B + E tests and the associated regime was one of the stupidest things the government had ever done - it needed scrapping. The old rules actively incentivised towing trailers with unsuitable tow motor… (View Post)

There are some easy wins they could go for - eg cutting the civil service back down to the size it was in 2015 would release about 150k people into the productive economy, and save about £5bn in wage… (View Post)

Is part of the issue to do with the number of suppliers in the market, and also where people source them from? When my fridge dies, I'm going to want a new one ASAP. So it's going to have been import… (View Post)

To put that number in some context, in 2012-2017 (ie before e-bikes were a thing) apart from the huge outlier of Grenvile Tower, LFB was attributing between 2 and 13 deaths a year to the cause of &qu… (View Post)

They are, but all the profits go into absurd processes, terrible manpower management and gold plated safety systems. I'm a minor supplier to a contractor to London Underground (it's not my main line … (View Post)