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[Just One More]

That's centrally driven (assuming speed humps, other traffic calming measures etc), so much money is ring-fenced, very little is there for maintenance

For my patch, last October the government announced that to "boost the economy" they were giving £170 million to spend on the roads. Our share of that pot was £17 million. "Oh great" we thought, "we can do much needed works in lane 3 here for 1km, lanes 1 and 2 there for 2km" etc etc

"Oh no you can't" they said, we need schemes that lead to new developements, to new factories that we are going to fund too" ... I kid you not, the unwritten criteria was that they want schemes where a minister can cut a ribbon to open the bloody thing    We have factories and warehouses closing down here, there and everywhere that are gathering dust, and they want to build new ones 

[Barman]

That's centrally driven (assuming speed humps, other traffic calming measures etc), so much money is ring-fenced, very little is there for maintenance

For my patch, last October the government announced that to "boost the economy" they were giving £170 million to spend on the roads. Our share of that pot was £17 million. "Oh great" we thought, "we can do much needed works in lane 3 here for 1km, lanes 1 and 2 there for 2km" etc etc

"Oh no you can't" they said, we need schemes that lead to new developements, to new factories that we are going to fund too" ... I kid you not, the unwritten criteria was that they want schemes where a minister can cut a ribbon to open the bloody thing    We have factories and warehouses closing down here, there and everywhere that are covering dust, and they want to build new ones 

Zackly...

Tis sickening to see billions pissed away.... 

[Miss Creant Commander of the picklement and baking BAb(Hons)]

Morning folks, tea is ready.

[Barman]

Morning folks, tea is ready.

 

[Miss Creant Commander of the picklement and baking BAb(Hons)]

   I'm not awake properly yet give me a moment and I will be in the right place.

[Barman]

  I'm not awake properly yet give me a moment and I will be in the right place.

Okay... I'm not trying that first pot of tea tho.... 

[Grumpmeister]

Still no sleep, hope nobody else wants coffee as I'm about to drain the machine. 

[Miss Creant Commander of the picklement and baking BAb(Hons)]

Well if you insist on waking up in a strange bed every morning what you you expect young whipper snapper?
 

[Grumpmeister]

No such luck there, just a combination of insomnia and feckin rowdy students 

[Steve]

. . . and feckin rowdy students 

we hope you took appropriate precautions

[Baldy]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/weather/10151145/Summer-is-finally-here-with-heatwave-until-late-July.html

And ginge is paying munny to come over here. 

[Marley's Ghost (Imbiber of Spirits)]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/weather/10137953/Cleaner-air-linked-to-more-hurricanes.html

I said no good would come of the "tom greenery" - I'd say this is pretty fantastic - clean the air to fix the climate, and what happens?  <snigger>

[Barman]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/weather/10137953/Cleaner-air-linked-to-more-hurricanes.html

I said no good would come of the "tom greenery" - I'd say this is pretty fantastic - clean the air to fix the climate, and what happens?  <snigger>

First line tells you all you need to know about it tho doesn't it...? 

Researchers from the Met Office established a direct link between levels of industrial pollution and the frequency of hurricanes in the North Atlantic.

And true to form, our junk science expectations are confirmed...

In the North Atlantic there has been a clear increase in the frequency of tropical storms and hurricanes, rising from an average of 10 per year between 1850 and 1990 to 15 per year between 1998 and 2007.

Why compare the 140 year period 1850 to 1990 to the 9 year period 1998 to 2007...? What happened to the years 1991 through 1997 or the years 2008 to 2012...?

Cherry-picked data is always the sign of poor science...

And we're paying billions  for this shite.... 

[Steve]

exactly

it's the old problem of it's easy for a charlattan to use false statistical analysis to fool so many

Ever heard the ice cream and drownings fallacy?

[Barman]

exactly

it's the old problem of it's easy for a charlattan to use false statistical analysis to fool so many

Ever heard the ice cream and drownings fallacy?

Yes indeed!