• beckerist@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    “Scheming EU states” is a total flame bait headline. The UK is not part of the EU, so why should they be included in any of this? They should be HAPPY about the EU not “meddling” with their “freedom”!

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      9 months ago

      Not only that, but there are also two arrows on this map going into the UK. It’s up to the UK to take care of how well these arrows connect to important locations within their borders. There really doesn’t appear to be an issue whatsoever.

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        9 months ago

        These arrows already exist! The France one is the English tunnel and the Ireland one is there because they need to make Ireland feel like one island. The uk dont have much control over how well they connect to their border. I think the uk would have benefited from this plan as they seem to be having problems with trains

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      9 months ago

      I found the wikipedia article:

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-European_Transport_Network#List_of_transport_networks

      Apparently initial proposals for this pre-date brexit by 26 years.

      This is a Daily Express article. Utter trash, right wing yellow journalism. Rabidly pro-brexit, endorsed Liz Truss for PM. You know, the weird cheese lady who was outlasted by a lettuce.

      Obviously brexit isn’t going so well and neither is the latest tory PM, so it’s time for their daily article about how the foreigners done ruined Engerland.

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      9 months ago

      If that idiotic and corrosive Brexit campaign had been defeated, the headline might be screaming how scheming EU nations drag the UK into their expensive transport plans.

      Also the same mindless parrots on their tellys and newspapers would be mindlessly arguing the point, tossing out word salads, exactly as they would with the EU making their plans and keeping the UK out of them.

      Meanwhile, non-voters who could have made a difference will be just as idiotic on polling day: “Politics is for wankers/both parties are the same. Shall we go for drinks?”

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      9 months ago

      It’s the Daily Express, an offshoot of the Daily Mail. They both have ridiculously anti EU slants and have had those for decades

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        9 months ago

        Every since the thought occurred to me I can’t stop thinking about it. There is just this entire class of people out there who do no real work, are paid money to tell us how they should be running things, and whose only plan in running things is to take something that works and break it.

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      9 months ago

      The UK doesn’t need to be part of this really, there’s one link to mainland Europe (the channel tunnel) and the rest should just be sensible UK road and rail network planning. NI and Ireland already have ways to cooperate when it comes to planning transport on the Ireland of Island.

      I say “in theory” because our government just scrapped HS2 phase 2, so our rail network is going to continue to be shit for years.

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        sensible UK road and rail network planning

        How many decades has it been since THAT last happened, though?

        I say “in theory” because our government just scrapped HS2 phase 2, so our rail network is going to continue to be shit for years.

        Oh. Same page, it would seem 😁