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Owlswing

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Re: HS2 slippage
« Reply #25 on: January 28, 2021, 03:58:09 PM »
Quote from: Anchorman on January 28, 2021, 09:28:14 AM

 If the English government want this so much, let them pay for it. Taxpayers in the other three nations will not benefit from it but have to fork out for it.


So much for a "United" kingdom!
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Re: HS2 slippage
« Reply #26 on: January 28, 2021, 04:41:29 PM »
Quote from: Owlswing on January 28, 2021, 03:58:09 PM
So much for a "United" kingdom!
Anchorman is not its biggest fan.
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Re: HS2 slippage
« Reply #27 on: January 28, 2021, 05:20:40 PM »
Quote from: Nearly Sane on January 28, 2021, 04:41:29 PM

 Anchorman is not its biggest fan.


It is just a tiny-weeny-little bit obvious!

I suppose that now we must await the scream from Carlisle (or choose your own border town) "The Campbells" (or choose your own Highland militant separatist
 (clan) are coming!!

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Re: HS2 slippage
« Reply #28 on: January 28, 2021, 06:42:37 PM »
Quote from: Owlswing on January 28, 2021, 03:58:09 PM
So much for a "United" kingdom!
 



I'm supremely indifferent to the concept of a united kingdom.
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Re: HS2 slippage
« Reply #29 on: January 28, 2021, 06:44:45 PM »
Quote from: Owlswing on January 28, 2021, 05:20:40 PM
It is just a tiny-weeny-little bit obvious! I suppose that now we must await the scream from Carlisle (or choose your own border town) "The Campbells" (or choose your own Highland militant separatist (clan) are coming!! Owlswing )O(
Campell's soup's OK, I suppose. As for clans? I'm a Lowlander.
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Re: HS2 slippage
« Reply #30 on: January 30, 2021, 11:56:41 AM »
Slippage? Leaves on the line?
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Re: HS2 slippage
« Reply #31 on: January 30, 2021, 09:42:16 PM »
Quote from: Harrowby Hall on September 03, 2019, 09:43:50 PM

And sitting alone in a tin box weighing a ton, permanently removing scarce, dwindling, hydrocarbon stocks from the planetary store whilst simultaneously inserting into the atmosphere gases which contribute to planetary warming is preferred? Properly managed, rail is an excellent transportation mode. Go to Japan to see how it can be used - or if that is too far then France will also be instructive.

And if you are against a third runway being built at Heathrow, you have a high-speed connection which goes quite close to four other runways - two at Manchester and one each at Birmingham and East Midlands.

... And as for the land that is being used to build this railway ... Heathrow takes up more space than the East Coast Main Line.



Except that Heathrow is in one big lump and is not spread over half the country!

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