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Ha, a bridge from nowhere much to nowhere much. Look, a squirrel!
Quite. Boris and his ilk base their politics on the "look, over there...isn't that awful/great* (*delete as applicable)" approach to keep your attention off what is really going on and whose wallets they are stuffing with money. Same approach as Trump (lock her/him up.....drain the swamp (while I fill it with my own mates,crims and general slimeballs)....it's the politics of self-interest.
 
Perhaps @Sheik djibouti has it right then...


Its moved onto a tunnel connecting Northern Ireland, Scotland and England which includes a roundabout under the Isle of Man.

 
Its moved onto a tunnel connecting Northern Ireland, Scotland and England which includes a roundabout under the Isle of Man.

Wow. Loved this quote though...

Another said the proposal ‘cannot die’ because of Johnson’s fervent belief in it, adding: ‘Just as Hitler moved around imaginary armies in the dying days of the Third Reich, so the No. 10 policy unit is condemned to keep looking at this idea, which exists primarily in the mind of the prime minister.’
😂
 
Looking at this article from the Boris Boosting Corporation I wouldn't fancy driving gently in the Bentley around the Irish Sea (sea below). BTW, the 'roundabout' is supposed to avoid Beaufort's Dyke, in which case it seems rather hopeful to put it where the architects journal has it.........

One of the main concerns is Beaufort's Dyke, a deep submarine trench in the Irish Sea between Scotland and Northern Ireland, used as a munitions dump since early last century.

The Ministry of Defence says more than one million tonnes of weapons were jettisoned there, though some are known to have been dumped short of the Dyke in shallow coastal waters.


Beaufort's Dyke
Mr Fellows, who has worked for 40 years in bomb and mine clearance and was decorated for his work during the Falklands War, now heads his own munitions clearance company, Fellows International.


He told the programme: "Most of the weapons dumped in the Beaufort's Dyke... weren't designed to go under water.

"There are sporadic explosions two or three times a month, I should think, in the Irish Sea, popping off all the time."

Asked whether the oldest munitions in the Dyke were losing their ability to withstand corrosion, Mr Fellows said: "Yes. They are getting old and they're liable to go bang."

Beach hazard

A local councillor in Northern Ireland, Oliver McMullan, told Costing The Earth the Dyke contained sarin and tabun (both nerve gases), phosgene, mustard gas and explosives.

Incendiary bombs containing phosphate used to drift onto the shore each winter, said Mr McMullan.

"We had hundreds upon hundreds of these things getting washed up in a matter of days," he added.

"Out of the water, body heat will ignite them, or the heat of the sun, and then they just explode into flame.

"There was a couple of young boys here locally who got burns off them, and another in Scotland was burnt."

He fears the problem will worsen, telling the programme: "There's too much stuff down there that's only breaking up now."
 
Good to see standards of government transparency haven't declined, though, @Sheik djibouti

The revelations about the dumping of nuclear waste material in the Irish Sea have brought calls from environmental organisations for a comprehensive inquiry to determine how the British government could have misled the public for so long.

FOR 13 years British government ministers have repeatedly insisted that no radioactive waste was ever deposited in Beaufort Dyke. Such was their confidence in this assumption that officials denounced environmentalists as "scaremongers" for having the temerity to even suggest that departments may have authorised the dumping.

But later this week, a British government minister will finally publicly admit that the environmentalists were right all along. Secret official papers between the Scottish Office and the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF), dating back to the 1950s, have suddenly been "rediscovered". These state that up to two tonnes of radioactive waste was dumped in Beaufort Dyke.

Continues...

Environmentalists also fear that more secret British government papers, which may only be publicly released after 30, 50 or even 1OO years, will reveal the full extent of the cocktail of chemicals and radium dumped by the Ministry of Defence.

Dr Dixon believes that chemical and nerve gases such as anthrax and sarine, which was used in recent attacks on the Tokyo underground, may well have been dumped after the second World War. Even though the gases may have been sealed in metal drums encased in concrete, this casing will slowly degrade, enabling the poisons to leak into the sea.

*Article's from '97.
 
Good to see standards of government transparency haven't declined, though, @Sheik djibouti

The revelations about the dumping of nuclear waste material in the Irish Sea have brought calls from environmental organisations for a comprehensive inquiry to determine how the British government could have misled the public for so long.

FOR 13 years British government ministers have repeatedly insisted that no radioactive waste was ever deposited in Beaufort Dyke. Such was their confidence in this assumption that officials denounced environmentalists as "scaremongers" for having the temerity to even suggest that departments may have authorised the dumping.

But later this week, a British government minister will finally publicly admit that the environmentalists were right all along. Secret official papers between the Scottish Office and the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF), dating back to the 1950s, have suddenly been "rediscovered". These state that up to two tonnes of radioactive waste was dumped in Beaufort Dyke.

Continues...

Environmentalists also fear that more secret British government papers, which may only be publicly released after 30, 50 or even 1OO years, will reveal the full extent of the cocktail of chemicals and radium dumped by the Ministry of Defence.

Dr Dixon believes that chemical and nerve gases such as anthrax and sarine, which was used in recent attacks on the Tokyo underground, may well have been dumped after the second World War. Even though the gases may have been sealed in metal drums encased in concrete, this casing will slowly degrade, enabling the poisons to leak into the sea.


*Article's from '97.
Absolutely.

