Politics

[Dr Gloom 21924]

nothing to see here. all completely normal

 

 

[Dr Gloom 21924]

all the talk of burgon on the previous page reminded me of labour's other big front bench half wit.

[Dr Gloom 21924]

"hello unsuspecting boy in a tree. i'm creepy barry gardiner.

now look into my eyes, while i place my hand tenderly on your back then talk for 45 minutes about labour's nebulous brexit position"

[PaddockLad 17280]

20 minutes ago, Dr Gloom said:

nothing to see here. all completely normal

 

 

 

Don't know about anyone else I'm just pleased we're not being ruled  by unelected buearacrats any more

 

 

[ewerk 30619]

2 hours ago, Rayvin said:

I really think the media are in trouble. By being partisan over important issues they've broken trust with the public who don't have the desire to support them now. The BBC are a good example of this in recent weeks - they pulled punches on Johnson because they believed that impartiality means you can only expose an equal amount of bullshit, irrespective of how much each side is spewing - and they helped cause this crisis by giving Farage such extensive airtime.

 

And so now, there is no one in their corner. Same for the rest of the media although the right wing outlets will of course simply become the Russia Today's of the new right wing order. 

 

The internet talking heads will replace them and then we really are fucked.

Darren Grimes on Politics Live today ffs.

[Tom 14011]

 

He's a horrible little scab. One of a few conservative talking heads who ask for money on the internet. Or 'hand outs'  

[ewerk 30619]

 

Well this seems like a sensible, value for money proposal.

[Monkeys Fist 42458]

Where would you put the border controls on that- halfway? 
 

 

 

 

[Gemmill 44896]

I guarantee Humpty thinks it's a cracking idea. 

[ewerk 30619]

14 minutes ago, Monkeys Fist said:

Where would you put the border controls on that- halfway? 
 

 

 

 

From Gretna Green up to Berwick should do it.

[PaddockLad 17280]

The road from near the Scottish border at Carlisle to Stranraer/Cairnryan is about as good as the A1 between Newcastle and Edinburgh ie tractors can hold up  international traffic regularly...

Edited February 10, 2020 by PaddockLad

[Tom 14011]

A lot of that 30 mile stretch is 1000ft deep and somewhere in that ocean is a about a hundred tonne of unexploded munitions. 

Great plan  

[Renton 21627]

Boris just loves imagining bridges. Building them, not so much.

 

A bridge from NI to rural Scotland ffs, 20 miles over a sea canyon full of unexploded munitions, in one of the stormiest seas in the world that's also a shipping lane. Of course. 

Edited February 10, 2020 by Renton

[NJS 4386]

And a couple of refs short of not being in the UK at either end... 

[Monkeys Fist 42458]

I think we should build a passenger catapult from Wales to Holland, made of cheese, paid for by Mexico. 
 

 

[Alex 35093]

I wonder how many billions of pounds will be spent on the groundwork before it’s announced it isn’t going to happen. 

 

[Meenzer 15531]

Metre for metre, if you scale up from the Garden Bridge you're talking £5bn. But I reckon that's a conservative estimate (no pun intended).

 

The Garden Bridge did have a few trees to price in, of course, whereas the Scotland-NI plan... oh.

 

[Renton 21627]

If it connected 2 metropolises, like London and Paris, it may just about be feasible. Maybe. A second channel tunnel would definitely make more economic sense. But this is obviously not the case here. So what i don't get is that this is so obviously a stunt, what's to gain? He's not going to come out of this looking good. 

[wykikitoon 20155]

 

[Rayvin 5223]

10 hours ago, Renton said:

If it connected 2 metropolises, like London and Paris, it may just about be feasible. Maybe. A second channel tunnel would definitely make more economic sense. But this is obviously not the case here. So what i don't get is that this is so obviously a stunt, what's to gain? He's not going to come out of this looking good. 

 

It's Keynesian economics though. Government putting money into infrastructure on the basis that it boosts the economy. Same as HS2. Instead of spending money on genuinely helpful initiatives that could address the bigger issues in British society, the Tories will spend it on nonsense that has the same effect but doesn't threaten them in an ideological sense.

 

It's an admission that we've always been right on the economic front.

[ewerk 30619]

You call it keynesian economics, I call it utter bullshit. It will never ever happen.

[PaddockLad 17280]

37 minutes ago, ewerk said:

You call it keynesian economics, I call it utter bullshit. It will never ever happen.

 

You'll notice no one in the media is now talking about the Russia report

 

 

[ewerk 30619]

I had a look at the papers this morning and most of them are leading with the government's great pledge to improve bus services. Only the Mirror is talking about the fact that towns in the north keep flooding because the government refuses to spend the money on improving flood controls.

[ewerk 30619]

Anyway, the news on investment in bus services will be a nice little earner for Jo Bamford who picked up Wrightbus for a song recently. He also happens to be the son of major Tory and Vote Leave donor, Anthony Bamford.

[ewerk 30619]

Zero economic growth in Q4. Cracking.