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This doesn't look like the right strategy for the LAB leader. Corbyn hits out at media over 'stupid woman' row. https://t.co/CGqjw0avA2
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Does this story have legs? The Gatwick drone thing is far more interesting.0
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His comments will keep the fires burning within the hearts of his followers, who will see Grandpa being picked on by right-wing BBC.
The rest of the voters will running around trying to sort Xmas in time.0 -
This was four years ago. There should have had a contingency plan for the Gatwick situation.
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The cops are now finally trying to shoot these blasted drones down. Something close to a national embarrassment is playing out in front of the world's eyes. Britain crippled by a couple of toy aircraft.0
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Even more stupid if we allowed flights and one crashed .must you find every eventuality to criticise us?Anazina said:The cops are now finally trying to shoot these blasted drones down. Something close to a national embarrassment is playing out in front of the world's eyes. Britain crippled by a couple of toy aircraft.
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Could it be Corbyn flying the drones?
He's a bit Greeny and he might want to take the attention off himself (Fess up and put it behind you).
Someone on the previous thread suggested it might be a Grandad, but this looks more deliberate.
Any odds on Caroline Lucas?
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Just out of interest, which did people find more repellent - whatever Corbyn said, or May's pantomime turn at the despatch box?0
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My money is on Stewart Jackson.CD13 said:Could it be Corbyn flying the drones?
He's a bit Greeny and he might want to take the attention off himself (Fess up and put it behind you).
Someone on the previous thread suggested it might be a Grandad, but this looks more deliberate.
Any odds on Caroline Lucas?0 -
A trident strike, as Jonathan alluded to on the previous thread?Scott_P said:
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Guardian pol blog:
"I’ll be wrapping up the blog in about an hour so so. And then I’m not expecting to be blogging again until Monday 7 January, when the Commons returns after the Christmas recess."
Let's hope everyone has calmed down a bit by then and we can sort this mess out sensibly.0 -
There's a near miss every month or so.AndyJS said:This was four years ago. There should have had a contingency plan for the Gatwick situation.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-30369701
I imagine Gatwick did indeed have both preventative and contingency plans.0 -
Not sure what contingency plans you can have. Planes and drones simply don't mix and there is a big enough exclusion zone around airports than no one can do it 'by accident'.AndyJS said:This was four years ago. There should have had a contingency plan for the Gatwick situation.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-30369701
The Government is introducing tougher rules for drones and anyone who wants to fly one for commercial reasons already needs a CAA licence. But if someone actually wants to cause disruption or worse an accident there is not that much more the airport can do proactively to prevent it. All their actions are likely to be reactive.0 -
"industrial specification".notme2 said:
which is very specific language.
Also, there have been two periods when they've definitely been deployed.
“They were over the perimeter fence and into where the runway operates from. They disappeared and reappeared over the night period from 9pm until 3am at which point we reopened the runway. That lasted for 45 minutes before the drones reappeared again."0 -
Glad I flew out of Southend this morning.0
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The contingency plans will be around how to manage disruption.Richard_Tyndall said:
Not sure what contingency plans you can have. Planes and drones simply don't mix and there is a big enough exclusion zone around airports than no one can do it 'by accident'.AndyJS said:This was four years ago. There should have had a contingency plan for the Gatwick situation.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-30369701
The Government is introducing tougher rules for drones and anyone who wants to fly one for commercial reasons already needs a CAA licence. But if someone actually wants to cause disruption or worse an accident there is not that much more the airport can do proactively to prevent it. All their actions are likely to be reactive.0 -
Is John McTiernan Jr behind the drones, testing the viability of a new Die Hard plot?0
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I most like the vaguest of attempts to argue he didn't say nothing but without really putting yourself on the line. It's good.Chris said:Just out of interest, which did people find more repellent - whatever Corbyn said, or May's pantomime turn at the despatch box?
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On topic, everyone has already formed their view of Jeremy Corbyn. If he can survive laying a wreath for dead terrorists, he can survive calling the Prime Minister a stupid woman.0
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The idea of the armed forces being called in to Gatwick conjures up a picture of chaps with handlebar moustaches leaning out of Sopwiths with butterfly nets, trying to catch the little blighters.0
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He's quoted Karl Marx verbatim todayAlastairMeeks said:On topic, everyone has already formed their view of Jeremy Corbyn. If he can survive laying a wreath for dead terrorists, he can survive calling the Prime Minister a stupid woman.
