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16 days

Here's a thread from former #StopHS2 campaign manager Joe Rukin on the #Panorama investigation he was involved in on #HS2 .

Joe Rukin

@joerukin

16 days

The devastation of #HS2 is so great is because of this ridiculous design speed. It has to go straight, it can't bend round sensitive sites so this maximises the damage to the natural world and it has to be far wider than a traditional railway. And cost goes up. #Panorama

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6 years

Dear @Harry_Styles , could you please hurry up and come up with a name for your second album, because it's getting increasingly annoying have all your fans on twitter talking about 'HS2'.

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BREAKING NEWS: Justice Laing orders @HS2Ltd to cease all felling which has been licensed by @NaturalEngland at #JonesHillWood with immediate effect, pending hearing which will happen on 24th of May at the earliest. #StopHS2 #HS2

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This is #NotAnAprilFool , this is #HS2 Ltd getting ready to carry on with their "essential work" of cutting down Broadwells Wood during nesting season, with the #CovidLockdown making sure there will be no witnesses to their crimes. #coronavirusuk #StopHS2 #RethinkHS2 #covid19UK

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3 years

"Britain’s new high-speed railway will not – repeat: not – get to the north of England. It will go back and forth from London to the Midlands and its chief beneficiaries will be London commuters. All else is political spin." #HS2 #StopHS2

Depleted and unwanted, HS2 hurtles on as Johnson’s £100bn vanity project | Simon Jenkins

It has cost the taxpayer billions without a mile of track being laid – and it won’t even go north of Crewe, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

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@stophs2

4 years

Today's @Telegraph reports that #HS2 Ltd is under investigation for #wildlife crimes. A dead #shrew was found in one of the traps. "Potential penalties include an unlimited fine or 6 months in prison". @ChrisGPackham @WildlifeTrusts #GreatCrestedNewts

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4 years

The arguments against #HS2 haven't changed over the past decade, they've just got stronger. Here are some experts helping support the case against HS2 on Ch5 News and BBC2 Newsnight. #StopHS2 @christianwolmar @GreenJennyJones @AdrianQuine #environment #COVID19 #CO2

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"Absolutely disgusting" #HS2 contractors arrived unannounced to fell a 300yr-old oak which locals believed was not at risk. "Scrutiny...reveals no operational need to fell the tree" @ChrisGPackham @WoodlandTrust @CarolineLucas @TheGreenParty @BorisJohnson

Rage as HS2 Attempts to Fell 300-Year-Old Veteran Oak

Stuart Spray has the details of HS2’s latest attempt to defile the British countryside

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@stophs2

5 years

If parties want to do everything possible to tackle #climate emergency, why are they going ahead with environmentally damaging #HS2 ? Co-Leader of @TheGreenParty @jon_bartley interviewed on BBC News. @WoodlandTrust @ChrisGPackham #GE2019 @TheGreenParty @ExtinctionR

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5 years

Today, #RethinkHS2 have published a letter to @BorisJohnson in @thetimes , saying that while the financial costs of #HS2 have been spiralling, it will cost nature too much too. "The Climate and Ecological emergency will not be solved by making the nature crisis worse." #StopHS2

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5 years

With #HS2 in real trouble, its supporters have gone into spin overdrive to try and keep their gravy train on the rails. This image sums up a lot of where we are, with the thread containing more of the details the lobbyists would rather you didn't know. #StopHS2 #ReThinkHS2

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@stophs2

4 years

Yet more opposition to #HS2 in today's @dailytelegraph Letters educating a (rare) pro HS2 reader who it appears hadn't actually studied the facts #Railways

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"You can't cut down a 300-yr-old oak and plant a sapling and say you've replaced like with like". @WoodlandTrust @WildlifeTrusts @Natures_Voice @ChrisGPackham #rethinkhs2 @ExtinctionR From Sun Telegraph #HS2

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@stophs2

4 years

A note left by a farmer decrying the greenwashing of #HS2 Ltd. #StopHS2 #NHSnotHS2

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4 years

In today's Sunday Telegraph #HS2 #StopHS2 #WhiteElephant #Covid19UK

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@stophs2

5 years

We are hearing that @BorisJohnson has already sacked the board of #HS2 Ltd, and that any approval for phase one will still be conditional on the project passing the Notice to Proceed tests, including demonstrating there is a business case and contracts are affordable! #StopHS2

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@stophs2

2 years

A strange bubbling hole appeared today the grounds of Ruislip Rugby Club, directly above where #HS2 have been boring. Oddly enough, it stopped bubbling when @HS2ltd stopped what they were doing. They are currently guarding the hole....

