I often wonder, given the cost how many potential cases never go to the UT because if a Local Authority has got a decision from the FTT even if its plainly bonkers we have no incentive to do anything with it.
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery. The blossom is blighted, the leaf is withered, the god of day goes down upon the dreary scene, and—and in short you are for ever floored.
Wilkins Micawber, Ch12 David Copperfield
