They are actually insane. Taxation should be on consumption, not work. Employers NI is particularly pernicious as it's effectively income tax, but disguised so people don't notice it as much. Effecti… (View Post)

How can you buy votes in a secret ballot? The voters might just take your money, and vote the wrong way, the double-crossing swine. Given than governments of all stripes pretty much everywhere dole o… (View Post)

IMHO what Labour have done on the WFA is fine, although I did note that they have jumped enthusiastically into a bear trap which Gordon Brown manufactured purely in the hope that the Tories would wal… (View Post)

Which burnt despite rooms full of compliance paperwork, the people putting up the insulation being suitably diverse, and the contractors concerned doubtless having their modern slavery policy in orde… (View Post)

Seems likely that a unit lost grip due to leaf-fall on the rails, slid through one of the passing loops and collided with the train it was meant to pass coming the other way. Looking at the press pic… (View Post)