Recent content by Eusebius

I haven't got a dog in the fight, but I can't agree with that. The mechanic moans if anyone does anything except parrot his nonsense. But the Yorkshire Post are making hardly any mention of the huge flaws in the project and are publishing propaganda uncritically. The correct headline for the...

The Yorkshire Post are publishing Jones's propaganda. They wrote in a leader just the other day that no one disputes the economic case for reopening the airport. Er, yes they do - up to and including the council's own auditor! One of the problems within the council appears to be that no one...

Grant Thornton's red rating mentioned in the very last paragraph! https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/business/doncaster-sheffield-airport-why-turnover-rent-clause-negotiations-are-so-vital-to-reopening-project-8549248 All very weird.

It'll come down to how much money they're offing. The airlines will know the council are desperate, so they can name their price. This £128m must be like the magic porridge pot! What DSA's competitors will think of this remains to be seen.

I just quoted what it says here: https://www.leedsbradfordairport.co.uk/about-leeds-bradford-airport/regen "we’re investing over £100m to extensively regenerate our existing terminal" It doesn't matter, I was just saying £128m to cover all capital and operational expenditure on a new...

You can only get so far with the figures in the public domain, but they don't appear to be even vaguely plausible. For a bit of context, Leeds Bradford are spending over £100m just to extend the terminal building a bit in their LBA:REGEN project. Doncaster's voting taxpayers are invited to...

She doesn't know what she's saying, I think she means the 5 year passenger threshold has been moved back to 2036, so they've got 10 years to hit 1 mppa. The article is ridiculous. Jones says the forecasts are pessimistic and easy to beat. If they are so easy to beat, why did the council just...

The financing does not pencil, unless there's something wrong with my pencil or they have some other sources of funding that they are keeping secret. I understand the plan is to increase the number of staff to 200 by the end of the year. Let's take £45,000/year as a conservative average cost...

Reform giving a masterclass on how to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. I don't know what they're doing. Charity knows better than anyone that the project is unviable and a financial suicide mission. He's head of audit! Did I hallucinate the bit about Grant Thornton red rating the...

I can't see any comment from Coppard. I think your AI might be hallucinating there... that's what ought to have happened but didn't. Reform have said the loan can be drawn down before successful renegotiation of the lease. I'm not sure what Charity is up to. He is head of audit. The...

They might very well win the next general election, but I'm not seeing anything that gives me any hope. This is a sh!t show. If I was Jason Charity I'd resign.

I hope there's something worthwhile in the small print, because on the face of it, Reform have just green lighted exactly the kind of idiotic waste they're supposed to be reforming. All they had to do was insist on a viable business case before the loan could be drawn down, i.e., a green from...

Well, I have to say that looks like a total complete and utter flop from Reform. https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/politics/doncaster-sheffield-airport-ps57m-loan-will-proceed-after-vote-on-amendment-live-8515684#post-381116 They have handed a comprehensive victory to the mayor, made...

It doesn't look like much, although it's hard to tell from the short clip here: https://www.doncasterfreepress.co.uk/news/demo-ahead-of-crucial-doncaster-sheffield-airport-loan-meeting-8516142 It'll just be the same communist rent a mob who waved a few banners outside the terminal building...

We have to hope that Reform impose conditions that have a similar protective effect to rescission. The problem is that I think CDC can still p!ss the £57m up the empty runway even though the gainshare funding needed to pay it back is contingent on three conditions - none of which are likely to...