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On Fri, 1 Jan 2016 09:59:36 +0000, Basil Jet
wrote: On 2016\01\01 09:50, e27002 aurora wrote: On Thu, 31 Dec 2015 20:23:11 +0000, BevanPrice wrote: On 29/12/2015 11:15, e27002 aurora wrote: On Mon, 28 Dec 2015 21:05:52 GMT, d wrote: On Thu, 24 Dec 2015 14:25:15 +0000 Basil Jet wrote: I notice that "Nine Elms" roundels have gone up all over the hoarding surrounding the former Sainsburys opposite Wilcox Road. Boris has also ceremonially started a conveyor belt from the Battersea station site to the Thames. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcjSnzw38iI Maybe they should have just built a two way conveyor from Battersea to Vauxhall and then we wouldn't need the railway ;-) I wonder if when that extension is built and the line is operationally split in 2 whether one half of the line will be given a new name or whether it'll still all be known as the northern line? Logically two independent lines should have two names. Independent from a customer facing standpoint that is. It would be no surprise if they still exchanged empty stock movements. If the bits that were the "Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway" remain together, the "Hampstead Line" has a good ring to it. Or, how about something royal? "The Queen Elizabeth Line", "The Charles, Prince of Wales Line", or "The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge Line". I suspect in every day speech these would become the QE2, Charlie, or Duchess Lines respectively. :-) TfL could celebrate a great politician: "The Cromwell Line", "The Winston Spencer Churchill Line", or, especially the part that includes the Barnett Branch "The Baroness Thatcher Line". That last one would probably make half the passengers want to puke....... You are believing your own leftist propaganda. Allow me to paint a more realistic pictu More than half of the potential users of the route just would not care. Sad, but welcome to the modern apathetic world. A healthy number would be happy to see the Iron Lady so honored. A boisterous left wing minority would make a lot of obscene fuss. They would use the methods at their disposal, vandalism, graffiti et al. This says more about them than the great lady. LU would be stupid to use a name which would obviously attract graffiti. Superficially you have a point Basil. But, why should conservatives only see the names of leftist "heroes" honoured, and not our own, merely because we do not resort to illegal and antisocial tactics. Let's take your point a step further: why fight Islamic State, doing so may bring about more terrorists attacks in Europe and North America. Never let the scum win. |
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On Fri, 01 Jan 2016 05:01:54 -0600,
wrote: In article , (e27002 aurora) wrote: On Fri, 1 Jan 2016 09:59:36 +0000, Basil Jet wrote: On 2016\01\01 09:50, e27002 aurora wrote: On Thu, 31 Dec 2015 20:23:11 +0000, BevanPrice wrote: On 29/12/2015 11:15, e27002 aurora wrote: On Mon, 28 Dec 2015 21:05:52 GMT, d wrote: On Thu, 24 Dec 2015 14:25:15 +0000 Basil Jet wrote: I notice that "Nine Elms" roundels have gone up all over the hoarding surrounding the former Sainsburys opposite Wilcox Road. Boris has also ceremonially started a conveyor belt from the Battersea station site to the Thames. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcjSnzw38iI Maybe they should have just built a two way conveyor from Battersea to Vauxhall and then we wouldn't need the railway ;-) I wonder if when that extension is built and the line is operationally split in 2 whether one half of the line will be given a new name or whether it'll still all be known as the northern line? Logically two independent lines should have two names. Independent from a customer facing standpoint that is. It would be no surprise if they still exchanged empty stock movements. If the bits that were the "Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway" remain together, the "Hampstead Line" has a good ring to it. Or, how about something royal? "The Queen Elizabeth Line", "The Charles, Prince of Wales Line", or "The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge Line". I suspect in every day speech these would become the QE2, Charlie, or Duchess Lines respectively. :-) TfL could celebrate a great politician: "The Cromwell Line", "The Winston Spencer Churchill Line", or, especially the part that includes the Barnett Branch "The Baroness Thatcher Line". That last one would probably make half the passengers want to puke....... You are believing your own leftist propaganda. Allow me to paint a more realistic pictu More than half of the potential users of the route just would not care. Sad, but welcome to the modern apathetic world. A healthy number would be happy to see the Iron Lady so honored. A boisterous left wing minority would make a lot of obscene fuss. They would use the methods at their disposal, vandalism, graffiti et al. This says more about them than the great lady. LU would be stupid to use a name which would obviously attract graffiti. Superficially you have a point Basil. But, why should conservatives only see the names of leftist "heroes" honoured, and not our own, merely because we do not resort to illegal and antisocial tactics. Let's take your point a step further: why fight Islamic State, doing so may bring about more terrorists attacks in Europe and North America. Never let the scum win. We very rarely name public facilities after party politicians. Things (e.g. the Cambridge college) have been named after Churchill precisely because he is seen as a national saviour, above party politics. Perception is all of course. Nobody has suggested naming anything after Wilson either and he's a less controversial figure than Thatcher. That has much to do with media coverage. Wilson's capital controls, prices and incomes, and high tax policies did immense damage. Brains and capital simply left Britain. Much of the Baronesses success was down to repairing Wilson's damage. That is not the way the TV, Radio and the press reported it. |
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In article , (Roland Perry)
wrote: In message , at 05:01:54 on Fri, 1 Jan 2016, remarked: Nobody has suggested naming anything after Wilson either and he's a less controversial figure than Thatcher. Things? (Other than a street in the West Midlands) He has the "Wilson Doctrine" of course. and there is Thatcherism to which some here seem to subscribe. -- Colin Rosenstiel |
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who would be offended by her name being given to a tube line are not scum. Please keep your hero-worshipping adulation under control. |
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