#stopHS2
The cancellation costs of #HS2 were inflated to prevent it being stopped.

Is anyone surprised? #StopHS2

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HS2: the cancellation figure no independent body has checked
The case for finishing HS2 Phase 1 leans on a cancellation estimate the DfT uplifted by 66%. Take the uplift out and cancelling costs far less than finishing. It needs an independent review before the...
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October 22, 2026 at 8:11 PM
I want this picture beamed in every "STOPHS2" campaigner's brain until the sun burns out.
Why would anyone fly from London to Manchester!?!?
October 8, 2026 at 11:27 AM
I think you’ll find it pays to get your head out your proverbial and listen to ‘noises off’ Mr Big-wiggy-chairperson. #stopHS2 #noairportexpansion
December 6, 2024 at 1:17 AM
(For the youngsters in the debate, this was at the time Elon Musk was promising Hyperloop, and we would all be travelling at 700 mph through vacuum pods by now. If that sound like obvious bollocks, it's because it is. So of course StopHS2 hung off every word of the complete fucking charlatan.)
February 16, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Fun fact: StopHS2 once ran with the argument of "Trains bad because nice clever Elon Musk says so".

The fact they they haven't deleted this video (and also crawled away and died of embarrassment) speaks volumes.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcRm...
Elon Musk laughs at idea of HS2 being progress
YouTube video by StopHS2
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February 16, 2025 at 7:38 PM
And it’s hardly a weak spot vs the Greens who’ve spent 15 yrs as useful idiots for Tory and Farage opposition to HS2 before a Damascene conversion to support it as soon as their ‘StopHS2’ campaigning had finally succeeded
May 1, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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December 13, 2024 at 8:41 AM
Anyone seen StopHS2 recently?
Latest drone from East West Road [credit: Wandering Northerner] I'm sure there is a reason why these cause less pushback than rail equivalents. It must be because they are wider, dirtier and more intrusive?
January 6, 2026 at 9:03 AM
Milling around waiting for chiltern soc river + wetlands meeting to start #stophs2
November 18, 2024 at 4:22 AM
So HS2 lorries have damaged the water pipes which has caused flooding. So HS2 lorries start driving on roads on which they’re not allowed and endangering life by driving over a railway bridge that can’t support the lorries’ weight. #STOPHS2
July 16, 2025 at 10:39 PM
We said that it would pollute the water and the HS2 bros said we were stupid. Well. It’s polluting the water. Turns out THEY are stupid. (Who’d have guessed 🙄)And yet you get called a nimby for objecting to having your drinking water polluted? Give over. #stophs2
June 2, 2025 at 12:26 PM
“The left hand doesn’t know what the right hand is doing” - person who works on the railways discussing stupid HS2 which is stopping normal trains from running EVERY WEEKEND #stophs2
April 6, 2025 at 11:12 AM
This is actually quite similar to HS2 #stophs2
On top of total capture of COP by the fossil fuel industry, we now have "Amazon forest felled to build road for climate summit."

At what point do we acknowledge what is now plainly obvious: that this is not the solution, but a big part of the problem, a coverup for BAU?
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Amazon rainforest cut down to build highway for COP climate summit
The infrastructure required to host climate talks in Belém is undermining the cause, campaigners say.
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March 12, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Internal documents obtained via FOI show how HS2 understood the arcane clause would cause “significant distress” and destroy jobs and livelihoods, but argued it should be maintained anyway. #stophs2 www.cityam.com/hs2-lobbied-...
HS2 pushed government to keep 'unjust' compensation rules for ousted locals
HS2 has spent billions buying up land using powers that enable it to evict landowners and tenants in its direct path without consent.
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February 12, 2025 at 6:28 PM
They imposed upon us that PREVENT programme that in my LA listed StopHs2 as an example of radicalisation and 'environmentslists' as extremists, and they failed to deal with, in any way whatsoever, the obvious and well-documented generation of far right, violent ideology.
August 20, 2024 at 8:24 AM
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January 14, 2025 at 3:10 PM
#HS2Ltd and #LaingORourke are continuing HS2 clearance and construction despite government #StayAtHome advice. HS2 is not essential and workers are endangering local communities. #StopHS2
November 19, 2024 at 12:28 AM
Not just any railway line… this one isn’t quite what it seems on the surface. A little light reading… stophs2.org/facts
Case against HS2 – STOP HS2 – The national campaign against High Speed Rail 2
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October 19, 2025 at 5:28 PM