Steam Packet considers shake-up of fleet

[Beelzebub3]

27 minutes ago, CrazyDave said:

One is built on a field with easy access and the other is built on an old dock in a city centre.

There is no comparison 

The only comparison is that Nobles was £30million over budget in 2000 so looks like there is a comparison both grossly over budget and lesson's never learned.

[CrazyDave]

10 minutes ago, Gladys said:

And the majority of the work is groundwork, is it not? 

Exactly

[Jarndyce]

1 hour ago, Blade Runner said:

I know it was 20 years ago but Nobles cost about the same.............

Got a link, by any chance?   I’d be interested to read some detail about that.

Thanks

[Jarndyce]

16 hours ago, John Wright said:

Why would you take a cherry to Belfast?

If you mean Morelo, nice bit of kit

No, he meant his cherry!

[La Colombe]

16 hours ago, Happier diner said:

I won't be taking my morello to Belfast 

Bugger me, the price of those things! Posh pikey.

[manxman1980]

I presume that everyone complaining about the new terminal in Liverpool has heard of HS2?  Now there is a monumental waste of money.  Not only that but that project was born as a Labour Government idea, resurrected by the coalition government and heralded by successive Tory governments as part of the "Northern Powerhouse" and "levelling up".  

Now it looks likely that after spending billions it will connect two random stations in Birmingham and London.  Our collection of MHK's are only learning from the UK Government.

[Two-lane]

Not only that, when they find out how much electricity it consumes when in high-speed mode, they will mandate it should run only at half-throttle - global warming and all that stuff - save the planet.

 

[asitis]

2 hours ago, manxman1980 said:

Our collection of MHK's are only learning

They've learned nothing over the past thirty years, we continue to make the same mistakes !

[Blade Runner]

2 hours ago, manxman1980 said:

I presume that everyone complaining about the new terminal in Liverpool has heard of HS2?  Now there is a monumental waste of money.  Not only that but that project was born as a Labour Government idea, resurrected by the coalition government and heralded by successive Tory governments as part of the "Northern Powerhouse" and "levelling up".  

Now it looks likely that after spending billions it will connect two random stations in Birmingham and London.  Our collection of MHK's are only learning from the UK Government.

So that makes the island waste of taxpayers money okay then?

Fu6k me, I could point you to lots of off island projects that have run out of control, money wise, but they are usually complicated, VERY Complicated projects LIKE HS2.

Not a tin shed on a dock side site with good access to the M6

[Andy Onchan]

2 hours ago, manxman1980 said:

I presume that everyone complaining about the new terminal in Liverpool has heard of HS2?  Now there is a monumental waste of money.  Not only that but that project was born as a Labour Government idea, resurrected by the coalition government and heralded by successive Tory governments as part of the "Northern Powerhouse" and "levelling up".  

Now it looks likely that after spending billions it will connect two random stations in Birmingham and London.  Our collection of MHK's are only learning from the UK Government.

It was only ever going to be a Labour 'idea' nothing more; remember that note that Ed Balls left on the desk at the Treasury on the day Labour got booted out? 

[Andy Onchan]

9 hours ago, La Colombe said:

Bugger me, the price of those things! Posh pikey.

Yikes..... no wonder the SNP & Wee Cranky are in deep doo doo with their membership! 🤣

[Blade Runner]

1 minute ago, Andy Onchan said:

Yikes..... no wonder the SNP & Wee Cranky are in deep doo doo with their membership! 🤣

Good money in being a lawyer on the IOM

[quilp]

46 minutes ago, Blade Runner said:

Good money in being a lawyer on the IOM

Not for all lawyers though...

https://www.iomtoday.co.im/news/closed-law-firm-has-debts-of-ps800000-640478

[manxman1980]

2 hours ago, Blade Runner said:

So that makes the island waste of taxpayers money okay then?

Fu6k me, I could point you to lots of off island projects that have run out of control, money wise, but they are usually complicated, VERY Complicated projects LIKE HS2.

Not a tin shed on a dock side site with good access to the M6

Good access  to the M6? In Liverpool? Good luck with that!

 

[P.K.]

4 hours ago, Andy Onchan said:

It was only ever going to be a Labour 'idea' nothing more; remember that note that Ed Balls left on the desk at the Treasury on the day Labour got booted out? 

Actually it was Liam Byrne and obviously meant as a joke.

Needless to say the UK right wing press in thrall to the agenda of the owner, which is to say pretty much all of it, blew it out of all proportion and I should imagine their readership lapped it up.

Quite ironic when you consider one of the five tory PMs that the UK has had in the last five years tanked the economy which spread mortgage misery far and wide...