mattleonard

Unfortunately, Streets Ahead has become all about how Amey can get away with doing as little work as possible in order to deliver the terms of the contract, rather tha n to fix what actually needs fixing. Roads like London Road and Archer Road are now cratered, pockmarked hazards (London Road in the rain is particularly dangerous as you have no idea how deep the holes will be). Obviously it's the major arterial routes - which are going to get worn out quicker, and which people are going to complain most about during the "maintenance" period, which they are putting off as long as possible, leaving them in a worse state than ever in the intervening years.

That's not a strong case at all. It's a strong case that there's a higher number of deaths per head of population (as is apparently stated by the data you have apparently seen), but that premise doesn't bear out your conclusion. For instance... a) you have stated that reports that Lincolnshire has the most dangerous roads. Putting the same drivers on different roads is likely to result in more accidents on more "dangerous" roads. b) you've made clear that you were in Lincolnshire, which demonstrates that not all the people on Lincolnshire roads are from Lincolnshire. Supposedly you keep to the speed limit, but who's to say that in general the accidents are not being caused by people from Lincolnshire, but people from other counties, say Yorkshire, who are not used to the more dangerous roads. c) if you drive at the speed limit on any road - regardless of whether it has speed cameras on it or not - and get overtaken only twice within 5 miles, then you have encountered a remarkably law-abiding neighbourhood. I honestly have no ties at all to Lincolnshire, but it's clear that your conclusions are shaping your assumptions and premises.

It really is a bit daft considering that much of the UK doesn't even want to be part of the UK. And it will be even more if we brexit. It's no coincidence that the SNP are renewing their independence campaigning. They will be over the moon if the leave campaign wins the referendum.

No, I just think that the suggestion that for each refugee's life which gets saved, a European family will die is completely ridiculous.

They were doing OK without dipping into their oil fund, because they were living it up on their oil proceeds and then having plenty left over to put into a fund. So yes, they were and are relying on their oil. ---------- Post added 07-03-2016 at 19:58 ---------- That isn't the choice.

So you clearly don't mind death, robbery, injury and unemployment, as long as it's not someone like you whom it happens to.

You obviously either haven't read, or else haven't understood, that article. It's saying that because their current oil revenues are small they are having to use the sovereign wealth fund built up from their past surplus. So the opposite conclusion to the one you drew.

Yes, they made a statement about the effects of EU membership (or non membership) on human rights. And you (tried to) counter it with a statement about an entirely separate institution. I assure you, I'm keeping up

Indeed - you brought up not being able to deport the people whom you want to.

You do know that the European Court of Human Rights isn't part of the EU, don't you?

You guys are a great advert for brexit

Suddenly this comment makes complete sense... You haven't thought this through at all beyond "immigrants - bad", have you?

So you haven't thought about those kind of things before deciding which way you should vote. Oh great ---------- Post added 07-03-2016 at 15:59 ---------- This is why (hopefully) your mother or father told you not to stand too close to the edge of cliffs.

Really, is that the best you can do? We'll exit and make absolutely no predictions about what the large-scale consequences will be? So, for example - currently we have a hand (commensurate to our size) in the process of deciding what trading in the majority of Europe - the largest trading bloc in the world - would be like; and you're happy for us to say, "yes, you guys all decide what's best for you amongst yourselves, based on what's best for your 12 trillion euro GDP; meanwhile we'll do our own thing and then we'll meet up with you and we'll decide how to match our 2.5 trillion Euro stake with yours and see who backs down. And then at the end of it, you'll pat yourself on the back and congratulate ourselves that we are no longer ruled by Brussels." ---------- Post added 07-03-2016 at 15:53 ---------- No, we don't have the oil that they do in order to be comparatively self-reliant.

Well, it's quite easy to get their government's opinion.