No it doesn’t, and Dowd did not forget anything. It is an excuse to quote a government minister at length in her criticism of the opposition (for opposing, apparently) by a newspaper that seizes on such ‘opportunities’ to present such things as political ‘news’.

It does not say it all. In fact it says almost nothing, and what it does say is made up with the fragile ‘get out’ of using ‘quotes’ like those around the word ‘forgets’.

Worse than sub-standard journalism.

What is happening here, for those prepared to step back and look at it, is a government expecting a disaster of their own making and preparing the ground to blame the opposition for it. The pretend newspapers are playing along, nicely ‘on message’ and following their central office brief.

Whatever the rights and wrongs of exit, the opposition want it made clear to everyone what May is risking with her ‘no deal is better’ strategy, and Perry was making out that it isn’t necessary to have that kind of clarity – at the same time as calling it a serious national debate.

All this talk of ‘ancient laws’ being used as if it was some kind of dirty trick – all the opposition want is a report that the government are keeping secret made available for parliamentary scrutiny.

Strange that this wasn’t the comic’s take on things, isn’t it? So no, the Express are definitely not saying it all.

And yes, it is a comic. They even CAPITALISE things that they want to EMPHASISE. It increasingly reads like a maladjusted teenager’s Youtube comments.

This will be fascinating. Dave tells a great story.

If by ‘project fear’ you mean the reporting of facts, such as what the Bank of England predict, then yes, I suppose it does.

The whole concept of ‘project fear’ is a crock of crap made up by those desperate to avoid the facing of reality. You may be one of last people in the UK to realise this.

Me too. Like many things, the Loire 250 is close, but not exact. It has a retractable undercarriage.

It just seems too good-looking to be as obscure as it has proven to be.

Yes, but I was suggesting they looked Japanese..

Of course the nation the typography belongs to ain’t necessarily the country of design and/or manufacture. Not saying it’s either, just looking for clues.

The leg knuckles would have helped reduce interference drag, or at least might have been meant to do this based on how it was understood in the late 1930’s. Similarly the wing root is well sculpted, with a hint of forward leading-edge angle as per p-47 etc.
– more than the clumsy or simply-faired join of the early thirties. This is a late thirties design by someone ‘keeping up’ as it were.

The odd part is the undercarriage. While it looks built for speed 1938-ish the idea of simply bunging loads of fairing onto a fixed undercarriage belongs to an earlier school of thought.

It might be worth looking at who was stubbornly clinging to fixed undercarriages at ths time. The Japanese do seem likely.

I have never seen this forum properly stumped before. Fascinating.