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HS2 An Open Letter
To Mark Thurston, CEO, HS2 Ltd 10 April 2020 Dear Mark You’ll be relieved to know that I’m not going to bang on about a mined tunnel for Wendover like I usually do. The situation we all face is much too important for that sort of self interest. COVID-19 is giving many people the opportunity to reflect on life and their place in the world. I do hope that you are having such an opportunity. In your place I would be considering why my HS2 project, despite employing some of the highest paid public relations people in the country, fails so abjectly to convince any thinking person of its benefits. I might also mull over the societal change that might result from lockdown. With increased home working a likely result, how much rail capacity is needed going forward?
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HS2 Ltd told Parliament that it intended being “good neighbours” to the communities it touched. How is that going? Do the farmers who remain uncompensated and the householders who remain blighted think that HS2 is a good neighbour?
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Well it would have to appear evil, and by making your workforce flout the rules designed to save lives, you’ve managed to do just that.
So Mark, you have much to think about as the rest of the country closes ranks to fight I’m currently working to build a network the virus. I too have been reflecting and I of genuine good neighbours to support think the country will remember those that my community through COVID-19. Good didn’t join in the fight. neighbours who will minimise the impact of this adversity on each other. They are Stay safe. asking why HS2 Ltd has such a complete and obvious contempt for government Your Critical Friend, health advice, the NHS and the people of Tom Walsh, Chairman, the UK. The evidence that workers on your Wendover Parish Council project routinely ignore social distancing colourmebeautiful rules and are prepared to invade the safe space of other people is both compelling the image consultants and unsettling. Perhaps you could reflect on Colour & Style Analysis, Cosmetics, how a project that is already a byword for Make-up Lessons, Gift Vouchers, Parties financial inexactitude, self justification and a Kimberley Blackham general hit and hope attitude, could appear 07932 786 010 worse?
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