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[News] Boris's Latest Distraction Wheeze : A Bridge across the Channel ?
- Thread starter vegster
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ROSM
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When the channel tunnel was proposed, there were 3 plans that went to final decision. All were rail based as the issue of changing lanes a la scalextric was deemed too risky
Two of the final 3 plans were some form of bridge. One was a part bridge that submerged to a tunnel about a third of the way across. The other was a full bridge.
issues with shipping ruled out the last one and issues with cost ruled out the part bridge
Two of the final 3 plans were some form of bridge. One was a part bridge that submerged to a tunnel about a third of the way across. The other was a full bridge.
issues with shipping ruled out the last one and issues with cost ruled out the part bridge
Pavilionaire
Well-known member
- Jul 7, 2003
- 30,559
Muddled thinking. Was this comment made in the morning, or after a particularly good lunch? Where to start?
1. He announces the most ambitious engineering project the UK will ever undertake in the same week that our second largest building company goes bust.
2. He wants a bridge to promote trade with France having masterminded the Brexit campaign.
3. He has a track record of big ideas that have flopped.
4. Who is going to pay for it? We can't even afford HS2.
5. The bridge idea has been considered and binned before - nothing has changed. Is he aware of this?
6. The only countries that can pull off this type of project - China / Russia - have cheap labour and a complete disregard for the environment - we have neither.
1. He announces the most ambitious engineering project the UK will ever undertake in the same week that our second largest building company goes bust.
2. He wants a bridge to promote trade with France having masterminded the Brexit campaign.
3. He has a track record of big ideas that have flopped.
4. Who is going to pay for it? We can't even afford HS2.
5. The bridge idea has been considered and binned before - nothing has changed. Is he aware of this?
6. The only countries that can pull off this type of project - China / Russia - have cheap labour and a complete disregard for the environment - we have neither.
Wrong-Direction
Well-known member
- Mar 10, 2013
- 13,416
This man is a ****ing disgrace and it's pathetic that people still like him
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Let's not allow years of careful investigation, planning, costing and risk assessment get in the way of a jolly Boris wheeze.
classic diversion tactics, probably the only positive job May can find for him.
"We're being hammered over the NHS, Carillion etc, we need to speed up the news cycle and get something else out there. What we need is an ambiguous statement, the sort of thing which we can't be held accountable to or when it starts to be taken seriously we can say that is was taken out of context. We'll let the press hype it up and they won't want to look stupid when people realise it was a non-story that they should have been more responsible in clarifying in the first place, so they'll drop it".
"A well placed leak then? We'll have Boris mention something about taxing certain types of dogs or something, in private, because people trust leaks. People think leaks are always caused to the dismay of the powers in charge, as opposed to often being deliberately created. But not dogs, no, something big and spectacular which will mean it'll eat up the news cycle so folk will soon forget about the NHS and Carillion at least for the moment"
"Ok, we'll go for the bridge idea. Ensure we have Boris saying something about dogs though, just in case something else goes wrong this week".
"We're being hammered over the NHS, Carillion etc, we need to speed up the news cycle and get something else out there. What we need is an ambiguous statement, the sort of thing which we can't be held accountable to or when it starts to be taken seriously we can say that is was taken out of context. We'll let the press hype it up and they won't want to look stupid when people realise it was a non-story that they should have been more responsible in clarifying in the first place, so they'll drop it".
"A well placed leak then? We'll have Boris mention something about taxing certain types of dogs or something, in private, because people trust leaks. People think leaks are always caused to the dismay of the powers in charge, as opposed to often being deliberately created. But not dogs, no, something big and spectacular which will mean it'll eat up the news cycle so folk will soon forget about the NHS and Carillion at least for the moment"
"Ok, we'll go for the bridge idea. Ensure we have Boris saying something about dogs though, just in case something else goes wrong this week".
Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo
Waxing chumps like candles since ‘75
- Oct 4, 2003
- 11,037
Maybe he just misheard the lyrics to that Wax single and thought it sounded like a good idea.
banjo
GOSBTS
When it’s half built can he be thrown over board, and take a swim with the fishes.
pearl
Well-known member
he isn't a man, he's a giant toddler
Wrong-Direction
Well-known member
- Mar 10, 2013
- 13,416
His head is not only straw coloured, but it is full of it too.
After him and his ex mate Gove's £350M whoppers, I am amazed that either of them are still in the Government frankly!
What could be the reason for the latest distraction tactics I wonder?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_a46WJ1viA
After him and his ex mate Gove's £350M whoppers, I am amazed that either of them are still in the Government frankly!
What could be the reason for the latest distraction tactics I wonder?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_a46WJ1viA
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Lincoln Imp
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- Feb 2, 2009
- 5,964
This sounds radical.
*Gullsworth*
My Hair is like his hair
I think this is true Boris fantasy. Why? Even the plans for a Garden bridge in London fell through due to spiralling costs.
JC Footy Genius
Bringer of TRUTH
- Jun 9, 2015
- 10,568
Moan about Brexiteers being isolationist then moan about them wanting to build bridges with continental Europe ... *tut*
maffew
Well-known member
Feck off Boris you Buffoon. Brexit is your fault now you want to build bridges
folkestonesgull
Active member
By the time this could be built - say 15 years at a push we should be living in a world of autonomous vehicles- this would massively increase the capacity of ports and the channel tunnel as operators will be able to increase productivity without the need for driver breaks etc as lorries form and move in convoys outside of commuter hours.
Boris is a dinosaur...the future is not about building massively expensive shiny new things but utilising technology to make best use of and optimising the infrastructure we already have.
Boris is a dinosaur...the future is not about building massively expensive shiny new things but utilising technology to make best use of and optimising the infrastructure we already have.
BensGrandad
New member
Wasnt this idea muted and discarded prior to the building of the tunnel?