Making the news today....

[Mark J]

11 minutes ago, Johnsond said:

😞🤔🤷‍♂️full on citizen smith mode today I see 

back to the tories 🥱

Just pointing out the obvious in case you were wondering why so many wrong ones were still roaming the streets. 

[Johnsond]

20 minutes ago, Mark J said:

Just pointing out the obvious in case you were wondering why so many wrong ones were still roaming the streets. 

Well it ain’t so bad up my way but last time I was in London it was a ****************ing cesspit Mark

Labour prisoner release ain’t got nothing to  with it I guess. 

[Stubby]

Heathrow closed until at least midnight due to a fire in a local sub station . Thats going to complicate things for a bit .

[Steven P]

8 hours ago, Johnsond said:

Well it ain’t so bad up my way but last time I was in London it was a ****************ing cesspit Mark

Labour prisoner release ain’t got nothing to  with it I guess. 

 

But... the prisoners that The Conservative party released early are all OK?

 

 

 

And of course, not a patch on your hero, the Rapist, Trump, who released hundred of 'insurrection' criminals all at once with no checks as to their actual crimes, just "off you go lads"... assault on the police, the odd murder, rioting, criminal damages, trying to overturn the state, off you go... free as birds.

 

Edited March 21 by Steven P

[Mark J]

Former first minister Nicola Sturgeon cleared in police investigation into SNP's finances

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Meanwhile, former SNP chief executive Peter Murrell, who is separated from Ms Sturgeon, has appeared in court charged with embezzlement

 

[Steven P]

2 hours ago, Mark J said:

He's trying to get sent to a Cat D jail, he's too scared to walk the wings in his current jail. So aye, I do think so. You reap what you sow.

 

'tis true that the authorities moved him for his safety, there are 3 or 4 'marks' on his head and he has it easier where he is now than others similarly segregated. Still whinging that he hasn't been murdered but been kept safe though.

[Mark J]

1 hour ago, Steven P said:

 

'tis true that the authorities moved him for his safety, there are 3 or 4 'marks' on his head and he has it easier where he is now than others similarly segregated. Still whinging that he hasn't been murdered but been kept safe though.

[sime42]

3 hours ago, Stubby said:

Heathrow closed until at least midnight due to a fire in a local sub station . Thats going to complicate things for a bit .

 

Don't you live somewhere nearby? Must be a blessing in disguise for you.

 

The difference is stark

 

 

 

[Steven P]

For Heathrow it is something I've often wondered why we put all our major air routes through just one airport. Any issue with it, like today, and as above, nothing is moving.

 

Disperse the flights - connect up Heathrow to Gatwick with a decent train line (cheaper and easier than a new runway at Heathrow), if you want do the triangle with London City or even onto Stanstead. Do European flights from Gatwick, Americas from Heathrow, UK Internal to City - plenty of capacity in that. Regional hubs in the North, North West, Wales and Scotland rather than centred in London... so take out 1 Airport you are not stopping all flights

 

 

 

 

(though the green part of me says bung in more fibre cables, only need half the number of business flights a day, far cheaper)

[sime42]

One word sums it up really. Redundancy, (or resilience/preparedness/functional backup) - it was lacking. Like a lot of our critical infrastructure, systems and public services. Food, medicine, power, water, telecoms; I don't suppose we'd fair well as a country if any those was catastrophically interrupted. Things would get sticky pretty quickly.

 

Doesn't bode well for the future, in these troubled times.

 

 

 

The Food Programme - Are We Prepared? Could the UK Feed Itself in a Crisis? - BBC Sounds

WWW.BBC.CO.UK

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Five years after the first lockdown Dan Saladino asks if food systems are better prepared.