It is perfectly fine (nay expected) to deceive your electorate and treat them like idiots....but for gods sake, whatever you do, don't CALL them idiots in public for believing it!
 
A 'few' words from the Good Law Society

"3 days after the High Court ruled Government had acted unlawfully by failing to publish Covid contracts, Boris Johnson stood up in the House of Commons and reassured MPs and the public that all Covid-related contracts were “on the record”. However, the final Order handed down by the Judge today shows that what the Prime Minister told the House was not true.
The Judge confirmed:
“The Defendant has published 608 out of 708 relevant contracts for supplies and services relating to COVID-19 awarded on or before 7 October 2020. In some or all of these cases, the Defendant acted unlawfully by failing to publish the contracts within the period set out in the Crown Commercial Service’s Publication of Central Government Tenders and Contracts: Central Government Transparency Guidance Note (November 2017).”
Remarkably, the Judge’s Order is based on Government’s own figures – so at the same time as Johnson was falsely reassuring MPs, Government lawyers were preparing a statement contradicting him – revealing 100 contracts and dozens of Contract Award Notices were missing from the public record. You can read the final Court Order here and consequential judgment in full here.
Over the course of our judicial review, Government made no less than four attempts to provide an accurate witness statement setting out the number of contracts and Contract Award Notices that had been published late – and they kept getting it wrong. As late as the hearing itself, they said they had published 28% of Contract Award Notices within the 30 day legal limit.
But when asked by the Judge to follow up with evidence of the figures so he could make his final Order, it transpired that Government had actually only published 3% of CANs in the legal timeframe.
Government has not only misled Parliament and placed inaccurate information before the Court, it has misled the country.
Unless contract details are published they cannot be properly scrutinised – there’s no way of knowing where taxpayers’ money is going and why. Billions have been spent with those linked to the Conservative Party and vast sums wasted on PPE that isn’t fit for purpose.
We have a Government, and a Prime Minister, contemptuous of transparency and apparently allergic to accountability. The very least that the public deserves now is the truth. "
 
A 'few' words from the Good Law Society

"3 days after the High Court ruled Government had acted unlawfully by failing to publish Covid contracts, Boris Johnson stood up in the House of Commons and reassured MPs and the public that all Covid-related contracts were “on the record”. However, the final Order handed down by the Judge today shows that what the Prime Minister told the House was not true.
The Judge confirmed:
“The Defendant has published 608 out of 708 relevant contracts for supplies and services relating to COVID-19 awarded on or before 7 October 2020. In some or all of these cases, the Defendant acted unlawfully by failing to publish the contracts within the period set out in the Crown Commercial Service’s Publication of Central Government Tenders and Contracts: Central Government Transparency Guidance Note (November 2017).”
Remarkably, the Judge’s Order is based on Government’s own figures – so at the same time as Johnson was falsely reassuring MPs, Government lawyers were preparing a statement contradicting him – revealing 100 contracts and dozens of Contract Award Notices were missing from the public record. You can read the final Court Order here and consequential judgment in full here.
Over the course of our judicial review, Government made no less than four attempts to provide an accurate witness statement setting out the number of contracts and Contract Award Notices that had been published late – and they kept getting it wrong. As late as the hearing itself, they said they had published 28% of Contract Award Notices within the 30 day legal limit.
But when asked by the Judge to follow up with evidence of the figures so he could make his final Order, it transpired that Government had actually only published 3% of CANs in the legal timeframe.
Government has not only misled Parliament and placed inaccurate information before the Court, it has misled the country.
Unless contract details are published they cannot be properly scrutinised – there’s no way of knowing where taxpayers’ money is going and why. Billions have been spent with those linked to the Conservative Party and vast sums wasted on PPE that isn’t fit for purpose.
We have a Government, and a Prime Minister, contemptuous of transparency and apparently allergic to accountability. The very least that the public deserves now is the truth. "

And the Scottish Tories are demanding Nicola Sturgeon resign for lying to the Scottish Parliament, so what is good for the goose is good for the gander....
 
And the Scottish Tories are demanding Nicola Sturgeon resign for lying to the Scottish Parliament, so what is good for the goose is good for the gander....
It looks like that she is hiding something
When asked if she would resign if she had broken the ministerial code she didn't answer.
 
It's exactly a year since the first recorded Covid death on the UK. A year ago filling in a form when you fly wouldn't have been enough. Today it's a depressing joke.


BBC News - Covid-19: English travellers face fines and losing flights without new permit
 
Gavin Williamson's going to Beijing next week; what's the betting he rolls up his sleeve and offers his elbow to them?
 
Gavin Williamson's going to Beijing next week; what's the betting he rolls up his sleeve and offers his elbow to them?
Wtf is he going there for? Do they have a particular skill for screwing up education or is he going there to give them a few tips?
 
Friday figures.
76148 people in Leicestershire tested positive - up from 75988 (increase 160).
34292 (increase of 74) were within the Leicester City Council area.
41856 (increase of 86) cases were reported in the County.
UHL reported 2 death's.
The death's occurred on the following days, 13th April 2020 (1) and 2nd March (1).

Saturdays figures.
76293 people in Leicestershire have tested positive - up from 76148 (increase 145).
34358 (increase of 66) were within the Leicester City Council area.
41935 (increase of 79) cases were reported in the County.
UHL reported 0 death's.

Total number of UHL death's is 1380.

Vaccinations slowed slightly awaiting the next production "surge" just under 23 million shots delivered.
 
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