Boris Johnson is pushing ahead with plans for a bridge between Northern Ireland and Scotland.One retired offshore engineer described the project as being "as feasible as building a bridge to the moon" adding that "no sane... government" would attempt it.
A spokesperson for Johnson said on Monday "work is underway" on the project, adding that: "It's an idea that the prime minister has expressed interest in in the past, and as he said at the time: 'watch this space'."Downing Street sources confirmed to Business Insider that Johnson remains personally committed to the project despite doubts expressed about its viability both inside and outside government.
The project is currently estimated to cost around £20 billion. However, costs could spiral due to the need for connecting infrastructure on either side of the bridge. Writing to The Sunday Times last year, James Duncan, a retired offshore engineer from Edinburgh, said the idea was "about as feasible as building a bridge to the moon."
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The madness of King Jongson the cracked
AdamBienkov The only thing LiarJohnson is serious about is advancing his own career.
Boris has spotted a flock of pigs!
I know little about bridge building but I can safely say it's more feasible than that.
You can't claim he is deadly serious about building something which cannot be built....
If a Donald Trump didn't exist, Boris Johnson would be Donald Trump.
Johnson and Sanders seem to have caught the same virus. (Getting the swing states fo vote for a self-declared socialist.)
This dead cat is as likely to ever hapan as his airport in the Thames, him lying down in front of bulldozer at Heathrow, letting his mates down in the city who have Financial interest in HS2, the Russia report being published and Brexit being a success.
How to syphon off public funds for your own personal pole dancer and get away with it.....book no. 2 😉🏴🏴🏴
Is this a caption competition? ‘Look, I see America! Let’s build a bridge there!’
Please don't give him ideas
Put the people to work
He couldn't even build a bridge across the Thames. The man's a buffoon
Imagine the work that could be done to prevent Climate Change with £20 billion! ActOnClimate ClimateEmergency KeepItInTheGround ActOnClimate ClimateEmergency ClimateCriminals
If this was China, there wouldn't all this furore, the thing would be half built by now!
Can they not just dig a big ditch for him and his party members?
Just ask about the Severn Bridge Borarse find out the details and the truth ....
Iloveautumn2 Throw a dead cat on the table!!
Sounds like a story released today to form a distraction from the real news of lengthy border checks being imposed on all EU imports and exports until 2025 which will cause untold damage to many U.K. businesses. Brexitlies BorisBridge ToryBrexit
Thought there was no magic money tree when it came to Jeremy Corburns policies yet we have 20bn to build a damn bridge. What a shambles politics bridge magicmoneytree
BorisJohnson Liverpool to Belfast is a far better potential route. It will link HS2 and existing rail and road freight links. Plus the motorways. Scotland has 100 miles of inferior A75 unable to handle the extra traffic. Good for Liverpool! Sustainable
To the moon it is
Boris johnson is deluded. Scotland and n.ireland wont even be apart of the UK in a few years
Another way to transfer money to his cronies for something that will never get built. 😠😠☹️😡
limpet67 No, he's not. This is just a squirrel, or a dead cat if you will
a man who couldn't deliver a bridge between westminster and southwark boroughs
Just like how everyone said to Isambard Kingdom Brunel that there was a higher likely hood to have men walking on the moon than to have his 2 mile long tunnel completed. He did it though.
It would be a lovely present from the British, since Scotland and Northern Ireland will be leaving the union sooner or later. thanksforthebridge
Deadly serious about talking about it and paying some pals to sit and think about and for the news to print stories about it before finally admitting, several million pounds later, what we all knew from the start. Namely that it’s utterly bonkers.
How about using the money on infrastructure in Scotland and Northern Ireland instead?
Emulating Chinese bridge builders?😂
It’s not enough to waste £53m for this genius. He plans to do the same with much higher figure
Lol we can't even build a 3rd runway or HS2...........
£20b is too little there going to need at least £60b
This is so stupid! He’ll throw billions around to bribe the DUP, but won’t spend a million on long-neglected basic infrastructure west of the Bann, because it is a Catholic area and therefore hated by the DUP.
he built a bridge in London
openpodbaydoor_ Sounds like something IQ45 would approve of. 🙄🥴😚
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Another Johnson scheme...
All really a distraction from what is really happening. NHS SaveTheNHS
Someone is messing with you. It would simply not get approval, besides anything else.
Deadly serious? Will he die?
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
What an amazing way to spend tax payers money 👍🏻
By the time Johnson's bridge to NI is built, Ireland is going to be unified and therefore there will be no need for.the bridge. Correct?
Maybe he could work with Trump to get Mexico to pay for it.
So what I takeaway from that is that we could have a bridge to the moon, and now I want one.
Wow, what an age we live in. A bridge to the Moon will be amazing! Just as long as there's not a hefty toll.
Translation: 1st year engineering student says 'A bridge between Scotland and N Ireland is as feasible as building a bridge to the moon'
Can we spend that £20 billion on the NHS instead please? Cheers.
Sounds like a poor engineer.
£20 billion , add another 40
If they are going to build something like this with despite actual priorities then they might as well make it look beautiful like something out of a dream in order to inspire.
A single retired engineer: this is a bad idea. The news: this this is a bad idea.
ScoPoliticsNews No problem with a bridge some day if really feasible but surely any sensible PM would get the access roads sorted first. Conclusion: Johnson isn't a sensible PM.
It won't happen, but his mates will get rich telling him it's unaffordable. Its a ruse to the Scottish MPs who will keep their jobs if they tow his line. Its sheer bonkers. Everybidy knows it, but it seems bonkers is in.
Cross that engineer of the list then. Hasn’t he seen what humans have accomplished throughout history...
...or a wall across the US southern border.
He has a history with bridges..
Right out of the DJT playbook?
Not a bridge expert myself but China was able to build a 102mile bridge over the sea, is a 12 mile one that unrealistic?
Is he bollocks. He’s dangling investment money to politicians who will sell out their own people by staying loyal to Westminster. Like the submarine sheds.
it would be closed half the time from strong winds
Can’t be any worse than spending billions on a totally useless short new train h2 journey can it ?!
SCOTSANGEL1 BJ has never been serious about anything other than his own gratification. All he wants is the attention and he'll waste whatever he has to to get it.
It’s always fantasy in the west, yet in China and Japan they build these kinds of bridges all the time. The west has lost all its ingenuity.
Typcial UK mantra ‘we might be able to do it but we’ll just complain it’ll be too expensive tie it up in red tape and hopefully people forget about it’ if they don’t at least spend a few million researching how to do it.
In response to which, Boris was heard to say: 'One thing at a time.'
Boris de kapmış işi çılgın pıroceler üretiyor 😂
So it makes sense to Brexit Boris.
Once in the blue moon!
BIUK_Politics He couldn't get the 'garden bridge' built over the Thames. What chance for the Irish Sea? blockedbyboris
AdamBienkov What is it with Johnson and bridges?
You just got out of the Brexit fiasco
AdamBienkov Is it April 1st?
Scotland and Ireland tell Boris to GTF and we will DissolveTheUnion
He loves a big project, garden bridge, estuary airport ....
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