I shouldn't worry too much. Between Notwork Fail and the DFT, said trains will probably have been worn out and replaced before any knitting is actually errected along the coast. (View Post)

Or proves that the roads are so horrible down South that people have to use public transport. The truth is probably a bit of a mixture. If Manchester's suburbs had the quality of public transport tha… (View Post)

Isn't the ownership rate a really poor proxy for use rates? My car does ~20k miles a year. My wife's car does about ~4k miles a year. I suspect that the big North - South divide isn't so much in the … (View Post)

What gives you the idea that the Tories haven't given Farrage much of a gap on the right? Immigration at >500k net, mostly on government visas to hold down wages in low paid sectors. Forget the sm… (View Post)

Low population density is the best thing about the north - the problem with the south is it's wildly overpopulated. Across the planet, we've about 4 acres per human of land area - packing them togeth… (View Post)