VOLSCADAF:
Will there be any Services on it ? , just asking like .
Artificial island will be constructed at the half way point.
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No complaints about noise from Johnson’s constituents, when the new London Airport is built there.
Why would they build a bridge into an A road in Scotland■■?
Forth road bridge cost £1.6billion for 1.3miles.
20 miles NI to Scotland and then dual carriageway@ £16million per mile to build■■?
NEVER happen in a million years sure FOUR boats cope alright atm!!! 
Don’t forget about Beauforts Dyke in the Irish sea with all the munitions dumped in it!
Franglais:
VOLSCADAF:
Will there be any Services on it ? , just asking like .Artificial island will be constructed at the half way point.
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No complaints about noise from Johnson’s constituents, when the new London Airport is built there.
Don’t forget his Garden Bridge and all his other achievements 
Franglais:
Sand Fisher:
It’s not cork heads but caulkheads! Different thing entirely.I’m listening, but I always thought the cork-heads just floated across The Spithead?
Hello Franglais.
It derives from the industry of ship repair. In the days of wooden ships they would be careened (heeled over) and the seams between the planks filled with pitch/tar? a process known as caulking. Hence caulkheads. Appreciate you wouldn’t know that unless you had lived on the Island though in all honesty.
Pennineman:
Don’t forget about Beauforts Dyke in the Irish sea with all the munitions dumped in it!
This is the main problem for the obvious route, 1m tonnes of TNT [emoji44]
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Sand Fisher:
Franglais:
Sand Fisher:
It’s not cork heads but caulkheads! Different thing entirely.I’m listening, but I always thought the cork-heads just floated across The Spithead?
Hello Franglais.
It derives from the industry of ship repair. In the days of wooden ships they would be careened (heeled over) and the seams between the planks filled with pitch/tar? a process known as caulking. Hence caulkheads. Appreciate you wouldn’t know that unless you had lived on the Island though in all honesty.
Thanks, but I`m not convinced.
Why tie caulking to the Island? I know they had wooden ship building and repairs going on there…but…dunno…
Never gonna happen put it to bed who in there right mind would spend millions on a bridge to nowhere, no money doing that
It just might happen. Who in their right mind would let a shower of self serving Old Etonians run (ruin)the Country.
Bigtruck3:
Never gonna happen put it to bed who in there right mind would spend millions on a bridge to nowhere, no money doing that
Someone who just sacked the person telling him he couldn’t afford it?
alamcculloch:
The bridge could be done with existing technology. The Americans built a railway bridge right down to the Florida Keys about a hundred years ago. The best thing to do is put the Chinese in charge of the project. Also give them a free hand on HS2 it would be up and running in two years tops.
Funny you say that. If you believe sky news. And leaked reports
There reporting that govenment officials have held talks with a Chinese railway construction company.
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And they can build it in 5 years and cheaper.
edd1974:
alamcculloch:
The bridge could be done with existing technology. The Americans built a railway bridge right down to the Florida Keys about a hundred years ago. The best thing to do is put the Chinese in charge of the project. Also give them a free hand on HS2 it would be up and running in two years tops.Funny you say that. If you believe sky news. And leaked reports
There reporting that govenment officials have held talks with a Chinese railway construction company.
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And they can build it in 5 years and cheaper.
Telegraph and others have similar reports:
“Officials at the UK’s Department for Transport (DfT) said “preliminary discussions” have been underway between HS2 Ltd, the company responsible for building the high-speed line, and China Railway Construction Corporation, a state-owned company based in Beijing.”
But, to the meat of it:
How can the Chinese do this?
Maybe they will source raw materials from elsewhere? (Import goods instead of provide jobs here)
Use cheaper labour? (You can see where that takes us)
No one thinks paying too much is a good idea, but economies come with their own price ticket. We need to look at the wider picture and ask questions, not just the simple bottom line.