There's an interesting set of tradeoffs here. Bike helmets are unpleasant to wear, it's one of the "cycling downsides" like the fact you get soaked when it rains which put people off using … (View Post)

War with France sounds like a far better use of my taxes than most of the rubbish it gets spent on. I vote we start the immediate construction of hundreds of giant trebuchet to stand on the cliffs of… (View Post)

Why on earth would we need somewhere to take those sorts of numbers? Provided we send 100% of arrivals, and providing that it's impossible to end up in the UK after a successful claim (ie winning you… (View Post)

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)