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@stophs2

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Oh my God! It seems Rishi Sunak did his research on our website. We believe the word is "vindicated", as a Prime Minister seems to have just agreed with pretty much everything we've been saying for thirteen years. If only they'd listened back then.... #HS2 #StopHS2 #CPC23

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5 years

Sorry for the lack of live tweeting during the #HS2NoThankYou event organised by @ChrisGPackham at #Euston today, but #StopHS2 campaign manager @joerukin went in the tree costume! Next stop #CPC19 ! No really..... #HS2 #ExtinctionRebellion #XR

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Former @TheGreenParty leader @natalieben tells Lords: Stop #greenwashing #HS2 is no solution to #ClimateEmergency Hugely damages #environment Assists airport expansion Planting #trees can't replace #ancientwoodlands We need capacity, not speed Spend in regional transport instead

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@stophs2

3 years

Abolish #HS2 to help fund #green policies says today's Sunday Telegraph #environment #CO2 #ClimateEmergency #emissions #StopHS2 @ChrisGPackham #ClimateCrisis

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@stophs2

5 years

Typical of #HS2 , they want to cut this tree down on Red Lane in Burton Green on Weds. Not to put the railway there, but for just two months temporary access so they can move a pipeline. This is despite the last photo clearly showing you can already get a bus in sideways. #StopHS2

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@stophs2

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If #HS2 is about capacity and not speed, it doesn't need to be built in a straight line, damaging everything in its way says @LordsEconCom 's Lord Michael Forsyth. @BorisJohnson @grantshapps @ChrisGPackham @mragilligan @WoodlandTrust @WildlifeTrusts @RSPBEngland @Natures_Voice

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@stophs2

5 years

The best thing you will watch in a very long time. An accurate assessment of #HS2 from @JonathanPieNews and @ChrisGPackham . #StopHS2 #ExtinctionRebellion

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@stophs2

3 years

"Senior Tories are preparing to urge ministers to put the project "out of its misery" as they point to spiralling costs & a shift to working from home as evidence that it should be cancelled and the £98 billion budget distributed elsewhere." #HS2 #StopHS2

Put HS2 ‘out of its misery’, senior Tories to urge ministers

Debate on scrapping high-sped rail link scheduled after public petition calling for its axing drew more than 100,000 signatures

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@stophs2

5 years

When is a tree not a tree? When #HS2 want to cut it down of course! Yes that's right, HS2 Ltd have decided to ignore the High Court definition and British Standard of what a tree is, just so they can claim they're not going to cut so many of them down. #StopHS2 #Cubbington #SCW

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@stophs2

5 years

It's now past six o'clock and the permission #HS2 had to close Harvil Road and cut down the trees that line it has run out. And all those trees are still standing! Thank you to everyone who helped. Hopefully this is the first victory of many as we #StopHS2 . #ExtinctionRebellion

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@stophs2

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It's no good to re-announce the review of #HS2 , which is going to be undertaken by a former chair of the project, but if Government are serious about this being a genuine review, they have to stop the irreversible destruction that is happening right now.

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5 years

#Coronavirus proves that #HS2 is not needed as executives turn to Skype

Coronavirus proves that HS2 is not needed as executives turn to Skype

From: Jenny Barron, Barnburgh, Doncaster.

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@stophs2

5 years

#HS2 are meant to be cutting these trees down today. It might not be as easy as they thought. Come and join us UB9 6JW. #StopHS2 #ExtinctionRebellion

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If you believe the environmental impact of #HS2 isn't that big a deal, then you need to watch this. You'll then want to follow the instructions at the end.... #StopHS2 #ClimateCrisis #climatechange #ClimateEmergency #ExtinctionRebellion #ScrapHS2

HS2 fails to measure up

While proponents of HS2 try to pretend that the environmental impact of HS2 isn't that big, Stop HS2 campaign manager Joe Rukin measures up exactly what the ...

