Stop All The Clocks
NFU website poll: "Do you think the clocks should stay forward during the winter, and move an hour forward in summer, to bring us into line with the rest of Europe?" 65% think yes.
Well it would be great except that if you only moved forward an hour in the summer every year, the day would begin an hour later every year, so in twelve years time, a day that would have begun at 9 am would begin at the equivalent of 9p.m.. No wonder the Europeans have such difficulty keeping deadlines, driving and working a sensible number of hours in a week.
Also Porter was angry to be ejected from a nightclub when the clocks went back. The only reason he went was for the extra-hour free.
Somebody I was chatting to asked me whether I thought that people who worked over the hour when the clocks went back got payed for the hour lost. That's like asking if a long-haul flight attendant gets payed for two hours work on a trip to the States.
