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Illegal? In what sense? If it was a criminal offence to run the referendum, then perhaps David Cameron should have been prosecuted? All elections are advisory. Is there any law to stop Starmer's government from leaving the ECHR, outlawing strikes, and raising income tax NIC corporation tax...

It could be of course that although their personal preference would have been to stay in the EU, they accepted that the public had voted against and that their duty was to (as promised) carry out their decision. I realise that accepting the referendum result is something of an alien concept to...

So, fuel costs £1230, battery (which you forgot to mention) £800, MOT £50, insurance say £300, service £90, repairs say £50. Total £2,520. I'll have that pint back, thanks. ;)

The total absence of servicing costs in your calculation certainly helps cut costs.

I apologise, the most fanatical electric car driver does think that 130 miles range is practical. However, it wouldn't be for me.

"Including depreciation" means that the cost of the car is taken into account. I'm not fully au fait with how electric car pricing works, but are you sure you're correct in saying that they have no road tax, do not need servicing, and don't require insurance? (Anyway, 130 miles range is not...

Electric cars as cheap as petrol? Like I said, my running costs incuding depreciation are about £2500 per year. Could I buy and run a second hand electric vehicle for that?

When you look at the list of Tory leaders and compare it to the list of Labour leaders, it must be hard (though clearly still possible) to assess the Tories as the ones who are prejudiced in favour of white males.

If and when electric vehicles become as cheap and as convenient as petrol, then I expect this will be true. Until that day, it won't. The technology still has a fair way to go. I for one have no objections in principle to electric vehicles, as I suspect most people don't - it's the...

That, ironically, is a powerful reason not to buy an electric car. Not until 2026, anyway. If the price of new cars falls in 2026 the the second hand price of 2024 cars will drop accordingly. For me, the inconvenience of an EV while living in a terrace makes it a no. (And, unlike Brovion's...

Do you genuinely believe that Israel are doing their level best to wipe out the population of Gaza but simply don't have the means to do it? Or is it just that you don't know what genocide means?

The events of October last year suggest that the people in neighbouring countries were already angry with them. I think the absence of outrage on October 8th in Gaza suggests that the people of Palestine already hated Israelis about as much as it is possible to hate. If, to take a parallel...

That's another pet hate of mine. 200 pupils in a year? Why? Why the insistence that schools must be enormous, far too big for any of the staff to know more than a fraction of the pupils? Why not smaller schools - instead of 1,000 or 2,000 pupils in a school, make it 200 or 300 and give...

Possibly. Wouldn't you like to live in a period where only good things happened and bad things didn't? What I really want to do is live in the 2020's when the bad things don't happen.

I think women as chattels was a lot further back than that. But basically I was thinking of the relationship between the state and the family, because back then it was accepted that it was the parents'house job to raise and feed their children, not the state's. Of course, there was a lot less...

Not specific policies, it's the earlier attitudes towards individual freedoms and responsibilities that we have lost.

We'd be best off with a great variety of schools. Big schools, small ones, educational sausage factories, technical schools, acadamies, private schools, special schools, and yes, even comprehensive schools. Starting out with the principle that all children should have the same education, is...

No. I would prefer them to move towards the Conservative parties of Thatcher, MacMillan (early), even Eden. I'm not a fan of million-a-year immigration and all-time-high taxes, nor of the Conservative policy (which they thought of before Starmer's mess-up) of releasing prisoners early and...

The point of the tax relief on all the payments in but the tax charge on only 75% of the payments out, is that it encourages people to save into their pensions. Remember that the capital gains and income that a pension pot earns you become taxable (well, 75% of them) when you take them out. If...

It's all too easy, when you're sitting in an echo chamber like this surrounded by people who think that Boris Johnson and Adolf Hitler are similar politicians, to believe the guff about Badenoch and Jenrick are lunatic right wingers. For heaven's sake, there are people on here who despised...