General Discussion
By NRs own admission ('The One Show', Mike Gallop) the majority of the wall (new 200year 'concrete breach section' excepted) is liable to only being good for 4-10years. NR therefore know full well that something major HAS to be done and done soon to beat the clock. To be fair to AMM, by 'involve the community' here's what she may be getting at. Breakwater solutions will not be a very pretty ...
Sorry nothing, losing the plot, was of course MM not AMM - getting my MMs and AMMs all mixed up now! (editted) Anyway, thing is DC was getting quized about the expenses farce rather than the more pressing matters that we actually elect and expect polititians to get on with.
Going back to the point of this thread, the real reason politicians get held in contempt by voters is their frequent brazen side stepping of questioning which repeatedly makes them sound so duplicitious. Even AMM's 30second 'apology' yesterday, came across as 'saying I am sorry because I have to'.
And this is the picture I am talking about...what the heck did people expect to happen in a storm when the foreshore has been left to be so completely denuded.
...and well done MM ...according to the World at One today, journalists at Dawlish are more keen to ask DC about her expenses than any other topic. Not that political humbug stopped there. The transport secretary was interviewed about investment in the SW and had to be pressed three or four times before even starting to half give an answer to the real question. Paraphrasing from memory: 1. ...
Seems from the answer on the BBC is 200years for the breach (happy days for those houses) and therefore 4-10years for the rest of it.
This would be the win-win for Dawlish, proper protection of railway and town and no competing alternate route. Just hope that if this becomes the only new infrastructure it is done well enough to push the sea far enough away from the tracks for electrification to be viable one day.
Ref above BBC: Andy Crowley, from contractor Amco, said: "The amount of concrete that's gone in there, that will be there for at least 200 years, beyond a shadow of a doubt." I guess that the 4-10year comment on the 'One Show' must therefore refer to the rest of the 4miles. Hence the breakwater being mooted.
...and perhaps most compellingly, if most people over claimed their expenses to the tune of £5800 for whatever reason they would fully expect to lose their job, so therefore have no sympathy! p.s. while on the subject of MPs a certain name keeps coming up on threads, so thought it high time to educate myself and not be 'behind the curve' anymore. It's the 'arm in strap' that gets me the most. ...
Supply and demand? Expectation of being squeeky clean and altruistic? Payback for setting taxes?
