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‘Bats**t’ – Best reactions as PM wants to build roundabout under the Isle of Man

"Guess which one of these ideas I think is totally ridiculous: -a bridge over the English Channel -a giant roundabout under the Isle Of Man -free school meals for vulnerable children"

Joe Mellor by Joe Mellor
2021-02-22 09:31
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Never mind Boris Island, garden bridge or even the bridge from Scotland to Northern Ireland, the PM has taken his ‘vision’ to the next level.

He now plans to build a huge roundabout under the Isle of Man that would link Scotland, England and Northern Ireland, according to The Sunday Times.

The plans that ‘exist primarily in the mind of the PM’ would see three tunnels dug, from Lancashire, Liverpool and Stranraer, meeting under the Isle of Man.

One aide dismissed the idea as a ‘bats**t scheme.’ The planned meeting point would be called the ‘Douglas Junction.’

The idea is said to exist ‘primarily in the mind of the PM,’ according to one senior aide. 

Several senior Whitehall sources are said to have dismissed the roundabout plan as ’round the bend’ but it is so loved by Boris Johnson that β€˜it cannot die’.

But the tunnel would have to cross Beaufort’s Dyke – a 32-mile trench where around 1.5 million tonnes of World War Two ammunition was dumped

A map to illustrate his scheme is in the Tweet (below)

https://twitter.com/PoliticsForAlI/status/1363447724285263874

As you can imagine this news has left many flummoxed.

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Reactions

1.

It really is like living with an ill-disciplined 7 year old sometimes…https://t.co/HoZ9UJhxJH

— Larry the Cat (@Number10cat) February 21, 2021

2.

Nobody: …

Absolutely nobody: …

125,000 people: *Die*

Boris Johnson: What if we built an underground roundabout in the Isle Of Man.

— Femi (@Femi_Sorry) February 21, 2021

3.

A roundabout under the Isle of Man with Boris Johnson's input: pic.twitter.com/LqeXJXffFY

— Alex Tiffin (@RespectIsVital) February 21, 2021

4.

Latest distraction from 120,000 Covid families mourning
Boris Johnson to build a roundabout beneath the Isle of Man to facilitate tunnel to N Ireland

This from man who offered the Estuary Airport, the Garden Bridge & much else that wasn’t built but cost us loads of money

Boing pic.twitter.com/UQHuaHgshx

— nazir afzal (@nazirafzal) February 21, 2021

5.

Johnson has hopes of building an β€˜underground roundabout’ beneath the Isle of Man to connect Britain to Northern Ireland! πŸ˜‚https://t.co/y40vpRcCgc

— Brexitshambles (@brexit_sham) February 21, 2021

6.

Any chance of some visionary thinking from @borisjohnson about #hammersmithbridge in the near future? @CharlotteV https://t.co/6Cw3FdBNmr

— Sarah R (@SarickwoodSarah) February 21, 2021

7.

Isle of Man to be renamed Boris Island,and turned into a Brexit Theme park.

— Andrew James (@badbrainAJ) February 21, 2021

8.

I am sure that Boris and Co know that Isle of Man is part of the UK – after all it is one of those nice little "Tax Havens" where his buddies can hide their millions and not pay any tax towards the services that we all use!!!!

— Kathy Thornett (@ThornieKate) February 21, 2021

9.

Roundabout under the Isle of Man ?! Johnson always thinking small. I would go for tunnels through the earth's core with 3 dimensional interchange in the centre to make CANZUK a reality. Jules Verne showed us it can be done. https://t.co/6FRgeunKqk

— Tony Yates (@t0nyyates) February 21, 2021

10.

https://twitter.com/BorisJohnson_MP/status/1363558501981773826

12.

Must be room in Number 10 for a really big train set? Got to be cheaper that letting the PM loose to play with infrastructure at full scale… https://t.co/YDHbLEoHQO

— David Henig πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ (@DavidHenigUK) February 21, 2021

13.

So this roundabout thing wasn't just a meme. Like, seriously?

— Dr Anna Jerzewska (@AnnaJerzewska) February 21, 2021

14.

Trump – Gonna build a wall against Mexico!

Johnson – Hold my beer!https://t.co/71BmLwby3S

— John West πŸ•―πŸ’™πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ πŸ—Ώ (@JohnWest_JAWS) February 21, 2021

15.

https://twitter.com/robertthomson55/status/1363540149402034183

Related: David Attenborough narrated video of Johnson cleaning a chair goes viral

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