Bucks News
Conservative co-chairman Lord Feldman faces Chesham and Amersham Tories on HS2
5:06pm Wednesday 22nd February 2012
A TOP Tory heard about "the anger, disappointment and hurt" the High Speed 2 project has caused in Bucks at a meeting of the Chesham and Amersham Conservatives.
Lord Feldman, the party's co-chairman, was invited to the group's meeting last week to hear members' views of the controversial scheme.
Branch chairman Andrew Garnett said after Wednesday's meeting the peer was left in no doubt as to the strength of feeling against the plans in the district.
He said: "HS2 is the biggest threat this constituency has faced in living memory. We are committed to doing all we can to fight it off from within our party.
"To this end we hosted Lord Feldman to ensure that he fully understands the anger, disappointment and hurt this decision has caused and precisely why people living both on and off the line in our nation cannot support it.
"HS2 is the wrong investment decision at a time of national austerity. We will continue to make the case against this misguided policy whenever and wherever we can."
Cllr Garnett added the Chesham and Amersham Conservative Association would continue to support authorities that are planning a judicial review against the HS2 project.
He said: "We believe that such a judicial review would be a wholly justifiable and proper use of public funds as the defence of our nation's scarce financial resources and our AONB is a priority for us all at this time."