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Oh, and the beauty of using Trident is the electromagnetic pulse is sure to disable any drone in the vicinity of the airport. There may be some other, minor effects, but those are hardly worth mentioning.0
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http://24.media.tumblr.com/ddc8907de85e193f3a285115af151643/tumblr_mh6sgpz1E51s32n64o1_500.pngRichard_Nabavi said:The idea of the armed forces being called in to Gatwick conjures up a picture of chaps with handlebar moustaches leaning out of Sopwiths with butterfly nets, trying to catch the little blighters.
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A phrase apt for any day of one's life.AlastairMeeks said:Glad I flew out of Southend this morning.
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Will be fishing nets to throw over the drone.Scott_P said:0 -
The Mail is excitedly anti-JC (again). The other coverage is mostly on the lines of "politicians playing games while Rome burns". I can see a real media narrative building up not that Brexit has been betrayed but that the political class has failed us all.Jonathan said:Does this story have legs? The Gatwick drone thing is far more interesting.
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Looks like the Sky Data Poll nails your man 60% he did call TM stupid woman - 12% he did notChris said:Just out of interest, which did people find more repellent - whatever Corbyn said, or May's pantomime turn at the despatch box?
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100% agreerottenborough said:Guardian pol blog:
"I’ll be wrapping up the blog in about an hour so so. And then I’m not expecting to be blogging again until Monday 7 January, when the Commons returns after the Christmas recess."
Let's hope everyone has calmed down a bit by then and we can sort this mess out sensibly.0 -
I'm amazed that Labour seems to treat with such little urgency finding a credible path for Corbyn to retire gracefully and be replaced with a more competent leader.
Practically. the jig will be up only when McDonnell says it's up, and for now, he seems to be happy to let his lifelong friend carry on his little games.0 -
If I was anywhere near Gatwick, I’d stay indoors and switch off anything electronic. If the military are getting their toys out there could well be some unintended disruption.Scott_P said:0 -
Corbyn could have apologised if he had chosen to at the time, the story would have died down, but instead Abbott, Pidcock denied hearing anything and helped keep the story going since yesterday afternoon.
He might even recall a fuss almost 30 years ago when a honourable Member was called a stupid woman, as he was in the chamber at the time.
https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm198889/cmhansrd/1989-01-20/Debate-5.html
Mr. Holt : I could not possibly call the hon. Member for Glasgow, Maryhill (Mrs. Fyfe) an intelligent woman.0 -
Remote-controlled model helicopters have been around for decades, and I don't recall any airports being shut down because of them. I sense the government's dark hand in this. They're giving us a taste of the civil disruption that a hard Brexit will bring, to soften us up in favour of Theresa's deal.0
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G , a blind man could see he was saying that, fact is he was right and should have been shouting it out.Big_G_NorthWales said:
Looks like the Sky Data Poll nails your man 60% he did call TM stupid woman - 12% he did notChris said:Just out of interest, which did people find more repellent - whatever Corbyn said, or May's pantomime turn at the despatch box?
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I find it quite endearing to have a front line politician who is such an inept liar when under pressure.Jonathan said:Does this story have legs? The Gatwick drone thing is far more interesting.
The takeaway for Team Corbyn is that if you are going to make up fairy stories about what he said, then don't choose an alternative word with exactly the opposite mouth movements. It ain't very credible.
Agree with Alistair, that this will confirm opinions whether for skeptics or groupies. This has shades of his memorial to the terrorists where iirc one version of his many dissemblings (was it 4 or 5 lots of fairytales on that occasion?) was was to claim to have been at a memorial that isn't even in the graveyard.
Presumably the allotment is being turned over exclusively to faceplants.
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Indeed...malcolmg said:
Will be fishing nets to throw over the drone.Scott_P said:
https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/this-shoulder-mounted-net-firing-bazooka-can-down-a-rogue-drone-at-100-meters/0 -
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He's not _my_ man. And perhaps you'd be wise to avoid using such sexist language in the present climate. ;-)Big_G_NorthWales said:
Looks like the Sky Data Poll nails your man 60% he did call TM stupid woman - 12% he did notChris said:Just out of interest, which did people find more repellent - whatever Corbyn said, or May's pantomime turn at the despatch box?
