I would tend to agree, the SNP vote feels resilient in the face of some colourful scandals and decades in power. However, predicting the whims of Scottish voters is always difficult, and the Greens c… (View Post)

Interesting. 38% of people in Scotland voted to leave the EU - it's natural that at least some of them would be attracted to a Reform type party. (View Post)

FPT: Ideally we would replace all motoring taxation with something that actually targets that what harms the economy and society - parking and short journeys inside urban areas, air pollution, carbon… (View Post)

It depends on how to you measure "expensive". It terms of government taxation as a percentage GDP - yes, it would be very expensive. But in terms of the actual, practical size of the state … (View Post)

Yep, hence the regional variation. Though MattW has previously reminded us that there are surprisingly large numbers of people in rural areas without cars, who must be exceptionally isolated by the c… (View Post)