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"Mr President, the title ‘Fourth Railway Package’ really says it all for me, and that is that the EU is just no good at overseeing the railways of Europe.
UKIP, my party, has been voting against this so-called harmonisation for 15 years now, because we know it is difficult in the UK. We have a Victorian network, the oldest in the world, but quite why Brussels needs to harmonise the trains of the UK, which is an island, with the rest of the continent, is anyone’s guess. HS1 and the Channel Tunnel were financial disasters, with shares crashing and people losing huge amounts of money. But now we have HS2, because the European Union tells us we have to do so.
In 2002 the EU took the British Government to court because we were failing to fulfil our obligations under the Trans-European rail system Directive and now we have High Speed Rail 2 (HS2). The EU-sponsored HS2 will be costly, pointless and unfair, because it will punish the many to benefit the few, and I guarantee that those few will be the rich few.
If HS2 were such a good idea, then the business community would come up with the money, but of course they will not because they know it is just another expensive EU vanity project. Therefore the bill for this drive for harmonisation will fall on the British taxpayer and that, I believe – and my party believes – is grossly unfair, unneeded, unwanted, and that is why we are committed to scrapping HS2."@en1
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