dunedin
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Fortunately post #59 clarified it for those of us working to out of date models (pre the Crony Party)
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Quandary
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Perhaps there is an election coming up somewhere close?
JumbleDuck
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Thistle
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What about a little joined-up thinking?
West Cumbria Mining want to dig a hole out under the Irish Sea: they refer to it as a "coal mine". Boris wants to dig a hole under the Irish Sea: he refers to it as a "tunnel".
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West Cumbria Mining want to dig a hole out under the Irish Sea: they refer to it as a "coal mine". Boris wants to dig a hole under the Irish Sea: he refers to it as a "tunnel".
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dgadee
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Good idea, They can dump the mine waste across the North Channel and create a polder in the Irish Sea. That would cut down on those nasty tides which sweep in. It would also protect us from tsunamis (see post #32). All we need is a couple of big locks to let 'vessels transit'. There's nearly bu@@er all shipping comes down the North Channel so making them wait a bit for the locks wouldn't be a problem.
This forum is a great demonstration of British innovation - MBGA! We now have the options of a bridge, tunnel, tube and causeway. I'll write to Johnson's engineering advisors immediately. I'll cc in Joanna.
dunedin
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I would be very happy for Boris to be sentenced to some hard labour digging a hole under the Irish Sea. Would seem very fair for the chaos he has caused to the Northern Irish
dgadee
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Johnson says it's not his fault. He blames Ursula von der Leyen and her cronies.
PS: What has she done for our bridge/tunnel/tube/causeway? Absolutely nothing.
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ProDave
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Nobody has discussed just where along the length of the tunnel would they put the customs border check point.
Minchsailor
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Think big, don't bother with the fiddly details. That's nothing compared to the depth of the water, scattered munitions and all the other things.............
awol
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To avoid the users getting the bends Hydrox could be used, ideally in a stoichiometric mix. What could go wrong?
dgadee
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Put it at the end of the M6. I suspect that's where it will be most relevant in a few years.
JumbleDuck
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By then? Gretna.
Blueboatman
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Put a smart motorway through the tunnel and we could set the variable speed limit to take ooh, 15 days between the 2 countries ! No need for declarations and checking in..
Now travellers can self isolate in the comfort and familiarity of their own car ( please bring sufficient food and loo roll for your journey ) ..
Who needs check points ?? All fresh foods ( and quite a lot of alcohol and ciggies possibly , will be consumed en route or in TunnelSpeak “under international waters ‘‘?
Now travellers can self isolate in the comfort and familiarity of their own car ( please bring sufficient food and loo roll for your journey ) ..
Who needs check points ?? All fresh foods ( and quite a lot of alcohol and ciggies possibly , will be consumed en route or in TunnelSpeak “under international waters ‘‘?
JumbleDuck
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15 days? Pah. It needs a time machine so travellers arrive at Larne in 1953.
dgadee
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Donaghadee is about 1973. Much more advanced. Though I have to say the last time I saw a black person in the town was several years ago. You would not move here if you were interested in a career in multiculturalism.
Quandary
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Immigration has never been a thing either in Larne or Ards, puzzled to understand why? Emigration is much more popular, even from Ballymena, as I can personally attest, though I do know of one farming family who moved to Devon, stayed three years and headed straight backto Norn. Irn.
dgadee
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The housing market is pretty buoyant in some areas at present and it seems a lot of English are moving over, also with NI people returning home. Not sure if its partly due to the 1973 environment. Life is certainly easier over here, I think, and there's a lot more space. Housing costs are less - I am about to move myself and will certainly not have the same size of property when I do emigrate. But I think I am going in the wrong directions: the NI population is increasing with incomers and people are moving from cities out to the sticks. I am leaving NI and the sticks and planning to move to a city centre.
The partner (from Edinburgh) can't believe that nearly everyone has a tow bar and a trailer. We were talking about it this morning and she said, "Surely X doesn't have one!" But he does. Does that sum up the NI lifestyle? You are always pottering about and carting things to the dump.
Will the construction of the tunnel/bridge/tube/causeway change things? Will the locals have a chance to use their trailers on Johnson's mega project?
Slowtack
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Very unfair that Arlene and Sammy should be required to use a tunnel or bridge to get to England. They should walk across just like the Scots and Welsh.
JumbleDuck
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We used to have quite an influx of NI farmers to SW Scotland, but that seems to have stopped or even reversed now. The one I knew best - because I rented barn space for a boat from him - sold up here about five years ago. And jolly inconvenient it was, as I had to build my own barn to replace his.
If there is a link across the North Channel - or when, as I am sure it will happen eventually - I really hope it's not a road bridge, or at least not only a road bridge. We don't need a whole new motorway alongside the A75. Even if it does have a roadway for local traffic, it would make much more sense as a high speed rail link with a shuttle service (a la Chunnel) from the north end of the M6 at Carlisle to Belfast in an hour or so.
On a boating note, I see that a new customs post is to be built at Cairnryan. I wonder if this will result in Stena and P&O merging their operations there, at least partially, as they originally planned.
JumbleDuck
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With the Solway - Tyne Ship Canal in the way?
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