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  1. scruf

    scruf Registered User

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    Why would anyone use cash to pay for the tube? You just buy an Oyster Card on deposit and return it later?
    scruf, Mar 16, 2007
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    Well, I don't do it.

    I didn't know you could do that.
    eyeball, Mar 16, 2007
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  3. BRID

    BRID Has name in red. Staff

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    well i pay a fiver a day to drive to work - 25-30 odd miles from Sunningdale to Reading..... and thats driving a 2.0 litre Alfa that drinks petrol.

    Yeah you gotta figure in the cost of the car into that, but i never bought the car for commuting originally so i dont factor that in much.

    ..... so compare that 25 minute drive, to an hour and a half to do the same trip on public transport, and it costs the same amount of money.


    No wonder theres so many cars on the road with brain dead simple choices like that.
    BRID, Mar 16, 2007
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  4. LazMan

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    I think it's comical how the government have told the building contractors that they have this extra £22 billion set to one side just incase they run into budgetory problems!!

    The builders must be rubbing their hands together right about now!

    It would be like turning up to buy a used car, telling Arfa Dailey that you've got 10 large to spend THEN asking how much it's gonna cost you. :monkey: :monkey:
    LazMan, Mar 16, 2007
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  5. scruf

    scruf Registered User

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    from what I can gather from the ES last night, most of this 'extra' money is for contingency.. in fact the vast majority is for contingency?
    scruf, Mar 16, 2007
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  6. BRID

    BRID Has name in red. Staff

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    Last night it was on the news that the government is dipping into Lottery money now to fund this - and have said that other countrywide schemes that formally benefitted from the lottery ..... wont.

    Nice one eh .... not. The country suffers for Londons sake - a bit like with the Millenium dome eh. The government could have given every household in the country a computer with internet access with the same money.
    BRID, Mar 16, 2007
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  7. scruf

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    You misunderstand, I asked you what your solution was, not what you want.

    What's your masterstroke for delivering this?
    scruf, Mar 16, 2007
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  8. BRID

    BRID Has name in red. Staff

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    Take 10 billion quid and build new roads (only 2% of the UK landmass is used for roads) or start building a next generation high speed rail infrastructure - maglev or something.
    BRID, Mar 16, 2007
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  9. BRID

    BRID Has name in red. Staff

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    Economic benefits for ....... LONDON.

    Tell that to some Nursery or Drop In Centre user up in Scotland when your trying to explain how the Olympics in London is far better for them, than their now non funded scheme.
    BRID, Mar 16, 2007
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  10. Phil Mitchell

    Phil Mitchell check me a dollar brer?

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    more businesses = more sales of products/more employees = more vat/income tax = more money in the treasury



    Brid you are letting yourself down in this thread mate :wink:

    Plus you could ask the question, how does a drop in centre in scotland help 8million in London?
    Phil Mitchell, Mar 16, 2007
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  11. BRID

    BRID Has name in red. Staff

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    Pah - i aint trying to win anyone over .... theres PLENTY of people who think the Olympics is a monumental waste of money as it stands right now .... London Tonight on BBC1 last night was prime example.

    ..... Lottery money is being diverted away from alot of its regular outlets, and has been earmarked for the Olympics - it was on the beeb last night, and the New Labour/Liar MP who decided on it was defending herself over that decision. So money being spread around the country has been stopped for many, and instead has been shifted back down to the capital.

    .... If anything, i would have supported the Olympics if they were anywhere other than London - Manchester/Birmingham for instance.
    BRID, Mar 16, 2007
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  12. BRID

    BRID Has name in red. Staff

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    The old 'attracting business that benefits you all' rhetoric never quite seems to pan out in reality.
    BRID, Mar 16, 2007
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  13. Phil Mitchell

    Phil Mitchell check me a dollar brer?

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    Why? What difference would it make it to the 'rest of the country' if it were in Birmingham?
    Phil Mitchell, Mar 16, 2007
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  14. BRID

    BRID Has name in red. Staff

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    Because i'd rather see investment spread around, than concentrated in the capital IF IF IF IF IF those horrific sums of money need to be spent.

    Im all for trying to reduce some of the north south divide.

    Hell... put the Olympics in Newcastle, or Edinburgh.... anywhere except london.
    BRID, Mar 16, 2007
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  15. Phil Mitchell

    Phil Mitchell check me a dollar brer?

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    :lol: Birmingham isnt in the north

    Manchester has had shit loads of redevelopment and had the commonwealth games. Leeds is now the 'financial capital of the north'. Newcastle is radically different to what it was 10 years ago. Birmingham has had a ridiculous amount of development in the city centre. Isnt it Londons turn (especially considering 8 million people live here)?
    Phil Mitchell, Mar 16, 2007
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    Brid - you need to chill out fella, I strongly recomend a five hour session of listening to Radiohead non-stop without a toilet break.
    RadioheadFan, Mar 16, 2007
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  17. BRID

    BRID Has name in red. Staff

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    Ive spent far too long down here - to most southerners, anything north of watford is 'the north' ;)
    BRID, Mar 16, 2007
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  18. scruf

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    both Birmingham and Manchester have bid for the Olympics in the last 15 years and failed... look at the list of world cities that have hosted the games and it's clear that London is the only realisitc host in the UK.. London's managed twice before to host the games, once in post war depression, I think they'll manage it again..

    The commonwealth games didn't do a huge amount for regeneration in reality.. the real catalyst was the IRA bomb..

    A bomb on parts of East London wouldn't go amiss..
    scruf, Mar 16, 2007
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    scruf arrested on incitement to terrorism charge:D
    forks, Mar 16, 2007
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    :lol: :lol: Loving this guy!:king:
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