Brexit, for once some facts.

oldgroaner

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It’s ok. He’s just really, really angry at life. It’s better he takes it out on me than his partner or children.

I’m thinking acceptance has finally hit home and he has realised how insignificant and impotent he is.

Every nightmare he has envisaged has finally happened. Grief affects us all in different ways.

I forgive him. I know there is a good man inside him sometimes.
Talking about being impotent and grief stricken ,how's your man Boris doing today?
Do you really think he will bring a "New Golden age"
Or aren't you that daft?
What a mess your vote has made
 
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They use the heavy, concrete sleepers so even 50 degree heat wouldn’t affect it. It’s one of the reasons the Eurostar isn’t affected by heat.

Same as the bullet trains in Japan.
How much heavier than the concrete sleepers that have been in near-universal use on UK mainline tracks for many years?

Seems it was not just sleeper movement but sagging catenaries, failing A/C, and other issues which afflicted the UK rail network. And reducing speeds to make rail buckling less likely. Heavy sleepers alone are not the answer. You do say "one of the reasons" - all of them need to be addressed. Have they been in the current design?
 

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Seems it was not just sleeper movement but sagging catenaries, failing A/C, and other issues which afflicted the UK rail network. And reducing speeds to make rail buckling less likely. Heavy sleepers alone are not the answer.
Even of they were, there's still leaves on the line and the wrong sort of snow to follow.

Russia's Siberian Railway operates with impressive reliability in a temperature range from minus 50 to plus 30 degrees C and some of the world's heaviest snowfalls.

It's for reasons like this among others that I have such a gloomy view of Brexit. We seem to have an uncanny knack for getting quite simple things wrong.
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oldgroaner

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And you really believe this nonsense?
More fool you
Cadwallader is no stain on British Journalism , quite the reverse, the fact is that a squalid right wing Leave plot group escaped justice and has staged a coup resulting in a Mad government in power is a stain on the British Judicial process.

I really don't understand why you are so pleased that a known liar promises so much, and on his first day in power has reneged on a key Brexit claim
To control immigration
By the way, what has your response to do with the fact Boris lied in from of the house of commons? in what way does your post excuse his lies?
He really doesn't remember why he met Cambridge Analytica?
What a load of absolute BS
 

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He really doesn't remember why he met Cambridge Analytica?
quite possibly.
Can he remember his promises before he become PM?
he may lose his job before a single one of his promises gets done.
 
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In the Daily Mail
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So much for the election pact! Nigel Farage savages Boris Johnson's maverick new Brexit guru Dominic Cummings branding him 'hostile' and warning he has 'bizarre' ideas about a second referendum

Something he has suggested too in the past?
Differences were very apparent in the document-drama in the Leave campaigns. Shows as we know there are major divisions on the brexit side of things as shown with different faction Tory /ERG / UKIP / BXP etc. Also telling on Farage's LBC channel was BXP party supporters pure racist comments about Patel and Javid. Kind of thing I thought NF wanted to distance himself from when UKIP took on TR...
 

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Talking about being impotent and grief stricken ,how's your man Boris doing today?
Do you really think he will bring a "New Golden age"
Or aren't you that daft?
What a mess your vote has made
I’m fairness under the present climate, any vote will create a mess. It’s just a case of choosing your favourite mess.
 
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In the Daily Mail
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So much for the election pact! Nigel Farage savages Boris Johnson's maverick new Brexit guru Dominic Cummings branding him 'hostile' and warning he has 'bizarre' ideas about a second referendum

Something he has suggested too in the past?
the bit I noted was that Cummings is good at throwing insults:

"He described Mr Davis, then the Brexit secretary, as 'thick as mince, lazy as a toad and vain as Narcissus' in July 2017.
In March he likened some members of the ERG to a 'metastasising tumour' accusing them of 'scrambling' for top radio spots while 'spouting gibberish' since 2016 and needed to be 'excised'.
He also attacked them for their help - or lack of it - during the referendum campaign, saying 'so many of you guys were too busy shooting or skiing or chasing girls to do any actual work'."
 

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That convenient bit of moral relativism gets those who landed us in this mess of the hook. comparing the mess of a hard brexit to anything else is disproportionate.

You mean the lib dems are the target of your ire?

Harsh but fair.

I'm coming round to your point of view Tom.
 
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the bit I noted was that Cummings is good at throwing insults:

"He described Mr Davis, then the Brexit secretary, as 'thick as mince, lazy as a toad and vain as Narcissus' in July 2017.
In March he likened some members of the ERG to a 'metastasising tumour' accusing them of 'scrambling' for top radio spots while 'spouting gibberish' since 2016 and needed to be 'excised'.
He also attacked them for their help - or lack of it - during the referendum campaign, saying 'so many of you guys were too busy shooting or skiing or chasing girls to do any actual work'."
But wont it just beat Netflix to see the mess unravel after boris' honeymoon period ends in a few weeks?
 
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But wont it just beat Netflix to see the mess unravel after boris' honeymoon period ends in a few weeks?
if Bojo is in the honeymoon period, I haven't noticed it.
he is attacked even by some right wing press.
his only job is to prepare for a new GE.
 

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Russia's Siberian Railway operates with impressive reliability in a temperature range from minus 50 to plus 30 degrees C and some of the world's heaviest snowfalls.
but these are engineered to cope with those extreme conditions. The conditions in the UK over the last few days are rare, in much the same way as heavy snowfall.So I think those comparisons are not really valid
 

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