Brexit, for once some facts.

[oldgroaner]

Even in the Telegraph
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Boris Johnson has got to raise his game for PMQs. This was a total shambles
During his first Commons clash with Sir Keir Starmer since July, the Prime Minister looked strangely out of sorts
MICHAEL DEACON
PARLIAMENTARY SKETCHWRITER

Oh Dear!

 

[oldgroaner]

Droll!

Love it!

 

[oyster]

Do you think that we in the UK are better prepared?

I'll admit that even having an NHS is probably a major advantage. And we don't have the same physical scale. But it is still a mighty challenge. And I can see issues like insufficient of the appropriate kit cropping up. Someone might have assumed one size of syringe, type of needle, but the vaccine is produced expecting different equipment. For example, the vaccine is in multi-dose bottles which are too deep for the needles that are available.

Lack of staff, funds and tools: health officials worry the US isn’t ready for Covid vaccines

Experts are frustrated after months of inconsistent information and concerned that a mass vaccination plan will stumble

 

[Barry Shittpeas]

The RNLI has a mission which is to save lives at sea, which it does even in times of war and those being saved are enemy military personnel.
Time you took a day off from being a pillock

Ok, I’ve had my day off. Catch up with you later.

 

[oldgroaner]

Ok, I’ve had my day off. Catch up with you later.

Glad to have you back

 

[RossG]

Ok, I’ve had my day off. Catch up with you later.

Where did you go Barry, I need to know on a need to know basis.

 

[Barry Shittpeas]

Where did you go Barry, I need to know on a need to know basis.

I’ve got some building work underway. Been keeping an eye on the workmen, don’t want them to have my trousers down.

 

[RossG]

Can't say I've ever met a shirt lifting builder, must exist I suppose. Very wise to keep an eye out though just in case.

 

[jonathan.agnew]

I’ve got some building work underway. Been keeping an eye on the workmen, don’t want them to have my trousers down.

Builders in england are always 60% over budget and time. More so now all the honest ones went back to Poland. Brings to mind advice about sailing the southern ocean (never do it any time of the year)

 

[oldgroaner]

Can't say I've ever met a shirt lifting builder, must exist I suppose. Very wise to keep an eye out though just in case.

Builders? the worse they were the more likely they would blazen signs
"An award winning development"
Every time I arrived at a new build site and saw that sign, a feeling of foreboding would come over me.
When my time comes and I pass through to my well deserved seat by the fire I expect to pass under that sign at the entrance!
And then to have to sit next to the b*****s forever.

Of course I could get very lucky as in the words of the old song

"I dreamt that I died and to heaven did go

and where do you come from they wanted to know,
I said "I come from Yorkshire!"

St Peter did stare
he said "step right inside , you're the first one from there!"

 

[RossG]

Builders? the worse they were the more likely they would blazen signs
"An award winning development"
Every time I arrived at a new build site and saw that sign, a feeling of foreboding would come over me.
When my time comes and I pass through to my well deserved seat by the fire I expect to pass under that sign at the entrance!
And then to have to sit next to the b*****s forever.

Of course I could get very lucky as in the words of the old song

"I dreamt that I died and to heaven did go

and where do you come from they wanted to know,
I said "I come from Yorkshire!"

St Peter did stare
he said "step right inside , you're the first one from there!"

The first and only one I should think og

 

[oyster]

I see HS2 building has "officially" started today.

Funny how there always seems to be money for projects to help the public have better lives which depend on massive contracts made with "our friends and supporters".

 

[flecc]

I see HS2 building has "officially" started today.

Funny how there always seems to be money for projects to help the public have better lives which depend on massive contracts made with "our friends and supporters".

At least they are only friends and supporters. You may remember the days when accountant Ernest Marples together with engineer Reginald Ridgway started the Marples Ridgway construction company. He then became a Tory MP and was appointed Minister of Transport.

In that role he was in charge of the Beeching railway closures while his company was building the M1 motorway and he even officially opened the first section of the M1.

The multiple conflicts of interest could hardly have been more blatant.

Anyway, don't worry, HS2 will be cancelled half built. From cycle lanes to the London Motorway boxes to TSR2 to Brexit, it's what we always do, never finishing anything.
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[Barry Shittpeas]

Builders in england are always 60% over budget and time. More so now all the honest ones went back to Poland. Brings to mind advice about sailing the southern ocean (never do it any time of the year)

I agree, uk builders are constantly trying to see what they can get away with and cutting corners. it’s essential to pay them as little as possible until the job is completed.

