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Post by stuart1974 on Nov 21, 2021 18:34:36 GMT
Hope no one pinned their hopes on this, another promise broken insofar as it was realistic in the first place. "Plans to build a bridge or tunnel between Scotland and Northern Ireland have been ruled out due to forecasted costs and engineering challenges. A study examining if such a project was possible is expected to advise against proceeding with any proposals when it is released next week. The BBC understands the government will agree with the report's recommendation. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been a vocal supporter of a fixed link between Britain and Northern Ireland. The Telegraph first reported that transport expert Sir Peter Hendy, who was asked by the government to examine connections between the different parts of the UK, had concluded the project was not currently viable. A government source said Sir Peter had examined the costs of a fixed link to Northern Ireland and found "it would be technically very challenging at the moment". "That's not to say it won't become viable at some point in the future, but at the moment it would be very, very difficult and expensive," the source told the paper. The Department for Transport told the BBC: "We don't comment on speculation. The Union Connectivity Review will be published shortly." Plans for some kind of link between Northern Ireland and Scotland stretch back as far as the 1890s. The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) revived the idea in its 2015 general election manifesto and Mr Johnson has previously described a bridge as a "very interesting idea". Some experts suggested such a project would cost £15bn, while others have said that £20bn would be a conservative estimate." www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-59368707
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Post by Gassy on Nov 21, 2021 18:47:59 GMT
I can’t believe it.
It seemed such a viable plan when announced.
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Post by stuart1974 on Nov 21, 2021 18:50:51 GMT
I can’t believe it. It seemed such a viable plan when announced. Too expensive to install the Customs checkpoints, you know, the ones that we were promised wouldn't exist between GB and NI.
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Post by trevorgas on Nov 21, 2021 19:49:40 GMT
So we shouldn't vote and not try to do whatever little we can to make it a better world? What's the solution other than a 1917 revolution? Interested in your thoughts. You voted to privatise the NHS, does that make the world better for the people of the UK? 1917 was its own unique event, a world changing moment. I tend to look forward rather than backwards, but it is interesting to read about what led to it and how it failed. Privatisation has been happening in the NHS since the 1990s accelerated by Blair/Brown,I can't recall private the NHS being in the Conservative manifesto. I can guarantee you No political party will privatise NHS front line Services as that would make them unelectable for decades ,so I didn't vote to privatise the NHS .
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Post by yattongas on Nov 21, 2021 20:03:21 GMT
You voted to privatise the NHS, does that make the world better for the people of the UK? 1917 was its own unique event, a world changing moment. I tend to look forward rather than backwards, but it is interesting to read about what led to it and how it failed. Privatisation has been happening in the NHS since the 1990s accelerated by Blair/Brown,I can't recall private the NHS being in the Conservative manifesto. I can guarantee you No political party will privatise NHS front line Services as that would make them unelectable for decades ,so I didn't vote to privatise the NHS . Aye , but you voted to make the country poorer with Brexit .
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Post by stuart1974 on Nov 21, 2021 21:54:55 GMT
Starmer on the charm offensive: It comes as the CBI warns about the potential of low business investment and productivity continuing into the next decade without government intervention in the form of tax breaks and de-regulation. The Office for Budget Responsibility also predicts anaemic UK economic growth as the economy settles post-Covid. Starmer wrote that British businesses are currently facing a battering from “supply chain problems, price inflation, labour shortages, skills shortages and rising taxes” stemming from “poor decisions being made” by Johnson’s government. The Labour leader said the UK’s “poor record on productivity is owed to the fact that we don’t invest enough in capital stock, infrastructure and technology”. “We have a Prime Minister who thinks it was enough to ‘get Brexit done’ and cares little about how to make Brexit work,” he said. “Let me be clear: Labour does not want a rematch. Brexit has happened and we are not going to rejoin. But, clearly, the government’s deal is full of holes.” www.cityam.com/exclusive-starmer-calls-for-economic-reset-as-he-makes-pro-business-pitch-to-the-cbi/?amp=1&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=upday
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Post by yattongas on Nov 21, 2021 23:26:25 GMT
