@nprofile1q... Sadly, a considerable number of people still find the Clacton Quisling "uplifting"; but with Fascism/flagism rather then Northernism in the viscera.

We're gubbed, aren't we: stuck between the devil and the blue labour sea...

@nprofile1q... Same with what's left of the fishing industry... crab/lobster/prawn boats flying Union flags, shouting about bigger and better markets for their ultra-fresh catches. Suddenly the biggest two buying countries (France and Spain) started looking elsewhere because what was an overnight trade started taking several days; and you can guess the rest.

@nprofile1q... We also need to wrest control form the large food processors and supermarket groups; their "perfect produce just-in-time" at cost (or less) to the farmers is (along with the need of the agrichemical industry to sell ever more of their toxic products) arguably at the root of the over-use of fossil fuels.
Centralised processing & storage (instead of smaller, local facilities) is another drain on our resources - to the benefit of the industries' bottom lines.

@nprofile1q... Hmm... So if the (UK) government was to spend some money on removing the grid choke-points between England (consumer) and Scotland (producer of lots of wind- & hydro-generated electricity) there would be less need for carbon burning; and also (IF managed wisely) the creation of many jobs and a large injection of money into the economy.
I realise there are other factors involved; but this is just one of many projects that could benefit the UK as a whole.

@nprofile1q... Wasn't there a song along those lines..?

If not, there should be!

@nprofile1q... I hate to say "I told you so"; but I told you so.

On a less gloomy note, the (management imposed) ban on overtime working has been rescinded (for now), so those rounds that cannot be completed in the allotted time now stand a chance of being finished. It will take quite a while to catch up...

I'm still waiting for announcements of property/asset sales by the directors of RM/IMD, as they pick the flesh from the bones of a once great but now moribund public service.

@nprofile1q... Does "in-work benefits" also include state subsidies and grants to businesses owned by billionaires who can damned well afford to invest in those businesses?

Asking for a perplexed nation.