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Post by sheepy on Sept 24, 2023 17:52:18 GMT
Plus, he uses free energy, the man is a genius, I am very impressed. That's not sarcasm by the way I really am, only Orac can be accused of such things. Innocent until proven guilty your honour. The last time I was promised free energy the Queen was opening a nuclear power station - still waiting..  Don't worry North Sea gas is coming  |
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Post by Fairsociety on Sept 24, 2023 18:00:48 GMT
The last time I was promised free energy the Queen was opening a nuclear power station - still waiting.. Don't worry North Sea gas is coming Or Wind farms, we'd get more wind if we all scoffed a ton of beans. |
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Post by jonksy on Sept 24, 2023 18:15:35 GMT
Don't worry North Sea gas is coming Or Wind farms, we'd get more wind if we all scoffed a ton of beans. Well we could burn the methane from our farts to generate energy....LOL
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Post by Fairsociety on Sept 24, 2023 18:30:14 GMT
Or Wind farms, we'd get more wind if we all scoffed a ton of beans. Well we could burn the methane from our farts to generate energy....LOL
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I'm banned from the bedroom if I've had beans .... LOL |
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Post by Fairsociety on Sept 24, 2023 18:33:38 GMT
MOH is like fuckin Sherlock Holmes FFS, if I let rip she can tell me exactly what I've had to eat that day.
BTW I never do it while she's in the same room, I find a nice quiet spot but somehow she has a nose detector.
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Post by zanygame on Sept 24, 2023 18:49:52 GMT
MOH is like fuckin Sherlock Holmes FFS, if I let rip she can tell me exactly what I've had to eat that day.
BTW I never do it while she's in the same room, I find a nice quiet spot but somehow she has a nose detector.
I assure my Mrs my farts smell faintly of winter flowering Jasmin. Strongly of shit, but faintly of winter flowering Jasmin. |
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Post by Red Rackham on Sept 24, 2023 21:32:19 GMT
A budget of £55.7 billion for the whole of HS2 was set in 2015, but some reports suggest costs have now surpassed £100 billion, having been driven up by recent inflation rises - link |
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Post by Pacifico on Sept 25, 2023 6:39:38 GMT
A budget of £55.7 billion for the whole of HS2 was set in 2015, but some reports suggest costs have now surpassed £100 billion, having been driven up by recent inflation rises - linkAnd if built as currently planned it will make the journey from Birmingham to Central London slower... ..now that is an investment.. |
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Post by Red Rackham on Sept 25, 2023 9:52:28 GMT
A budget of £55.7 billion for the whole of HS2 was set in 2015, but some reports suggest costs have now surpassed £100 billion, having been driven up by recent inflation rises - linkAnd if built as currently planned it will make the journey from Birmingham to Central London slower... ..now that is an investment.. I know, it's mad. Has there ever been a bigger waste of money? |
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Post by Handyman on Sept 25, 2023 10:33:11 GMT
Sunak should grow a pair and scrap the damn lot of it - it is the definition of a Government white elephant project. If he did that he would lose all the Red Wall voters in the north on the run up to the GE, |
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Post by dodgydave on Sept 25, 2023 21:48:17 GMT
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Post by Pacifico on Sept 26, 2023 6:40:24 GMT
This is where Starmer comes across as a complete fool. He was on the button at the beginning and if we had followed his advice we could have saved Billions - however instead of publicising that and showing how switched on he is he does a 180 and starts defending throwing another £80 Billion at a project that everyone now sees was flawed from the start.
The best argument against HS2 I ever heard came from Dennis Skinner - if you want to get into London half an hour earlier, get out of bed half an hour earlier.
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Post by dappy on Sept 26, 2023 6:46:55 GMT
On the subject of HS2 , once you strip away all the politics and noise, a logical business would be looking at a simple question.
What are the economic benefits of completing the project to Manchester and into Central London rather than stopping at Birmingham and a London suburb
What are the additional costs over cancellation costs from now of doing so
Money already spent is now irrelevant .
Not sure any of us know what those figures are.
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Post by thomas on Sept 26, 2023 6:53:40 GMT
Whether the general population of the UK are opposed or in favour of HS2, I really dont know, but what I do know is that whatever Mr U Turn decides, it wont have any bearing on voters in Kent, Wales, Scotland or Teesside. well it will sid.
The voting taxpayers of scotland are paying a 9 % share of the cost of this high speed tory train farce , for something that now wont even go to a city 220 miles south af glasgow never mind reach the border.
Same with the voting taxpayers in wales , and of course the other english areas .
You now have an extortionate costing toy train set that is simply to ferry in a load of brummies to work in london at a slightly higher speed. What a farce.
Your lot arent any better though sid when we are throwing stones at tories. With your farcical record on infrastructure , in terms of failure and highly crippling costs with pfi , i wouldnt be too keen to crow at the tories or anyone else.
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Post by Dogburger on Sept 26, 2023 16:54:14 GMT
I've never been the biggest fan of HS2, it's devastated parts of Warwickshire, which will not benefit them, or here in Coventry as it skirts the edge of the city. But if they just stop at Birmingham, so that the net result is people get to London 10 minutes quicker, for all that money and devastation of the countryside, that makes me angry. The entire project was an EU inspired waste of money. The moment we voted to leave the EU in 2016 HS2 should have been scrapped. It was a vanity project designed to benefit the EU not the UK. It was EU inspired and is part of the core network of connecting Europe . It even drew grants of around £70 M from the EU at the design stage . As far as the EU were concerned it was about high speed rail links Birmingham to Paris ,it was never about gaining 10 minuites Birmingham to London . As you say it should have been scrapped , not that we dont want faster travel but the reasons for having it have diminished for rail passengers |
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