Mike Rutherford thinks Britain's new independence makes it perfectly poised to invest in car production 18 Apr 2021 Last time I checked, MPs were preparing to blow “at least £12billion” refurbishing their already lavish London workplace, the Houses of Parliament. They also said yes to burning about £100billion on HS2, which many of them will use, all-expenses-paid, when travelling from home to London and back. Those same MPs and others will set the licence fee we pay, the main funding for the state broadcaster, whose microphones and studios are conveniently exploited by politicians peddling their policies, propaganda and idle promises. That’s billions of our pounds chucked around, just on a building refurb, a new railway, and funding the BBC. But might some, or most, of this public money be more wisely and productively invested in the BCC – the British Car Company – which I’m proposing, and the UK Government could part-fund?