That escalated quickly! Congratulations! Inspiring mahi.

We get very poor value for money if we focus infrastructure spend on more motorways that encourage more spread out housing and urban development that will cost more over the long term and be a financial drag on councils, public agencies and residents for generations to come.

It’s only irrational if your aim is to increase EV ownership. If your aim is to support legacy energy systems the move seems coherent.

Labour also decided to end the RUC exemption; but on the grounds that the CCD was a more effective subsidy.

Saw this exchange and for me it’s one of those SO CLOSE to getting it moments.

I mean, this human nature thing, is it perfect? Should we agree to some rules and stuff? Especially if it starts to hurt us bad in ways we don’t like? Shall we just let it rip and see what happens? I can’t decide.

Not an expert but think the issue will be when low river flows prevent the reservoir(s) topping up. At that point it’s countdown to running out, especially as 45% of it will be lost to leaks.

So more distributed storage now, while reservoirs can still fill up from rivers, builds resilience.

And this is why I distrust any politicians who claim the market will provide when it clearly never has in the past. It's an out and out lie.

As long as you’re not sifting through the basket to find matching colour pegs you’re absolutely fine