THE Government have come under fire this afternoon after leaving out High Speed 2 from the Queen's Speech.

The monarch did not mention the £33bn rail scheme which would cut through Bucks' countryside heartland during the state opening of Parliament.

A leading Bucks campaigner against HS2, Cllr Seb Berry, from Great Missenden accused the Coalition of trying to spin the situation following the disastrous local election results last week.

Reports appeared in The Sunday Telegraph suggesting HS2 would be dropped from the speech today to appease Conservative activists as the party tries to win back support.

Yet Transport Secretary Justine Greening said the plan was always to table the bill in 2013, not this year.

Cllr Berry, who quit the Lib Dems to become an independent before being elected, said: "Which bright spark thought that spinning HS2's 'delay' would help the coalition parties politically after last week's election results?

“People are absolutely furious about being led up the  garden path.

“The party spin doctors should stop playing games with people's lives.”

The Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee has also recently slammed the project, with a video of senior servants being grilled over it, being circulated by anti-HS2 campaigners on the internet.

Cllr Berry added: “How anyone can watch that and still conclude that HS2 represents value for money is beyond me."

Meanwhile the Institute for Public Policy Research North criticised the fact it has been left out of today's Queen Speech.

Ed Cox, Director of IPPR North, said: “The government have used HS2 as their big policy to boost economic growth and the fact that there was no mention of it in the Queen’s Speech today raises some big questions about the government’s growth plans, given how important infrastructure investment is to creating vital growth and jobs.

“This is the third time the government has delayed its plans to connect London and Birmingham via a high speed line for fear of alienating voters in the Chilterns who don’t want the line to ‘rip up’ the countryside.

"If the reason the government has delayed HS2 is because of concerns in the South, then why don’t they focus their attention on other rail investment priorities further North like implementing the Northern Hub in full?”

Centre for Policy Studies board member and Editor of the Spectator Fraser Nelson has said on Twitter this afternoon he thinks it is unlikely HS2 will be passed before the next General Election in 2015.