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Shenanigans is a good word. Another appropriate phrase is "smoke and mirrors". So complex. I've skim-read and I don't pretend to understand it all. But I can see that there is a finance/holding company based in the Cayman Islands - is that within the catchment area of the River Thames? Other...

VAT on private school fees, taxes more likely on savings (the promise not to tax 'working people'), giving votes to schoolchildren, no commitment not to tax the state pension, no plan to discourage illegal immigrants. I don't think that was "appealing to the right of centre voters".

Thankfully my father had exactly the same attitude. As a 90 yr old, he took me out for a 20 minute drive on mixed roads/junctions etc. ..... and drove perfectly! But he would have given up if I had told him he should. Until then I had just assumed that he was driving OK because there were...

Interesting possibility regarding Stonehouse, but I think that there are two key differences in these cases... 1. He has a successful, lucrative career and so I can't believe he has any money worries 2. He doesn't have a mistress that he wants to run away with, as far as we know. And I think...

Remember that rather than have just yourself as a driver, it usually decreases your premium if you add another driver (provided they have a clean insurance record). They don't have to live with you or be related to you. It's illogical but that's how it is.

If you actually read what I wrote, you'll see that I didn't say that. My question as to whether there is any evidence for the view that they are likely to vote for a left-ish party remains unanswered.... although you suggest that they would tend to vote Conservative if the current party had a...

I understand that's one of Labour's ideas (sorry if there's already a thread on this, but I couldn't see one). Personally I'm not in favour, based on the fact that they have such little adult life experience (some won't even have taken their GCSEs) and they haven't been exposed to the breadth...

Sorry, but in a democracy, don't we want our representatives to have views and policies which are popular with the majority of voters - I mean, that's what populist means isn't it? (odious, we don't want, of course).

Welsh Water is NOT state owned. Don't know that it makes much difference to the arguments/outcomes but just getting the facts right (which is always a good starting point) in any discussion.

Regardless of my views, I think it's a big vote-loser. I think that the MAJORITY of voters with children currently aged 1-17 (or who are planning a family) won't like it . Voters with grandchildren aged 1-17 won't like it. Voters with great grandchildren aged 1-17 won't like it. That probably...

Are there any examples of this? Genuine question because I'm surprised - personally I'd be happier lending money to the UK treasury than any private company and so I would tend to demand a lower rate of interest. Good to have the discussion, though. And your point about publicly-run...

I seem to recall that the state (i.e. the government) didn't WANT to borrow money to invest . For a reason which I'm not sure was valid, borrowing by water authorities counted towards the PSBR, even though they were not state-owned (which some people might not realise). I suspect it was more...

The trouble is that it's in short supply because all those selfish diabetics use it all up to treat their diabetes. Some people, eh!

I know nothing about keto (apart from the character in the Pink Panther films), but the diet you describe sounds a bit like Slimming World, which works for some people. The key point appears to be don't get to a stage where you are so hungry that you reach for the chocolate bar. But fill your...

Caveat Emptor! (in this case it's the garage, unusually). I am not qualified etc but my stance is that (in addition to all the above advice you've been given) their representative had adequate opportunity to inspect the car before leaving you with the new one. I really don't see how they can...

As a relative newcomer here, I love this 'Board' (no pun intended - well, maybe it was!). At what have been difficult times for me recently, it often gives me a :) and sometimes even a :lol:

Good point! I don't know if that's a problem in hockey - I guess it isn't... Anyone know???

Why not scrap the offside rule, like some other sports have done (notably hockey). ... at least trial it and see how it plays out.

But I did fall for this one... As an apprentice, walked into mess room in the middle of a conversation about a one-man band. Colleague says he heard an interview on the radio with someone who was a one-man band, but he couldn't understand how one man could play all those instruments. So of...

Apocryphal: "Can you go to the stores and get a bubble for my spirit level please" In my first Saturday job at a small builders' merchant (visualise the 4 candles sketch) - I thought I was being pranked when a colleague asked me to get him a length of 'birdmouth'. I told him I wasn't falling...