Brown Abandons the One Million Britons Stranded Abroad.
The Express has beaten the Daily Mail to it.
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/...itons-stranded
One commentator reviewing the Sunday papers on the Andrew Marr show said, I wonder what they think he should be doing about it, maybe they think he should go up to John O'groats and blow very hard.
The daily wail and Daily Diana will always knock him..Originally Posted by IainBusby
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/...itons-stranded
One commentator reviewing the Sunday papers on the Andrew Marr show said, I wonder what they think he should be doing about it, maybe they think he should go up to John O'groats and blow very hard.
But the goverment do seem to have been very quiet of a subject which is going to cost many industrys (many wont be hit yet) in fact all parties have to busy thinking about themsleves..
I have yet to read in detail the heavyweight media today but from a quick glance. I know of course it hit a bit to late for indepth articles or for the cvill servants to be in their offices for quotes but in the sunday papers i cant see very many mentions of authorities apart from BAA or the MET office commenting offcial or off the record regarding the wider issues..
The wife who is technically stranded out in phill is ok she's with family and still has a week and a few days to go before her flights due. If the worse came to the worse we have plans as a family to get her nearer the Uk and then a boat home I kid you not and apart from some cost to the family who have all offered to chip in without asking it will hopefully be just a big adventure for her!!!
Im more worried how many small british companies in many fields will possibly find this is the final straw and how it affects peoples lives for ever
I do hope the goverment and all the major parties do have their thinking caps on otherwise even those not affected directly may suffer if medical supplies drop to critical levels and companies which deal with their employers are affected.
Oh lord why did you make so many clothes and shoe shops
Always looking for somebody to blameInstead of pointing the finger at somebody should worry about the future after this.
The country was in good financial health in 2001. I think this will hit hard.Economists last night expressed fears that Britain’s biggest airport crisis since 9/11 could stall the country’s recovery from recession.
I'm just surprised that the Daily Mail didn't manage to get in there first...... I think Dedworth will have write to them and complain.
Also with the internet age etc we think things can be solved in mintues hours or maybe at the worsted days! This technically could affect the Uk and europe in various ways (not just airbans) for months!!Always looking for somebody to blame
The country was in good financial health in 2001. I think this will hit hard.
Oh lord why did you make so many clothes and shoe shops
I agree that it's a very worrying situation, but I can't see what any politician could do that would make much of a difference, but I'm sure either the Daily Mail or the Daily Express will tell us all........ or if they don't, I'm sure Dedworth will have all the answers.
I dont expect a big announcment but im sure you aware in this media savvy world normally if the goverment wants to reassure people they let it be known either in a statment or via off the record comments to the major media outlets that things are being planned in the background. It seems to have been vey very quiet from what im seeing.
Oh lord why did you make so many clothes and shoe shops
I think Dedworth will have write to them and complain.Rather uncalled for comments, I reckon.
Not at all, it was just a tongue in cheek comment about the way he, like the Daily Mail and the Daily Express, usually finds a way to blame everything on Gordon Brown.Rather uncalled for comments, I reckon.
i don't think so dom, if dedworth gives he's got to take it as wellRather uncalled for comments, I reckon.
he's been slagging off united and the labour party all the time, i'm sure he's not offended by a bit of
Realisically, what CAN he [Brown] or ANYONE else do ... IF, as the insurance companies insist, it's an "Act of God", then the only (logical) "solution" would seem to be to
Act of God????
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Actually, Dedworth's blaming this one on Iceland
Ive decided to boycott there high street stores over thisActually, Dedworth's blaming this one on Iceland
Keep the facts comming
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I stopped going there after they fired the lovely Miss KatonaIve decided to boycott there high street stores over this
Keep the facts comming
If my insurance took that line I'd take them to court and ask them to prove of his existence.Act of God????
Keith - Administrator
Well Bottler Brown finally has pulled his finger out and done something about it - too little too late. 3 Royal Navy ships have been mobilised.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8628878.stm
Cruise ships/ferries etc could have been requisitioned under emergency powers etc and sent out. My friends were on the Oriana which returned to Southampton yesterday from Brest - it's now gone off on it's scheduled Western Med cruise with 1900 punters. Their cruise should have been cancelled and the ship used to bring home those stranded.
