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By a walloping Commons majority last night, 415 votes to 119, the ongoing procrastination over the expansion of Heathrow has been resolved and at last the indecision over the airport’s future is over.
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My suspicion is that you spent a couple of semesters at the university, living solely in PJM with a load of other English interlopers, did your shopping at the Co-op on the Waun, and went into town about once a month. That doesn't give you the capacity to judge what feelings will be like in the town.
I lived there for seven years, four of them in a flat in Morfa Mawr and two in Gray's Inn Road, was choirmaster and organist of one of the local churches, sat on the board of a local charity and worked in several different bars as well as spending three years as a lecturer at the university.
Yes, there is a 'them and us' mentality. Often, people in Aber get bent out by Cardiff. But they will have wanted this. Aber is famously the greenest town in the UK, for many years it was the only town to have elected a Green MP, and there has always been a push to enhance energy efficiency and cleanliness.
Moreover, if they look at Cardiff with suspicion they look at London with hatred. When London clashes with Cardiff they will only want one winner.
Feel free to disagree based on your minimal knowledge of the town. Just be aware that you're completely wrong.
Not that Aberystwyth is in a good way either after 14 years of chronic mismanagement.
I have a feeling this is one of those projects that will never be cancelled but will never actually happen.
Desperate to sell more tat (Heathrow Airport's primary business) they instead open duty free shops across Britain's decimated high streets offering purfume and cartons of fags to the residents of Freeport England
The economic damage caused by this would be very severe, as would the image around the word of the UK as being a backward country that can't organise a piss-up in a brewery.
The protesters really need to grow up and think of the good of the country rather than their own narrow interests.
The report into that shows exactly why he be nowhere near taxpayers' money; note his refusal to cooperate:
https://www.london.gov.uk/sites/default/files/md2108_appendix_garden_bridge_review.pdf
And on another matter,
"Bridge schemes should be supported by infrastructure experts rather than “attention-seeking” foreign secretary Boris Johnson, a leading bridge engineer has said. "
https://www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/boris-johnson-told-to-leave-bridges-to-the-experts/10032133.article
LOL.
https://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/snp-abstain-on-heathrow-expansion-vote-despite-scottish-government-backing-1-4759680
We should start the planning for expanding Gatwick the day the first sod is cut at Heathrow. I have never understood why they were thought to be alternatives.
PS good to see from your earlier post that the conflight between town and gown in Aber hasn’t changed much since I was there two decades ago
As I understand it there’s still no full Bill before the Commons for the necessary powers, and I understand that won’t be the case until 2020.
I wonder if we'll end up with a Where's Boris? book to rival Wally.
The Welsh tidal lagoon decision seems peculiar. As the ITV segment suggested, there's a risk this, again, looks like being money for the south-east/London (Heathrow) and none for the Rest of the Country.
Seems the Society of Motor Manufacturers is trying to bring just such a situation to our attention.
Brexit: Car investment slumps as 'uncertainty bites' http://bbc.co.uk/news/business-44609003
Edit: can't seem to get the link to work on a phone. The headline says it all, that said.
Insisting all taxis and buses were hybrid would also have beneficial effects in other parts of London too as well as giving a significant boost to the development of the technology. If this was announced now there is time for a whole generation of vehicles to come into being before the new, expanded terminals are open. I have little doubt that in 20 years people are going to look back at the idea of diesels being used in built up areas with simple astonishment. What on earth were we thinking?
Our local car manufacturing experts will be along shortly to put them straight...
Also, a lot of details now need to be worked through on the plans, compensation and various planning and legal issues to get the necessary powers.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-44609003
And I'm sure the rozzers will shortly be round to the SMMT's chairman to arrest him for treason for daring to suggest the UK should stay in the Customs Union.
