Have the French shut the Channel Tunnel yet?

Looks like a long spell in the wilderness now that Camerons vetoed the Euro agreement. We'll end up with high flying London a financial mega city and the rest of Britain a wasteland.
Truly bolloxed now IMO.

 

They're looking to move power away from London and into eight core cities according to yesterdays announcement. Quite the opposite of what your saying will end up with.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-16085494

 

i wish they would shut it .... preferably fill it in with concrete.

 

I take it you have never used it! It is brilliant (well at least the British end which is well organised - the French end being less so) My wife was always adamant she would not go under the channel but after we used it for the first time she became a complete convert.

The only downside is that it comes up in France rather than Italy/Seychelles/Bermuda

 

I think what Cameron did was in the best interests of maintaining our independence and sovereignty.

 

It was nothing to do with what was good for us

It was entirely to do with what was good for the financial sector in London.

I don't know enough about it to know if it was the right decision or not, but he did it for the banks not for the country.

 

Sovereignty? Whose?

UK? England? Yorkshire? South Yorkshire?

 

Perhaps it is

Considering the financial sector must be just about all we have left that earns our keep.

 

Re: Perhaps it is

That would be the same financial sector that got us in the sh*t in the first place and he defends them and stops them having to pay back what they did by rejecting a financial transactions tax.

 

And if the city experiment works, no matter how poorly, they'll use it as an excuse to expand it to towns. which will be the death of any town of our size outside the South East. And when councils no longer have any money to do even the core services, Cameron's and Clegg's mates in the private sector will come in, take all the profitable bits, charge a fortune for lesser services, then completely f**k us over.

Still, it's all Gordon Brown's fault.

 

Re: Perhaps it is

Unfortunately (on more than one level) I agree with Red Rag. Since Thatcher and subsequent governments put all our eggs in one basket, the UK PLC is currently inextricably linked with the fortunes of the financial services sector. it is irrelevant at this point whether that is right or wrong (personally I think we need to redress the balance and start making things again to reduce the reliance on the banks etc). So, for now, we HAVE to protect the banks fromn the EU. At the same time we need to introduce ligislation to control the excesses of the free-market in banking but that MUST come from ourparliament and noty from the EU.

 

Used the Chunnel at the weekend for a boozy christmas break in Brussels... skip the french destinations and you're fine!

 

Eight core cities outside London... Birmingham, Manchester, Reading, Oxford, Cambridge, Brighton, Guildford and Woking by any chance?

 

You didn't read the article then?

Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds, Liverpool, Newcastle, Nottingham, Manchester and Sheffield would be "core cities"

 

That probably explains why the land owned by Yorkshire Forward in Sheffield is eing handed over to the local council, whereas the land they own in Barnsley isn't to be handed to the Council even though it's pretty key to the redevelopment of the town centre.

 

don't forget the other concession he wanted, to sack workers for what ever reason without due course and compensation or reprimand.

 

I agree. And the sour attitude of Merkel and Sarky, due to the fact that they are not going to have access to our money, speaks a lot.