HS2 Rebellion

#HS2 Phase 2 is dead. Supporting eco-activists & protectors of wildlife from HS2 destruction & #Ecocide. #StopHS2 Info:

[HS2 Rebellion @Hs2Rebellion]

If we don't stop this now, soon those putting their bodies in the way of chainsaws to protect the last few trees will also be smeared and abused as terrorists. Stand up for the #Filton10 all love and power to you.

@ChrisGPackham @XRebellionUK @GeorgeMonbiot @DaleVince

[freefilton24 @freefilton24]

Mothers of the Filton 10 speak to the BBC. This is how counter-terrorism powers are being used against our loved ones on behalf of genocidal arms dealers

https://t.co/IdjfQ9Jp3x

Sign the petition: https://t.co/D3mnciC6OL

[HS2 Rebellion @Hs2Rebellion]

So £102 billion may be only a small part of the total cost if Andy has its way…when does this madness ever end?

[The i Paper @theipaper]

Andy Burnham: I’ll resurrect HS2 from Birmingham to Manchester https://t.co/rSpDfBY753

[The Spectator @spectator]

HS2 has never had the attention it needs and the scrutiny its scale demands. This is Britain's largest infrastructure project, dwarfing the Channel Tunnel by a factor of around ten in terms of the cost and yet it has been allowed to bumble along as if it were the construction a little branch line to a Suffolk village.

Ministers come and go, civil servants stick their heads in the sand and the media gets bored with the story apart from covering protestors digging themselves under Euston or living in trees.

✍️ Christian Wolmar

Article | https://t.co/0y1zQabPhJ

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Hilariously by the time it opens in 2039 HS2 will be...

The most expensive high speed railway in the world.
The slowest high speed railway in the world.
The longest time to build railway in the world.
And the shortest high speed railway in the world.

One word, CORRUPTION.

[Jordan Walker @JayW132]

HS2. A masterclass in how Britain destroys money.

The cost:
• 2011: £32.7bn
• 2013: £45bn
• 2015: £55.7bn
• 2019: up to £88bn
• 2020: up to £106bn
• 2026: up to £102.7bn… for a fraction of the original route

What’s been cut along the way:
• 2021: Eastern leg to Leeds: SCRAPPED
• 2022: Golborne link to Scotland: SCRAPPED
• 2023: Birmingham → Manchester leg: SCRAPPED
• 2023: Crewe hub: SCRAPPED
• Euston terminus: paused, downsized from 10 platforms to 6, now needs private finance

Original plan: 11 cities, 340 miles, £32bn, open 2026.

What we’re getting: 4 stations, 140 miles, £100bn+, open 2039.

A national embarrassment, paid for by taxpayers.

[HS2 Rebellion @Hs2Rebellion]

Save Euston Square Gardens Trees West from High Speed 2 - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/sHywgD0N0M via @UKChange

[GB News @GBNEWS]

‘Total lack of cost control at every stage of the project.’

Journalist Ross Clark believes the HS2 was ‘overdesigned’ and the project has ‘bad designs and bad conceptions’, as the west cost mainline link is due to have further delays of four years.

[HS2 Rebellion @Hs2Rebellion]

From leading one disastrous company to another…former Hs2 CEO Mark Thurston is finally Under Arrest!!
(albeit only temporarily unfortunately)

Seems like we’ll have to wait for Karmic retribution rather than the law to make up for all his disastrous decisions in life.

[PoliticsJOE @PoliticsJOE_UK]

🚨ACTIVISTS CITIZENS ARREST WATER BOSS MARK THURSTON🚨

[HS2 Rebellion @Hs2Rebellion]

Let’s not forget all those farmers, pensioners & others who had their homes & land compulsory purchased & left thousands of pounds out of pocket!
Yet ..King made more than £1m selling land for leg of HS2 that was scrapped Duchy of Lancaster | The Guardian https://t.co/3kh0XifooA

[Huda Ammori @HudaAmmori]

BREAKING: UN special rapporteur Ben Saul has been given permission to intervene in the judicial review of the decision to proscribe Palestine Action.

His evidence can now be considered as part of the legal challenge against the ban.

[Defend Our Juries @DefendOurJuries]

🚨 BREAKING NEWS 🚨

High Court grants full legal review of Palestine Action ban in massive blow to Yvette Cooper.

Palestine Action founder, Huda Ammori, will now be able to bring a full legal review in the Royal Courts of Justice.

