Cllr Jonny Bucknell

• JUST before Christmas I made a small piece of history which is another nail in the coffin of HS2.

I had just had a roof repaired and wanted a meeting between myself, the roofer and the builder. The roofer and myself were standing on the roof and everyone could see the problems clearly.

The piece of history was that the builder had already gone home to Poland for Christmas. We made the link by Skype though our smart-phones. Skype is still in its infancy. I have a number of attempts at Skype that do not work but the technology is improving.

The main problem is the capacity of the broadband. As a country we are consuming broadband faster than anyone can upgrade the network but we will get there in the end.

The moment the first HS2 train, in this weapon of mass destruction, leaves London and pulls in at Birmingham, high speed rail will become obsolete.

CLLR JONNY BUCKNELL
Conservative, Belsize ward