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Great British Railways: Call for new HQ to be built at Becketwell (www.bbc.co.uk)
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[–] egonallanon@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure it was the tories who gave it this name when they were doing it.

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 3 points 3 months ago

Yes, and also they had the British Rail arrow logo redrawn in union-jack colours. If we’re keeping their ridiculously jingoistic name (for a nationalised rail company that goes beyond the scope of what they had in mind), we should keep the aggressively Brexity iconography as well.