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Just imagine all the house building materials you could get off eBay with 1.6 billion! [edit] The British Rail Class 157 was the designation for a range of Diesel multiple unit trains of the Sprinter family.
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If Bibby cost 1.6bn, just for reference this loving thing costs 7.6bn.  Tories just begging for the swift slot of the Guillotine at this point. At least 90% of that cost is corruption. Diet Crack fucked around with this message at 17:14 on Oct 10, 2023 |
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Tory government contracts: one of the few situations in which 'mates rates' are substantially higher.
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Diet Crack posted:If Bibby cost 1.6bn, just for reference this loving thing costs 7.6bn. It was £7.6bn for two carriers, so designing, building, fitting out and commissioning one 65,000 ton supercarrier with a 30-year service life apparently costs 'only' twice as much as renting a 30-year old static barge with a portakabin on top of it for 18 months. "Outsourcing to the private sector is the most efficient allocation and use of resources...etc."
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https://twitter.com/nowthenmag/status/1711322491224797440 lmao cool stuff good country (for non-Twitter-havers: 261-year waiting list for Sheffield adults seeking diagnostic assessment for ADHD)
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BalloonFish posted:It was £7.6bn for two carriers, so designing, building, fitting out and commissioning one 65,000 ton supercarrier with a 30-year service life apparently costs 'only' twice as much as renting a 30-year old static barge with a portakabin on top of it for 18 months.
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TACD posted:https://twitter.com/nowthenmag/status/1711322491224797440 Is it really too much to ask them to be patient?
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welp https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/oct/10/people-supporting-hamas-in-uk-will-be-held-to-account-says-rishi-sunak
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Apraxin posted:welp Ah but waving the Israeli one, as is concurrently happening in Golders Green and surrounds, is not. gently caress off Braverman I hope you kick it.
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Guavanaut posted:I wonder how many Type 26 frigates could they build in Belfast, train and crew from red wall towns, and send around the world for a decade doing maritime security, counter-piracy, or humanitarian and disaster relief operations for the cost of one floating stagnant water tank. I totally get your essential point about that idea having much more economic, social, national and human value than the HMS Stagnant Water Tank, but for £1.6bn you're looking at building only one T26 and then its running costs for about 20 years. But a frigate is fairly significang overkill for security and humanitarian work. £1.6bn would let you build a flotilla of half a dozen corvettes, a couple of support/hospital RFA ships and a new pair of oceonography/hydrographical survey ships, with enough left over to crew and run them for a decade. Build them at Harland & Wolff and Cammell Laird and that would do far more for the economies of Northern Ireland and the Wirral than the Bibby Stockholm. Send them out to the areas of the world most at risk from storms, floods, fires, to patrol the maritime migrant routes and you'd do far more good for both humanity and Global Britain's reputation than a Carrier Strike Group.
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I like this still better https://twitter.com/BareLeft/status/1711797496412873169 fuctifino fucked around with this message at 18:38 on Oct 10, 2023 |
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Apraxin posted:welp Just trying to make an entire people illegal.
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Dead Goon posted:Just imagine all the house building materials you could get off eBay with 1.6 billion! Are you saying that the government wouldn't be able to build housing for at least 506 people for 1.6 billion? Again that's about £3m per person. And the houses would stay around for longer than 18 months, hopefully. Sure it won't solve the housing crisis in one go, but also lol, lmao. e: Looking around the average cost of a detached family house, newly built in 2023, is about £500k. But in reality that would of course be missing the point of enriching the right people. Private Speech fucked around with this message at 19:31 on Oct 10, 2023 |
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Private Speech posted:Are you saying that the government wouldn't be able to build housing for at least 506 people for 1.6 billion? Again that's about £3m per person. And the houses would stay around for longer than 18 months, hopefully. No he's taking the piss out of me.
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Private Speech posted:Are you saying that the government wouldn't be able to build housing for at least 506 people for 1.6 billion? Again that's about £3m per person. And the houses would stay around for longer than 18 months, hopefully. These kinda calculations get really depressing when you apply them to things like the cost of warfare. Not to be all lib-brained "this is like 1984!" but still, Orwell did write about how every bomb represents human labour that was used to destroy instead of create.
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NotJustANumber99 posted:I haven't done any kind of research but I imagine you could rent every 5 star ocean cruise liner on the planet for the next year for 1.6 billion quid. I can't find it now, but someone did the maths and booking the luxury-tier Disney cruise experience for 500 people for a year worked out considerably cheaper.
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Clyde Radcliffe posted:I can't find it now, but someone did the maths and booking the luxury-tier Disney cruise experience for 500 people for a year worked out considerably cheaper. Not completely sure I think that was back when the full costs were thought to be substantially lower too, sticker price and all that.
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It seems the average cost of a 7-night Disney cruise is about £2500. At that price, for the supposed cost of the Bibby Stockholm, you could send over 24,000 people for six months (the length of time 2/3rds of the people on the asylum case backlog have been waiting) each on a Disney cruise. Unfortunately there are five times that number of people on the backlog who have been waiting for at least six months.
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Lol watching the clip of the glittery Starman - he doesn't pull his hand away at any point, he just sorta stands there looking like a mildly unhappy NPC who might clip through the podium at any moment
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Keir Starmer confirmed stuck in mid-90s wrestling game animation.
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Take a look at the lawman Beating up the wrong guy Oh man, wonder if he'll ever know He's in the best selling show Can you boil mince on Mars?
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THE WET EGGS HAVE KICKED IN VICTORIA
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is that your excuse for your posts
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No doubt this will get just as much attention as Luciana Berger's Police Escort
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Tesseraction posted:is that your excuse for your posts **stands completely stationary unable to post**
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NotJustANumber99 posted:if i was a politician i would simply go out on stage every time already covered in glitter, porridge, orange dust, dog poo poo, whatever else my team come up with
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Tesseraction posted:THE WET EGGS HAVE KICKED IN
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fuctifino posted:https://twitter.com/Keir_Starmer/status/1711654447376478570 she didn't believe him when he said he puts bovril in his coffee
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sebzilla posted:No doubt this will get just as much attention as Luciana Berger's Police Escort But she deserves it
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kingturnip posted:In basically any other organisation, Apsana Begum would have a cast-iron case of religious discrimination against Labour extending waaaay before this conference. I totally agree and am not starting poo poo. But I guess thats what luciana burger also said
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https://twitter.com/stuwyatt/status/1711792651836510376 It's been a fun productive evening. A load of the satirical twitter troll people that you've been posting and laughing at for ages are now talking amongst themselves off twitter, and I think only good things can come out of the newly formed El Borto Appreciation Society. Watch this space.... fuctifino fucked around with this message at 23:35 on Oct 10, 2023 |
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