This weeks award goes to StopHs2 Chair Penny Gaines for an absolutely bonkers & delusional tweet she’s just posted from the Green party conference in Bournemouth!

If one disinterested passer-by is what Penny thinks is “attracting attention” it’s no wonder the anti Hs2 campaign’s in such dire straits. Notice the complete absence of any Stophs2 protesters. We’re assured (by them) that their campaign’s unstoppable & going from strength to strength – so where is everybody? Of course, the only reason Penny is there is that she lives in Bournemouth, having moved away from the HS2 route several years ago. Imagine, the Chair (but what is there to chair in an empty room? Ed) of StopHs2 lives hundreds of miles away from HS2! In the ‘old’ days StopHs2 used to have stalls inside the various conferences but a lack of money, volunteers and the fact they got nowhere soon put a stop to that. Now the best they can do is a bag of wind and (if they’re lucky) a couple of volunteers trying to foist leaflets onto disinterested passers-by. How that was ever meant to stop HS2 is a mystery, but there you go…

With support like this, is it any wonder politicians are ignoring them?

2023 Update.

With the collapse of StopHs2 they’re no longer seen outside the party conferences. I believe their last derisory appearance was with two bags of hot air (Nellie the inflatable – and Joe Rukin) plus a couple of leafleteers outside the Tory conference in Birmingham in 2018. Their mantle passed to the equally useless protesters of HS2 ‘rebellion’ who are also history, having come and gone in the space of three short years.

Whilst Penny is in Bournemouth and Joe Rukin is in Kenilworth trying to resurrect some sort of post stopHs2 career, the present whereabouts of the inflatable bag of wind (aka ‘Nellie’) are unknown…

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