Starmer on the charm offensive: It comes as the CBI warns about the potential of low business investment and productivity continuing into the next decade without government intervention in the form of tax breaks and de-regulation. The Office for Budget Responsibility also predicts anaemic UK economic growth as the economy settles post-Covid. Starmer wrote that British businesses are currently facing a battering from “supply chain problems, price inflation, labour shortages, skills shortages and rising taxes” stemming from “poor decisions being made” by Johnson’s government. The Labour leader said the UK’s “poor record on productivity is owed to the fact that we don’t invest enough in capital stock, infrastructure and technology”. “We have a Prime Minister who thinks it was enough to ‘get Brexit done’ and cares little about how to make Brexit work,” he said. “Let me be clear: Labour does not want a rematch. Brexit has happened and we are not going to rejoin. But, clearly, the government’s deal is full of holes.” www.cityam.com/exclusive-starmer-calls-for-economic-reset-as-he-makes-pro-business-pitch-to-the-cbi/?amp=1&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=updayStarmer still trying to hold the line on “make Brexit work” when anyone with half a brain knows it can’t and won’t work . 🙄
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Post by stuart1974 on Nov 21, 2021 23:47:22 GMT
Starmer on the charm offensive: It comes as the CBI warns about the potential of low business investment and productivity continuing into the next decade without government intervention in the form of tax breaks and de-regulation. The Office for Budget Responsibility also predicts anaemic UK economic growth as the economy settles post-Covid. Starmer wrote that British businesses are currently facing a battering from “supply chain problems, price inflation, labour shortages, skills shortages and rising taxes” stemming from “poor decisions being made” by Johnson’s government. The Labour leader said the UK’s “poor record on productivity is owed to the fact that we don’t invest enough in capital stock, infrastructure and technology”. “We have a Prime Minister who thinks it was enough to ‘get Brexit done’ and cares little about how to make Brexit work,” he said. “Let me be clear: Labour does not want a rematch. Brexit has happened and we are not going to rejoin. But, clearly, the government’s deal is full of holes.” www.cityam.com/exclusive-starmer-calls-for-economic-reset-as-he-makes-pro-business-pitch-to-the-cbi/?amp=1&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=updayStarmer still trying to hold the line on “make Brexit work” when anyone with half a brain knows it can’t and won’t work . 🙄 I know that, you know that, he knows that but he can't say it. It needs to be seen to be a problem and then put into place solutions. If, and it remains a big if, he does win in 2024 with most likely a coalition with Lib Dems and SNP (🙈) then then I can see us having a series of small 'adjustments' effectively resulting in an EU-lite membership by 2030ish. Definitely very little in the Manifesto though, can't upset the likes of Clive. 😁
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Post by yattongas on Nov 22, 2021 15:16:17 GMT
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Post by stuart1974 on Nov 22, 2021 19:39:09 GMT
Boris Johnson has been criticised after he lost his place in a speech to British businesses leaders and referred to the children's cartoon Peppa Pig. Speaking to the CBI conference, the PM also quoted Lenin and performed an impression of a car. Halting his speech led to an awkward 21 seconds of apologies and paper shuffling from the Tory leader. Labour's shadow chancellor, Rachel Reeves, called the speech "shambolic". She added: "No one was laughing, because the joke's not funny anymore." A senior Downing Street source told the BBC: "Business was really looking for leadership today and it was shambolic." They added there was "a lot of concern inside the building" about Mr Johnson. "Cabinet needs to wake up and demand serious changes otherwise it'll keep getting worse. If they don't insist, he just won't do anything about it." A Downing Street spokesperson pointed out that CBI head Tony Danker had welcomed the PM's words on the private sector working with the government. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-59373237
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Post by oldie on Nov 22, 2021 21:38:21 GMT
Boris Johnson has been criticised after he lost his place in a speech to British businesses leaders and referred to the children's cartoon Peppa Pig. Speaking to the CBI conference, the PM also quoted Lenin and performed an impression of a car. Halting his speech led to an awkward 21 seconds of apologies and paper shuffling from the Tory leader. Labour's shadow chancellor, Rachel Reeves, called the speech "shambolic". She added: "No one was laughing, because the joke's not funny anymore." A senior Downing Street source told the BBC: "Business was really looking for leadership today and it was shambolic." They added there was "a lot of concern inside the building" about Mr Johnson. "Cabinet needs to wake up and demand serious changes otherwise it'll keep getting worse. If they don't insist, he just won't do anything about it." A Downing Street spokesperson pointed out that CBI head Tony Danker had welcomed the PM's words on the private sector working with the government. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-59373237It was hilarious. Wtf is Peppa Pig World... Well, we said he was a buffoon.
