Fight "Brexit" if you want to

www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/jul/23/labour-would-leave-single-market-jeremy-corbyn

A Labour government would leave the single market because it is “dependent on membership of the EU” but seek a trade deal that mirrored the free trade benefits, Jeremy Corbyn has said.

Distance by road from London to Nottingham - 127 miles
Distance from Nottingham to Newcastle - 159 miles
Distance from Newcastle to Edinburgh - 140 miles

So modernising a third of the A1 (that little bit between Newcastle and Edinburgh) has no importance?

My iPad really doesn't like the word "dualed" it prefers dialed ! (Is there even such a word as dualed???)

It is the Newcastle to Scotland bit I am thinking about Mazie

Only part of the A1 is going/has gone ahead. There is no timetable in place for the rest (the words of Chris Grayling) "we are therefore concentrating on the stretch between Morpeth and Ellingham" "can I give a date when the A1 will be dialed from Newcastle to Scotland.......No"

There is a very dangerous stretch between Ellingham and Berwick over 16 miles long . No plans are in the cards to do this.

I went to bed as we are of course an hour ahead of you!

I think it could well be a trip visa - I think the SA ones are.

If the EU fund projects the Objective one areas get a lot of money and the UK Govt cannot deflect it. - must be used for the project it was agreed - this is how Wales has had so much

He has done some absolute classics recently.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2017/jul/20/steve-bell-on-britain-and-the-brexit-negotiations

Yes, that's on page 3, the public exhibitions about it.
At least I will not have to go up to Cramlington regularly when that starts. The CoalHouse roundabout seemed to take for ever.

I know that, but it hasn't been cancelled.
They are actually having demonstrations about it at the moment, and until the end of August, to show residents what it's all about. Roads always take a long time to plan, particularly ones through cities.

It doesn't start until 2020, dj

See page 2

highwaysengland.citizenspace.com/he/a1-scotswood-to-north-brunton/supporting_documents/N170002_Scotswood_PIE_Flyer_Digital3%20HIGH%20RES%20FOR%20WEB.pdf

I think I read somewhere that Norway has been in transition for 23 years.

It hasn't been.

roads.highways.gov.uk/projects/a1-scotswood-to-north-brunton/

I didn't realise it had been shelved.

BiG road projects in the North East ? Yore having a laugh aren't your Welshwife

There is the interminable upgrading of the A1 a bit further south, but I think it counts as the North East gillybob. It's a huge project and it's been going on for years. We'll eventually have A1(M) all the way to Newcastle. Perhaps they'll get round to the Newcastle - Edinburgh stretch next.

Stupid iPad !

I think that most of the planned work has been shelved Tegan and only a very short stretch will go / has gone ahead.

They need the money for the HS2 project and we're only Northerners after all.

Aren't some of the railways, too, Welshwife?
If they are not owned by the French, it's the German national rail company.
Here's proper bringing back control.

weownit.org.uk/sites/default/files/downloadable-resources/We%20Own%20It%20manifesto%202017%20-%20How%20public%20ownership%20can%20give%20us%20real%20control.pdf

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David Cameron did promise more dual carriageways on the A1 [even had his photo taken on one stretch of the road]. As with a lot of his promises [except for the referendum] nothing much seems to be happening.

BiG road projects in the North East ? Yore having a laugh aren't your Welshwife we still have a (lethally dangerous) single lane stretch of road linking us to Scotland!

I very rarely travel abroad so that won't effect me really.

But the Rioja.... Well that's different .

Is that per visit, Welshwife? It'll add a bit to a family holiday.

It's all still very open and could go either way. Article 50 is not binding until the very end. Parliament can still call the whole thing off.

A soft Brexit is not an option when you look at it logically and a hard one economic suicide. The only viable option therefore is to effectively call the whole thing off.

As more truths come to light the more likely it is that the house of cards will fall apart. I agree that relatively few Leave voters have changed their minds but the hitherto apathetic youngsters that supported JC in the General election have given a mandate for change that cannot be ignored.

MP's will vote to stay if they think the country is behind them. The trend to stay is happening democratically.

It will need direct action and there are enough of us who care to make that possible.

Some colleges - particularly for post 18 education were funded by the EU too.

Don't turn your taps on as most water companies are French owned and so are the electricity power stations.

You may well find that some of the big road projects were EU funded. The wine would be expensive anyway and you would probably need to pay for Visas to visit countries on the Continent - one visa for each person and for each country. The current price for 3rdcoubtry people visiting France is about £30.

Do they live under bridges POGS ?

Can we still have Spanish wine though * Tegan*?

I rarely holiday abroad only cos I can't afford to, not because I am boycotting them

Not sure if there are any EU funded projects around here.