General Discussion
Once Brunel had decided he wanted the railway to hug the coast on this part of the line, there really was no other place to put the station in Dawlish. Given the monumental projects Brunel pioneered in his career I don't think you can accuse him lacking aspiration, he was a major influence in making the town what it is today.
@Mcjrpc You might not think Dawlish has prospered much in recent years, but do you really think the town would be a better place if the rail links to London and the rest of the country were severed?
Anybody who thinks getting rid of the railway would somehow enhance the town is living in cloud cuckoo land. A rail link aids prosperity, once it's gone decline sets in, you only have to witness the resorts on the north coast that lost their railways in the Beeching era to realise that. It's not just about tourists either, plenty of workers commute to Exeter and elsewhere, and how many people ...
@leatash What is it exactly that you want the government to do to tackle the "problem" of state pension payments? The state pension is hardly a king's ransom, and if a pensioner doesn't have a private pension back-up I don't know how they comfortably exist. It's quite simple, people are living longer and have to be paid a pension.
@Lynne Of course, the average covers a multitude of circumstances from a modest terrace to a £million+ property. And on the other side of the coin, people who have managed to scrimp and save have seen those savings seriously eroded by near zero interest rates.
The UCL report so vaunted by the pro-immigration lobby has been pretty much rubbished by Mervyn Stone, Emeritus Professor of Statistics at UCL who described it as “fatally flawed” , and “the study was ‘obviously driven to make the case it claims to have made’. He added: ‘If any honest statistician had made the same painstaking but assumption-based calculations, the last word he/she would have ...
Nick Robinson was absolutely right when he stated the last Labour government’s immigration policy, above all else, has had the profoundest effect on this country since the end of the last war. Jack Straw was being deceitful when he claimed ministers were merely misadvised about the true estimation of immigrant numbers from eastern European post 2004. It was Labour’s policy all along to allow ...
Nice attempt at deflection there Mrs C. Millie Dowling and Hillsborough have nothing whatsoever to do with the topic of this thread. I highly suspect we have more like Makaburi closer to home. The bomb in the Exeter restaurant in 2008 springs to mind.
@Mcjrpc If you go back and read comments by Smella in the initial thread he/she started, some of that posters comments are very rude, not directed at one one member directly, but at other members in general. You seem surprised by the reaction it caused, but it's obvious that was Smella's intention all along. I have no doubt Smella will resurface at some point, but not necessarily using that ...
So it would seem TDC wants to sell off the Laherne garden plots for commercial deveopment, I can see that going down like a lead balloon. And the plans for the leisure centre are a bit suspect.