Reply to: White cliffs of Dover is up for sale

[OrangeHopper]

Dover is a grotty hole. It has only two interesting features: the castle on one side and the miltary tunnels etc on the other side.

[Mich the Tester]

Another incentive to introduce motorway tolls is foreign truck drivers getting free use of UK motorways when our truckers have to pay tolls on continental ones.

Bad idea. One thing that might contribute a little bit to rescuing British industry is the lack of road tolls while other countries are introducing new mileage tax schemes. The key for the future is to keep unnecessary overheads for business low.

[OwlHoot]

I don't know about Winchester. There are those that say London was excluded because it was too complicated but I prefer to think that it was because London told the king to **** off which is what they did. ...

William I died before London, Middlesex and Winchester had been written up, and his scribe couldn't be arsed to finish it (as these probably had reliable records anyway). At the time it was officially called the Book of Winchester, because that's where the treasury had traditionally been.

Another incentive to introduce motorway tolls is foreign truck drivers getting free use of UK motorways when our truckers have to pay tolls on continental ones.

[Tarquin Farquhar]

I don't know about Winchester. There are those that say London was excluded because it was too complicated.

That's what I heard. And at that time, Winchester would be at least as important.

'Course, complicated might have meant difficult.

[Mich the Tester]

What would the French want to do with the white cliffs of Dover? Move them to the Riviera?

[sweetandsour]

And Winchester?

I don't know about Winchester. There are those that say London was excluded because it was too complicated but I prefer to think that it was because London told the king to **** off which is what they did.

When William arrived he sought the approval of the Aldermen of the city of london to cement his position as king with regard to the rest of the country. As stated in one of the posts above, the Aldermen told him that they didn't care who was King so long as they were left alone.

[fullyautomatix]

I fear`it's almost inevitable that the motorways will be sold off to toll companies. Commuters and contractors working away from home will pay a stealth tax (ie weekly tolls) to pay off the national debt, and keep people on the bench like me idle.

Good point about motorways. We have just had it too good. Without any kind of tolls every man and his dog is on M25 for no real reason and contributing to the enormous climate change. Tolls are good and if the public want to go anywhere they can use the trains.

[Tarquin Farquhar]

William understood what was good for him and this is the reason London was not covered in the Domesday book.

And Winchester?

[MrMark]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...duce-debt.html

What else is left to sell off? I mean, can this be called scraping the barrel ? Gordon still needs to repay £ 830 billion somehow.

I fear`it's almost inevitable that the motorways will be sold off to toll companies. Commuters and contractors working away from home will pay a stealth tax (ie weekly tolls) to pay off the national debt, and keep people on the bench like me idle.

[cojak]

Again in fairness, when William the Conqueror invaded, London said they don't care who the King is, as long as they don't interfere with their business.

HTH

London has never cared who the King/Prime Minister is, as long as they don't interfere with their business.

[sweetandsour]

Again in fairness, when William the Conqueror invaded, London said they don't care who the King is, as long as they don't interfere with their business.

HTH

William understood what was good for him and this is the reason London was not covered in the Domesday book.

[threaded]

(Mind you, in fairness, Richard the Lionheart said he would sell London if he could find a buyer.)

Again in fairness, when William the Conqueror invaded, London said they don't care who the King is, as long as they don't interfere with their business.

HTH

[NickFitz]

And Dunkirk?

How would I know? Do I look like a Frenchman?

I know they did a crap job of keeping the ferries running in 1940, so we were forced to provide our own. Sadly, not everybody was rescued

[AtW]

Dover is a grotty little ferry terminal. Liverpool is a port.

And Dunkirk?

[NickFitz]

Dover surely is the crown jewel of ports with great history. Is there any such port in the UK?

Dover is a grotty little ferry terminal. Liverpool is a port.