Heathrow shutdown is embarrassing at best - but at worst it points to serious vulnerabilities in UK infrastructure
As one of the busiest travel hubs in the world, Heathrow is considered a part of the UK's critical national infrastructure. The power failure and the chaos that ensued on Friday exposed that system's overall vulnerability.
At best it's an embarrassment. At worst, it points to serious vulnerabilities across the country that could be exploited by bad actors.
With a Cabinet of bad actors doing nothing to hinder the importing of more bad actors, it's a bleak prospect.
From "Sir" Keir Starmer acting the fool over clown world sable-rattling to Rachel from Accounts... no she can't even act badly...
...to Ed Miliband adopting the role of Chief Eco-Seer while busily erecting idiot eco-vulnerabilities all over the place....
No it's too depressing, I'm off out for a coffee.
4 comments:
If your coffee is flown in from Colombia or Java, you might have to wait for a while.
It is just possible that the cost of providing Heathrow a fully backed up electricity supply would be bad value for money. A lot of days have gone by without Heathrow being shut by a substation fire.
I suspect that Labour believe that their words can directly affect the direction of our society without any other actions. But reality bites exposing this misapprehension.
I expect Two Tier is becoming (at last) aware of the bite marks after the failure of his 'Ukraine initiatives'. Regrettably other members of his cabinet still resist reality, and their assertions are becoming more an more indefensible.
Sam - I can't wait so it may have to be smuggled coffee of uncertain provenance.
decnine - yes it is possible and the risk may have been assessed as too low to be worth a standby which would remain unused for years. It might be revisited now though.
DJ - yes, it's an odd situation where Starmer and his Cabinet have to say something but are in effect, more censored than we are. They must put a positive elitist spin on it of course, but it doesn't work. Meanwhile as you say, reality bites the leader of the pack first.
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