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4 years

James May: scrap #HS2 and buy us all a bike #NHSnotHS2

James May: scrap HS2 and buy us all a bike

As a teenager, my dream bicycle ride was probably a typical one. I would be taken, in a van, to somewhere like the top of the Cairngorms to enjoy a whole sublime day of exclusively downhill riding on...

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Chris Packham "determined" to save ancient woodland in #HS2 fight #StopHS2 #RethinkHS2 #StandForTheTrees

Chris Packham "determined" to save ancient woodland in HS2 fight

HAMPSHIRE wildlife expert Chris Packham has vowed to continue his fight to save ancient woodlands threatened by the HS2 high-speed rail project.

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@stophs2

3 years

Private Eye: #HS2 now calculated to cost £158,000,000,000. That's 483% of the original cost* quoted in the 2011 consultation. "Many would think some of that could be better spent on improving regional lines in Midlands & North" *£32.7bn which apparently included contingency

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4 years

After eight days, the #HS2Rebellion #RebelTrail is almost at the end destination of #Euston . #ExtinctionRebellion #StopHS2

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@stophs2

5 years

"To deliver for the vast majority of people in the #Midlands & the #north , we need to scrap that #WhiteElephant project & concentrate the resources on local connectivity, which will have an impact and benefit for the many and not just for the few" @ABridgen #HS2 @grantshapps

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@stophs2

2 years

#HS2 never was economically viable. It's now "burning through cash reserves". Claims that HS2 would create a £1trillion boost for the #North are "absurdly exaggerated" Today's Sunday Telegraph

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5 years

Court has agreed to extend the #HS2 #ColneValley injunction for another year, and include the area where they intend to drill through contaminated landfill into an aquifer, without providing any risk assessment of the danger to the water supply. Here's Sarah Green #StopHS2

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4 years

More and more people are realising how #HS2 is destined to be the #WhiteElephant #StopHS2 always said it would be. This in today's @Telegraph #Commuting #WorkFromHome #Broadband

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4 years

Deer are trapped behind a huge fence built by #HS2 in Colne Valley, #Denham #Bucks . It appears they are trying to get to #woodland on the other side of the fence, presumably on a well-worn path they've used for years. All this for a #WhiteElephant vanity project. @WildlifeTrusts

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5 years

Human chain in South Cubbington Wood, where #HS2 Ltd have fenced off parts of this ancient woodland, as they prepare for #Treemageddon , despite @grantshapps ordering that works should stop pending the outcome of the ongoing review into the project. #StopHS2

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3 years

#HS2 Number Crunching in Private Eye #StopHS2

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3 years

Get on board the #HS2TruthTrail . Saturday 26th June - Saturday 3rd July - people from all walks of life will spend 7 days walking from #Lichfield to #Wigan , following the proposed route of #HS2 . Please join the trail or support with a donation. #StopHS2

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HS2: cancelling this rail project is conceivable for the first time, it’s become a national embarrassment. #HS2 #StopHS2

For the first time, cancelling HS2 is conceivable - its become a national embarrassment

Pulling the plug would be soul-destroying for people who have lost their businesses, homes and neighbouring countryside

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5 years

Last month, @grantshapps told #HS2 Ltd not to cut down ancient woodlands during the review of the project. Last week, they gave the Woodland Trust 10 working days notice of these 11 ancient woodlands they intend to start cutting down anyway. #StopHS2 #Treemageddon #Ecocide

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4 years

As big companies say they'll allow staff to work from home post covid, the business case for #HS2 gets even worse. UK needs high speed broadband investment not HS2.

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4 years

#HS2 now officially "low value for money". Further costs to taxpayers all but "inevitable" and HS2 likely to end up an "economic basket case". - Current Private Eye #StopHS2

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@stophs2

2 years

Scrapping #HS2 "might well be embarrassing to the political class...but it would be more embarrassing to press ahead with an exorbitantly expensive infrastructure scheme that few people want...& may well prove technologically redundant by the time it's finished" Sunday Telegraph

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2 years

There we have it, #HS2 will never reach #Euston but may limp its way to #Manchester by the mid-2040s. Leeds...not even being considered. So why is @RishiSunak & @Jeremy_Hunt continuing to burn more than £100m per week on this white elephant project? Scrap it all now! #StopHS2

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Watch: Levelling Up Secretary @MichaelGove refuses to guarantee that HS2 will ever reach Euston and central London #AndrewNeilShow @AFNeil C4, 3.15pm

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3 years

Continued pressure to scrap the #HS2 gravy train...the sooner the better. #StopHS2 !

