{"id":34755,"date":"2013-11-14T08:47:39","date_gmt":"2013-11-14T08:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=8a3a0e4415480bbbfe191b67b717695e"},"modified":"2013-11-14T08:47:39","modified_gmt":"2013-11-14T08:47:39","slug":"speech-joe-anderson-the-strategic-case-for-hs2-long-version","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=34755","title":{"rendered":"Speech: Joe Anderson: The strategic case for HS2 (long version)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p><a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=j5cmWu0xKeo&amp;feature=c4-overview&amp;list=UU8mgf88hO4bbrfta9bcgZuA\">Joe Anderson: The strategic case for HS2 (long version)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>So sometimes when I hear the debate around HS2, I wonder really what all the fuss was about, because people talk about the speed element of this and stuff, but it\u2019s not just speed, it\u2019s about capacity.  It\u2019s about modernising your infrastructure, isn\u2019t it? You know, it\u2019s about creating something that will be desperately needed in 15, 20 years\u2019 time.  It\u2019s a real, real fight for growth across the globe. Everybody is competing. And we\u2019ve got to make sure that we compete with them, and that\u2019s why, as I said, doing nothing for me in this area is not an option. We\u2019ve got to move forward decisively, and we\u2019ve got to do it now.<\/p>\n<p>When it\u2019s finally delivered in the north west, I probably will be six foot under, but it benefits the city. It benefits the city region and it benefits the UK. So I want it for the right reasons, and it will benefit Liverpool. Liverpool has got growth potential here, a real growth, but the reality is you\u2019ve got to do things. You can\u2019t hold back, you can\u2019t have sort of a laissez-faire approach to economic regeneration and to growth; otherwise you will shrink and others will continue to grow.  And the city region and the UK can\u2019t afford to do that.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HS2 viewpoint and benefits for Liverpool from Joe Anderson, Mayor of Liverpool, part of the strategic case for HS2 video interviews.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34755"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}