All well and good, but the problem is that the Blair government had ducked them repeatedly when they should have been used as you described - because the British public would have voted down every si… (View Post)

Not really. All the drinks manufacturers* promptly took sugar out of their drinks, making them taste foul, and leaving the consumer with no virtually choice. As per usual punishing people like me (ty… (View Post)

Really? It's felt like an eternity, where there is effectively no opposition. I can't quite understand why they couldn't just herd the parliamentary party into a conference centre and … (View Post)

It's more a second order effect, but that doesn't make it any less real. Effectively if we kept Ratcliffe online, and consequently didn't import as much from France, their surplus coul… (View Post)

It all depends on how one looks at it, given how interconnected the UK/EU now are. We currently are quite heavy net importers, as government policy has been to close down dispatchable power and repla… (View Post)