Recent content by Enthusiast

Nor is he, it seems.

And part of the reason for that is that doctors pronounced that they are doctors not revenue collectors. They have a very valid point. However, other nations seem perfectly capable of collecting payment (or EHIC details) when treating patients. The NHS has almost as many support staff as it has...

I would go along with that. When I read your earlier post I thought you were thinking of full size locos. That said, I cannot see it going down too well somewhere like Romney Hythe & Dymchurch or Ravenglass & Eskdale. For one thing those lines are too long but more important than that, the...

Indeed. And whoever is responsible for that is immaterial. That was the situation and it meant EU citizens had near enough unfettered access to settle here. If successive UK governments had perhaps been more diligent and took steps to ensure that the control that was available was utilised...

But we didn't. In any case, how do you suggest governments check up on arrivals who, when travelling between Schengen countries, rarely go through a form of border control, and when travelling from a non-Schengen country need only wave a passport. The numbers involved run into tens of millions...

No I don't. This debate started when it was suggested that, under FoM, more people had moved from the UK to settle in the EU than had moved from the EU to settle in the UK. I produced figures showing that was incorrect and that the excess (EU to UK over UK to EU) was probably about 2m. We...

No. The conditions of the funding package encouraged the Mayor to bring forward the already planned extension from the initial Inner London area (the are covered by the congestion charge) to encompass the area out to the North and South Circular Roads...

No it isn't. But we're talking about steam locomotives and all of the mainstream preserved steam locomotives that people go to see in the UK use coal as fuel. That's nothing to do with pedantry; it's just a fact. The idea of disembowelling a coal fired steam locomotive and providing electric...

True. But they do pay a contribution towards the cost of bringing the prosecution.

Sorry, but unless this is a late April Fool's joke, I just don't see the point. The clue is in the name - a steam locomotive. You need coal and water and you get heat, steam, smoke and a particular blend of noises. If you're simply going to fill a tender with batteries and traction motors...

Already explained (post #8,132). My response was to this: I took that at face value as I didn't know what Lord Cameron actually said. Investigating further, I found this in the Telegraph: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/24/leaving-echr-small-boat-crossings-lord-cameron/ It seems what...

Well, the ridiculous Rwanda scheme is said to be required to "stop the boats". With Lord Cameron's contention that it would not be needed if we were EU members, it seems to suggest there would be no small boats if we were EU members. That simply doesn't hold water. As far as I recall, the UK...

So what? That wasn't what was claimed. This was the claim: It mentioned nothing about percentages. My conclusion is that the UK has had to accommodate about three times as many EU citizens as the EU has UK citizens, in about one twentieth of the area. If you want to introduce another...

Yes the issue is that they should never have been subsumed into "London" in the first place. There are huge swathes of the outer London boroughs similar to the one I illustrated. These are rural areas, many comprising open farmland. They have next to no TfL services, gain nothing from the GLA...

How would the UK being an EU member stem the flow of small boats? That may be his thoughts (especially bearing in mind his statement on the steps of No 10 on the morning of 24th June 2016). But once again, how would the UK remaining in the EU have stemmed the flow of small boats? Are you...