HS2's east leg set to be axed to save £40bn in mockery of PM's 'level up' pledge

The cost of HS2 has shot up from £32.7billion when approved and the eastern leg will now be all but axed despite Transport Secretary Grant Shapps vowing to build it in full as recently as May

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6 years

It is not rocket science to add more carriages to the crush-hour trains featured on #Dispatches . The con #HS2 is peddling is it'd 'free up capacity', but it would only be a very small amount on the lines that go to London and that takes pretty much the rail budget for decades.

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3 years

Mark Keir said "We have to accept that this does not stop all felling, but I would ask NGOs and the public to put as much pressure on #HS2 to stop all felling at #JonesHillWood pending the outcome off the hearing. We await a response from @HS2ltd and @NaturalEngland ." #StopHS2

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5 years

Day Eight of the #Crackley Woods #HS2 Siege, and @LarchMaxey and his band of woodland protectors are in fine spirits, #SocialDistancing and safe from @HS2ltd and their henchmen @hcegroup in their treehouse. Best of luck to @ChrisGPackham in court tomorrow! #StopHS2 #RethinkHS2

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Our brave #HS2 woodland protectors in #Crackley Woods had a clear message as they joined the #ClapForCarers from their treehouse tonight: #NHSnotHS2 #clapforkeyworkers #StopHS2 #covid19UK #ClapForTheNHS #RethinkHS2 #lockdownuk #SocialDistancing #StandForTheTrees #coronavirusuk

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Today's The Times exposes spending by @HS2ltd on everything from five-star hotels in Barcelona, to a £231,000 contract with a golf course architecture firm. The article also states that whistle-blowers have written to and submitted documents to the @UKSFO . #HS2 #StopHS2

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@stophs2

3 years

In response to @ChrisGPackham 's petition, there will be a debate in Parliament concerning #HS2 on 13/09/2021. Please email your MP and encourage them to attend the debate and speak. #StopHS2 You can contact your MP by following this link:

WriteToThem

WriteToThem is a website which provides an easy way to contact MPs, councillors and other elected representatives.

www.writetothem.com

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@stophs2

2 years

Today, while the media have run puff-pieces about #HS2 tunneling, @BucksCouncil have issued them with a Tree Preservation Order to stop them cutting down ancient woodland of international importance in an SSSI that they aren't meant to be touching. #StopHS2 #StandForTheTrees

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4 years

How can BBC News claim to be impartial when their reporter @KatyAustinNews stands in front of camera sporting the logo of the company they're reporting on? #HS2 #StopHS2 @franunsworth

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@stophs2

5 years

The National Audit Office report today makes it clear that #HS2 is now rated "red" by the Infrastructure and Projects Authority, who twice last year concluded the programme was "unachievable". That's right, there's a red light for HS2, and we all know what that means; #StopHS2 !

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5 years

Axeing controversial #HS2 project would fund 28 vital transport links - and here's what you'll get for your £50billion saving #StopHS2

Axeing controversial HS2 project would fund 28 vital transport links

Scrapping the controversial £56billion HS2 project would free-up enough cash to bankroll 28 critical transport projects across Britain, a report unveiled by David Davis will claim this week.

www.dailymail.co.uk

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With chainsaws at the ready, #HS2 Ltd are just waiting on bat licences from @NaturalEngland to start their #Treemageddon . Surely with the legal challenge from @ChrisGPackham in the wings, this can't be allowed to happen @TonyJuniper ? #RethinkHS2 #StopHS2

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"The simple truth is that #HS2 is no longer needed...It is shameful that #Leeds still has no rapid mass transit system unlike any other European city of comparable size...When resource is scarce...[HS2] makes no sense at all" Today's @Telegraph #WhiteElephant

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2 years

Time to abandon #HS2 say Sunday @Telegraph readers #Cheshire #Pickmere #Northwich #WhiteElephant

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5 years

In the middle of the #CoronavirusLockdownUK , where are @warkspolice ? Well, #HS2 Ltd decided that today it was absolutely "essential" to evict the #Crackley Woods protection camp in #Kenilworth , so they're all here backing that up. #covid19UK #StopHS2 #coronavirusuk #RethinkHS2

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#HS2 "started as an incoherent decision and it has been incoherent in its execution as well...If ministers had been told that £100bn would not have bought a complete railway it might never have gone ahead" - Former head of National Audit Office Lord Amyas Morse (FT 26.8.21)

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Isn't #HS2 meant to be "on time and on budget"? Time to #StopHS2 !

