Lettuce Liz then Tetchy Rish! and the battle to replace him

[leedswolf]

 

[leedswolf]

"Embarrasing for the UK.
German judge blocks the extradition of a criminal to the UK, because of poor living conditions in British prisons.
Wauw! And the UK wants to step out of the ECHR? To join Russia & Belarus. How much worse can it get"?

 

[Kenny]

As this was originally the Truss Thread

Presuming this book contains 1 chapter and just the text "bin the dozy fook who fucked it up in less than 50 days*
*Most of these days were holidays or a period of mourning

https://twitter.com/x/status/1700807605151478046

 

[leedswolf]

What a delusional fool she is...

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Hopefully biteback, who aren’t exactly a publisher of renown shall we say, lose their shirts on that.

 

[Sniffer]

Stopping the boats will never work as off duty French police officers can go to bars and have a drink is the comical Daily Express front page expose tomorrow.

Daily Express Front Page 12th of September 2023 - Tomorrow's Papers Today!

Daily Express investigates how some French police, funded to manage the Channel migrant situation, appear to be partying instead, raising questions about the allocation of £480m.

www.tomorrowspapers.co.uk

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

The Express has totally veered into self parody now. Sadly some fools still lap it up.

 

[sycophantia]

The Express has totally veered into self parody now. Sadly some fools still lap it up.

Now? It's always been a worthless comic right from its early days. It like a right wing Daily Sport.

 

[Tony Towner]

To the surprise of nobody it looks like they are going to bin the 2nd stage of HS2. That's a lot of disruption, queuing and significantly elongating journeys on the A38 around Lichfield for a lot of people for zero positive benefit. Not to mention those affected by what would now be pointless cpos

 

[Wilf Wolf]

To the surprise of nobody it looks like they are going to bin the 2nd stage of HS2. That's a lot of disruption, queuing and significantly elongating journeys on the A38 around Lichfield for a lot of people for zero positive benefit. Not to mention those affected by what would now be pointless cpos

The best time to have stopped it would have been before a digger had broken ground. The sooner the better to stop more more being wasted.

 

[Sniffer]

It’s not a waste. Infrastructure is required for the country to grow. The rail network is desperate for additional capacity and hs2 is what will do that. It’ll be the biggest mistake in history to bin it off now.
It will also be on open goal for the Labour Party to take back the north of England as the Conservatives will be labelled as having abandoned it.

 

[lemonjelly]

This raac issue is starting to get wider, with hospitals being referred to the treasury in 2019 as being unsafe/requiring remedial work, & that work being declined by the treasury.
Dunno whether raac will go the same quiet way as cladding post grenfell though.
It's another example of poor decision making.

 

[Wilf Wolf]

It’s not a waste. Infrastructure is required for the country to grow. The rail network is desperate for additional capacity and hs2 is what will do that. It’ll be the biggest mistake in history to bin it off now.
It will also be on open goal for the Labour Party to take back the north of England as the Conservatives will be labelled as having abandoned it.

Funny how it only became about calamity when the speed argument was undermined by simply pointing out that if you were desperate to be in a London 15 minutes quicker catch an earlier train. Working from home has massively changed how people commute so the capacity prediction pre Covid is no longer valid.

 

[Sniffer]

Funny how it only became about calamity when the speed argument was undermined by simply pointing out that if you were desperate to be in a London 15 minutes quicker catch an earlier train. Working from home has massively changed how people commute so the capacity prediction pre Covid is no longer valid.

Taking faster trains off the current infrastructure allows for faster local services and getting more freight onto rail. In turn this will make rail travel more appealing and it will also be greener for the environment too.
If the country is to grow you have to invest in infrastructure and it’s decades of under investment outside of the south east which has left the country in the state it is today.

 

[PuntsWolf]

Wolverhampton - Birmingham is a known issue as there are only two tracks. So trains from Manchester/Liverpool/Scotland can’t go any faster than the local train/train in front. And then in rush hour that section of the line is chaos capacity wise. Diverting trains around that removes that chaos whilst also creating the added benefit of allowing people to get places faster.

 

[Wilf Wolf]

Wolverhampton - Birmingham is a known issue as there are only two tracks. So trains from Manchester/Liverpool/Scotland can’t go any faster than the local train/train in front. And then in rush hour that section of the line is chaos capacity wise. Diverting trains around that removes that chaos whilst also creating the added benefit of allowing people to get places faster.

HS2 won’t really help that. If you’re travelling from north of Stafford you avoid it by going on the Trent Valley route. Obviously more capacity helps but at what cost? They could use the existing network more effectively - a friend recently had to go down to London a day early as the earliest train wouldn’t get him there in time.

 

[PuntsWolf]

HS2 won’t really help that. If you’re travelling from north of Stafford you avoid it by going on the Trent Valley route. Obviously more capacity helps but at what cost? They could use the existing network more effectively - a friend recently had to go down to London a day early as the earliest train wouldn’t get him there in time.

A friend who works on the project was explaining it to me and it all made sense as I was just saying “haha billions of £s and a 20 year project just to get to London 15 minutes faster”.

And all you are considering there is people wanting to get from the North to London. What about people who want to go to the SW?

 

[Wilf Wolf]

A friend who works on the project was explaining it to me and it all made sense as I was just saying “haha billions of £s and a 20 year project just to get to London 15 minutes faster”.

And all you are considering there is people wanting to get from the North to London. What about people who want to go to the SW?

HS2 won’t really h lo getting to the SW. By time transfer from HS2 to existing network you’ll be slower than the journey from Wolverhampton to Brum.

 

[Sniffer]

I don’t think that you understand that people don’t necessarily want to go to London on the new line. The new line will quicken up local journey times on the existing network.

 

[Wilf Wolf]

I don’t think that you understand that people don’t necessarily want to go to London on the new line. The new line will quicken up local journey times on the existing network.

Will it? From Stafford I’ll be quicker on existing line than changing at Birmingham onto the HS2. Existing line also takes name much more centrally in London.