It depends how you define "effective" The West Midland Serious Crime Squad was effective, by some measures. (View Post)

It comes back to enforcement of the vast pile of useless regulations. What we need is a balance between regulation and enforcement. In the case of slum landlords, most of their crap has been illegal … (View Post)

But how can you get housing in the posh areas? You can 1) Buy existing properties. Insanely expensive. 2) Rent existing properties. Insanely expensive. This is why, under Blair, they started looking … (View Post)

You suspect wrong. The cost of construction has gone through the roof (ha!). Materials, labour, the lot. On top of that, regulatory costs have exceeded inflation for a long time. They found the end o… (View Post)

You obviously haven't met the Sturmabteilung in charge of parking enforcement in Hampstead. (View Post)