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You’ve made your case of what you are against, what are you for? US/France exec style President, or Ireland/German style President for ceremonial matters, PM with exec powers. What’s your preference?

To some extent I agree with your point on Russian money, but then the U.K. Government actively encouraged U.K. business to develop relationships with Russia when we were friends. However, one country did that in spades, and it’s ironic you think that country has better arrangements with Putin...

I know, for you the truth is no defence.

Yep, couldn’t have put it better, I passed through WH at 9.45 this morning. The process was tough, it was over 14 hours of either walking or standing during a pretty chilly night/morning but the experience could not have been more rewarding. It was like a cross between a charity event and that...

I am not surprised that you have missed the point, the legislation (CRD and CRR) that is likely to be changed is going to affect regulated firms’ internal capital and prudential arrangements to a much greater extent than bankers bonuses, and the obligations of remuneration committees to set...

I would back scrapping any overly prescriptive rules that don’t work effectively, a position shared to a greater or lesser extent by the EU itself, who implemented those rules. I don’t think scrapping the rules is contradictory with supporting Brexit either. With respect to the U.K. it has...

It’s a miracle we have any left I thought they were heading off to the EU and taking their massive salaries and bonuses with them? You are damping both sides of the mattress with this one. What a stink……..

For many like you I suspect the broad media line on this story will simply scratch their perpetual prejudicial itch on Tory wickedness and the wider context on what may actually be happening will be lost. I know you need it simple so here goes. “Bankers bonuses” is the colloquial term for...

Very true, there were regular famines in Ireland (and elsewhere in Europe) due to many factors some of which were beyond the control of those in charge (check the year without a summer in (1816). The Chinese communists on the other hand, ignored the effects of collectivisation under Stalin and...

Don’t worry about the companies, how about the U.K. state exploiting the limited medical resources of poorer countries to get them into the NHS. And yet some people celebrate that expolitation like I dare say their forebears did when the found out about Plessey. Imperialism and colonial...

Lies………we should start with the biggest. https://www.middleeasteye.net/big-story/how-tony-blair-lied-parliament-fulfil-his-war-promise-bush

Do the scientists know that wine was grown up north in Roman times in a warmer climate than we have now or is it lazy journalism? https://www.theguardian.com/science/2003/apr/04/sciencenews.research

I understand that, however aren’t magistrate courts part of the solution to reducing crown court cases. https://www.nao.org.uk/report/reducing-the-backlog-in-criminal-courts/ Decriminalise non payment of BBBC licence fee everyone wins.

Sure, ex Labour Party MP James Purnell said similar when he went to work for BBC…….which misses the point, but f*ck the poor eh? https://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/sep/24/in-court-non-payment-tv-licence-television-desperate-cases 1 in 10 has been a historical benchmark as far as I can...

Approx 1 in 10 cases in the criminal courts are non payment of licence fee, a crime where 80% of those successfully prosecuted are poor and vulnerable women. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5537d8c5e4b095f8b43098ff/t/6242b23a2bdf7b715fe57d38/1648538172676/2022_03_29+TVL+Briefing.pdf...

Is this what you are now utilising as the metrics of unremitting Brexit failure these days? I can remember the heady days of predictions of the hollowing out of the city, the killing of the golden goose, the queues of Bankers and brokers taking their bonuses off to Amshhterdem and Pareee………...

You need to expand your political sensibilities to those outside the perimeter of those with sufficient where-with-all and accoutrements to venture to la belle francais la plage……...genesis of le petit bougouis in the first place...

I’m not sure who you are most concerned about, the petit bourgeoise that holiday in France and Europe via Dover, or the proletariat who have been royally f*cked over for years in the EU that had the good sense to spend their summer in friendly places like the Algarve. As for cost of living...

Nope merely highlighting macro EU matters beyond a queue at Dover……… https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/eu-gas-solidarity-complicated-by-lack-fuel-sharing-deals-2022-07-29/ One EU diplomat said it was ultimately in countries' own interests to help one another, since an economic crisis or...

Erm…….for some El Dorado isn’t just cakes and whistles within the borders of Portugal. https://getgoldenvisa.com/portugal-golden-visa-uk-citizens