F*** off Sheffield, Liverpool, and Hull

[Guy Profumo]

Free money for Leeds and Manchester rail link.


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-49132477

[ad hoc]

Under Thatcher and Major Manchester and Leeds got much more investment than "socialist" Liverpool and Sheffield. maybe nothing has changed. Plus of course we know what Johnson thinks of Liverpool and its people.

[Duncan Gardner]

Coincidentally I've just received a circular from a Sheffield politician. Natalie Bennett, asking on fellow dear ex-leaderene Pottymouth Lucas's behalf for yet more cash to take the fight to Johnson. I demurred.

So, what about the engineering and costs for this new line? I thought it just isn't that easy, even now, to link across the High Pennines?

[Guy Profumo]

The priority for the transpennine link is for the South Yorks - Rossendale motorway, and the Sheffield - Stockport rail link

And that's before Sheffield's HS2 link is routed into Meadowhall on its way to Leeds rather than ending on a siding at Clay Cross.


Rossendale?

Longdendale, shurely? Ed.

[Walt Flanagans Dog]

This is just part of what is going to be an ongoing storm of piss and wind as he goes round the country promising things before he has to face the realities of setting taxes and a budget. None of it will ever happen. It will be something else tomorrow, like replacing school buses with jet packs or putting free wifi in lamp-posts.

[Snake Plissken]

Exactly. Not sure it will let the Tories pull their usual "There is no magic money tree" bullshit in an election though.

[Guy Profumo]

Oi.

Since when did we have a swear filter?

You'll be telling us next we can't refer to cock either in the sense of a weather-vane, or a song intended to rouse the sentiment of Tottingham Hotspur (sic) fans?

[ursus arctos]

We've had it for thread titles for quite a while

[Snake Plissken]

It's manual.

Thread titles are more visible and it is a little polite consideration for those browsing at work.

[Rogin the Armchair fan]

The new Secretary of State for Transport has already warned officials in his Department that if they send him anything longer than two pages he won't read it. That's reassuring for man taking decisions about how and where to spend billions of pounds of public money.

[Benjm]

Has he specified which of his aliases he'd like them to address it to?

One of the many frightening things about the new cabinet is just how many of them are likely to view themselves as arrogant and lazy visionary big picture decision makers, rather than drones who need to put a shift in if they're to have any hope of keeping the show on the road.

[Rogin the Armchair fan]

I know for a while we've had Prime Ministers appointing mates into the cabinet on the basis of "he comes to my dinner parties" rather than on any basis of actual merit or understanding of the subject they're suddenly in charge of, but this already feels like the most "Presidential" cabinet we've ever had. In fact more like a bloody royal court. I imagine it working a bit like the "diddly-diddly!" one off the Bud Light adverts.

[Sporting]

Cabinet appointments in general are rarely based on previous knowledge the appointee brings to the post. How many Ministers of, say, Transport have been experts in that field, I wonder (and no, showing an interest in vintage cars and moaning about Road Tax doesn't count). But they don't need to be experts, nobody is expecting this; they just need to be competent and ready to learn and listen to the advice of experts as to the best way to proceed. As well as taking our opinion into account as well, of course.

Most of the present cabinet neither have specialist knowledge, nor take much interest in much beyond retaining power and influence and money, nor are competent, or ready to learn or listen, and regard the advice of experts as left-wing propaganda. And as for our opinion we may as well go fuck ourselves.

[Guy Profumo]

I know for a while we've had Prime Ministers appointing mates into the cabinet on the basis of "he comes to my dinner parties" rather than on any basis of actual merit or understanding of the subject they're suddenly in charge of, but this already feels like the most "Presidential" cabinet we've ever had. In fact more like a bloody royal court. I imagine it working a bit like the "diddly-diddly!" one off the Bud Light adverts.

Better than "he was my fag at Eton" I suppose.

[Guy Profumo]

The new Secretary of State for Transport has already warned officials in his Department that if they send him anything longer than two pages he won't read it. That's reassuring for man taking decisions about how and where to spend billions of pounds of public money.

Ah.

But what if putting two spaces after full stops takes it three characters over that two page limit?


(Who is this idiot btw?)

[Guy Profumo]

Oh.

What a surprise.

[Guy Profumo]

Ray Johnson: "If they (Grant Shapps and Andrew Feldman) had behaved responsibly... my son would still be alive"

[Sporting]

Ah.

But what if putting two spaces after full stops takes it three characters over that two page limit?


(Who is this idiot btw?)

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