October 13th 11, 11:47 AM
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"Heathrow and Gatwick airports: Ministers mull rail link" (twixt
On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 10:58:30 +0100
Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 09:37:03 on Thu, 13 Oct
2011, d remarked:
If there's a tipping point (in or out of debtor's jail in Dickens's
tale) saving the fourpence won't help at all.
Maybe not. But better to try and fail than just give up and do an Eeyore.
The cost vs benefit is unfavourable, compared to many more useful things
one could be doing.
There's nothing like a good bit of short termist thinking. Let me guess,
education, hospitals, all the other standard issue emotive vote winners?
Fat lot of use any of them will be if the climate shifts drastically and
we're not ready for it.
B2003
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