the opposite

@nclfuzzy @ajcdeane Huh British flags in bio but reposting nazis

@1he0pposite @ajcdeane Yes.

We have spent £180m on plans for a tunnel under Stonehenge. The project is now scrapped. You can be for a tunnel & think spending is a good idea (even if you think the cost of planning is silly). You can be against a tunnel & think spending is a bad idea. But *nobody* can be for spending on this scale with zero result. And yet that is a peculiarly British outcome. Nobody will be reprimanded. Nobody will see their career affected. But that’s £180m of taxpayer money just wazzed up the wall. Totally without repercussions. Multiply this by airport expansions & train route plans and Thames crossings and power stations and other examples you can think of yourself, and… soon you’re talking serious money.

@nclfuzzy @ajcdeane Do we have to bring sex into this?

Now do the Parliament building. Then do HS2. The female humanities grads working for PWC on outsourced bat surveys, pulling in 80k pa working from home vs the hard hat fella laying pipes in all weathers for minimum wage, working for an outsourcer of an outsourcer of Carillon or Serco or somesuch. Public works as God intended.

@ajcdeane I like Hammersmith Bridge car free. The bridge wasn't designed for cars.

A correspondent points out that Hammersmith Bridge is a similar farce.

@AFucksake69 @LBC Planning started 30 odd years ago. Probably legal costs.

@1he0pposite @LBC “The tunnel’s costs, including the planning expenses, have already reached £179.2m.” That’s some forensic accounting right there.

Stonehenge tunnel officially scrapped - after more than £179,000,000 spent on plan lbc.co.uk/article/stoneh…

@AFucksake69 @LBC theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/m…

@LBC If you’re not even going to attempt to find out and explain what the £179,000,000 has been spent on so far please hand in your press pass.

@markbishopuk @CitySamuel She needn't be anti wind at the same time. Wind and solar have their place.

Every British politician should be forced to read this piece, by @CitySamuel Shared with you by a Times subscriber. Enjoy this article for free. thetimes.com/comment/column…

@AnthonyFormic13 @jaubreyYT France is swell at the moment.

@jaubreyYT Actually, it is a fact. The people freeloading on the USA should be uncomfortable

No decent human being finds comfort in this. What a horrifyingly repulsive individual.

@FennellJW A lot of those new universities should never have been converted.

I grew up a few miles from Hartpury College - seen it evolve from a provincial agricultural college into a sports education powerhouse. Many much maligned 'new' universities are in fact built on well established institutions which have thrived as a result of university status.

@yarotrof This shilling for the UAE is hurting your brand my man.

New wartime billboards around the UAE — where the vast majority of residents are not Emirati citizens.

@Fruitbat_44 @lyndonbajohnson You can be ab evil dipshit. Most serial killers caught are incredibly stupid.

@lyndonbajohnson I suppose people are torn. Making the Nazis look foolish, silly etc is perfectly fine. You don't want people thinking that the Nazis are, "cool." Yet, might there be a danger in making Nazis appear to be dipshits etc, that we forget that this evil can be a real threat?

In the generation immediately after WWII, the Nazis were portrayed as dipshits in American popular culture. Colonel Klink getting endlessly scammed by Hogan. It was only later that the Nazi was reshaped in popular imagination as a cunning and formidable foe (a mistake). -OS

@FennellJW The free French did a lot of F all. And its leaders and white soldiers took all the credit from an army that was mostly colonial.

A highly symbolic name redolent of the France's percieved role as a bastion of democracy and named for the French Resistance and Free French armed forces of Charles de Gaulle during the SWW - "Free France".

@TBrit90 Why are they getting your ire? They didn't design the machines.

@1he0pposite Fire the line workers too.

Fuck the jobs. The Ajax people all deserve to be jobless.

@AdrianP_doc Didn't Israel offer to provide soldiers, but it was rejected because it would piss off Arab states? Or was that the first Gulf war?

Romania answered America's call for help after 9/11 as did many other NATO members, big and small. Our soldiers were deployed there for 19 years. 27 Romanian soldiers were killed and 200 were wounded in Afghanistan. I met on of them in a hospital recently. He lost a leg to an IED and has to get treatment for the rest of his life. I have only one question for the American cousinfuckers who are now saying NATO allies are unreliable and ungrateful: How many Israeli soldiers fought and died for the US in Afghanistan?

@edwinhayward @robpowellnews Because the Tories and Labour have done such swell jobs.

@robpowellnews Never ask the Greens to rationalise their economic policy.

If Zack Polanski wants to "exit the bond market doom loop", shouldn't he be calling for the UK borrow a lot less or nothing at all? His position seems to be - among other things - that we should borrow more as a country. Presumably that borrowing is from... the bond markets?

@WiganEmptySeat @PolitlcsGlobal @BBCNews I am not from Bolton, where would you put the 70 million quid?

@1he0pposite @PolitlcsGlobal @BBCNews Seeing as I designed part of it when it nearly got funded 20 years ago, no. But a Ryder Cup bid is not and should not be a factor either way. I also know from direct experience that Peel Holdings are the biggest double dealing bar stewards on the planet.

🚨🇬🇧 NEW: Andy Burnham has announced a £70m funding package to support Bolton’s 2035 Ryder Cup bid If successful, the bid would mark the first time England has hosted the cup in 30 years [@BBCNews]

@WiganEmptySeat @PolitlcsGlobal @BBCNews So you are against a road upgrade that was first proposed 80 years ago?

@1he0pposite @PolitlcsGlobal @BBCNews Yes. This is a Peel Holdings Project, who have plenty of their own money. The golf course was rejected by Bolton Council. If you want to justify taxpayer spending, a one-off event at a luxury resort not wanted by the locals is an odd choice for a so called socialist.

@Speranskylives @Corbulo7 @andreas_krieg Supply is the hardest bit. You can destroy every weapon but keeping 10,000s of troops supplied is not going to work.

@Corbulo7 @andreas_krieg Anti-shipping missile launching platforms all along the coast are being taken out since last night. Mobile ones are being hunted around the clock. Drones will be the most difficult to stop, perhaps impossible to stop completely.

Key question: what does 'not leaving Iran in control of Hormuz' practically mean? Centuries of Royal Navy ops in this area prove the centre of gravity for any form of piracy, or maritime asymmetric warfare is on land Seizing a few island alone won't do the job - you would have to seize the northern shores of the Strait AND hold it along a considerable stretch of coastline, with sufficient depth into the hinterland to deny the aerial threats This is rugged terrain, includes a major city Bandar Abbas with 700,000 inhabitants, a highly mobilized civil defence architecture that will immediately kicks into insurgency Even if you could get two brigades of 30,000 boots mobilized with the necessary naval and air support, even if you were able to seize the coastline, a deployment wouldn't be sustainable PLUS, as long as the IRGC has access to the sea, it can release skiffs, smaller platforms and most importantly USVs to disrupt freedom of navigation in the Gulf

@robjeffecology @Henry_Taylor04 @PolitlcsGlobal @BBCNews Did you read the article?

@Henry_Taylor04 @PolitlcsGlobal @BBCNews How? How do people with no money in Bolton gain from this? Wouldn’t 70 millions going towards free bus passes for many in Bolton be much better?

@WiganEmptySeat @PolitlcsGlobal @BBCNews Did you read the article?

@PolitlcsGlobal @BBCNews May I suggest not spending £70m of taxpayers money on a one-off event that will charge entry prices higher than many of our mortgages.