The usual reason it takes years to do anything in this country. Endless pointless rounds of consultation to get to a pre-determined outcome and avoid judicial review. (View Post)

FPT: Nah, it's mostly basic economics combined with decades of experience in economic policy-making. It's hardly rocket science: markets allocate resources better than government, regulation has huge… (View Post)

That's a very interesting question. I'd say probably a combination of reasons. Firstly they believe the fantasy of "green growth", "green jobs", etc., peddled by Miliband and othe… (View Post)

That of course supposes that there is any jam in Year 4, which given Labour's extraordinary anti-growth policies on tax, Net Zero, regulation, well everything except a bit on housing, is very unlikel… (View Post)

It's totally illogical for people to pay UK taxes when they are living abroad and not using UK government services. That's why virtually no other country except the US does it. Of course if we want t… (View Post)