Shout out to the brilliant sound engineer Luke @TilehouseMusic for putting this audiobook together and for fact-checking Finnish/Chinese pronunciations of names when @lucy_crehan was on important work calls to India. Couldn't have done it without you. #teamwork#audiobookeditor
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
S Times reports major donors tell PM that 400 firms will go bust and 250k jobs lost if HS2 does not go ahead. HS2 website says peak construction jobs would be 39k. Maybe donors cannot count their party donations either! Or jobs could go earlier to upgrading existing lines!
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!
Here we have @HS2ltd strimming around dead trees which were meant to replace ancient woodland cut down elsewhere along the line. What used to be a wildflower meadow is now a tree cemetery. What a waste of taxpayers’ time and money #RethinkHS2@stophs2@BorisJohnson@grantshapps
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
First hand experience is that @HS2ltd cant be trusted. They keep saying they are “on time and on budget” when they have known for years that it wasn’t true. Ancient woodland is defined as 400 years old and can’t simply be replaced. @ChrisGPackham@BorisJohnson@grantshapps
So . . . more than 1500 people enjoyed a nice walk around the Colne Valley and Denham this afternoon to https://t.co/bJG9mZwPaT and oppose #HS2 but someone went off with @MarkAvery ‘s megaphone . FGS don’t tell him and contact me ASAP ! Thanks - happy to pay postage !