P38A It's a bit cold🤔

Mark Piercy said:

I built shields for both of them, 0 water ingress there lad
It's the dryest it's ever been in 24yrwell apart from a year last February
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Mark Piercy said:

What's hs2 @Grrrrrr ?

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Mark Piercy said:

What's hs2 @Grrrrrr ?

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Grrrrrr said:

It's what is causing almost all the UK debt. It is costing a fortune with people skimming money off like you wouldn't believe ... and that's before they took miles of greenbelt and rebranded it as brownbelt and will shortly build houses on for a mahoosive profit. The business case itself is utter bull****. They even had to shift the risk to 100% taxpayer during the pandemic when people weren't paying attention because no private firm would touch it once the true costs started to come out.

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Datatek said:

It's the UK's Micky Mouse high speed train line that is costing per kilometre over 10 times what it costs to do the same thing here in France. A few people have got very rich on the project.

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aj1954 said:

It's not needed in the UK, the distance between north and south is like the distance between two stations in countries
where they have high speed trains, complete waste of money, would be better spent improving lines between towns
in the north and other regions with poor links.

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Datatek said:

In addition, you need a mortgage for a train ticket in the UK.

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aj1954 said:

It's not needed in the UK, the distance between north and south is like the distance between two stations in countries
where they have high speed trains, complete waste of money, would be better spent improving lines between towns
in the north and other regions with poor links.

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Grrrrrr said:

Too true but this was never based on need.

The UK political classes have no interest in serving their country and nor do the Sir Humpries anymore. They're utterly detached from reality in Whitehall now. All the senior people care about is how much they can skim off the books while they're in power. There's a revolving door at the top between the big management consultancies (and other big firms) that is immoral and goes against just about every principal of public office but no-one enforces anything because they're guidelines, not laws. Elsewhere the principle is simple: setup an offshore company; buy lots of small British companies, preferably in a key area like care homes where the tax-payer will be forced to pick up if you fail, and make sure you're "too big to fail"; transfer ownership of capital assets to the offshore conpany and setup a load of cross-charges for rent and such like; declare losses each year in the UK whole claiming subsidies and paying minimum wage; pay yourself a massive dividend from your off-shore company. Then head round the circuit explaining how to be successful in business / government by preaching to all your old cronies. Most of them are unaware that normal people look at future chains of events and stop themselves doing anything immoral. They think they're being clever. It is amazing how some reasonably clever people can be so thick in some ways. It is like watching a toddler try his first lie. I cannot engage with the news of much these days: I am not in a position to change it and have to remind myself the scum always floats to the top (think piracy or slavery) and we all need to keep the shiw on the road in spite of the parasites at the top rather than because of them.

Same sort of **** going on in Europe. Corruption at the top (was their last PM jailed?) but because we're a bit removed we don't tend to hear about it. A dutch friend keeps sending scandals of what goes on in the Netherlands although more of the money reaches its targets than in the UK.

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