Bird & Fortune vs EuroTunnel
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ก.พ. 2025
- John Bird & John Fortune have been poking fun at, well, anybody who needed fun poking at them, for decades- as part of the duo known as The Long Johns or as part of the trio Bremner, Bird & Fortune. Bird & Fortunes staged interviews of various Ministers, Bankers, Military commanders, and other gents named George Parr , are staggeringly incisive and quick-witted, and these recordings made & broadcast in 1995 show that while the individuals being mocked may have changed, the mentality of those in power hasnt.
This brought back memories ... two brilliant performers hitting the nail on the head time after time. Thank you.
this gentlemen bring us fantastic humor, regrettably old school (hard to find new talent of this level...)
Miss these two. Tremendous satire. Extremely rare these days.
I miss these two very much.
Brilliant. Just brilliant.
Brilliant 🌹
R.I.P. John Bird
... the options are absolutely enormous !!! 🤣🤣🤣
I would have LOVED to see them do Brexit !
WHAT WOULD THEY HAVE DONE WITH TRUMP ? would be hard to satarise as he does that himself ,unconciously .
Genius, as always.
RIP Fortune
I was at meetings with Alster Morton during the Construction of the tunnel and he was even more ridiculous than this dramatisation portrays him. For example, on several occasions, he said it was difficult to run the project because TML seemed more interested in making money than building a tunnel, This is precisely why TML set up, Eurotunnel in the first place. If anyone wants to make a documentary on incompetent management of large UK companies come and see me
I too was present when Alastair Morton said those immortal words. It was at a specialist boarding school for dyslexia in Brettenham on Suffolk.
He was giving out the end of term prizes.
I could hardly believe what I heard. He
actually accused TML in “ being more interested in making a profit than building a tunnel.”
I’m not sure if anyone else there realised the absurdity of this comment
I only wish I had had the courage to tackle him about it.
It was only later when I was able to discuss it with my husband that he confirmed that I had beef quite right in being bemused by this comment.
I think we decided then that the tunnel was not in safe hands.
Anne Slevin wife of Edward Slevin
It is almost a miracle that this tunnel could be built at all! The premise: build a public interest work with private money was ideological and bound to generate conflicts of interests: the regulators were thinking public safety and the builders were thinking budgetary constraints.
The numerous changes forced onto the project by regulators (for our own good, since the safety measures were such that as of now several fires in the tunnel have not resulted in fatalities or major injuries) have led to an enormous increase in building costs for the tunnel & the cars, leading to “restructuration” of the debt wiping out the early investors and maiming the banks.
A hard learnt lesson: major innovative projects with a public good aim are best left to the State. I’m not sure, though, that the British have completely internalized the lesson; we French have, since the Panama Canal scandal in the 1880´s - although many French small investors have been singed on the Channel Tunnel alongside the Japanese banks: successive generation never really learn from their elders! __ .
How great the satire was.....