Off Topic Politics Thread

Would anyone care if Swindon was nuked?

 

Surely the Kennet and Avon canal or possibly the Thames should be more appropriate.

 

Well yes ………seeing as I have been living here for the past 22 years

 

Swindon isn't Slough and has an undeserved reputation.

 

Slough is wonderful. Where my great aunt lived, she had wonderful views of aircraft.arriving and leaving Heathrow. Plus views of Windsor Castle.

 

Surely the GWR is the best way!

 

Yeah but you wouldn't be around to care.

 

You're forgetting about having to go round the 'Magic Roundabout', which is hard enough in a car, but if all you've got is a periscope and a few miles of listening device cables, you're bound to snarl things up....

 

Wrong sort of snow on the tracks.

 

There's a number of abandoned mothers that wish Spaffalot had used protection.

 

It could be painted yellow and the spare Crew quarters used to house the homeless.

 

We`d have to dredge the canal though. A nuclear sub crashing into a load of discarded shopping trolleys could be the catalyst for Armageddon.

 

If the world does end in a nuclear war, that's probably how it will start.

 

True enough, I googled the depth it's 5.92 metres but it may need dredging in places to remove silt and trolleys.

 

I always think that Slough could do with rebranding and call itself Upton cum Chalvey.

 

It's obviously been part of the master plan for sub access as the proposed restoration of the Kennet and Avon to Thames canal is under serious consideration.
https://www.canalpartnership.org.uk/index.php/restoration-strategy/projects/wichelstowe

 

This is Broja's home town so, perhaps, is not that bad! Aldershot, Andover ... army garrisons are far worse!!

 

I grew up in Andover but it's gone downhill since I left in 1975.

 

I should add that this is from an aesthetic POV. Rowner in Gosport is the naval equivalent.
This chat could lead on to a discusión about whether a strong military is beneficial to a nation's económic and social well-being! Having sampled living in Russia in 2013, when Putin was in the process of rebuilding Russia's military might, I would say not as I could see where money could be better spent as on its crumbling roads, public buildings (the stairwells at the Ural University were also in a dangerous state, and my friends there thought that the standard of public education was not as good as in previous years.

North Korea and the USA are other examples where money spent on the military, would be better spent improving services and infrastructure.

Having a strong military also has a social and cultural impact on a nation's social and cultural mindset. We see it in the UK! When I lived in Fareham I would often watch BBC South and every week there was a topic around the armed forces such as the role the Spitfire played in WW2. Why bring it 60 or 70 years later.

As a nation I would rather celebrate the engineering achievements of Isambard Brunel, the writings of our great writers, our scientific geniuses, our arts and músic.

 

Are you taking something Ides?