the day after the deadline: can the union survive brexit and other deep questions

Confiscate is too close to seizing and you know who else seized it don't you? And you DO KNOW what happens next don't you?

If not, learn some history.

hey what are kickstarter’s rules on crowdfunding an assassination

uh asking for a friend

what are the stretch goals?

the target spends some time on the rack before the finale

IN

Digging myself deeper into the unpopular opinions hole but if the freeholder doesn’t have a legal obligation to pay, Javid has left councils with next to nowhere to go by saying that residents have no obligation to pay either. The council should turn the freehold over to the flat owners, provide a loan to cover repairs and structure that loan over a long enough period to enable people to pay it back. The going rate for those flats is £300k+.

Actually it should be central government, not the council.

no i think yr opinions are basically sound re: the leaseholders being property owners

Boris Johnson's proposal for a bridge linking Britain to France has been greeted with scepticism by representatives of the UK's shipping industry.

The Foreign Secretary floated the idea of a cross-Channel bridge between during talks between the UK and France on Thursday.

He said "good connections" were important between the two countries, and suggested the Channel Tunnel might simply be "a first step."

The countries had agreed to establish a panel of experts to look at major projects, Johnson said.

he's right guys, currently we can only reach france by air, sea and train, we def need to be able to drive to calais too

It's so he can set charges on it.

we should really also consider building a zipline between the countries and/or an array of cannons by which goods and travellers can be fired back and forth across the channel

can't believe Boris hasn't suggested dirigibles crewed by picaninnies

i'm all for boris being encouraged to play with explosives tho tbf

he really has just wandered into work after having a vivid dream last night hasn't he?

it's entirely possible he was sleepwalking at the time of his comments

never let it be said he's not an ideas man

boldly looking beyond the economic dissolution of Brexit to a bridge-based powerhouse

if anything it's kinda impressive that in his years of blue-sky thinking he's not once come up with one good idea

honestly, what are the odds

we could spend all the money saved by brexit by driving this bus back to europe

this kind of thoughtless fuckwittery confirms the Nincompoopolis portrayal of Boris, not that there was ever any doubt.

"With his achievements he showed us all that massive privilege, leaping ambition, no concern for detail and a wasp’s attention span needn’t hold you back when it comes to creating terrible architecture."

if he really wants to get to galaxy brain why not just fill in the channel

fuck blue passports, I say bring back doggerland

Jet packs for everyone.

I tentatively support electric hydrofoil shuttles between Folkestone and Boulogne.

not gonna lie, i'd fucking love a jetpack and only partially because of the suicide-bombing potential it offers

'Migrant crosses Channel by drone' is a headline I expect to see before 2020.

not a tech-type in general but I wonder if over the next 100 years it might totally undermine border control

one would think that BoJo would steer clear of all things bridge-related given the outcome of his last foray in that area

i think you're giving boris too much credit for thoughtfulness there

He just goes for any fucking shit that can be alliterated with 'Boris', it's why the airport island was such a dismal failure.

It's probably not especially compatible with the government's pledges to send 'em back at Calais either.

UK Shipping OTM

Building a huge concrete structure in the middle of the world’s busiest shipping lane might come with some challenges. https://t.co/jYD5O8B19W

— UK Shipping (@ukshipping) January 18, 2018

where's your plucky can-do blitz spirit, uk shipping? it's this kind of obstructionism which burble blah zzzzz

it will be a symbolic drawbridge
and we will raise it up on the day of our glorious brexit
two fingers to johnny foreigner

it's this kind of Marxist kvetching from the shipping industry that makes it so important to replace all ships with lorries. huge, huge lorries.

typical politically correct Remoaning we've come to expect from the representatives of multinational freight and logistics corporations

hull to tyboron, what can possibly go wrong

http://ounodesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/TheBridgeBronBroentitlesbridge.png

(s/b thyborøn)

Aw, I like the idea of massive bridges joining places. Fuck the Tories having anything to do with it, of course.

no half measures imo

http://foximaging.com/store/images/puzzles/pave-the-planet.jpg

engineers on the today programme this morning speculated on two bridges to artificial islands in the channel (with duty-free shopping) and a tunnel between the two islands.

D'Apres H G Wells > pic.twitter.com/oImDoY6XLK

— Greg Hallsworth (@GregHallsworth) January 18, 2018

The bojack horseman idea of a bridge from the continental USA to Hawaii appeals to me.

there was a classic Onion headline about the DEA finding and seizing a half-built bridge from Bogota to Miami

Are Lumley and Heatherwick on board?

Boris Johnson, u got Maersked.

engineers on the today programme this morning speculated on two bridges to artificial islands in the channel (with duty-free shopping) and a tunnel between the two islands.

so much media energy being expended today on badgering academics to comment on the feasibility of the idea as if boris hadn't just farted it out with no prior forethough and it deserved serious consideration

the blood sausage bridge, I like it

there's something escher-like abt the picture andrew posted: do can the bus get all its wheels on the wire at once?

It is just a cardboard facade - one either side of the tandem, for stability and disguise.

lol i love the idea of building approx 120 eiffel towers across the sea in order to support the passage of ca. 25 people at a time in a wobbly cable car