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You forget that Polson was Morton's right hand man on the project and
therefore knows everything about it.


iirc he was involved in one of the rival bids (and unsuccessful) bids to
build a bridge instead.
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On 16/03/2012 10:34, Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 08:36:36 on Fri,
16 Mar 2012, Graeme Wall remarked:
You forget that Polson was Morton's right hand man on the project and
therefore knows everything about it.


iirc he was involved in one of the rival bids (and unsuccessful) bids to
build a bridge instead.


Difficult to disentangle all his myriad claims but IIRC he was allegedly
working on the tunnel project but thought the bridge proposal was a
better option.

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On 16/03/12 11:50, Graeme Wall wrote:
Difficult to disentangle all his myriad claims but IIRC he was allegedly
working on the tunnel project


Remember that he has also claimed to have managed an opencast mine,
worked in every nuclear power station in Britain, run shops in Preston
and North Yorkshire, been a civil servant, written the transport section
of the Labour Manifesto in 1997, supervised the Piccadilly Line tunnel
under Heathrow and taken cover photographs for Vogue. I suppose it's
possible that some of these claims might be true.

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On 20/03/2012 23:54, The Real Doctor wrote:
On 16/03/12 11:50, Graeme Wall wrote:
Difficult to disentangle all his myriad claims but IIRC he was allegedly
working on the tunnel project


Remember that he has also claimed to have managed an opencast mine,
worked in every nuclear power station in Britain, run shops in Preston
and North Yorkshire, been a civil servant, written the transport section
of the Labour Manifesto in 1997, supervised the Piccadilly Line tunnel
under Heathrow and taken cover photographs for Vogue. I suppose it's
possible that some of these claims might be true.


Well he might have taken a photo of the cover of Vogue...


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On 16/03/12 10:34, Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 08:36:36 on Fri,
16 Mar 2012, Graeme Wall remarked:
You forget that Polson was Morton's right hand man on the project and
therefore knows everything about it.


iirc he was involved in one of the rival bids (and unsuccessful) bids to
build a bridge instead.


[citation require]

Ian


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In message , at 23:51:45 on Tue, 20 Mar
2012, The Real Doctor remarked:
You forget that Polson was Morton's right hand man on the project and
therefore knows everything about it.


iirc he was involved in one of the rival bids (and unsuccessful) bids to
build a bridge instead.


[citation require]


http://groups.google.com/group/uk.ra...5dfe76b6edfa72

Sorry, I knew he'd posted about the bridge option, but I had the context
reversed.

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On 21/03/2012 06:51, Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 23:51:45 on Tue, 20 Mar
2012, The Real Doctor remarked:
You forget that Polson was Morton's right hand man on the project and
therefore knows everything about it.

iirc he was involved in one of the rival bids (and unsuccessful) bids to
build a bridge instead.


[citation require]


http://groups.google.com/group/uk.ra...5dfe76b6edfa72

Sorry, I knew he'd posted about the bridge option, but I had the context
reversed.


There were other postings where he claimed that the Euroroute (bridge)
option was so much better and all those working on the tunnel agreed
with him.

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On 21/03/12 06:51, Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 23:51:45 on Tue, 20 Mar
2012, The Real Doctor remarked:
You forget that Polson was Morton's right hand man on the project and
therefore knows everything about it.

iirc he was involved in one of the rival bids (and unsuccessful) bids to
build a bridge instead.


[citation require]


http://groups.google.com/group/uk.ra...5dfe76b6edfa72

Sorry, I knew he'd posted about the bridge option, but I had the context
reversed.


Sorry, Roland, I wasn't clear. The [citation required] applied to
Polson's claim, not yours.

Ian

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