At the end of a project, I’ve lost count the number of times I’ve had to tell the original builder that I’ll get someone else in to finish the job properly, pay them out of the balance owed and send on the change. That usually revitalises interest.

 

[Barry Shittpeas]

Builders? the worse they were the more likely they would blazen signs
"An award winning development"
Every time I arrived at a new build site and saw that sign, a feeling of foreboding would come over me.
When my time comes and I pass through to my well deserved seat by the fire I expect to pass under that sign at the entrance!
And then to have to sit next to the b*****s forever.

Of course I could get very lucky as in the words of the old song

"I dreamt that I died and to heaven did go

and where do you come from they wanted to know,
I said "I come from Yorkshire!"

St Peter did stare
he said "step right inside , you're the first one from there!"

There is a housing development about 10 miles from me. They were pumping water out of the site 24 hours /day last October as they were building the houses. I went past the other day and noticed one of the streets is equipped with life ring buoyancy aids every 50 metres. What fuckwit passed that planning application and which bigger fuckwits bought the houses?

 

[RossG]

My father was a construction worker who worked on very large building projects. At one time he was helping to build a huge department store which had a basement well below sea level, all the time work was going on the place kept flooding and they had to keep pumping out water. Eventually when the job was completed they left the pumps in situ as they knew it was just a matter of time......
Seems things haven't changed much get it done whatever and to hell with the consequences, just like the building cladding fiasco. Would you believe there's still 350 blocks of flats & offices with dangerous cladding where nothing has been done yet.

 

[Wicky]

I see HS2 building has "officially" started today.

Funny how there always seems to be money for projects to help the public have better lives which depend on massive contracts made with "our friends and supporters".

Hopefully the trains when running will have superfast wi-fi for the commuters to zoom on...

 

[flecc]

There is a housing development about 10 miles from me. They were pumping water out of the site 24 hours /day last October as they were building the houses. I went past the other day and noticed one of the streets is equipped with life ring buoyancy aids every 50 metres. What fuckwit passed that planning application and which bigger fuckwits bought the houses?

The Thames Estuary has had many hundreds of new homes built along it, mainly on the low lying Essex coast, and a million homes altogether are being spoken of by 2050.

All of them are or are intended to be beyond the Thames Flood Barrier protection.

Here's the promoters, note the construction industry people among them:

Thames Estuary 2050 Growth Commission:

Sir John Armitt (Chair), Chairman, City & Guilds Group and National Express
Prof. Sadie Morgan (Deputy Chair), Director, dRMM Architects
Lord Norman Foster, Chairman and Founder, Foster + Partners
Prof. Alice Gast, President, Imperial College
Gregory Hodkinson, Chairman, Arup
Sir George Iacobescu, Chairman and Chief Executive, Canary Wharf Group
Sir Stuart Lipton, Partner, Lipton Rogers Developments LLP
Sir Edward Lister, Chairman, Homes England
Tony Pidgley, Group Chairman, Berkeley Group
Nick Roberts, President, Atkins
Geoffrey Spence, Infrastructure Finance Expert

One Lord, four Knights and Two Professors.
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[oyster]

The Thames Estuary has had many hundreds of new homes built along it, mainly on the low lying Essex coast, and a million homes altogether are being spoken of by 2050.

All of them are or are intended to be beyond the Thames Flood Barrier protection.

Here's the promoters, note the construction industry people among them:

Thames Estuary 2050 Growth Commission:

Sir John Armitt (Chair), Chairman, City & Guilds Group and National Express
Prof. Sadie Morgan (Deputy Chair), Director, dRMM Architects
Lord Norman Foster, Chairman and Founder, Foster + Partners
Prof. Alice Gast, President, Imperial College
Gregory Hodkinson, Chairman, Arup
Sir George Iacobescu, Chairman and Chief Executive, Canary Wharf Group
Sir Stuart Lipton, Partner, Lipton Rogers Developments LLP
Sir Edward Lister, Chairman, Homes England
Tony Pidgley, Group Chairman, Berkeley Group
Nick Roberts, President, Atkins
Geoffrey Spence, Infrastructure Finance Expert
.

Build the new homes. Then you are set up to need new Thames barrier which will be unbelievably expensive. With contracts going to self-same lot as built the houses within flood risk areas.

 

[oyster]

Hopefully the trains when running will have superfast wi-fi for the commuters to zoom on...

Of course it will. 5G all the way.

Until the Huawei kit it runs on is ripped out...