HAHA, yes! For once I have to agree with John Prescott. The agenda all along was to secure the Birmingham to London HS2 line. Releasing more capacity for commuter trains in the South-East on the route of the WCML. The rest is dispensable. Certainly the station for Manchester Airport seems to be. And who [at Westminster] cares about Sheffield? They probably won't get their long-overdue transpennine motorway link either.