Purdah Options

[Simon Kirby]

Story here.

"The council has been awarded a £5.07m grant from the Department for Transport on the basis that it agreed to fund the remaining 30 per cent – or £2.17m."

As I understand it our government, national and local, are supposed to respect this period of purdah and not publish this kind of news. If this really is WBC putting this news out there then it really is very poor form.

[On the edge]

Incredible and another demonstration of today's marketed politics. No ideas, just solutions to non existent problems.

Swapping out the existing street lighting units for led ones might look pretty but doesn't actually contribute over much to the energy consumption, so the costs and electricity use won't change much...but the voter will think it looks nice! Sadly, if the investment was properly focussed against a real business case, then we'd achieve some real and sustainable difference.

If you think about it, it's games like this that demonstrate the contempt that our mainstream politicians have for their electorate, who do they think we are?

[Biker1]

Swapping out the existing street lighting units for led ones might look pretty but doesn't actually contribute over much to the energy consumption, so the costs and electricity use won't change much...but the voter will think it looks nice!

I disagree OTE.
Not going by what it says on the packets of domestic LED's anyway.
I can now buy an LED lamp that, for 3W consumption, gives out the same lumen as an incandescent of 60W.
Or have I got it wrong somewhere?