I'd agree here - ultra-localism (equivalent to say Parish Councils here running a sports complex, rather than a playground) with power is something that can be good in the French system. Here Co… (View Post)

I think we have that in place (since early Cameron or earlier?) already via Registers of potential Self-Builders held by Councils. And there are certainly serviced-plot schemes around, though fewer t… (View Post)

Ted Heath on a skateboard: (Now he WAS a pompous so and so - from a friend who's orchestra he once conducted.) (View Post)

I'd go with Leon on this one. The Boris issue is not that he is pompous, but that he is an incompetent, superficial, unreliable, morality free, unprincipled, greedy, dishonest, self-serving flib… (View Post)

A bearskin hat cost £2000. An Octopus interceptor drone, made in the UK, costs £2000. (View Post)