Hirota wrote:Credit where Credit is due, Jess dealt with the anti-semitic snake in her ranks.
https://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/jess ... p-1.495280
Now it's in the hands of the party to decide if they want to continue to be seen to be institutionally antisemitic or not.
I sometimes feel like Jess Phillips has seen my opposition to her candidacy and decided to try everything she can to convince me personally that she's awesome. I mean, it's not enough yet, but dang. Woman's on a roll.
Servilis wrote:Twitter had a whole meltdown about Boris J. playing around with the English language while talking about something about Big Ben, dunno', my area of politics is that of what the Right Wing calls "Identity Politics", I don't usually go around debating what to do about a giant clock that won't be restored until next year.
Just wanted to put my useless take on it, k bai.
For context- BoJo is supporting ringing Big Ben for Brexit Day. Currently the clocktower isn't ringing due to long overdue repair works and the obvious danger that ringing a bell the size of a car next to workers on scaffolding.
Ringing it represents a giant delay and expense to the actual repair work, as the clacker has been removed for now, and it would have to either be put back or replaced.
This whole fiasco wouldn't have happened if that chief engineer didn't concede any ground on the ringing of the bell. I remember being so mad at him back in 2018 when he floated the idea of potentially ringing it on special occasions. No, there's work to do and better things for the Twitterati and politicians to waste time, ink and breath on than debating the merits of whether this or that occasion qualify. To steal from the Tories- let's just get the repairs done. Then we can enjoy the view of the tower without scaffolding again.
Or end up with the name Alexander.
I mean, come on, who's actually named Alexander?
Salandriagado wrote:Novus America wrote:
The Eiksund Tunnel in Norway is 287 meters deep. The Seikan Tunnel 240 meters deep.
Now I cannot find a good list of bridges by water depth but some oil platforms are built in water 300 meters deep. Nordhordland Bridge crosses water 5,000 meters deep.
So deeper water has been dealt with.
But sure it would be a Keynesian mega project and engineering challenge, but that is much of what makes it interesting. And sure it might take a decade or more to construct but that is fine, creating jobs and demand for a decade or more.
Tunnels are not bridges. Oil rigs are not bridges. Nordhundlund bridge is a fucking pontoon bridge.
A pontoon bridge over a tiny fraction the distance as this proposal to boot.
It'd be impossible as hell, but we could still give it a crack. At the very least, the real bridge could be the friends we make along the way.
The Free Joy State wrote:I agree that electing the House of Commons by PR would be preferable.
And the House of Lords could be elected via Approval Voting or AV. Wouldn't that be nice.
An Alan Smithee Nation wrote:Perhaps we could have an HS3 to connect Leeds or Manchester with Portpatrick.
I'm sold. Let's do this.