Can't rmeember the details but for one thing the state of utilities was a big shock. They had to move just about every gas and electric line and drain and at the same time upgrade them to modern stan… (View Post)

The trams are tbf a good thing in principle and in actuality - but building them to exceptional standards more usually seen in a Chieftain tank, and leaving construction to the Labour/LD admin on Edi… (View Post)

It'd be better if the Scottish Tories hadn't thought it such a wizard wheeze to bugger up the transport budget by joining with Slab and SLDs and the Greens ti impose the Edinburgh trams on the minori… (View Post)

Of course, it was a Scot who wrote that novel. He understood that very well. (View Post)

Would make more sense to bump it up to 13 or 14 K if they are worried about standards. The figure has been 9K for rather a long time, some 13 years, so it's not even kept up with inflation but lost a… (View Post)