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Last time I checked, Corbyn was a manChris said:
He's not _my_ man. And perhaps you'd be wise to avoid using such sexist language in the present climate. ;-)Big_G_NorthWales said:
Looks like the Sky Data Poll nails your man 60% he did call TM stupid woman - 12% he did notChris said:Just out of interest, which did people find more repellent - whatever Corbyn said, or May's pantomime turn at the despatch box?
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Last time I looked Corbyn was a manChris said:
He's not _my_ man. And perhaps you'd be wise to avoid using such sexist language in the present climate. ;-)Big_G_NorthWales said:
Looks like the Sky Data Poll nails your man 60% he did call TM stupid woman - 12% he did notChris said:Just out of interest, which did people find more repellent - whatever Corbyn said, or May's pantomime turn at the despatch box?
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Lovely Guardian report on Putin's statement opposing a second referendum:
"Showing a concern for the sanctity of democracy which has not always been a hallmark of his career, Putin argued that the will of the people must be respected."
I'm not one of those "British is always best" types, but I do think we win on elegant irony.0 -
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The CAA requirements for a commercial drone operation are not dissimilar to those for manned aircraft operations, include ground school and a flying test for pilots and production of operating procedures by the company.Richard_Tyndall said:
Not sure what contingency plans you can have. Planes and drones simply don't mix and there is a big enough exclusion zone around airports than no one can do it 'by accident'.AndyJS said:This was four years ago. There should have had a contingency plan for the Gatwick situation.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-30369701
The Government is introducing tougher rules for drones and anyone who wants to fly one for commercial reasons already needs a CAA licence. But if someone actually wants to cause disruption or worse an accident there is not that much more the airport can do proactively to prevent it. All their actions are likely to be reactive.
What’s going on at Gatwick appears to be the quite deliberate misuse of the sort of drones used commercially, some organised group must be behind it and it’s surprising we haven’t heard from them yet. Many other groups are going to see what’s going on and see the amount of disruption that can be caused by only a few people.0 -
There are tons of 'accidental' incidents at Uk airportsRichard_Tyndall said:
Not sure what contingency plans you can have. Planes and drones simply don't mix and there is a big enough exclusion zone around airports than no one can do it 'by accident'.AndyJS said:This was four years ago. There should have had a contingency plan for the Gatwick situation.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-30369701
The Government is introducing tougher rules for drones and anyone who wants to fly one for commercial reasons already needs a CAA licence. But if someone actually wants to cause disruption or worse an accident there is not that much more the airport can do proactively to prevent it. All their actions are likely to be reactive.0 -
Did you forget you aren't allowed to assume gender?Big_G_NorthWales said:
Last time I looked Corbyn was a manChris said:
He's not _my_ man. And perhaps you'd be wise to avoid using such sexist language in the present climate. ;-)Big_G_NorthWales said:
Looks like the Sky Data Poll nails your man 60% he did call TM stupid woman - 12% he did notChris said:Just out of interest, which did people find more repellent - whatever Corbyn said, or May's pantomime turn at the despatch box?
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Alastair using Sharon & Tracey International Airport, who'd a thunk it? I do hope you weren't wearing that ribena suit.AlastairMeeks said:Glad I flew out of Southend this morning.
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Please. You're making it worse.Big_G_NorthWales said:
Last time I looked Corbyn was a manChris said:
He's not _my_ man. And perhaps you'd be wise to avoid using such sexist language in the present climate. ;-)Big_G_NorthWales said:
Looks like the Sky Data Poll nails your man 60% he did call TM stupid woman - 12% he did notChris said:Just out of interest, which did people find more repellent - whatever Corbyn said, or May's pantomime turn at the despatch box?
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You've checked?RobD said:
Last time I checked, Corbyn was a manChris said:
He's not _my_ man. And perhaps you'd be wise to avoid using such sexist language in the present climate. ;-)Big_G_NorthWales said:
Looks like the Sky Data Poll nails your man 60% he did call TM stupid woman - 12% he did notChris said:Just out of interest, which did people find more repellent - whatever Corbyn said, or May's pantomime turn at the despatch box?
