I really am sick of Boris and his buddy's feathering their nests and lining their pockets! Please give me a party i can vote for which will help us low income folk get along with life!

Yes along with the other 65+ he's broken. This fool couldn't deliver a pizza.

Mainland european countries invested in their rail systems years ago. They leave on time,, arrive on time & can be relied on. We are suffering from massive underfunding by government for years. More waffling, more delay & increased costs. It's time we accepted our Gov't isn't fit for purpose.

You got to remember about these people. If your not rich, your nothing to these people. Your filth in the eyes of these people.

So was the original HS2 plan ill-conceived as many of us thought at the time? Another example of Cons being unable to think things through.

More betrayal from the Tories!

High speed trains was the future around 30 years ago.

If Benny Hill was still going, Johnson would be a regular guest on the Benny Hill show. The brits voted for the clown, now they are enjoying the consequences. At least he has a posh Eton accent to spread more lies, excuses and broken promises.

Levelling up...?

No Northern mates to get big bungs from

Meanwhile, China added 3000 km of high speed rail lines in 2020 alone.

China has high speed train rail linking many cities, UK cannot lose to China. Now even Indonesia has high speed train, how can UK be left behind?

The commuters will continue to use the HS Poo line from Manchester to Leeds

BoJo's not wearing a mask on public transport. There's a surprise.

Yes, he and his cronies have broken the promises, lied thru their teeth

the price of train tickets have doubled and i now have to switch trains, is this levelling up?

The failure to complete the eastern section of HS2 will be viewed in the future as a major mistake.

Having people using cars is more reveune

Just more lies.. sad what has happend to the uk.

Easier question has he kept a promise he really needs to go he is a disgrace

Make spectacular promises , build up hope and expectations before election then scale everything back after election . Happens all the time and works most every time for the Tories .

Why some countries we think they are very poor, such as China, Laos, and so on ,they have high speed trains, do you think we are living a rich country ?????

China is light years ahead in terms of trains. When they opened their first few lines people casted serious doubt and said it was a vanity project no one would use. Now with a huge network covering many parts of the country, it has changed behaviour and from personal experience, using HS rail in China is cheap and very convenient

With work from home surely HS2 is less viable. Its so expensive. The money is better put to use through other means such as rural broadband as a more efficient way of levelling up. Trains are a great investment but high speed rail is a white elephant. It works in Japan because you have very high density mega cities lined up all across the corridor. Even in China it is severely loss making in the tens of billions. Why not make regular fast rail between the towns and cities in the said regions? What use is funnelling people from economically depressed regions and vice versa in a WFH world?

If they are not building past Birmingham then what is the point in HS2 , TO GIVE SOMETHING NEW THAT WE CURRENTLY DO NOT have . Pity they didn't start construction in Leeds / Birmingham and work down instead . The new faster 250 mph trains with compulsory in cab signalling needed to drive at faster speeds something that isn't fitted already , but it will put the expanding freight and slower services on the current WCML ECML routes and the new faster on the new . The only PR BS way spin to achieve more capacity on the existing routes north of Birmingham is to split faster sections of track up between more signal blocks 1 train for 1 signal block set . Overall lower average speed through the more signals , including bi directional driving on the same track . Unless the govt really mean plough up more land either side of existing lines to add more seperate track , which would involve as much admin and spending as building it completely new to add capacity then it's all hype style and no substance ! No doubt the original GWR route from London Paddington to Penzance in 1840s build from the very beginning , had the same cost worries and lack of future success concerns being all new transport then like HS2 but still ploughed ahead and we couldn't imagine a UK without that and it's other previous routes even the ECML fourth bridge the Welsh Severn tunnel line too ! Typical of all government can't think plan next decades plus or work across party lines same with the NHS fundings etc ! Ps if people really fell for the 20min journey saving only you won't get it when your overpriced HS2 train joins the crowded routes existing north of Brum ! Ps The Class 67 diesel loco and the original HST 125s were designed for 140moh running too in the 1970s to what we have faster than today also .

Yes, another one for the pile. People need to see sense, and ditch the Tories at the next election.

Even Laos 🇱🇦 has high speed trains, why we have nothing????

Never mind - HS2 to Leeds now has a replacement bus service - on the Moronic Motorway with no hard shoulder.

