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Post by agent69 on Sept 4, 2024 12:31:53 GMT
At face value this appears a bit daft, but there is probably some common sense in there somewhere.
- access to the new car park is via an upgraded A40
- the design for the upgrade is over budget so the award of a contract is delayed
- a park and ride car park is probably getting grants from all sorts of different pots, but has to be built to the original programme or you loose funding.
Just checked Google maps. If the builders have access to build it, the access exists some where right. Last time I checked is Cuckoo Lane. Is this the latest attempt to ask for more money from central government by telling it won't be operational in 2027? Via a muddy stone access track, which was not built to highways standard.
Also, the car park will generate extra traffic, which the existing road may not be able to handle.
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Post by overthehill on Sept 4, 2024 12:32:22 GMT
The really scary thing is people will believe this. And should they have a son together he could well be subject to all sorts of nastiness. I know its more difficult to sue for libel in the US than the UK, but it would be fun to see them do so. I suggest the defendant would have a bit of a problem in demonstrating that "the allegations are substantially true".
Or back in the real world, a televangelist from arkansas and a bot farm were paid by secret donors leading back to Trump to push something inexplicable to most people with normal brain function.
Taylor Swift's support (and fans) of the democrats is probably enough on its own to ensure Trump's defeat (if he's not already in prison).
I want to see how many Americans vote for Trump in prison, there is no better measure of a country's state and stability than that.
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Post by agent69 on Sept 4, 2024 12:41:21 GMT
and you have the stupidity of single year budgets in Local Government the NHS etc, with the idiocy of spend it or lose it. spend meant spend and be billed by the supplier, and of course money isn't spent unless goods received. I worked with a company that did a lot of work for one of the County Councils. The end of year panic to spend money was a site to behold.
They try to be cautious with spending throughout the year and then have to ramp up spending in the last couple of months of the year to meet budget plans. I remember there was a rush to start a 9 month construction contract in March, when it would have been more sensible to wait for improving weather in April or May. However the council had £150k to spend pdq, so we put a couple of portacabins on site and they paid us the money. It all got clawed back in later payments, but it does help your cash flow.
The system is madness. You get £50m to spend from central government. If you only spend £45m the government claws back the other £5m, and you only get £45m to spend next year.
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Post by adrianc on Sept 4, 2024 12:50:08 GMT
Via a muddy stone access track, which was not built to highways standard.
Also, the car park will generate extra traffic, which the existing road may not be able to handle.
Plus the A40 is trunk, so National Highways ownership and responsibility, rather than Oxfordshire County Council's.
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Post by benaj on Sept 4, 2024 13:10:38 GMT
Well, may be there are other reasons to have the car parks not operational. It sounds a bit “selfish” it is not opened for public use for now.
There are plenty of empty car parks in the UK, rarely used with limited access, but not all of them are shut.
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Post by michaelc on Sept 4, 2024 13:22:40 GMT
Via a muddy stone access track, which was not built to highways standard.
Also, the car park will generate extra traffic, which the existing road may not be able to handle.
You mean not wide enough to build an access lane?
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Post by bracknellboy on Sept 4, 2024 15:34:44 GMT
At face value this appears a bit daft, but there is probably some common sense in there somewhere.
- access to the new car park is via an upgraded A40
- the design for the upgrade is over budget so the award of a contract is delayed
- a park and ride car park is probably getting grants from all sorts of different pots, but has to be built to the original programme or you loose funding.
Yeah I know. But still.......
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Post by eeyore on Sept 5, 2024 13:11:23 GMT
Or back in the real world, a televangelist from arkansas and a bot farm were paid by secret donors leading back to Trump to push something inexplicable to most people with normal brain function.
Taylor Swift's support (and fans) of the democrats is probably enough on its own to ensure Trump's defeat (if he's not already in prison).
I want to see how many Americans vote for Trump in prison, there is no better measure of a country's state and stability than that.
Remember the old saying: "One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter"? Bobby Sands was elected to a seat in the Westminster parliament whilst incarcerated in the Maze prison - what conclusion do you draw about his constituents and the UK parliament and country as a whole? PS: I detest the "Orange One" and what he did to the Site of Special Scientific Interest on the Aberdeenshire coast to construct a pointless golf course...
