BRFR Cake Stop 'breaking news' miscellany

[Pblakeney]

Fück me! Just build a new purpose built building and sell the place off.
An overpriced (understatement) vanity project. No wonder this country is screwed, we can't do anything properly within a reasonable timescale.

The refurbishment of the Houses of Parliament could cost almost £40bn and take 61 years, under proposals presented to MPs and peers.

 

[Blazing Saddles]

Fück me! Just build a new purpose built building and sell the place off.
An overpriced (understatement) vanity project. No wonder this country is screwed, we can't do anything properly within a reasonable timescale.

The refurbishment of the Houses of Parliament could cost almost £40bn and take 61 years, under proposals presented to MPs and peers.

Which means at least 50bn and best part of a century.

That sounds like a lot of over stuffed brown envelopes now and for the foreseeable future.

 

[Pblakeney]

Which means at least 50bn and best part of a century.

That sounds like a lot of over stuffed brown envelopes now and for the foreseeable future.

Going by past projects you are being far too conservative.

 

[briantrumpet]

Maybe we're not doomed in some respects.

 

[Beebo]

Fück me! Just build a new purpose built building and sell the place off.
An overpriced (understatement) vanity project. No wonder this country is screwed, we can't do anything properly within a reasonable timescale.

The refurbishment of the Houses of Parliament could cost almost £40bn and take 61 years, under proposals presented to MPs and peers.

Bloody listed buildings have to be maintained. Even if a total white elephant.
It really should be repurposed for something else, maybe a hotel or museum. Let the private sector deal with it.
Then relocate HoP to somewhere much better cheaper and more modern.

 

[Pblakeney]

Bloody listed buildings have to be maintained. Even if a total white elephant.
It really should be repurposed for something else, maybe a hotel or museum. Let the private sector deal with it.
Then relocate HoP to somewhere much better cheaper and more modern.

Isn't that what I said in my initial sentence? 😂

 

[First Aspect]

Bloody listed buildings have to be maintained. Even if a total white elephant.
It really should be repurposed for something else, maybe a hotel or museum. Let the private sector deal with it.
Then relocate HoP to somewhere much better cheaper and more modern.

The private sector always does a terrific job. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyn7z1vl42o

Tbh it is one of the most famous buildings in the world, but the cost of not relocating

all MPs for a prolonged period seems completely disproportionate.

I am sure the FA would happily let out Wembley stadium. Or once HS2 is finished it's an easy commute to Birmingham. Fort Dunlop is a similar shape to the palace of Westminster.

It only took me a couple of minutes to come up with these brilliant ideas.

 

[Blazing Saddles]

Bloody listed buildings have to be maintained. Even if a total white elephant.
It really should be repurposed for something else, maybe a hotel or museum. Let the private sector deal with it.
Then relocate HoP to somewhere much better cheaper and more modern.

We could always knock it all down and build a ballroom.

 

[briantrumpet]

Bloody listed buildings have to be maintained. Even if a total white elephant.
It really should be repurposed for something else, maybe a hotel or museum. Let the private sector deal with it.
Then relocate HoP to somewhere much better cheaper and more modern.

Ian Dunt writes about how using 10 Downing St as the centre of government is utterly bonkers and heavily influences how government works (and why it doesn't). It's only really been used like that since 1910.

 

[briantrumpet]

And that's why Starmer still hasn't stopped talking to Trump: he's approved the Chagos Islands deal. Farage & Badenoch are going to be strangely silent, I suspect.

 

[Pblakeney]

And that's why Starmer still hasn't stopped talking to Trump: he's approved the Chagos Islands deal. Farage & Badenoch are going to be strangely silent, I suspect.

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How much the US is stumping up for the use of the land there? Zero.
I suspect they are quite happy for it just to be part of the "special relationship".

If we don't maintain the sovereignty then the "deal" is we will pay billions over the years so the US can keep it's base. Special.

 

[Psamathe]

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And that's why Starmer still hasn't stopped talking to Trump: he's approved the Chagos Islands deal. Farage & Badenoch are going to be strangely silent, I suspect.

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Until Trump goes round again, forgetting what he said today and switching back to yesterday's response ... before switching again to the day before that response ...

 

[briantrumpet]

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Until Trump goes round again, forgetting what he said today and switching back to yesterday's response ... before switching again to the day before that response ...

This time he's actually signed it with his Sharpie. (No, that's not a euphemism.)