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Terrific how the word 'lefties' is being used again. I thought it went out with the Ford Corsair and Jack Jones so perhaps it's being employed in a post-modern ironic sense. It doesn't really touch me as I'm not one but I'd love to know. PS - Keith Joseph, Thatcher's mentor on high Tory...

Blimey, I thought it was supposed to be something to do with the pros and cons of our country's membership of the European Union.

No17 of my list of reasons for thinking that Brexit looked like a bad idea was the deeply flawed nature of some of the unpleasant people supporting it. It's always nice having first thoughts substantiated.

...and if the parliament concerned won't agree what the government wants the people are told to elect one that does. Repeatedly, until, fed up and exhausted, they do.

Altering other people's posts has always struck me as the most pathetic form of debate going, but what the heck - if you really feel that Great Britain is "under or at the mercy of an immense and oppressive force, burden, or pressure" simply because it belongs to an international union then you...

So just to summarise... if the Murdoch press is correct, we may be able to sign a deal with Japan by the end of the year which might be as good as the one we have anyway.

The last time I looked, Morrisons were offering part time jobs on an 8 hours a week contract. So not quite zero hours. More like nearly zero hours. PS I am not against zero hours contracts in principle. I have effectively been on them for years, just like every other self-employed person...

If they were not specifically zero hours contracts then it was a mistake to suggest they were. The poster's underlying point remains though - 3000 middle management jobs are being replaced with 7000 poorly paid shop floor ones and the employer (and the government, and its disciples) can claim a...

I'm sure TB will be along, but as I'm passing... The link shows how Morrisons are getting rid of 3,000 management jobs whilst at the same time recruiting 7,000 zero-hours workers, so providing a notional increase of 3,000 jobs. Brexiteers on here have been crowing about how Brexit has had no...

You're right - one of NSC Leave's finest (whilst jeering at those who go out in the weather to try - unsuccessfully as it happens - to change things) has happily stated on here that he prefers to sit at home and wind up his opponents. He has less and less success as time goes by, but he keeps...

When the situation becomes positive? Or if.

Worthy-sounding words but it is not an either-or. The country was led into making an appalling decision and to that extent, by definition, my view of its future is negative. Given that my opinion is only partly led by economic considerations, it is unlikely that I will 'move on' from that...

You're not going are you? As you said, you prefer to sit at the keyboard and try to wind people up.

Look, you've already been pulled up on you untruth that Watfrd Zero guaranteed that we wouldn't leave the EU and now you claim that Remainers were claiming they'd win a landslide at the election. Any evidence of that or is it another Potslade fib - like your one about Remainers delaying Brexit...

I'm not quite sure why you're so happy with the jeery genius's four links. Do you read them before applauding? They showed... 1. Guarded optimism from the IMG (described by Leavers as a lackey of the British Government, and part-funded by it) that UK growth might slightly exceed that of the...

I'm up there shortly. Just let me know if there is any specific graffiti you'd like me to spray on the Peaks Parkway footbridge,

Lovely bit in that Grimsby link was the local MP announcing that Grimsby would be able to get round the inconveniences of Brexit by being given Free Trade Status. We couldn't have had that before Brexit he said. He's a liar though - Johnson has already been picked up for this one.

You ask me if I have a problem with you pontificating about the current atmosphere in the Amex when you admit you haven't been to a match for years? Not really, like almost everyone on this board I've got used to you using total ignorance as a unique selling point. And of course I am delighted...

Thank you for a measured reply. Can I pick you up on the point above. I don't ask you to agree with me, but I do ask to consider whether I make a case and perhaps in the light of that to trim your invective. One of the few general requirements formally placed on MPs - their covenant with the...

And this the man who feels able to comment on the current atmosphere in the Amex when he hasn't been near the place for about two years.