BRFR Cake Stop 'breaking news' miscellany

[briantrumpet]

If you're not up to speed on Houchen and the Tees Valley scandal, here's some weekend reading, free, courtesy of Private Eye. It baffles me how they are still milking this massively fraudulent enterprise.

https://www.private-eye.co.uk/special-reports/stripped-tees

IT WAS to be the UK’s largest regeneration scheme in decades, a model for regional devolution and the flagship post-Brexit freeport. But the redevelopment of the former steelworks on the south bank of the RiverTees became little more than an unlawful, taxpayer-funded scheme to promote the political career of a Tory golden boy and vastly enrich a couple of local businessmen and their families, all hidden in a web of deception. In the process, it is financially imperilling a major regional development body and squandering the chance to revive one of the country’s most deprived but industrially promising areas. This is how it happened...

 

[briantrumpet]

Even if Wolmar finds a hostile audience there, credit to the DT for carrying this piece.

As I mentioned elsewhere, I was surprised at how motor-traffic-dominated London still is, despite the quite amazing public transport options, traffic-reduction measures, and (some) cycling infrastructure. It's got a long way to go yet, despite the good progress so far.

 

[briantrumpet]

It seems that all us old farts are

whilst the youngsters aren't.

 

[Pblakeney]

It seems that all us old farts are

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whilst the youngsters aren't.

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Tik Tok is not the best when it comes to informing people. 😂

 

[briantrumpet]

Tik Tok is not the best when it comes to informing people. 😂

They should come here instead.

 

[Pross]

It seems that all us old farts are

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whilst the youngsters aren't.

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I’d have thought all those millionaire pensioners would be immune to such concerns.

 

[briantrumpet]

I’d have thought all those millionaire pensioners would be immune to such concerns.

They still want their triple lock and are convinced that the world is going to hell in a handcart, and come up with the answer 'Farage'.

 

[briantrumpet]

I'm not sure I want to know... either about what's going on, or why there's a stray inverted comma in the headline.

 

[TailWindHome]

In fairness, it would make me jump

 

[AndyRM]

Ski jumping on acid should totally be an Olympic sport. The post jump interviews would be something else.

 

[briantrumpet]

Re the entente cordiale, I don't remember this at the time (though I do remember the exocet strikes), but it does seem likely.

 

[C R]

Re the entente cordiale, I don't remember this at the time (though I do remember the exocet strikes), but it does seem likely.

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On the other hand, it explains why the global south trust "the west" less than they trust Putin.

 

[briantrumpet]

Apparently Musk has been musing about buying Ryanair...

 

[Shortfall]

Apparently Musk has been musing about buying Ryanair...

Musk is something of a Marmite figure but it's undeniable that some people like him. O'Leary however is universally accepted to be a massive cünt.

 

[briantrumpet]

Musk is something of a Marmite figure but it's undeniable that some people like him. O'Leary however is universally accepted to be a massive cünt.

It was more that I was wondering what Musk's reasoning was... a fleet to invade Europe with and to repopulate with white Christo-nationalists, and to deport people with brown skin?