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Post by james100 on Sept 5, 2024 14:30:55 GMT
Or back in the real world, a televangelist from arkansas and a bot farm were paid by secret donors leading back to Trump to push something inexplicable to most people with normal brain function.
Taylor Swift's support (and fans) of the democrats is probably enough on its own to ensure Trump's defeat (if he's not already in prison).
I want to see how many Americans vote for Trump in prison, there is no better measure of a country's state and stability than that.
Bobby Sands was elected to a seat in the Westminster parliament whilst incarcerated in the Maze prison - what conclusion do you draw about his constituents and the UK parliament and country as a whole? PS: I detest the "Orange One" and what he did to the Site of Special Scientific Interest on the Aberdeenshire coast to construct a pointless golf course... I voted for Assagne when he ran for the Australian Senate from the Ecuadorian Embassy and get your point. But there is a tipping point which I think both Sands and Trump breached. What that means feels difficult to generalise about because the contexts are fundamentally different.
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Post by adrianc on Sept 5, 2024 15:42:49 GMT
Remember the old saying: "One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter"? Bobby Sands was elected to a seat in the Westminster parliament whilst incarcerated in the Maze prison Which would not be possible now, as anybody sentenced to more than 12 months imprisonment was barred for life from standing for election, by the Representation of the People Act 1981.
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Post by eeyore on Sept 5, 2024 18:18:12 GMT
Remember the old saying: "One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter"? Bobby Sands was elected to a seat in the Westminster parliament whilst incarcerated in the Maze prison Which would not be possible now, as anybody sentenced to more than 12 months imprisonment was barred for life from standing for election, by the Representation of the People Act 1981. Quite! As an authorative source explains (House of Commons briefing SN/PC/3221 2004): "This Act was passed as a result of a hunger-striker, Bobby Sands, who was elected MP in an April 1981 by-election in the Northern Ireland constituency of Fermanagh and South Tyrone while he was serving a long term of imprisonment." Sands died in May 1981.
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Post by ilmoro on Sept 5, 2024 23:01:11 GMT
After the lettuce, seems we now have the artichoke ... at least that's how the charisma of the new French PM was described today.
Yes, Barnier's back ... not a popular appointment so likely to be fighting it out against a real artichoke soon unless Le Pen does a deal ... hated by the Left.
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Post by keitha on Sept 6, 2024 12:25:10 GMT
After the lettuce, seems we now have the artichoke ... at least that's how the charisma of the new French PM was described today. Yes, Barnier's back ... not a popular appointment so likely to be fighting it out against a real artichoke soon unless Le Pen does a deal ... hated by the Left. ooh the irony hated by the French left and the British right
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Post by michaelc on Sept 7, 2024 13:12:25 GMT
Or back in the real world, a televangelist from arkansas and a bot farm were paid by secret donors leading back to Trump to push something inexplicable to most people with normal brain function.
Taylor Swift's support (and fans) of the democrats is probably enough on its own to ensure Trump's defeat (if he's not already in prison).
I want to see how many Americans vote for Trump in prison, there is no better measure of a country's state and stability than that.
Remember the old saying: "One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter"? Bobby Sands was elected to a seat in the Westminster parliament whilst incarcerated in the Maze prison - what conclusion do you draw about his constituents and the UK parliament and country as a whole? PS: I detest the "Orange One" and what he did to the Site of Special Scientific Interest on the Aberdeenshire coast to construct a pointless golf course... Agree very much with your first paragraph. Shame you added the P.S. I'd probably be on the fence perhaps even against him if it wasn't for the fact that I believe he probably will stop thousands of young Ukrainians and Russians dying every day whose lives I put above any piece of land.
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Post by bernythedolt on Sept 8, 2024 11:02:04 GMT
One for michaelc here, he's been reporting BBC bias for a while on these pages. Telegraph, Mail and other sources confirming BBC bias today (specifically on Israel). Telegraph is paywalled and I would be ridiculed for a link to the Mail, so google the Asserson Report for yourself. You probably won't find a mention on the BBC website though...  |
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