Irish Sea rail tunnel plan derided as Doctor Dolittle fantasy

A proposed undersea tunnel between Scotland and Northern Ireland has hit some credibility problems with one senior Conservative MP describing it as a Doctor Dolittle fantasy designed to distract from post-Brexit border check problems.

“The trains could be pulled by an inexhaustible herd of unicorns overseen by stern, officious dodos,” tweeted Simon Hoare, the Tory MP who chairs Westminster’s Norther Ireland affairs committee.

“A PushmePullYou could be the senior guard,” he said, alluding to the Doctor Dolittle creature with a head at each end of its body, “and Puff the Magic Dragon the inspector”.

The idea was a fantasy that distracted from efforts to smooth post-Brexit checks between Northern Ireland and Great Britain, said Hoare. “Let’s concentrate on making the protocol work and put the hallucinogenics down.”

Reference the full story at The Guardian