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I am 75 and not au fait with these ideasDonny43 said:
Did you forget you aren't allowed to assume gender?Big_G_NorthWales said:
Last time I looked Corbyn was a manChris said:
He's not _my_ man. And perhaps you'd be wise to avoid using such sexist language in the present climate. ;-)Big_G_NorthWales said:
Looks like the Sky Data Poll nails your man 60% he did call TM stupid woman - 12% he did notChris said:Just out of interest, which did people find more repellent - whatever Corbyn said, or May's pantomime turn at the despatch box?
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I thought that had nothing to do with gender these days?Anazina said:
You've checked?RobD said:
Last time I checked, Corbyn was a manChris said:
He's not _my_ man. And perhaps you'd be wise to avoid using such sexist language in the present climate. ;-)Big_G_NorthWales said:
Looks like the Sky Data Poll nails your man 60% he did call TM stupid woman - 12% he did notChris said:Just out of interest, which did people find more repellent - whatever Corbyn said, or May's pantomime turn at the despatch box?
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LIKE!!!!!malcolmg said:
G , a blind man could see he was saying that, fact is he was right and should have been shouting it out.Big_G_NorthWales said:
Looks like the Sky Data Poll nails your man 60% he did call TM stupid woman - 12% he did notChris said:Just out of interest, which did people find more repellent - whatever Corbyn said, or May's pantomime turn at the despatch box?
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I think that since April it is up to 5 years for endangering an aircraft, which I hope would apply here. Is there a linked "conspiracy to" offense?Richard_Tyndall said:
Not sure what contingency plans you can have. Planes and drones simply don't mix and there is a big enough exclusion zone around airports than no one can do it 'by accident'.AndyJS said:This was four years ago. There should have had a contingency plan for the Gatwick situation.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-30369701
The Government is introducing tougher rules for drones and anyone who wants to fly one for commercial reasons already needs a CAA licence. But if someone actually wants to cause disruption or worse an accident there is not that much more the airport can do proactively to prevent it. All their actions are likely to be reactive.
As for whom, I can see the same type of people who try to close down power stations doing this stuff - conceivably militant evironmental types protesting against the rather creative runway use changes pending at Gatwick?
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I actually got an email at work today from someone whose signature includes the line My pronouns are she, her and hers.Big_G_NorthWales said:
I am 75 and not au fait with these ideasDonny43 said:
Did you forget you aren't allowed to assume gender?Big_G_NorthWales said:
Last time I looked Corbyn was a manChris said:
He's not _my_ man. And perhaps you'd be wise to avoid using such sexist language in the present climate. ;-)Big_G_NorthWales said:
Looks like the Sky Data Poll nails your man 60% he did call TM stupid woman - 12% he did notChris said:Just out of interest, which did people find more repellent - whatever Corbyn said, or May's pantomime turn at the despatch box?
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Next up, deliberately laying leaves on the railways.Stark_Dawning said:Remote-controlled model helicopters have been around for decades, and I don't recall any airports being shut down because of them. I sense the government's dark hand in this. They're giving us a taste of the civil disruption that a hard Brexit will bring, to soften us up in favour of Theresa's deal.
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There's photos going round Twitter of some French bloke sharing arial photos of Gatwick on Facebook.
EDIT: Looks to be a hoax. Ignore.0 -
I’d be glad to fly out of Southend too. Drive or walk as well.AlastairMeeks said:Glad I flew out of Southend this morning.
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He was only muttering what most people were thinking as she launched into that cruel and bullying pantomime routine. She was mocking him. Mocking him in front of his own MPs and inviting her own MPs to laugh along. Hardly surprising that Jeremy felt the need to retaliate. I bet what he really wanted to do was get up and slap her round the chops. Yet he did not do that. No violence whatsoever. Mark of the man.
Still, to be serious, has he not stood up and lied to the House of Commons? Yes, he undeniably has. Therefore could this not, trivial as it seems to many, lead to a scandal which grows and grows until the only way to end it is for him to stand down as Labour leader? Unlikely. Very unlikely indeed. But not impossible.
