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Another of the myths created to try to claim Concorde was our design. It was not and all the evidence shows that to be true. In fact the French weren't looking for technical help, their need was for a financial partner to share the immense development cost and they approached others before us...

Which was designed by the French as the Super Caravelle years before we formed the partnership. A partnership was agreed later for each country to design their own SST for the best to be selected. Our design was rejected, the French enlarged design of their Super Caravelle was adopted, and it...

What aircraft might that be? .

Just been listening to a Senior Fellow of the Adam Smith Institute saying the vote for Brexit was the most sensible thing that had happened for decades. Then it was revealed that he was speaking from his home in Portugal. .

Although largely true for many aspects, England has a long record of picking up the bill to keep those places viable. So in that sense they are very much represented. Also we did grant a government in Scotland and assemblies in Wales and N.I., sometimes with generous powers. And we are all...

Multiple federations in fact: Britain, being the federation of England and Wales. Great Britain, being the federation of England, Wales and Scotland. The United Kingdom, being the federation of England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. So the EU is merely another layer, but even if we...

I'm not talking down our part, I'm trying to correct the idea that it was all down to us and the widespread notion that Concorde was British. It was not, we only designed the engines. It could have been carried out without the Rolls Royce involvement, the Bristol Olympus redesign was the...

Nice try at salvaging something. You cannot say that no-one else could have done the same, after all even the Russians managed it with their copy of the French design. Also the project had a choice of two engine designs. To say the rest of the airframe for supersonic flight was not that...

Concorde was French, based on their supersonic Super Caravelle design, and adopted as the joint supersonic transport against the competing British 6 engined design. For some strange reason the British always seem to think Concorde was our design. .

What a joke, we've long lost any competence to design airliners. From the Brabazon that couldn't get a load of passengers off the ground, to the Comet that crashed many times including four total losses, to the VC10 that was far too expensive to operate and the Britannia that arrived already...

Judging from events since the referendum, I think we're all living in a zoo. .

It wasn't a Tangent, it was a Bickerton. .

Just click on that link I gave you Jim, goes straight to the program. If you're not signed up to the i-player yet it should allow you to do that. P.S. If you're searching for it on another device, look for program "You and Yours", week commencing 20/1/19 for the edition titled: Brexit...

What has that to do with the EU? Elm House was run by Indian-born Haroon ‘Harry’ Kasir with his German born wife. We allowed him in from India, nothing to do with the EU, and we were lax in allowing him to get away with the crimes he was presiding over. .

I've posted about this in the S-pedelec forum but link to it here since it's of interest to this forum: Link to item .

Thanks to their transport minister, Denmark has become the third EU country to adopt S-pedelecs, and unusually is permitting them on normal cycle paths. Feelings are mixed about this but seem to be mainly in favour. There was an interesting spot in the radio program "You and Yours" about this...

Not true, that's a Tory media lie. See this reply .

That's already happened and still happening. To offset the sharp drop in nursing recruits from the EU since the referendum and those who have left, we've brought in large numbers from India and are still recruiting there. So much for Brexit controlling free movement. A s you've often posted...

Agreed, fully commit and Yes. This has always been my position. If we'd joined it in the first instance it would have been an even more powerful currency than it already is. And Remaining and joining it now would be good all round. Somehow I think you may disagree. .

I fully agree, but don't understand why Leavers expected anything different. Actually I do understand in one way, it's the refusal by so many Leavers to face reality. That reality is that the politicians are overwhelmingly Remainers and always have been. As Joiners they took us into Europe...