And there's an increasing amount of tinfoil hattery around pylons, which means that extending or reconfiguring the grid is now much, much more difficult and expensive than it was in the past. In the … (View Post)

Ahem. More likely to be a £1k fine + six month's worth of late payment charges, since they'll wait until July or August before actually sending you a letter about it... Mind you, for people whose onl… (View Post)

Cameron might have managed that if he had stayed. Boris might have managed it if he had become leader in 2016. But May - as a new leader, and former Remainer - had to work harder to keep the Brexitee… (View Post)

Did FoM really cause so many problems? If so, it doesn't seem to me that Brexit has fixed any of them: (https://public.tableau.com/views/Netmigration-December2023/2?:language=en-GB&:embed=y&:… (View Post)

I think you're right - May had little choice but to trigger A50 when she did, but from that point on the competing pressures meant that achieving an 'end state' Brexit of whatever form was impossible… (View Post)