If so, what a time for that to happen, right slap bang in the middle of the biggest political crisis that this country has seen for many a year!0 -
It would be a logical conclusion to Brexit to decide that since both Tories and Labour are clearly incapable of taking control of anything, we're better off leaving the EU in charge of our regulations. They at least got their act together quickly and have been remarkably efficient in working from a common position and responding to issues quickly.NickPalmer said:
The Mail is excitedly anti-JC (again). The other coverage is mostly on the lines of "politicians playing games while Rome burns". I can see a real media narrative building up not that Brexit has been betrayed but that the political class has failed us all.Jonathan said:Does this story have legs? The Gatwick drone thing is far more interesting.
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Oh, btw, I was talking to an acquaintance recently, who is married to a Daily Mail journalist, about the Mail's dramatic and suddenly shift in editorial line.
I was reliably told, and this is not something I'd heard here, that the shift in editorial tone was largely necessitated by the Stop Funding Hate campaign.
Apparently SFH managed to convince so many advertisers to pull their contracts with the Mail that Rothermere was convinced that it was an existential threat to the paper unless they shifted to an editorial line that advertisers were comfortable with.0 -
I can blend into any environment. I've since changed out of the tracksuit and singlet.IanB2 said:
Alastair using Sharon & Tracey International Airport, who'd a thunk it? I do hope you weren't wearing that ribena suit.AlastairMeeks said:Glad I flew out of Southend this morning.
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I think it's a joke and the photos come from here.Gallowgate said:There's photos going round Twitter of some French bloke sharing arial photos of Gatwick on Facebook.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-3734916/The-hypnotic-view-Fascinating-aerial-photographs-London-s-Gatwick-Airport-ve-never-seen-before.html0 -
Malc and I have our moments but he is very special on this forum and I think his comment is funnyOldKingCole said:
LIKE!!!!!malcolmg said:
G , a blind man could see he was saying that, fact is he was right and should have been shouting it out.Big_G_NorthWales said:
Looks like the Sky Data Poll nails your man 60% he did call TM stupid woman - 12% he did notChris said:Just out of interest, which did people find more repellent - whatever Corbyn said, or May's pantomime turn at the despatch box?
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Fake news? In this day and age?williamglenn said:
I think it's a joke and the photos come from here.Gallowgate said:There's photos going round Twitter of some French bloke sharing arial photos of Gatwick on Facebook.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-3734916/The-hypnotic-view-Fascinating-aerial-photographs-London-s-Gatwick-Airport-ve-never-seen-before.html0 -
Yep I am aware of the requirements having done the school. I use a drone for photographing archaeological sites as part of my consultancy work.Sandpit said:
The CAA requirements for a commercial drone operation are not dissimilar to those for manned aircraft operations, include ground school and a flying test for pilots and production of operating procedures by the company.Richard_Tyndall said:
Not sure what contingency plans you can have. Planes and drones simply don't mix and there is a big enough exclusion zone around airports than no one can do it 'by accident'.AndyJS said:This was four years ago. There should have had a contingency plan for the Gatwick situation.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-30369701
The Government is introducing tougher rules for drones and anyone who wants to fly one for commercial reasons already needs a CAA licence. But if someone actually wants to cause disruption or worse an accident there is not that much more the airport can do proactively to prevent it. All their actions are likely to be reactive.
What’s going on at Gatwick appears to be the quite deliberate misuse of the sort of drones used commercially, some organised group must be behind it and it’s surprising we haven’t heard from them yet. Many other groups are going to see what’s going on and see the amount of disruption that can be caused by only a few people.0 -
That was my first solo landaway, sprung on me by my instructor one afternoon when I was in PPL training. He sent me off saying "if you see the sea underneath the plane, you've missed the airport and gone too far; turn round and come back".matt said:
I’d be glad to fly out of Southend too. Drive or walk as well.AlastairMeeks said:Glad I flew out of Southend this morning.
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Southend Airport is a very pleasant place, for an airport. Considerably, by a considerable stretch, better than Stansted.matt said:
I’d be glad to fly out of Southend too. Drive or walk as well.AlastairMeeks said:Glad I flew out of Southend this morning.
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I think you're right. Silly me.williamglenn said:
I think it's a joke and the photos come from here.Gallowgate said:There's photos going round Twitter of some French bloke sharing arial photos of Gatwick on Facebook.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-3734916/The-hypnotic-view-Fascinating-aerial-photographs-London-s-Gatwick-Airport-ve-never-seen-before.html0 -
A seriously good end-of-term piece by Kellner. Good to see somebody is working this week.Scott_P said:0 -
just remember, this kind of thing blows both ways...grabcocque said:Oh, btw, I was talking to an acquaintance recently, who is married to a Daily Mail journalist, about the Mail's dramatic and suddenly shift in editorial line.
