I know you've quoted this before, but once a farm is built, how many jobs are created running it in the community it is built, not to mention the construction trades jobs and the heavy industry jobs making the parts?

We should be embarking, in this morose economy, on a massive building programme, not just as a jobs programme, but as an economic efficiency and growth programme, a regional development motor, and a positive environmental legacy for our kids.

I know you do the math on these things constantly, so you know they usually pay back a tidy return, certainly at a return state-issued debt can support. Would you be for a broad EU-wide, state-subsidised building programme as an economic stimulus?

The Hun is always either at your throat or at your feet. Winston Churchill