10:58 the reference there about Boris being fond of Bridges is that in his last couple of years as Mayor of London he championed a scheme for the "Garden Bridge", which was a bridge which would have been built by a combination of public funds and private finance with a city park on top of it - paths, trees, green spaces, plants, flowers, events space on the lawns and in a purpose built building at one end of the bridge. The downside? It was partially privately financed so would have been privately owned and there were plans to charge tolls to cross it, bikes and vehicles were banned (only pedestrians), and it was to be closed at night and whenever there was an event which hired it as an event space. Thus it was useless to most Londoners whilst blocking up the river a bit more and providing more space for rich gits from out of town to come in and spoil the place further for their events. Needless to say, when Sadiq Khan (the current Mayor) was elected the whole thing was scrapped, but only after 43 million pounds of taxpayer's money was spent on planning it.
3:23 the widest - basically bridges had four purposes back in Pre-Roman/Roman/Dark Ages/Viking periods: 1. Let people across the river 2. Act as ceremonial points for worshipping whatever Gods were involved according to your religion - travel, water, commerce etc. Votive offerings from the Roman period and later still turn up occasionally on the banks of the Thames. 3. Defensive lines to prevent enemies from sailing or rowing up river. You can put archers on fortified bridges who can shoot at boats trying to move upstream (for this reason they were often built near bends in the river because you had to slow down to go around them), and if the boats make it as far as the bridge you can hang blockading obstacles from it (stones on chains, iron bars etc) or just drop nasty things into the boats like boiling oil, burning coals, heavy stones which will break through the bottom of the boat etc etc etc. 4. Because of point 3, you can use the bridge as a handy stopping point and charge people tolls for passing underneath it. You can also perform customs inspections on their goods, make them pay your local taxes or bribe you to let them through etc. In London there is still the ceremony of the Constable's Dues, where the Constable of the Tower of London is owed a barrel of wine by any warship which passes. These days it's a ceremonial event but it's origins are in the right of the Constable to take a proportion of all cargoes passing the tower, and that was only possible because the Roman bridge established the right to collect tolls from ships passing on the river.
4:56 the buses actually get more passenger journeys per day than the underground - in 2019 (before the Pandemic affected travel) there were about 4.5 million underground journeys a day, but 6.8 million on the buses (this is from memory so the figures may be slightly out).
11:17 being objective about Boris, some people love him, some people hate him. He's a populist, like Trump is, which means he attracts some people but will push away others who see him as a clown or a buffoon. He also tarnished his reputation through constant lying to the British public about matters of character - like whether or not he was involved in any parties in government buildings during COVID lockdowns, or that he lied to the Queen to close parliament, or that he refused to say that he had lied to the Queen, or that he lied about scandals affecting members of his government etc etc. Because Boris became the figurehead for the Brexit movement, both during the referendum in 2016, and in the Commons when Theresa May was Prime Minister and was trying to get an acceptable deal from the EU to leave under, a lot of people who wanted Brexit got behind Boris - both those who wanted a "hard" Brexit from the EU, and those who were just fed up with the slowness of the process and how hard it seemed to be for the UK to get a deal from the EU.
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10:58 the reference there about Boris being fond of Bridges is that in his last couple of years as Mayor of London he championed a scheme for the "Garden Bridge", which was a bridge which would have been built by a combination of public funds and private finance with a city park on top of it - paths, trees, green spaces, plants, flowers, events space on the lawns and in a purpose built building at one end of the bridge.
The downside? It was partially privately financed so would have been privately owned and there were plans to charge tolls to cross it, bikes and vehicles were banned (only pedestrians), and it was to be closed at night and whenever there was an event which hired it as an event space. Thus it was useless to most Londoners whilst blocking up the river a bit more and providing more space for rich gits from out of town to come in and spoil the place further for their events. Needless to say, when Sadiq Khan (the current Mayor) was elected the whole thing was scrapped, but only after 43 million pounds of taxpayer's money was spent on planning it.
3:23 the widest - basically bridges had four purposes back in Pre-Roman/Roman/Dark Ages/Viking periods:
1. Let people across the river
2. Act as ceremonial points for worshipping whatever Gods were involved according to your religion - travel, water, commerce etc. Votive offerings from the Roman period and later still turn up occasionally on the banks of the Thames.
3. Defensive lines to prevent enemies from sailing or rowing up river. You can put archers on fortified bridges who can shoot at boats trying to move upstream (for this reason they were often built near bends in the river because you had to slow down to go around them), and if the boats make it as far as the bridge you can hang blockading obstacles from it (stones on chains, iron bars etc) or just drop nasty things into the boats like boiling oil, burning coals, heavy stones which will break through the bottom of the boat etc etc etc.
4. Because of point 3, you can use the bridge as a handy stopping point and charge people tolls for passing underneath it. You can also perform customs inspections on their goods, make them pay your local taxes or bribe you to let them through etc. In London there is still the ceremony of the Constable's Dues, where the Constable of the Tower of London is owed a barrel of wine by any warship which passes. These days it's a ceremonial event but it's origins are in the right of the Constable to take a proportion of all cargoes passing the tower, and that was only possible because the Roman bridge established the right to collect tolls from ships passing on the river.
Points 2-4 are definetly not mentioned enough. Thanks!
4:56 the buses actually get more passenger journeys per day than the underground - in 2019 (before the Pandemic affected travel) there were about 4.5 million underground journeys a day, but 6.8 million on the buses (this is from memory so the figures may be slightly out).
Why do you think this is?
11:17 being objective about Boris, some people love him, some people hate him. He's a populist, like Trump is, which means he attracts some people but will push away others who see him as a clown or a buffoon. He also tarnished his reputation through constant lying to the British public about matters of character - like whether or not he was involved in any parties in government buildings during COVID lockdowns, or that he lied to the Queen to close parliament, or that he refused to say that he had lied to the Queen, or that he lied about scandals affecting members of his government etc etc.
Because Boris became the figurehead for the Brexit movement, both during the referendum in 2016, and in the Commons when Theresa May was Prime Minister and was trying to get an acceptable deal from the EU to leave under, a lot of people who wanted Brexit got behind Boris - both those who wanted a "hard" Brexit from the EU, and those who were just fed up with the slowness of the process and how hard it seemed to be for the UK to get a deal from the EU.
Interesting!
Is he warm enough?
HMS Belfast - Her/His Majesty's Ship. Oh, and Boris Johnson is a complete bellend.
In case anyone is wondering 'a complete bell-end' is not a complement, but is accurate.
@@stephenlee5929 lol
ahhh I thought that was the ship! I saw it in person!