You don't need a 100% success rate, just enough to alter the risk/reward for c80% of migrants. It might not even need that; the smugglers currently enjoy scales of economy so if demand falls enough y… (View Post)

Is there an issue with our prevailing southwesterly wind? If we dump migrants in life rafts just off France and they get blown into the shipping lanes, we just give the RNLI more work to do. (View Post)

Think they've got distracted. The people who used to chop down ULEZ cameras are now painting roundabouts instead; not a bad outcome if you ask me. (View Post)

This isn't quite right actually. We buy wind power at a fixed price based on our contracts with the power companies. Sometimes, when demand is high and gas is expensive, this saves us lots of money (… (View Post)

That wind farm is so close to the major population centres in the NW I'm not sure BigG would enjoy lower prices, simply because there is so much demand in his area. Which is exactly how the system sh… (View Post)