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>>breve+(OP)
Contrapoint to the naysayers: building infrastructure is good actually, and in this specific case, has had the added side benefit of unearthing these cool artifacts that would otherwise still be decaying in some peat bog.

British NIMBYs seem unusually strong, even in a world of NIMBYism. Best wishes to the British in defeating the Midsomer Historical Society of Bat-Loving Cranks, which apparently controls the deep state over there.

>>troad+ws
> building infrastructure is good actually

It was never about "building infrastructure", though, which is why they used Compulsory Purchase to force farmers to sell their land for pennies. Because obviously "undeveloped" land without any sort of planning consent is worth very little.

Now those bits of land, which have been put through the planning system and can now be built on, are not being used for HS2. So, they're being sold back to the farmers, right?

No, they're being sold for thousands of times the purchase price to property developers run by the people who donate the most to the government.

It's a land grab, same as the "inheritance tax on farms" thing.

>>Errone+qY
Do you know how Compulsory Purchase Orders work?

Many people along the HS2 route have been paid double the market price of their house