The government’s High Speed 2 Growth Taskforce is the body set up by the government to examine how to maximise economic growth and the job opportunities from HS2. Scottish readers in particular will be amused by the unfortunate acronym used on their Twitter logo:
GTF being an acronym more commonly used north of the border to mean “get tae f**k”, which loosely translates from the Scottish vernacular as “go away”. Not quite the sentiment the HS2 Growth Taskforce is trying to express…