Recent content by Enthusiast

I'm not suggesting that is the sole solution. I really have no idea what the solution is. I only know what is not the solution (to the UK having insufficient housing and infrastructure for the current population). That is not to import vast numbers of additional people. You may be fed up with...

Some of the London truncations have been mentioned. Thinking back to my "Red Rover" days, I recall a couple that haven't. No 9 ran Monday - Saturday from Mortlake to Liverpool Street. However, on Sundays it was extended to Becontree Heath, more than doubling its route length. Today it runs from...

It seems there may be three: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/angela-rayner-council-tax-police-investigation-labour-b2543726.html Of these the only one I can see the police having a legitimate interest in is [1]. I believe the Electoral Commission provides specialist advisors to...

I don't understand why the police are becoming involved in a matter which is usually the bailiwick of HMRC.

But there isn't suitable infrastructure now. And any demands on that which exists will be greater if more people are brought into the country to improve it. It needs to be improved by the numbers already here. As I said, it's no use bleating over that. Ways will have to be found. If you said 60...

TfL state the distance from Moorgate to Barbican at 0.40 miles and the inter peak running time as 1.50 mins (this is 1m30 secs, not 1min 50 secs). The distance from Barbican to Farringdon is 0.32 miles with a running time of 1.51 mins. The elapsed time from train to train on the clip is almost...

I mention this quite often in discussions over immigration. The UK (and indeed other western countries) seem to have no problem with denuding less developed countries of their fittest and brightest people. But those countries will never develop when they are losing the very people they need to...

Indeed. Swanage has a dearth of decent hotels and, for that matter, hospitality outlets. The only large hotel near the town centre is the Purbeck House Hotel. The Grand is at the other end of the town to the railway station on the road out to Studland - a nice walk after a summer evening in...

Indeed not. But you intimated that it is not when you questioned the quality of my education: I didn't mention the quality or quantity of it at all. I simply said we are told it is "essential"; it's obvious that some quality or quantity requirements would go along with that contention so I...

The bottom of this report from the BBC: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-68983741 And I'm starting to think that if the net migration figures to the UK recently (>3.5m over the last six years) are deemed insufficient to see GDP growth, there is even more wrong with the country's economic...

And it's not like it disappeared with vigour either. Prior to this announcement, over the last two years UK GDP growth varied between +0.5% and -0.3%. This quarter is +0.6%. I would suggest that this variation is probably no more than would be expected from general "noise" and probably only...

But why should there be? There was no legislation mandating the provision of petrol pumps in workplaces. People seemed to manage well enough without them up to now. Why should employers be compelled to provide charging facilities (even if they could, which many of them couldn't)?

Some people do. Many don't. Even those who work for large corporate companies will not necessarily have workplace charging. For example, almost everybody in retail (Tesco, Sainsburys, etc.) and hospitality (Wetherspoons, Marstons, Premier Inn etc.) is unlikely to have access to workplace...

Was there any suggestion that I could not. Or is your emphasis meant for "you" and not "can"? I'm not in the education business. But that aside, some people may not welcome such education. They may view all people who come to this country as "immigrants" and may prefer it if none of them were...

This has been quoted often and it is false. This misunderstanding (whether portrayed accidentally or deliberately) stems from a letter, dated 14th May 2020, from Grant Shapps, then Secretary of State for Transport, to TfL. It sets out conditions for the government’s Covid bail-out package to...