As above, I look in every time I see an update 🙂 There will be way more people looking at this thread and appreciating it than you think.

Am I right in assuming that a succesfull flight of this one will make the road to a flying Tempest easier?

I should think that getting a Napier Sabre engine ready for flight is going to require a lot of bespoke engineering work and parts production, and at least some reverse engineering. Whoever does this first will naturally make this process easier for those who follow. Isn’t Kermit Weeks intending to have an airworthy Sabre engined Tempest? No doubt both the British and Canadian projects can benefit from this.

https://www.facebook.com/KermitWeeks/photos/a.929460523789694.1073742475.271937182875368/929460563789690/?type=1&theater

“One day I hope to put one together as a flyer and I intend to use one as a static for an immersion environment”

The more I read about Mr Weeks, the more I get the impression that ‘Fantasy’ of Flight is an apt name for his museum. Yes, he does a of of good for the warbird community, and does restore and fly a lot of types, but he is also a serial hoarder, and there’s no way he will ever get round to doing half the aircraft in his collection (Looking firmly at this B29, his Lancaster, and the Sunderland). Surely while he is complaining about struggling to make money at his exhibit, he would be better off reducing his collection, and using the funds to concentrate on things he can realistically get done.

That’s beautiful 😎

although I firmly believe that it has been a net benefit for the UK in recent years.

By which measure?

Financially? perhaps. Unfortunately the figures always fail to mention the costs to infrastructure, and the current infrastructure shortfall + required investment. And as the NHS up and down the country hasn’t been recording the country of origin for so many of these people, there’s no way of knowing for sure how much that is costing. Then there’s the prison system demographics, which are quite frankly, shocking. Not as bad as the French mind, where their ‘cultural enrichment’ has resulted in a certain minority group (10% of their population) making up 70% of the prison population. And most certainly, the poorest in our society don’t benefit from a saturated labour pool.

What of the environmental impact? I don’t have an issue with immigration in principle, and certainly appreciate the contribution migrants make to our public services. I suspect a lot of leave voters are the same. What I have an issue with is overpopulation, exacerbated by record net migration, resulting in England being one of the most densely populated major countries in the world. Seemingly, only solution is the permanent destruction of so many habitats that are rich in unique plant and animal life.

So what, exactly, is the net benefit of mass immigration? Propping up our ponzi scheme of an NHS? increasing the profit margins of large multinationals? I fail to see any tangible benefit to the average person, and can think of so many legitimate downsides.

I’m not entirely sure what a Neoliberal is. Its a term bandied around a lot of late, but gets used to describe anyone right of Jeremy Corbyn, and Left of Nigel Farage.

Basically someone who promotes a race to the bottom with the motivation of lining their own pockets. Living standards, society, the environment etc be damned. They often pretend to be socialist, but would privatise the NHS in a heartbeat if it made them £1 a month better off.

This gets funnier and funnier. Now you can have independence without wealth and that’s what 17 million of you believe.

You were leading the world recovery. Now you are an unfathomable source of global amusement. You have a declining manufacturing sector, prices already rising and no political will to change that and fix the problems you yourselves have caused.

Your currency has crashed and it’s achieved nothing of value as your exports are mostly high end items that sell on quality not price.

You will go from global power to the proudest man in the soup kitchen. The amusement will be seeing how you try and make it someone else’s fault when your 17 million people realise what they’ve done!. The first step will be when the questions go unanswered as to why you aren’t richer when you leave as you were promised. That’s when the real comedy will begin.

Many of us would gladly become poorer to try and conserve what little of our green areas we have left.

As for you, I hope you and your fellow neoliberals are content with your unimaginable wealth when your children are living in a barren concrete wasteland, devoid of all non human life.

As far as I’m concerned, you neolibs are worse than ISIS. Certainly much worse for the planet.