I was reliably told, and this is not something I'd heard here, that the shift in editorial tone was largely necessitated by the Stop Funding Hate campaign.
Apparently SFH managed to convince so many advertisers to pull their contracts with the Mail that Rothermere was convinced that it was an existential threat to the paper unless they shifted to an editorial line that advertisers were comfortable with.0 -
Perhaps meant satirically but IMO a good point.IanB2 said:It would be a logical conclusion to Brexit to decide that since both Tories and Labour are clearly incapable of taking control of anything, we're better off leaving the EU in charge of our regulations. They at least got their act together quickly and have been remarkably efficient in working from a common position and responding to issues quickly.
Who do you want deciding on what shape your banana should be? An expert in that particular topic who works in Brussels or Owen Patterson?
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Hitting out at the media is precisely the right strategy for the British version of Trump (the more personally frugal, still more polite version).
But whether he said it or not it is another example where Corbyn gets petty and ranty when the media annoys him. E.g. his 'can we have a question on the nhs' moment.
Really he's fine as plenty of non fans are unclear if he did say what is alleged, so anger at the naughty media plays to his base.0 -
I think most people believe he said "stupid woman" because that's the way the narrative was framed - both by the initial outcry from the Tory benches, and then by the media. It isn't what he said though, and I don't think he'd make things better for himself (and the whole thing isn't important enough anyway) if he lied that that's what he said.0
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A new Labour leader, or even Tom Watson as interim leader would be a very interesting development.kinabalu said:He was only muttering what most people were thinking as she launched into that cruel and bullying pantomime routine. She was mocking him. Mocking him in front of his own MPs and inviting her own MPs to laugh along. Hardly surprising that Jeremy felt the need to retaliate. I bet what he really wanted to do was get up and slap her round the chops. Yet he did not do that. No violence whatsoever. Mark of the man.
Still, to be serious, has he not stood up and lied to the House of Commons? Yes, he undeniably has. Therefore could this not, trivial as it seems to many, lead to a scandal which grows and grows until the only way to end it is for him to stand down as Labour leader? Unlikely. Very unlikely indeed. But not impossible.
If so, what a time for that to happen, right slap bang in the middle of the biggest political crisis that this country has seen for many a year!
Though I think the real significance of the row is to make some sort of negotiated Labour support for the Deal even less likely. An olive branch would have been better from TM, but she is too partisan.0 -
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Five years for endangering an aircraft is correct. There’s plenty of other offences with higher penalties, such as those under the various terrorist legislation, should 5e CPS be inclined. The culprits had better not have any assets either, because the civil suits will be immense if the airlines sue them for the cost of diversions.MattW said:
I think that since April it is up to 5 years for endangering an aircraft, which I hope would apply here. Is there a linked "conspiracy to" offense?Richard_Tyndall said:
Not sure what contingency plans you can have. Planes and drones simply don't mix and there is a big enough exclusion zone around airports than no one can do it 'by accident'.AndyJS said:This was four years ago. There should have had a contingency plan for the Gatwick situation.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-30369701
The Government is introducing tougher rules for drones and anyone who wants to fly one for commercial reasons already needs a CAA licence. But if someone actually wants to cause disruption or worse an accident there is not that much more the airport can do proactively to prevent it. All their actions are likely to be reactive.
As for whom, I can see the same type of people who try to close down power stations doing this stuff - conceivably militant evironmental types protesting against the rather creative runway use changes pending at Gatwick?
The new runway use proposals at LGW are certainly creative, that’s for sure. It’s currently the world’s busiest single-runway airport.0 -
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Don't let them in on the secret.OldKingCole said:
Southend Airport is a very pleasant place, for an airport. Considerably, by a considerable stretch, better than Stansted.matt said:
I’d be glad to fly out of Southend too. Drive or walk as well.AlastairMeeks said:Glad I flew out of Southend this morning.
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As a mail plus subscriber it has only moved towards the sunday mail editorial. The daily mail was full on brexit and now the whole paper is more moderate and is generally in the centre groundgrabcocque said:Oh, btw, I was talking to an acquaintance recently, who is married to a Daily Mail journalist, about the Mail's dramatic and suddenly shift in editorial line.
