Some of the Funding the Future team will be at a national model railway show today.
Normally they’re plotting to be the Fat Contoller for all of us.
Some of the Funding the Future team will be at a national model railway show today.
Normally they’re plotting to be the Fat Contoller for all of us.
It seem the utter incongruousness of that statements has passed him by.
Not to mention the fatal question it begs: which Stalinist Fat Controller would ever allocate resources to model railways? Was there much of this activity in the USSR?
There’s precedent for making the trains run on time so it seems a good place to start.
Ironically, the worst country I’ve been to for railway punctuality is Italy. But you’re sat on a platform of a lovely old station, the sun is shining and you have really good espresso and cannoli and you don’t care that much.
(I believe this also explains the protestant work ethic).
You’ve not been to Germany recently, then! The Swiss are threatening to ban German international trains, because they bugger up their precision timetables. 🙂
Long time ago in Germany and it seemed fine.
Swiss trains are precise. I’ve been on a few. I think they’re quite a nerdy people. Name a Swiss band, fashion designer or film director.
It’s not just that the trains are precise, the whole system is, or at least was when I worked on a long project in Zurich. The trams in particular require that precise timing for interconnecting with trains.
That said, I was once a platform when the train was delayed because of leaves on the track and the Swiss were very twitchy.
The only time I caught a Swiss train, it was late.
Admittedly only 2 minutes late, but it still shattered my image.
Gotthard, Mattli, Christoph Schaub
The Swiss: a nation with 4 official languages and still managed to name their national airline in English. Still at least their flag is a big plus.
Great place, memories of haymaking back in the day!
Do they intend to nationalise it?
The Great British Model Railways Show?
Britain’s Got Railways
Very detailed layout apparently. Includes a canal with no boats and an incredible scale model of a libel court. You can even see the blustering fat man in the dock.
Unfortunately the RMT are insisting on 2-man operations so none of the trains will actually leave the station.
That’s….. an original form of torture when it comes to “team building”….
as in one of?
which may mean all of?
All those years preparing for the day his country finally elects a far-left government and the call will come …
And when a far-left government has indeed been elected, he still finds himself spending his days agitating at model railway shows.
I don’t think we’ve seen far left, or at least by comparison with what is about to replace Starmer’s incompetence.
I do understand that. It is the general view. But then I think, what exactly could Starmer’s successors actually push through, within the country’s economic and social constraints, which is further to the left than that of the Starmer/Hermer/Labour backbench axis? Is there a feasible way that Murphy-ism, with its unconstrained central planning, money printing, immigration and benefits spending, could actually be achieved?
Miliband as PM or Chancellor will go all in on Net Zero because he’s deluded enough to believe the stuff he puts out that it’s good for the economy and our security.
Rayner is already demanding that Mahmood is sacked as Home Secretary and her meagre reforms at tackling immigration be reversed. She’s also in the pocket of the unions so expect more anti employment legislation.
Streeting won’t get in without Rayner or Miliband and they’ll be given free reign.
But then I think: Miliband is already all-in on Net Zero; Mahmood’s immigration reforms are, as you say, meagre, so would we actually notice any difference if they were reversed; and the anti-employment legislation currently being passed is already leading to mass employment among the young. That is why I think that Murphy already has his far-left government and must be mightily miffed that he is not part of it.
It’s an interesting discussion to have though (‘interesting’ as in ‘may you live in interesting times’).
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Thanks. Sorry. I meant ‘mass unemployment among the young’ under the current regime.
Bingo bongo badgers bodgers
Ok sorry, ignore all that.
Something went weird with my virtual keyboard, but it seems fixed now. Some Google update caused it.
Why is it a ‘national’ model railway show? Isn’t that rather racist? Surely it should be the internationally diverse model railway show, open to all regardless of ethnicity, nationality and sexual preference? Including all those who self identify as locomotives, trucks, or carriages? Wouldn’t want to be trainsphobic after all……..
Does he model in OO, UK only, or HO, rest of the world? And are his locos and rolling stock 50’s era or modern?
Well, OO and HO have the same track gauge, so the rolling stock can, erm, roll on the same track. OO rolling stock is bigger, so it overshadows HO rolling stock, and is too big to fit through OO landscapes, but being bigger is easier for pudgy hands to handle.
I am not now and never have bewn a member of the communi..ty of railway modellers.
Because even when he’s playing with toy trains, Murphy still needs to try to make himself sound important.
It’s sad really.
Given his expressed nastiness, his attempts to sound human – his covids, his birdwatching, his trainsets – always ring rather hollow! Though his sycophants (terrified of being banned for wrongspeak?) can be relied upon to post grovelling and vomit-inducing sympathy for whatever ails the cretin.
To be fair, they do often suggest that he takes time off. Which may be double-edged.
Related: I’ve just seen a Reform tweet saying they were canvassing in Ely today. I hope they canvassed Richard Murphy, good and hard.