The Republicans did rather make the rules up with the Merrick Garland nomination - a 9 month wait for a Republican President, while RBJ's replacement took a month before Biden got in. A lesson o… (View Post)

Easily - staff are expensive. (View Post)

Even if that documentation is correct, it's quite hard to get your head around the scale of illegal immigration to the US. At least 11 million, or about 5x as many as in the UK per capita. (View Post)

I suppose it depends on what the policy is - if it's 3 years position + training + qualifications then it adds up. (View Post)

I'd much rather there was some sort of incentive for LAs to approve developments than have central government override them. Then you'd get the best of both worlds - more houses/infrastuctu… (View Post)