I was reliably told, and this is not something I'd heard here, that the shift in editorial tone was largely necessitated by the Stop Funding Hate campaign.
Apparently SFH managed to convince so many advertisers to pull their contracts with the Mail that Rothermere was convinced that it was an existential threat to the paper unless they shifted to an editorial line that advertisers were comfortable with.0 -
Except the one that counted. Polls were clear people wanted Ed Miliband as PM.Scott_P said:0 -
https://twitter.com/skynewsbreak/status/1075756159531999232?s=21
Seems like a majority of people think he did say stupid woman but that it’s not actually sexist.
I think I would agree with that. The woman part of stupid woman is simply for lack of a different term. I could just as easily see May calling Corbyn a stupid man, but stupid person doesn’t really sound natural, I think most people would use woman/man in this context. He clearly shouldn’t have said it but I don’t see this story lasting much longer, it was just a nice distraction from Brexit.0 -
Interesting background – I can see that that might be true. Also, Geordie Grieg (the new editor) is a world away from the odious Paul Dacre's politics. Greig is a sort of europhile, metropolitan liberal Tory. It's a completely different newspaper these days.grabcocque said:Oh, btw, I was talking to an acquaintance recently, who is married to a Daily Mail journalist, about the Mail's dramatic and suddenly shift in editorial line.
I was reliably told, and this is not something I'd heard here, that the shift in editorial tone was largely necessitated by the Stop Funding Hate campaign.
Apparently SFH managed to convince so many advertisers to pull their contracts with the Mail that Rothermere was convinced that it was an existential threat to the paper unless they shifted to an editorial line that advertisers were comfortable with.0 -
When trans/intersex/genderqueer people give out their preferred pronouns as they do their name as a matter of course, it strips transphobes of plausible deniability when misgendering and deadnaming people maliciously. And for everyone else, it forestalls potential awkwardness and should be viewed as an act of politeness.Donny43 said:
I actually got an email at work today from someone whose signature includes the line My pronouns are she, her and hers.0 -
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And we should always make decisions based on sharp increases on polling for one side as that will never change as PM of a huge majority T May could tell us.Scott_P said:0 -
Ivan Lewis, Labour MP for Bury South, has resigned from the party citing its failure to address anti semitism.0
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to lose one MP in a week may be accounted a misfortune...Scott_P said:0 -
This was last week in MexicoTheWhiteRabbit said:
The contingency plans will be around how to manage disruption.Richard_Tyndall said:
Not sure what contingency plans you can have. Planes and drones simply don't mix and there is a big enough exclusion zone around airports than no one can do it 'by accident'.AndyJS said:This was four years ago. There should have had a contingency plan for the Gatwick situation.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-30369701
The Government is introducing tougher rules for drones and anyone who wants to fly one for commercial reasons already needs a CAA licence. But if someone actually wants to cause disruption or worse an accident there is not that much more the airport can do proactively to prevent it. All their actions are likely to be reactive.
https://metro.co.uk/2018/12/14/passenger-plane-left-gaping-hole-crashing-drone-8249661/
It resembles the damage caused by a large bird
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/4543186/bird-strike-boeing-737-sudan/
We don't close airports because of flocks of geese. Just carry on flying.0 -
But a drone could be used maliciously. I don't think we have developed the technology to pilot geese.rural_voter said:
This was last week in MexicoTheWhiteRabbit said:
The contingency plans will be around how to manage disruption.Richard_Tyndall said:
Not sure what contingency plans you can have. Planes and drones simply don't mix and there is a big enough exclusion zone around airports than no one can do it 'by accident'.AndyJS said:This was four years ago. There should have had a contingency plan for the Gatwick situation.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-30369701
The Government is introducing tougher rules for drones and anyone who wants to fly one for commercial reasons already needs a CAA licence. But if someone actually wants to cause disruption or worse an accident there is not that much more the airport can do proactively to prevent it. All their actions are likely to be reactive.
https://metro.co.uk/2018/12/14/passenger-plane-left-gaping-hole-crashing-drone-8249661/
It resembles the damage caused by a large bird
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/4543186/bird-strike-boeing-737-sudan/
We don't close airports because of flocks of geese. Just carry on flying.0