HS2 timeline as train will run to London Euston, government confirm

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The highest paid civil servant and fat cat CEO of @HS2ltd , appears before the Public Accounts Committee and admits that #HS2 needs a blank cheque if it is ever going to be completed. #StopHS2

HS2 chief admits he did not know real Euston Station cost

HS2 chief executive Mark Thurston has admitted he did not know how much Euston Station would cost to...

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RSPB urges residents to call police if they see #HS2 workers harm wildlife #StopHS2 #RethinkHS2 #StandForTheTrees

RSPB urges residents to call police if they see HS2 workers harm wildlife

The RSPB has said that locals will be watching out for breaches of the wildlife act

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We've said it before, and we'll say it again, #HS2 is simply a vehicle for consultants to run their own gravy train. #StopHS2 via @PrivateEyeNews

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Dead trees and puddles that should be ponds. A Field of Failure that is a Microcosm of the Institutional Incompetence of #HS2 Ltd. Sign the petition here #StopHS2

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Esther McVey MP said ministers should not ask Tory MPs to vote for higher taxes unless the costly #HS2 high speed rail project was axed. @EstherMcVey1 #StopHS2 @Jeremy_Hunt @RishiSunak

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HS2 valued some properties for only £1. Former #HS2 planning head tells @andybevanitv he was sacked so he couldn't reveal true costs & MPs voted for HS2 under false pretences. Yesterday's NAO report reveals his figures were "spot on". Full version here:

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Dumbfounded that @RobertJenrick is proud that two thirds of #HS2 sites are open during the #lockdown . Workers have shown no interest in #SocialDistancing at sites, and what was a weak case before #coronavirus for this white elephant is now non-existent. #PressBriefing #NHSnotHS2

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We're not sure how "official" this and similar reports are but it looks like #HS2 Phase 2 is dead in the water. We just need the rest of it scrapping too. #StopHS2

Northern leg of HS2 to Manchester set to be scrapped over soaring costs

It comes after weeks of rumours.

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10yrs ago, environmentalists said the ORIGINAL #HS2 £33bn budget would be better spent on broadband. Today HS2 is to cost over £100bn and in a post- #COVID19 world #Conservatives @DSimmonds_RNP suggests any business case for HS2 has collapsed. #WFH @ChrisGPackham @Andrew4Pendle

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#HS2Rebellion outside #HS2 Ltd HQ in #Birmingham today. #StopHS2 #NHSnotHS2

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BBC News - #HS2 : Rail link rated 'unachievable' by infrastructure watchdog. #StopHS2

HS2: Rail link rated 'unachievable' by infrastructure watchdog

An infrastructure watchdog gives the project a "red" warning, raising issues over budgets and schedules.

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3 years

BREAKING NEWS: #HS2 Ordered to Publish Assessment of Risks to the Public Water Supply #StopHS2

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A massive, massive thank you from #StopHS2 to everyone who attended the #StandForTheTrees event today at #ColneValley . With #HS2 under review, we have about a month to convince politicians to #ReThinkHS2 and stop 140 miles of #Ecocide like what was witnessed today in #Denham .

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We're sure this will come of no surprise to anybody, but #HS2 Ltd have decided to ignore @BorisJohnson , and are continuing with work today at their sites up and down the country. #COVIDIDIOTS #StopHS2 #StayAtHomeSaveLives #rethinkhs2 #LockdownNow #StandForTheTrees #coronavirusuk

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Today we're with residents from Steeple Claydon who have this morning already stopped #HS2 from tearing up more hedges, simply by standing in front of the Super Axe Hacker ready to rip up more hedges. #StopHS2

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4 years

Here's @BBCCountryfile announcing @WoodlandTrust #TreeOfTheYear in 2015 & what @HS2ltd did to it this week. #HS2 is the environmentally-damaging railway opposed by @TheGreenParty & other environmental groups. HS2 Ltd say it won't be #CO2 neutral for 120yrs. #CubbingtonPearTree

