Isn't the Tory idea to introduce right-to-buy social housing just a gimmick which is largely unworkable?
In reality the Lewis proposal implies a model of negative licensing - you can write unless we say you can't - which is fundamentally unworkable.
Star Trek aficionados will be well aware that ships such as the Enterprise are propelled using antimatter, a process which is still unworkable in reality though has for years been investigated by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center.
The home construction industry, already unnerved by the proliferation of antigrowth zoning ordinances across the state, is not embracing Mr. McGreevey's vision, which it says is unworkable in a state without any mechanisms for regional planning.
Upon taking office, he unveiled an anti-poverty programme called Fome Zero (zero hunger), which was clearly unworkable.
Lord Smith, who chaired the body set up after the Scottish independence "No" vote, said ideas which were judged "unworkable" did not feature.
But this proposal is an unworkable damp squib which is heading for a fall - and then all the King's horses and all the King's men won't be able to put it together again, no matter how hard they try.
The opposition wants a financial-transactions tax, which the government thinks is unworkable unless all EU countries sign up to it (and Britain, for one, will not).
But this new action plan, like previous guidelines, will most likely prove ineffective because the "don't ask, don't tell" policy on which it is based is unworkable.
At Wednesday's argument, Steven J. Wells, a lawyer for the National Meat Association, which is challenging the law, said that so fine a distinction was unworkable.
