Yes, the poor in England really will appreciate this additional kicking. I actually don't understand what has to happen to someone for them to be able to disassociate from normality like this.
One of the unspoken benefits of paying OSS projects is that you then attract the money motivated rather than the ideologically or politically movement. That has value in and of itself.
Fixing it here would mean acknowledging that you cannot run an entire continent of different peoples, languages and cultures (which affect priorities, such as climate be economy) using one central entity.
The NHS has been unable to send an ambulance to me in two separate cases in which the operator confirmed I was high priority.
5 years apart. Once in York, once in Bedfordshire.
But it doesn’t matter —- it’s anecdata.
The NHS has a lot of data available. Some is public, some available only to those that have a commercial relationship with them.
There are areas in which the NHS is exceptional — generally those areas which require no personalisation of care and a mass-production style of work (e.g. cervical smear tests and their associated health outcomes) - and then there are the many areas in which it really is appalling.
Lionising the NHS doesn’t help it. Opening discussing its faults does.
In fact, the level of effort required to estimate electricity uses for multiple franchises on one physical section of railway has resulted in nearly all British rolling stock having built-in electricity metering.
You genuinely think a carbon tax would cost more than all the other costs associated with flying an empty plane? Pilots, cabin crew, ground services, fuel, depreciation of the aircraft, landing fees, ATC service fees, etc?
It wouldn’t be. The massive cost already isn’t stopping it.
Side note: Please stop using EU and Europe interchangeably, they are not the same thing. 100s of millions of people live on the continent of Europe, but not in the EU.