As I was saying in my response to Simon’s post about SNP priorities, dualling the A9 is not the first priority, getting freight off the roads and onto the railways should take precedence. It appears that they read my blog!
It was announced this week that the Scottish Government is giving funding to Hauliers to [...]
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Posted on Saturday 24th May 2008 in Engineering, Politics tagged A9, commerce, Engineering, freight, Politics, rail, Scotland, tesco, with no comments.
Simon has been writing over at his blog about the fact that we are now one year on from the election of the SNP (minority) government, and what the have and have not achieved.
I must say, I have to disagree with some of his priorities…
Scrapping the Edinburgh Airport Rail Link (EARL)—this was a great idea. [...]
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Posted on Friday 2nd May 2008 in Engineering, Politics tagged A9, Engineering, Forth Bridge, Highland, Politics, Railway, with 3 comments.
It’s an unusual position to be in, but tomorrow I will be protesting with the Scottish Government against the replacement of the UK’s nuclear arsenal—Trident—our very own WMD.
I don’t support every policy of the SNP, but I admire Alex Salmond for standing up and voicing the opinion of the Scottish People—that we do not want [...]
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Posted on Friday 2nd November 2007 in Politics tagged cnd, Edinburgh, government, nuclear, Politics, Scotland, WMD, world_politics, with no comments.
Another fantastic piece of satire from Deadbrain: Government in tough crackdown on binge-raining.
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Posted on Thursday 23rd August 2007 in Blog tagged climate change, flooding, humour, phobia, Politics, with no comments.
An interesting article about the (lack of) disaster in the response to the flooding across central England last week If this is a national disaster, I’m a tomato—Times Online .
While it does not solve the problems of houses at risk, it does put the floods into perspective.
Roll on a considered response to the floods [...]
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Posted on Thursday 2nd August 2007 in Engineering tagged Engineering, England, environmental, flooding, government, Politics, with no comments.