There’s no feigning regret here, no pretence that he was going anyway, no masquerading that it is all anything other than a big old game he wants to win. It’s bad when they lie to you, but it’s so much worse when they don’t. Whether or not he ever lies down in the dirt, that’s where he’s dragging the rest of us. Sack him, for all of our sakes. This is mortifying.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/comment/for-runaway-boris-there-s-nowhere-to-hide-8xwk986x2
It’d be cheaper and easier to just develop new cleaner fuels, though heaven knows how you decarbonise aviation.
Not a single mention of decommissioning
I wondered if the car technology will develop batteries to the extent that having planes use them in their approach might become a possibility. Weight would be the issue now but that would solve a lot of problems.
https://twitter.com/politicshome/status/1011497050872143872
We still haven’t eliminated the deficit.
They want both the EU and the UK to hear that message for the European Council later this week.
Interestingly, a new British developmemnt migth reduce that:
https://www.newcivilengineer.com/tech-excellence/graphene-super-concrete-could-cut-carbon-emissions/10030402.article
Although it looks as though they'll probably use pozzolanic (Roman) concrete.
where were the scream as Blair destroyed manufacturing ?
the same people yelling today are the ones who dismissed everything as Brirish Leyland 10 years ago and said let it go.
the same was said when we wouldn't join the Euro, this is just the SMMT doing their special pleading act as they always do.
After May a candidate with charisma and a committed Brexiteer like Boris will always be in contention and he should not be counted out
And it's an interesting choice of words: 'convert'. Brexit really is a religion for some, which is why otherwise intelligent people on both sides seem to lose all sense when it comes to it.
This was a project solely for Swansea, North and Mid Wales would have been barely impacted at all and are largely indifferent to South Wales anyway
I think most people just want to leave the EU, respect the referendum result, and, if possible, do so in as amicable and smooth a way as possible.
The incompetence of the Government is not especially helpful in this regard.
https://twitter.com/PolhomeEditor/status/1011509113245917184
convert has nothing to do with Brexit it's got to do with country having a robust manufacturing base and not having a political class which destroys it through neglect.
However, there was another recent case (wish I could remember the project, near certain it was transport) where money was splashed in the South at the exact time that the rail woes in the North were making the news.
I'd add that the lagoon could be a model for similar projects in future, providing us with stable, secure energy (which is also green) and decreasing the requirements from the National Grid.
https://mobile.twitter.com/tnewtondunn/status/1011494903900143617
In the end we will sign up for Customs Union. There is no real alternative, and Trumps trade war just shows how unlikely any worthwhile FTAs will be.
Last year the SNP shouted out that renewables were powering Scotland's homes for all of a couple of weeks in the year. Sounds fine until you realise that the power to homes is only 40% of all the power required, the other 60% is required for business and industry, including for electric trains.
Hinckley C, the Swansea Lagoons and other renewable technologies will only be able to provide a very small percentage of the power required to power all those new travel technologies, plus the homes, buildings and industries that will need to come into being to support them.
Do we really want windmills all over our green and pleasant land, fields of solar panels rather than filled with cows, sheep or crops.
Please do not mention Fusion or some other mythical technologies, unless there is some kind of unexpected amazing wonder breakthrough of the kind we have been promised for the past 50 years we will be stuffed..
Ps: In mentioning the SNP, I would say that any government would be only too happy to spin the news given half a chance. Just the SNP seems to be able to do spin better than all those e***n windmills.
If you are that worried about UK manufacturing jobs in the automotive sector then why arent you discussing the imminent butchering of GKN by Melrose which that tit Greg Hands is nodding through ?
at last he has found his level
Edited extra bit: decided a mild insult against Grayling was unseemly, so removed it.
In first place I'd pace banking and investors, who want short-term results and fail to invest in the long term. This has been a real killer.
In second place I'd put owners and management, who can be far too conservative when it comes to new ideas and investment, often because of the first factor.
In third place I'd put employees and the unions, who can sometimes act directly against their medium- and long-term interests.
Politics and politicians would come far down the list. But it's an easy to use them as a hate figure and miss the real issues.