I never had the slightest doubt that you would think that anything he done was wrong, too little, too much, too late, too expensive, too cheapskate or probably all of these things and others as well, because your judgement is so clouded by hatred for the man.
I never had the slightest doubt that you would think that anything he done was wrong, too little, too much, too late, too expensive, too cheapskate or probably all of these things and others as well, because your judgement is so clouded by hatred for the man.
And your reason for why this inept Govt has had it's head in the sand and done nothing for days is ?
He's as slippery as they come and will not take any action preferring to do nowt and when it is all over blame the Health And Safety Guardianista
It might have escaped your notice (maybe because the Daily Mail forgot to tell you about it)
It's OK for you moaning on about it from the safety of you armchair, but would you like to be one to make the decision to allow these planes to fly if there was even the slightest possibility that they may fly into this cloud and fall out of the sky.
The first ship into Spain is just to pickup troops... 'maybe' some public.
Keith - Administrator
It might have escaped your notice (maybe because the Daily Mail forgot to tell you about it)
It's OK for you moaning on about it from the safety of you armchair, but would you like to be one to make the decision to allow these planes to fly if there was even the slightest possibility that they may fly into this cloud and fall out of the sky.
Well KLM & Lufthansa weren't sitting in their armchairs as widely reported (including the Daily Handwinger http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/9036398) they put up test flights while Pa Broon kept his head firmly in the sand.
Carry on following the Bottler lemming like, the cliff's edge isn't far away
Childish.I never had the slightest doubt that you would think that anything he done was wrong, too little, too much, too late, too expensive, too cheapskate or probably all of these things and others as well, because your judgement is so clouded by hatred for the man.
I did hear tell that British Airways has also put up a test flight, are you suggesting that Gordon Brown should just tell them all not to be so silly and just get on with it because Dedworth, the DM and the Express have all said it's OK.Well KLM & Lufthansa weren't sitting in their armchairs as widely reported (including the Daily Handwinger http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/9036398) they put up test flights while Pa Broon kept his head firmly in the sand.
Carry on following the Bottler lemming like, the cliff's edge isn't far away
"British Airways says a test flight conducted yesterday has provided fresh evidence that blanket airspace restrictions are unnecessary and should be lifted.
The airline's chief executive Willie Walsh yesterday took a two-hour flight at 40,000ft which turned up no sign of damage to the aircraft or its engines.
The results prompted BA to call on the Government urgently to adopt new policies which would allow airlines to resume flying. But the BA findings contradicted information from military sources. A senior Western diplomat said several Nato F-16 fighter jets that flew through the ash cloud had suffered engine damage, saying glass-like deposits were found inside the planes' engines."
I think I would prefer to put my trust in the opinion of the aforementioned "military sources" rather than that of Willie Walsh.
So Willie Walsh is mug enough to risk his own life, that of the crew and also the loss/damage to a multi million pound 747. How about the risks taken by Dutch & German airlines ?
Where do these previously unheard of F16's come from ? - I'd hazard a guess and suggest Belgium - a suitably spineless nation that is at the hub of Eurocracy
The F16's only one was damaged out of the 'flock', and they actually flew through the cloud ... not the dispersed cloud that is over the EU..... and now the bans are being lifted as officials wake-up it seems Willie Walsh and me were right all along.... I never trusted the only scientific theoretical model they used with no physical test data to back it up.
Keith - Administrator
No doubt Iain will be pleased to give us the official politburo line on the crucial role Gordon Brown played in leading Europe out of this crisis.The F16's only one was damaged out of the 'flock', and they actually flew through the cloud ... not the dispersed cloud that is over the EU..... and now the bans are being lifted as officials wake-up it seems Willie Walsh and me were right all along
There I was thinking Pa Broon was a gutless, indecisive, bottler unable to take decisions
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Keith - Administrator
No I won't be doing that because unlike both yourself and the DM, I see absolutely no benefit in distorting the facts just so that they appear to justify my own political beliefs.
The decision to ground planes was not Gordon Brown's so I would be very surprised if he tried to take credit for getting them back in the air.
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