Well, I used a bit of poetic licence but there’s a case near me in the midlands in which the land owner has been forced to go to the high court (at his own expense) to get any chance of compensation. The tactics being used by hs2 and the Secretary of State are to frighten people into non-action. That is the leg of hs2 that is still (currently) going ahead.
But I’d eat my manky dog-walking hat if it’s the only example in the country.
Those guys are amateurs. Try being the Uk government—compulsorily purchase private land for new rail line, hand lucrative contracts to your mates to clear mature oaks (which they get to keep, worth £5k each), accidentally clear more than is needed, then cancel the rail line.
Unmagunsafe.
That is one of the four horsemen of lunch.
As opposed to an omen of the …
Also if OP was British, they’d have put ‘beans on toast’. What they put makes me feel a bit uncomfortable.
I think it was just nervous—bit of performance anxiety probably. But you can see by the smug, self-satisfied right hand side that it all worked out in the end.
Plot twist—they work for airbus.
Narrowly missed out on spending the day with Patrick Stewart at an event in London. My wife went instead and she doesn’t even like Star Trek. She said he was very nice though.
Is that a frickin rotating chair?
More importantly, it gives them demographic information (sex, age, race, etc). Can’t get that from just sales figures.