Bart's view of the rights and wrongs of the planning system is not mine, but I agree wholeheartedly with his final paragraph (and also though this is more subjective, that this is a bad thing). (View Post)

Your enthusiasm for England's least-enthused-about county is heartwarming. (View Post)

Worth noting that when Greater Manchester proposed a congestion charge back in 2009-ish (£5 charge to enter the area within the M60), it was heavily defeated in a referendum in all 10 districts (even… (View Post)

Feel slightly daft that I didn't grasp that straight away. Still, it would be a poor world where we couldn't appear slightly daft anonymously on an internet chat forum from time to time. On… (View Post)

Yes, I think the uninitiated look at Uxbridge and think 'London' - therefore bad for Tories. But Uxbridge is atypical of London. I also wonder whether perhaps the Tories have fallen as far … (View Post)