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HS2 is the investment in making the existing network better. From the article:
It is, but they also keep reinventing and scrapping their long awaited, promised, guaranteed upgrades to the East-West routes across the North, which is frustrating a lot of people. We're still waiting to upgrade to the Victorian Network :)
That's a slight exaggeration, but round Selby/Doncaster/Hull/York/Leeds etc, we're still waiting for track electrification, and we only got rid of Pacers (1984) two years ago, and have now upgraded to "new, cool and futuristic" Sprinters (1984).
"Dad, what was commuting to work in the 80s like?"
"Exactly the same as this, but the chairs were a different colour and there was no disabled toilet"
I suppose it's easy to feel like "Get our 50mph trains up to 80mph (or better?) before you start worrying about making a fast train faster".