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

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

stephen bush is bad now

I wouldn’t kick him out of bed.

— Stephen Bush (@stephenkb) January 19, 2018

click through for context

ew

the dead Ben Bradlee is looking more handsome than that fucker.

hey if you’re into bawheids with cold dead eyes and a contemptuous sneer you couldn’t ask for more

http://westbridgfordwire.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Bradley.jpg

I'd guess he's probably trolling him, because he is likely to be strongly homophobic.

Isn’t Ben Bradley missing a trick in relation to castrating the poor (‘Vasectomies for jobless’ MP to keep job as Tory’s youth chair, 18 January)? If they are allowed to breed, the progeny could be sold as an excellent source of meat.
Roy Creamer
Rotherham, South Yorkshire

You didn't tell us you lived in Rotherham, bizarro.

next time i’ll use a pseudonym less obvious than ‘roy creamer’, i’ll tell u that much

You're gonna tell me that isn't actually al murray pub landlord aren't you

ben bradley one of those people all of whose features seem to occupy a v small circumference of space on his head. sure an actual artist who can draw (v much not me) will tell me actually this is all people actually, but a combination of the broadness of his heid in that pic and the hair makes the effect q striking.

also two not one TWO of the most staggering stupid centrist respect your betters pieces from who would have guessed it marr and jenkins in the last 24hrs have assaulted me.

this marr piece was lying open on the tube seat next to me: where his grate brane manages to combine in one piece his keen expertise in history with his shrewd eye for contemporary culture in a “know your place proles!” piece:

Basic civility and respect must prevail over the rule of the mob, The reign of Charles I shows that the 17th- century’s version of angry social media led to bloody violence

and today simon jenkins has come up with an absolute thing of beauty, where he refers to “the silence of the rational centre”, a phrase worth memorising for its apparent blind faith in a void and its deafness to the sheer noise these apparently silent fuckers make everywhere all the time all the time.

Marr's head goes second when we thin these cunts out

just filed a new patent pic.twitter.com/JTheWxsa3T

— leon 🌨 (@leyawn) May 4, 2017

imagine just how terrible a human being you have to be to get no confidenced by UKIP's NEC