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Post by stuart1974 on Nov 22, 2021 22:25:03 GMT
Boris Johnson has been criticised after he lost his place in a speech to British businesses leaders and referred to the children's cartoon Peppa Pig. Speaking to the CBI conference, the PM also quoted Lenin and performed an impression of a car. Halting his speech led to an awkward 21 seconds of apologies and paper shuffling from the Tory leader. Labour's shadow chancellor, Rachel Reeves, called the speech "shambolic". She added: "No one was laughing, because the joke's not funny anymore." A senior Downing Street source told the BBC: "Business was really looking for leadership today and it was shambolic." They added there was "a lot of concern inside the building" about Mr Johnson. "Cabinet needs to wake up and demand serious changes otherwise it'll keep getting worse. If they don't insist, he just won't do anything about it." A Downing Street spokesperson pointed out that CBI head Tony Danker had welcomed the PM's words on the private sector working with the government. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-59373237It was hilarious. Wtf is Peppa Pig World... Well, we said he was a buffoon. It's a theme park near Southampton, been there a few times with the family, great fun. I wonder if Boris has lost the plot or taking the p155. 😁 France - any thoughts? 🤭
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Post by stuart1974 on Nov 23, 2021 0:45:45 GMT
Probably wishful thinking, but I can certainly see the comparison of social care and the Poll Tax. He certainly had a few MPs rebelling against him tonight. "Every year I write a column saying that Boris Johnson will be gone by Christmas. In 2019, I thought he’d have been forced out of Downing Street because of his mishandling of Brexit. Wrong. In 2020, I thought it would be because of his mishandling of Covid. Wrong. In 2021? I wonder if the coming social care debacle might not prove a bit of a tipping point. The launch of the social care plan was sort of a marketing miracle. What we now know to be a barely practical plan that will make little difference was sold as a revolution. What we now understand will be deeply regressive was painted as a fairer system, a fine example of “levelling up”. It is the opposite. Broadly speaking, people with a £1m inheritance coming their way from a property in the South will keep about £900,000 of it. Someone in line for a windfall of £86,000 from the sale of a home up North will see the lot go in care costs. That will simply add to the grotesque and arbitrary inequalities in wealth cascading down the generations – nothing to do with talent or hard work, but whether your parents’ semi detached happens to be in Woking or Wigan. The Johnson promise that no one would have to sell their home to pay for their care was airbrushed from history. They will – especially poorer people who fall victim to dementia rather than meet a swift end from cardiac arrest. The lottery of death remains virtually intact." www.independent.co.uk/voices/boris-johnson-cbi-speech-social-care-covid-b1962089.html?amp=&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=upday
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Post by Deleted on Nov 23, 2021 12:07:32 GMT
What a coincidence that Johnson turns up his buffoonery a notch when a morally corrupt bill hits the news.
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Post by yattongas on Nov 24, 2021 15:18:38 GMT
This is what we’re dealing with 🙄😂
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Post by yattongas on Nov 27, 2021 15:14:10 GMT
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Post by stuart1974 on Nov 29, 2021 12:03:05 GMT
This is what we’re dealing with 🙄😂 Is this the same Nadine who doesn't believe Caroline Noakes?
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Post by stuart1974 on Nov 29, 2021 12:03:42 GMT
Good news, hope it continues and can be replicated.
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Post by stuart1974 on Nov 30, 2021 23:12:26 GMT
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Post by Gassy on Dec 1, 2021 15:39:31 GMT
Commons leaser Jacob Rees-Mogg is being investigated over a possible breach of rules on declaring outside earnings. Commons standards commissioner Kathryn Stone did not reveal details of the allegations. But they are understood to relate to £6m in loans Mr Rees-Mogg received from one of his own companies to help buy and renovate his Westminster home. The watchdog is also investigating Scottish Tory leader Douglas Ross for possible standards breaches. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-59491565
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