Full Press Release: https://t.co/2hLCj1PJ5e

[Defend Our Juries @DefendOurJuries]

HAVE YOU SEEN THIS NAN?

An urgent public notice from the Metropolitan Police. This nan is known to publicly oppose genocide and has a history of nonviolence.

If you do see her - ask her to sign up for action on August 9th with 500+ people:

https://t.co/OmIFB7kP2E

[HS2 Rebellion @Hs2Rebellion]

How did this Hamas propoganda slip past the Mossad censors embedded within the Beeb? Come on Aunty, you'll be in danger of actual journalism if you keep this up.

[Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis]

War crimes.

[HS2 Rebellion @Hs2Rebellion]

Such an important work. Thank you @jonathonporritt, for platforming the voices of these courageous people from @JustStop_Oil, who have sacrificed their freedom for all our futures

[Jonathon Porritt @jonathonporritt]

After a year working with 26 young Just Stop Oil activists,our co-authored book,’Love,Anger & Betrayal’,is published today!
(https://t.co/8b3E68Cdtc). It’s been an incredible privilege to share this project - with lots of campaigning ahead! Latest blog: https://t.co/lxtePlaZxN

[HS2 Rebellion @Hs2Rebellion]

As little boys, dreaming of one day joining the force and protecting the public, this is no doubt precisely what these brave boys in blue had in mind...

[Rangzen @revoltinghippie]

A disabled man was arrested today at an anti-genocide rally in Shenstone, Staffordshire, for wearing a tee-shirt

[EuropeanPowell @EuropeanPowell]

Leaked documents show that the UK government was secretly advised that Palestine Action is ‘highly unlikely’ to advocate for violence, and that within MI5 the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre said ‘Palestine Action’ activism would not be classified as terrorism.
Documents indicate that National Security concerns were not a central factor in the Home Office’s decision to proscribe. @YvetteCooperMP lied and rigged the proscription of Palestine Action courtesy of Israel dictating how legislation was to be implemented in the UK.
Palestine Action was going to be proscribed way before the vandalism of the jet at the RAF base.
https://t.co/7cA7Cz1OdU

[Rosie Holt @RosieisaHolt]

Woman explains how the elderly who support Palestine at protests are terrorists.

[HS2 Rebellion @Hs2Rebellion]

"One day their grandkids will look back with pride and say that when the holocaust of our time was taking place, grandad beat the shit out of somebody's grandma"

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

This 83-year-old priest has just been arrested for holding a sign which read:

“I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action.”

According to Starmer’s new law, this puts her in the same category as an ISIS or Al-Qaeda terrorist, with a prison sentence of up to 14 years.

[Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis]

Under Gandhi’s statue. For holding placards.

A priest, a professor, medics - arrested for peaceful protest.

This is not about terrorism. It’s about silencing dissent - and it’s leading us down an ever darkening path.

[Novara Media @novaramedia]

An 83-year-old priest and a human rights lawyer were among around 25 people arrested for holding signs saying “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action” in Parliament Square today.

The action, by protest group Defend Our Juries, was the first organised challenge to the proscription of Palestine Action, which came into effect at 00.01 this morning.

This is the first time a non-violent, direct action group has been designated a terrorist organisation in the UK.

In an open letter sent to Met police commissioner Mark Rowley on Friday, Defend Our Juries outlined its plans. “We would like to alert you to the fact we may be committing offences under the Terrorism Act tomorrow, Saturday 5 July, in Parliament Square at about 1pm,” it said.

It portrayed the action - which it said would be nonviolent and pose “no risk whatsoever of anyone being harmed” - as both a challenge to the ban and a test of how it will be enforced.

“If we cannot speak freely about the genocide that is occurring, if we cannot condemn those who are complicit in it and express support for those who resist it, then the right to freedom of expression has no meaning, and democracy and human rights in this country are dead,” it said.

Reverend Sue Parfitt, 83, told Novara Media the group was “testing the law”. She said she wasn’t afraid of being arrested. “I know that we are in the right place doing the right thing,” she said. “As my friend Ruth always says, ‘we cannot be bystanders’.”
Minutes later, police began making arrests.
Palestine Action applied to pause the ban in the high court yesterday, but lost both a hearing and an appeal shortly afterwards.

Speaking to the Guardian on Friday, Raza Husain KC, representing Palestine Action founder Huda Ammori, described the decision as “an ill-considered, discriminatory and authoritarian abuse of statutory power”.

The Met did not respond to Novara Media’s request for comment.

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