China built 23 000 miles of high speed rail in last 12 years UK planned 330 miles for last 10 years and when it came to build it, they cut it to 220 miles and it will STILL TAKE LONGER TO BUILD than what it took China to build 23 THOUSAND MILES OF TRACKS

South West England isn’t even in the conversation.

How do you know Boris is lieing His mouth moves!

Couldn't run a bath could they. Talk about totally inept.

The NORTH is Scotland, not England. Duh. Time we dissolved this political union where England rules Scotland. The real north has not even got Electrification of our rail network north of Edinburgh and England worries about not having a high-speed service! Right there you see the driving force for Scottish Independence when Scotland's former Oil and Gas capital of Europe and 3rd largest city of Aberdeen has no Electric trains, motorway or any of the high-speed connections that the North East of England enjoy now, the time for change is NOW.

Yes, undoubtedly!

Just cancel the whole thing, we don't need it. An incredible waste of money that could be spent on far more important things than saving a few minutes off a journey. Most people are now working from home which makes it even more useless.

We dont want HS2,what we want is the northern railway structure to be improved in the North not down to London.

Channel 4 opens a new HQ in Leeds and the Tories drop the new line there.

The railways in Southern England are no better than the North despite what many think. South, South East and South West of London the railways are dreadful and have not been upgraded to any extent since the steam era. One example is the Hastings Line between Tonbridge and Hastings of how bad the railways are in the South East with tunnels restricted to single line working and station facilities dire!

"Levelling up" 😂 if. you ever believed that, you deserve everything you get! 👍

2021: HS2 cancelled in the north 2022: New pointless tube line in London

Yes.

Since when did the conservatives care about the north?

Travelling isn't so popular as it was! COVID-19 has fast-tracked working from home & made sitting in confined spaces, with lots of other masked people, rather uncomfortable!

5:26 Big mistake from her. East Midlands Parkway is not the same as East Midlands Hub. East Midlands Parkway is on the existing network "near" East Midlands Airport. East Midlands Hub was going to be the high-speed station in Toton, about 7 minutes away from both Derby and Nottingham by train. HS2 trains were never going to stop at Parkway station.

has he ever achieved anything for the country but clowning around? most incompetent and useless pm ever.

east midlands parkway was not going to be a station on HS2. East Midlands Hub was but that was supposed to be on the old part of a freight depo at Toton between Nottingham and derby and it was supposed to have an S-Bahn stile network feeding into it form Derby, Nottingham and the surrounding towns making it an easy to get to hub.

Anybody paying attention: Northern Tory voters: Wow, didn't see that coming... 🤦🏿‍♂️

this is what taking back control looks like

Yes. How is that even a discussion? It's a very simple yes.

Nothing about Azeem Rafiq tonight then?

Tories couldn’t find a friend to pocket on Leeds’ line???

why do we put up for it hey like the french did something why don't we

Dont worry it's just Boris levelling up

After over 10+ years, the railway developments in Whitechapel Station (East London) came to a complete just 2 months ago! It took Crossrail 10+ years to add only one new stop to their route line. Londoners can now travel all the way up to Reading in the midlands part of England!

only way to make it work is do it like china remove anyone that lives near tracks expand the old tracks into new ones so it can take both sets of trains job done

Why do the US and many Western countries have no high-speed trains? Have big car and oil companies paid off our politicians to keep the trains from expanding and was it intended for train companies to FAIL completely? US train company Amtrak’s chronic delays are costing millions of dollars. It’s spending more on fuel, labour and even maintaining extra locomotives and rail cars than it needs as a result of poor on-time performance. Even if they add more than 50 new routes they’re still one our two hours SLOWER than a car. The cost for UK HS2 high-speed-train project has ballooned from 30 billion to over 120 billion. To reduce the production cost they're cutting certain sections of the HS2 tracks which means they're going to use the EXISTING TRACKS the HS2 trains will travel on the same speed as the existing trains or maybe just 5 to 10 minutes faster. Paying over 120 billion just for 10 minutes faster. It's not even high-speed trains like the ones China are building around the world. Could it be deliberate by these companies that have more to gain from the consumers buying cars and the petrol to run them dealing with all the parties involved, politics and people with their HANDS IN THE POT and not to mention the high price to buy the land and labour costs are astronomical? And why has the US a terrible healthcare system, low internet speed more mass shootings, fighting unpopular, endless and costly wars in other countries air and water pollution no high-speed trains bad food quality hormones in beef and pork genetically modified crops, fruits and vegetables chlorinated chicken overprocessed convenience food full of chemicals? Aren’t powerful companies and banks paying off governments in the West and how much these companies CONTROL and RUN our governments? China's BRI built high-speed trains in Asia and around the world. But we’re expected to believe China and Russia are the threat for the world the US intends to defend the "rules-based order" that Russia and China are posing a challenge to.

