Today's discussion about the news
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Gatwick's second runway is likely to be approved.
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Given it's been sat there ready to use since 1979, this feels like such an obvious easy win.
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Pinnacle Monzonite
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Yes, but what about Doncaster.
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There will be direct flights.
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Only an extra 50,000 flights pa into an already heavily congested airspace..........
But does make more sense than yet another runway at Heathrow and the huge disruption that willl cause in west London
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Perhaps they should plan a massive new town somewhere in the general Gatwick area as competition to London itself. Be bold, and go for about one million inhabitants.
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Crawley already exists.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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Crawley 2 then. C'mon man, ambition! Make it a shrine to good modern architecture. We could get in several of those Hague apartment blocks for starters.
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You could certainly expand Crawley and Burgess Hill. TBH, most places on the line to Brighton are already well developed for commuting to London or Brighton, but there are some golf courses and pony paddocks that could be more productively used.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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Why aren't they called planeways?
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I've never seen a plane running to take off!
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Looks like Dominic Cummings has gone full racist nutjob. Insisting that Great Replacement is not a theory but happening right now.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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Thanks. Already seen that once. Really didn't need the profession's dirty laundry aired in public. Man's an embarrassment.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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What's the back story?
He looks like Mr Big, incidentally.
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He's Zaha Hadid's former right hand man. Likes to see himself as a bit of a radical polemicist. Amazing what you can get away with if you wear expensive sunglasses indoors.
In a profession with already something of a reputation for preposterous guff he stands out.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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Interesting. The answer appears to be 'no', according to this paper.
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In interesting piece on the project to digitalise the public's access to government stuff in one place. His 'DOGE' reference is a cheeky one to get you to read on...
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I've been hearing things along this line for a while now. Would make a whole lot of sense. The primary issue is that if it goes down, everything goes down. Hope they are planning lots of contingencies. How naive of me. 😉
The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
Haha, for a bit of fun, I tried registering via the laptop:
1) email address registered, got code, and signed in using authenticator app (registered via QR code). Fine.
2) Prove identity using gov.uk app on phone. Scan second QR code that's supposedly somewhere on the laptop screen. Haha. Judging by the most popular question being along the lines of "Where the fuck is the second QR code I need?", no-one else can find it either. Registration deleted, not least as the current list of services available don't include any of the ones I currently use.
Will retry if and when I need it, and hope they don't hide QR codes where you can't find them when you're halfway through the process.
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I wouldn't worry about this sort of thing. The system will be more resilient than just about anything other than air traffic control.
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I worked on an earlier version of this in 2016 so interested that there is not progression yet.
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