376 Responses to Start the Week 9 September 2019

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  1. Guest Who says:
    September 10, 2019 at 9:35 pm

    Hugh being impartial.

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    • Annunaki says:
      September 10, 2019 at 9:42 pm

      Oh yes and a torturous but lovely 139 mile drive from Campbeltown to Glasgow with no chance of widening or straightening the narrow winding road without some serious explosives : check out the Rest and be Thankful, (maybe the IRA could take on the contract?)

      The regular rock slides will block the road and involve a diversion of about 80 + miles along narower roads

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      • Annunaki says:
        September 10, 2019 at 9:48 pm

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        • Annunaki says:
          September 10, 2019 at 9:49 pm

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          • Annunaki says:
            September 10, 2019 at 10:09 pm

            Could always try the Galloway route of course. 20 miles vs 12 miles but probably cost more than HS2 with the need to upgrade roads to make either viable, needs to be wide enough to cater for drunk polish artic drivers travelling at 70 mph drinking peach schnapps whilst cooking breakfast on a primus stove and texting local prositiutes whilst watching porn DVDs and overtaking on the inside lane 6 inches behind any cars in the way

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      • Van Helsing says:
        September 10, 2019 at 10:08 pm

        Or you could just take the ferry from Campbeltown to Ardrossan. It’s a nice sail, albeit it’s far too infrequent.

        But the likelihood is that the Scottish end of any bridge to N.Ireland would be located at Portpatrick, not Campbeltown. Still far from ideal, of course, but apt to be much less onerous on drivers than the more northerly option.

        Not that it will happen anyway.

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    • Van Helsing says:
      September 10, 2019 at 10:01 pm

      Sykes is an idiot. The nearest motorway to Portpatrick (the M77) is around 75 miles (120 kilometres) away. And the nearest sustained stretch of dual carriageway is rather less than that. The point being not that the roads on the mainland side of the bridge are ideal but that, in true BBC style, Sykes can’t even get simple facts right.

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      • Annunaki says:
        September 10, 2019 at 10:15 pm

        Always the Twin Otter from Macrihanish airport and they used to land Galaxys at the USAF base there so no problem with moving cargo, one of the longest runways in Europe ….

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        • Annunaki says:
          September 10, 2019 at 10:27 pm

          used to give my Dad’s dobermann a nervous breakdown walking on the beach each time one landed,

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  2. Guest Who says:
    September 10, 2019 at 10:22 pm

    VD is making some kind of point.

    Is it meant to be only Beeboids who get to block folk?

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  3. Burgsey says:
    September 10, 2019 at 10:36 pm

    Still waiting on Cummings and Plan B. We need it! Or is there a bit of a long game being played?

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  4. Annunaki says:
    September 10, 2019 at 10:53 pm

    Since Royal Assent is required for any law, can we assume that the Queen approves of the behaviour or, dare she not intervene, or , as has been alluded to by her according to Burrell: The Queen warned former butler Paul Burrell of “powers at work in this country” shortly after the death Diana, Princess of Wales, her inquest was told.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1575513/Queen-warns-Paul-Burrell-of-powers-at-work-after-Dianas-death.html

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  5. Annunaki says:
    September 10, 2019 at 11:04 pm

    The Queen can indeed veto a law after it has passed the Houses of Parliament, but it would be ill-advised. … It illustrates the immense “soft power” of the Queen. She does not have to refuse assent. It is enough to indicate that she might do so and in almost all circumstances a government will yield.

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  6. taffman says:
    September 10, 2019 at 11:48 pm

    \\Channel migrants: Rise in crossings driven by Brexit ‘fake news’//
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-49648596
    Where is our Royal Navy ?

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    • BRISSLES says:
      September 11, 2019 at 12:09 am

      Exactly ! sod the bridge between Scotland and N Ireland, the way things are going they may just as well build a bloody bridge between Dover and Calais, and let everyone from the whole of Europe in, so no one has to suffer the indignity of rowing across the channel; as we are reliably informed from Maxi that despite France being a safe haven, if no-one wants to live there they can just decide to claim asylum wherever they want.

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      • Old Goat says:
        September 11, 2019 at 10:19 am

        I have to admit that for every migrant who doesn’t want to stay in France, and leaves (even northwards), I am most grateful…

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  7. taffman says:
    September 10, 2019 at 11:52 pm

    “Brexit: Labour deputy Tom Watson calls for referendum ahead of election”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-49657006
    Labour are anti-democracy. They are not listening to their grass roots voters .

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  8. taffman says:
    September 11, 2019 at 12:04 am

    More London Stabbings.
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-49657508
    Will Ms Dick be rewarded with an Honour?

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  9. vlad says:
    September 11, 2019 at 12:20 am

    The beeb at its creepiest in Extreme Russia. Reggie Yates trying hard to appear all concerned at the exploitation of young Russian women in their teens showing a lot of flesh to get jobs as models, while desperately trying not to oggle them. Of course the beeb is itself exploiting them by showing lots of female flesh; tut-tutting while titillating as they titivate themselves. Ok, enough tits – Ed.

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  10. vlad says:
    September 11, 2019 at 12:40 am

    Met chief Cressida Dick-less: “We will keep publishing pictures of the knives we’ve seized.”

    But not, presumably, of those they were seized from. Much too embarrassing and off-message. We wouldn’t want the public to know the truth, would we.

    https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/met-chief-cressida-dick-we-will-keep-publishing-pictures-of-the-knives-we-ve-seized-a4233161.html

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