Sorry don’t agree with that - remains arguments should have been on logic & pragmatics but they went with fear & arrogance.
You had a whole bunch of celebrities writing an open letter to the times like it was 1850 about why we they need to stay & treating like a zero sum game of “for the EU to be good , UK must be bad”
If someone had sat down & addressed why people were wanting to leave & listened it might have gone the other way.
Even then after the vote if the EU had been pragmatic & calm & tried to make it win win then there wouldn’t been as much animosity.
Leave ran a campaign based on hyperbole, remain ran the a campaign based on fear & belittling of people.
I think in the end it was just over half of people agreeing that they preferred the local clowns to the overseas ones….
Was looking into the tickets for next years RIAT, as they are now available (yes, i know… the show has barely started this year, and tickets for 2026 are already on sale…).
Starting in 2026, you now have to pay a £15 charge per vehicle.
My understanding is that Scout leaders accompanying their groups go free (at least on the Friday) but RAFAC have to pay to accompany Cadets. Which seems a bit odd.
The eu never actually gave the UK any money except for one year, as we were net contributors. They took our money and top sliced it for their own use, corrupt and otherwise, and then decided how we could spend the remainder, which they graciously gave back to us.
Are RIAT slowly killing the goose that lays the golden egg? With the draw-down over the years there are less and less aircraft to see, and you can only tolerate so many F16/18/typhoon demo’s in a day.
I stopped going years ago when the cost started rising, a weekend at RIAT costs upwards all in, including things like fuel, camping./hotel fees etc £700 plus, I can go on a week’s holiday in the sun for less.
So sad when Mildenhall stopped, £3 to walk in, USAF units ran all the burger stands and it was an amazing show.
So is the carpark before the ticket check? Then have the carpark inside the pay gate and set up mobile phone jammers. Not that this is necessarily all practical…
Following 9/11 RIAT were forced to move all car parking off the airfield onto rented farmers fields. Now there are far fewer aircraft attending RIAT, they have space on the airfield, in particular with the exponential increase in the number of hard standings constructed over recent years, but that may change again.
If you look at the Ted Coningsby feed, he looks to be parked at Kempsford camping at the airfield fence, nothing to stop him live feeding the show.
Meant to have made my way to Oshkosh today (and had tickets to the Cirrus Party) alas BA flight to Chicago after several delays, taxied out and then taxied back to the stand, crew timed out and then flight Cx’d.
No decent reroute options available, so ended up this evening in JFK, 4hrs sleep before a couple of internal flights in the AM.
One of probably a dozen near misses driving back from Bristol yesterday. Lorry deciding at the last second that they actually don’t want to leave the motorway, so made it my problem.
I swear that driving standards are going down hill, ‘professional’ drivers and ‘normal’ drivers alike.
I don’t normally bother going back and finding the dashcam footage, but a British lorry really should know better than this…
