Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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#1
The Ark Royal has been sold to Turkey for £2.9 million. The aircraft carrier will end up in a scrapyard.
Rather humiliating when one thinks the deal could have been made with a British scrapyard creating employment for Brits.
http://news.sky.com/story/1093299/hms-ark-royal-sets-off-for-final-voyageBrian Dixon
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#2
a bit of a none story there alex.
Guest 705- Registered: 23 Sep 2010
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#3
Looks like the Turks made a better bid on the tender.
Never give up...
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#4
i cannot see the french or german governments giving away jobs like that.
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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#5
For me this is just another example of the Government living in cloud cucu land.
They might as well export jobs!
All RN decommissioned vessels are sold for scrap prices abroad, and we have millions of unemployed people living off JSA and housing benefits.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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#6
and whats that got to do about the price of razor blades alex.
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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#7
Brian, a British scrapyard could have created jobs for people here.
The Government doesn't even bother throwing the scraps to the home economy, they must be living on Planet X.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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#8
alex,the so called british breakers yards have closed,shut and none exsistant.and its cheaper to sent to some country who have yards big enough to cope with that size of ship.
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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#9
Exactly, Brian, there are no British scrapyards left, they went the way most of our productive economy went: abroad.
All we got was unemployment and State bankruptcy and personal bankruptcy.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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#10
Third world countries don't have scrappage yards, they beach the ships and cut 'em up in situ.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Guest 745- Registered: 27 Mar 2012
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#11
Would have been a good attraction for Dover old hover port
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#12
Yes. Keith, the derelict Dover hover port could have been a place to scrap the aircraft carrier, thus creating employment for Dovorians.
Or it could have been simply anchored there as a visitors attraction.
The Ark Royal is now headed to Turkey.
But if the hover port had become a temporary scrapyard, don't think that Dovorians would have been employed there!
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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#13
They don't even employ English people to pick apples in Kent.
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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#14
But that said, the councils, by decree of the recent Labour government, are cutting the orchards down and ploughing up the hop fields to build houses all over Kent.
The woods are disappearing, and our pastures, and I strongly doubt local Dovorians count for the Establishment in London.
Did the First American Nations count when developers from across the seas set eyes on their lands?
We are going the same way, Keith.
Kent has been too long a reserve, Labour decided to change this, now go and see DDC core strategy!
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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#15
Forget jobs for Kentish Dovorians, Keith, instead we've got a pack of failed jokers in Government.
Guest 673- Registered: 16 Jun 2008
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Photos of the first ship of the class, HMS Invincible of Falklands War fame, being scrapped at Aliaga a couple of years ago:
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/82087/response/205146/attach/html/3/20110826%20Inv%20Dismantle.pdf.html