theProle

The problem is that we've tended to do this to extremes. The rail industry is a case in point - changing anything, no matter how trivial, has become so expensive it can't be done. I'm involved in suc… (View Post)

Car production is a good deal the governments fault. The attempts to force sales of EVs onto buyers who don't want them is rapidly destroying all of Europe's car makers. They should let the transitio… (View Post)

The problem is that the EU regulations are often very poorly thought out and badly written. Most stuff we make is not for export, but internal consumption. No-one has ever disputed that to export to … (View Post)

Isn't the major difference between the two bets the possibility of turmoil in the Labour Party shortly before the 2029 election? If the polling in late 2028 suggests Labour will be reduced to a rump … (View Post)

There are ways the gov could help if it actually wanted to change things. One obvious one is to tilt the planning playing field, particularly for industry. Make it really cheap/easy to build industri… (View Post)