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A bloke making a maths joke and a civil servant responding humorously to a maths joke does not plunge us further into debt.

See that's the problem..

You have to fund 'maths' instead of just 'math'.

Already makes it cost at least 2x as much.

He's not asking to replace existing signs, only to have new signs be correct.

There's zero cost to this.

you can hear him talk about it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btPqKAGyajM

Lets be realistic, probably a 6'ish figure sum to get the bureaucracy completed. Still, peanuts.

Humour gets people through dark times.

I feel that this is one of the basic operating principles of the UK....

If there's ever a constitution that should be one of the main guarantees, along decent tea and "milk after, not before".

Many of the above problems are down to stupid decisions by the government. Consider the effort to change the football as an attack on stupid in general. You never know - get the math correct on footballs today and they may get it right real issues tomorrow.

Like a kind of "broken window theory" for stupidity - maybe it'd snowball? It's worth a shot!