This happened just after Cop26, every country is talking about massive investment in mass transportation to limit their carbon footprints.

The Tories have looked at the opinion polls, which shows that most northerners would still vote Tory in the next election anyway and decided they can withdraw their bribe, which they never really intended to honour in the first place, and save themselves a lot of money to divert to the Blue Wall constituencies instead. However, it completely undermines the entire HS2 and HS3 projects. But, after all, who cares anyway? So goes government thinking. All that matters are votes and how to con the public into supplying them at election time so the Tories can get their snouts in the trough.

Just more and more lies.

What kind of question is that?? He never made a promise to begging with, the main is just lies.

No, he's very truthful old Boris, never tells lies that fella, perish the thought..... hahahaha hahaha.

This country will soon become 3rd world compared to the rate some others are progressing at. It's actually alarming

The whole project was fantastic. Why scrapped some of the routes?

Hopefully the Electorate of Uxbridge will kick this Clown out of Office! I've been a constituent member of this Borough all my life, Voting Conservative at every Election, remembering our honourable Member Randall, who represented this Borough 'honourably'! This 'Buffoon' has brought our Borough into dispute, with absolutely no interests in our welfare, only his own, Wallpaper included!!

yes he did, just one lie after another

Time will be slashed to under half an hour…….why do you believe these figures? Barb

THE NORTH GOT SHORT CHANGED!!! #BorisJohnson #

Why did they vote Tory? They know they always lie! Barb

Travel for the rich, not the plebs.

Is this the new Armando Iannuci series?

Thanx to CLOWN BJ we can all welcome The Republic of Scotland.

Why would you want a train that will bring London to the rest of England? Who wants to be on a crowded train?

Oaf on manoeuvres. Expect a few disjointed blue painted cycle lanes instead ; lethal to cyclists and pedestrians alike . The train services in the South need investment too !

Typical politician from any political party, promises while canvassing then once in power realities strike and the broken promises stack up and it goes on and on and on

It seems safe to assume every statement of Johnson's is a lie? He lies in such a Santa Claus ho ho ho way it's almost enjoyable

Get ‘sprouts on

I am GASSED the train might be stopping literally cba with it ruined the countryside

Im confused by all this. Lots of people saying it is all working, all going well, tis gonna be much faster. Then lots of other people saying, its a disaster, everything is going wrong. Which is true??? 🤔🙄🤔🙄

So we’re told to wear a mask one rule for him and another for the rest of us

monumentalal LIAR

Captin hindsight again I'm from the North I don't want it don't speak for me

How is this a surprise?

The craven establishment journalists can't seem to ask basic questions: what would labour do if and when they return to power?

BOZO: JUST A BLOW HARD!

Railways - the UK is still the stone age of western Europe - and destined to stay there for the foreseeable future. Get back into the EU asap!

All this work is why we are paying the price for the carbon footprint but the government can do what they like

Mans a fool.

I guess nobody cares about Leeds and Sheffield, isn't it 🙄

London to Birmingham 20-30 mins faster, HS2 ready to use in 20 years. . 2 mile wide swathe cut through compulsory purchased homes, businesses, farms, nature reserves, forests and more. People made ill and died. Wildlife too. NDA'S signed to keep people quiet. Rulings made against HS2. More to come it's expected. It's overpriced £100-200 Billion, Channel tunnel was £5.9bn. Taxpayers to pick up the bill.

Scrap hs2 doesn't benefit everyone at all ,leveling up the country load of rubbish.

He wouldn’t lie to you ! Just voted him back the next time then blame everybody else ! 🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤥🤥🤥🤥🤥🤥🤥🤥🤥🤥

Question ask two minutes into the video, why not on the train... My response would have been because of covid19. Come on Channel 4 you have reporting this for the last two years that is the most stupid question I've heard so far.

Of course they did! The opposition Is so weak, all Boris had to say to voters is that there will be this high speed horse and carriage to take people from London to Leeds or Manchester across to Leeds, he'll still would of won!

swamp rats will always be swamp rats.., give the reform party a try, we have nothing to lose,, dont vote for anyone else,, get red pilled,,