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"How about connecting the north with the north?" Do northern voters really support #HS2 @AndyBurnhamGM ? The number of hands that goes up says it all. @bbcquestiontime from #Buxton , Derbyshire @mragilligan @grantshapps @BorisJohnson

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@stophs2

4 years

THREAD. Today at Crackley Woods, @LarchMaxey reports from up a tree counting the initial number of @warkspolice called by #HS2 because @hcegroup want to evict people living in trees, as that's supposedly "essential" during the #coronavirusuk #lockdown . #NHSnotHS2

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Private Eye 4/2/22 (2/2) #HS2 is "one short & vastly overpriced domestic line that won't join on to Europe's high speed network...features dead-end stations...instead of through-track stations... the project holds so many lessons in how *not* to build a high-speed railway"

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WATCH: Former British Rail Director Chris Stokes tells Lords there's “Probably close to a zero chance of #HS2 being built within the £56bn ceiling, unless there are changes of scope" and "Train path capacity that HS2 brings to the North of England is pretty much zero” #StopHS2

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#HS2 creates many serious environmental issues, a principal one being damage to over 100 #ancientwoodlands says @ChrisGPackham . They can't be replaced with a sprig of a sapling which may or may not survive. Time to urgently rethink this #whiteelephant . #rethinkhs2 @WoodlandTrust

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5 years

A massive massive thank you to everyone who came to the #SaveColneValley event this weekend from #ExtinctionRebellion and #StopHS2 . Just like in April, those trees are still standing, but #HS2 are planning to come back for them on January 31st. Join us in parliament on the 22nd.

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3 years

Today's Sunday Telegraph letters: " #HS2 white elephant"

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4 years

In today's Observer/Guardian @doctor_oxford Dr Rachel Clark is appalled at spending £107bn+ on #HS2 #WhiteElephant while govt proposes just1% #nhspayrise . #NHSPay #NursesPay #COVID19 #Covid19UK

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"The defences of #HS2 are absurd" It's an insanely expensive way to create #jobs . If it's about #capacity , it doesn't need to have a mandated environmentally damaging 400km/h track speed. Today's @Telegraph (Letters)

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#HS2Rebellion reveal their secret Euston tunnel. Despite the #greenwash , #HS2 will not be CO2 neutral for 120 years (source: @HS2Ltd ) & its unnecessarily 400 km/h speed is destroying the protected habitats a green fast railway could avoid. BBC1 London

HS2 Rebellion protestors reveal their secret tunnel in central London

HS2 Rebellions protestors in Euston go underground to protests about HS2 environmental destructionBBC London, 26th Jan 2021 [additional Times headline added ...

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4 years

Private Eye cartoon #HS2 #WhiteElephant #StopHS2

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5 years

‘Waste of time and money!’ OVERWHELMING majority rage at huge £106bn cost of #HS2 in poll #RethinkHS2 #StopHS2

‘Waste of time and money!’ Majority rage at £106bn cost of HS2

THE vast majority of are not happy with Boris Johnson spending £106billion on the HS2 project, a poll of Express.co.uk readers has found.

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@stophs2

5 years

In case you were wondering, it is possible to sleep up a tree! #HS2 #StopHS2

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4 years

Govt's @ipagov to "run the rule" on major projects. The govt's IPA (formerly MPA) has consistently rated #HS2 as "amber red" or "unachievable". So this is effectively an admission by @RishiSunak that HS2 should not not be going ahead. Today's Sunday @Telegraph . #StopHS2

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3 years

Whistleblowers expose the level of corruption and fraud that is part and parcel of the #HS2 gravy train. How much more evidence is needed before HS2 is put out of its misery? When will politicians wakeup and #StopHS2 ?

The Runaway Train: Whistleblowers Accuse HS2 of ‘Concealing the Truth’ Over Controversial Project’s...

Two former senior members of staff claim that they were sacked after they sought to reveal the true property costs of the project

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"A fraud against British people" "We were instructed to lie about the true cost of #HS2 " say whistle-blowers. Today's Sunday Times

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5 years

Sunday @Telegraph readers nail it again @BorisJohnson @grantshapps #HS2 speeds are unjustifiable expense...a political vanity project & should be cancelled...the problem is it focuses on London...Brunel sought private, not public investment..with HS2 taxpayers have to foot bill

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