How many unfilled potholes are there in Durham right now? How long is the list right now? I suspect many dozens, perhaps hundreds. So if he is to fulfill his 24-hour promise, he needs to get the pothole-filling guy a faster bicycle.
If his role-model Trump can end the Ukraine war on day 1, surely he can get a pothole filled in just as quickly.
Probably tens of thousands if the roads are anything like they are here. The 5km stretch of the A466 between Don Towers and Tintern, a proportion of which was resurfaced and is currently perfect, has at least 100.
So the Faragists have to fill only about 40 potholes per working day to have them all fixed in a year. And no new ones formed. That's about 5 per working hour, by the way.
Not ten thousand, tens of thousands so more likely several hundred a day and of course, as you say, that would only clear the backlog if no new potholes are created. My experience is that potholes are usually filled cheaply by throwing some tarmac into the hold and attempting to flatten it rather than making a proper repair by removing the old surface and properly sealing in the repair. A cheap repair will very likely need to be redone within the year (at least that's what happens every year on our lane) while a proper repair would likely last far, far longer.
The politician can be outraged at the inefficiency of the council officer, claim that the will of the people is being subverted and the culture of persecution that fuels the right can continue.
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Even if there were the means to respond as quickly as possible to pothole reports, the roads have degraded to such an extent that fixing all but the most minor will likely mean relaying at least a couple of layers of road bed.
Reminds me of a song.
They'll be back to the dole queue inside of five years. In the meantime every single one of them will be et alive.
I take it they got carded and couldn't get into the pub?
Injunction lifted.The government has temporarily been banned from concluding talks on the Chagos Islands deal by a last-minute injunction by a High Court judge.
UK signs £101m-a-year deal to hand over Chagos Islands and lease military base
Under the deal, the UK will lease back the Diego Garcia military base from Mauritius.
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Injunction lifted.
UK signs £3.4bn deal to cede sovereignty over Chagos Islands to Mauritius
Starmer says there’s ‘no alternative’ and defends cost, saying it is ‘part and parcel of using Britain’s reach to keep us safe at home’
