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« Reply #15 on: November 26, 2013, 23:02:48 »

Unless theyve recently changed it:
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Paid Coffee is the freshly ground stuff that takes ages to make.
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« Reply #16 on: November 27, 2013, 08:31:11 »

from John Redwood this morning ... Why is the railway so untidy?

http://johnredwoodsdiary.com/2013/11/27/why-is-the-railway-so-untidy/

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Running a good business requires good housekeeping. Good modern factories are spotlessly clean. The best shops have well arranged goods, empty aisles and sparkle with their cleanliness. If you fly into Heathrow you see a busy airport around you, but you are not confronted by parked broken and decaying planes, piles of tarmac to repair the runway, or weeds growing high by the side of the taxiway.

I think I'm spotting a series of posts here, and I'm wondering if no. 3 or no. 4 is going to propose suggestions as to how the railways should be changed in order to change these issues.

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« Reply #17 on: November 27, 2013, 17:56:09 »


 Perhaps Mr. Redwood is making a 'maneuver ' towards a cabinet post, transport secretary perhaps.
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« Reply #18 on: November 27, 2013, 17:58:35 »

from John Redwood this morning ... Why is the railway so untidy?

http://johnredwoodsdiary.com/2013/11/27/why-is-the-railway-so-untidy/

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Running a good business requires good housekeeping. Good modern factories are spotlessly clean. The best shops have well arranged goods, empty aisles and sparkle with their cleanliness. If you fly into Heathrow you see a busy airport around you, but you are not confronted by parked broken and decaying planes, piles of tarmac to repair the runway, or weeds growing high by the side of the taxiway.

I think I'm spotting a series of posts here, and I'm wondering if no. 3 or no. 4 is going to propose suggestions as to how the railways should be changed in order to change these issues.



He is ranting but there is no substance, which is typical of him he wasn't much cop as a County Councillor and not the County don't have Council
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