Trouble is that the effect of HB is ultimately just to inflate the price of housing - it's actually a taxpayer subsidy to landlords, not tenants. The problem (as with so many things) isn't really wit… (View Post)
If you want all the best bits of a Deltic, in a form that has now been holding bits of the rail network together for over 60 years, rather than the 20 the Deltics managed, surely you go for a pair of… (View Post)
That's a dumb way to do it. Spending the same money on expanding the £400 handout would make much more sense as the market price signal would be much better preserved, and thus people would be much m… (View Post)
As in - burn it in German power stations run maxed out all the time, and export the electricity to the rest of Europe (given I think we're currently burning scarce gas to export electricity to France… (View Post)
Except for the political medalling of course. That 50mpg car is costing about 7.5p/mile in fuel - the rest is tax. With electricity at a real cost of about 33p/kwh (that's what I'm paying for busines… (View Post)