Next year possibly depends on what happens in Scotland.
You have proved my point by still talking of newspapers, rather than social media.
I am beginning to despair. Yet another mention made of the Daily Mail, which appears to have impregnated its name in the memory banks of all just to the left of centre in political beliefs.
I probably wasn't being very clear with this, but what I said was meant to be tongue in cheek.
Very good point. And I have heard a recent comment on the plight of HS2 as "good riddance - just another railway to strike on". Yes in some circles the railways are actually a dirty word.
Most of the time BR would not be allowed to invest in anything like a bit of new line let alone a whole new mainline.
Running out of bandwidth or Wi-Fi down might be todays version of running out of steam.
I suppose I still think of the Independent and its rather bland reports - just facts it seemed. Goodness knows when I last touched a newspaper except when being asked to look out for McDonalds' vouchers in the Metro (London). Not for me I might say !.
On Radio4 this morning one of the main contractors said Eustonhad been gold plated and they were proposing a much simpler cheaper design.
As it is the most widely read newspaper worldwide with 429.6 million readers worldwide last year (about 1 in 20 of the entire planets population), has US and Australian online versions; as well as being the biggest selling UK (paid for) printed newspaper having overtaken The Sun, it is not entirely surprising it is commonly cited
You appear to have not had sight of my posting that made reference to the decline of newspapers with the advent of social media. Most of the younger generation with their smart phones access their news requirements by that method.
You are aware presumably that there are online editions of these newspapers, and that the one mentioned manages 218m unique visitors per month? They link to their articles on social media.
Quite. A few years ago I was definitely to the right of the then PM Cameron. Now? Definitely towards the centre. The fact that the current administration couldn't run a bath has largely contributed to that.
The younger generation who are much less likely to show up on polling day? What makes you think that the Tories will be appealing to them for votes? The fact remains that the age group who tend to read said newspaper, and who remember the seventies (when things actually were out of hand) are the ones the government depends upon to vote for it.
There are a sizeable majority on this website when wanting to vent their angst on many subjects seem to gravitate to the mention of the Daily Mail as something that they can decry to their hearts delight. These same people are most probably those who cast their vote on polls on threads concerning General Elections and the like, with the result that this website in recent years has been totally wrong in its poll predictions.
That statement will not go down well with the current leadership of the Labour Party.
And? Why would that bother me?
Last year, I was at a meeting in which it was said that the Labour Party was the natural political home of first-time voters and cited the number of such who joined in the Corbyn General Election campaign when the Labour vote showed a sizeable rise in numbers.
And yet he still didn't win, did he? He won even less the next time around.
It wasn't the young voters who deserted him.
Reading what you say above, into whose coffers did the stated £800 million go from the planning application. Some organisation must have benefitted quite handsomely.
That includes all the design work, and almost certainly some boreholes too. 10% of the budget to get from idea to construction doesn't strike me as too bad, even if the amount in actual money is astronomical
Never then. They can't even commit to Leicester properly.
Quite!
