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And the Ghandi Restaurant just outside the Swan Centre which was an acceptable venue - and tehn you could walk outside and watch the boxing outside the Litten Tree

Now Eastleigh really is a fricking hole

Forgive me for entering into a private argument but leave Chandlers Ford out of it - admittedly the southern suburbs of Winchester arent as nice as the northern reaches (dont mention Southampton) but its a perfectly nice place to live and raise a family.

oddly aggressive - any particular reason why?

As stated by beorhtelm the bank bailout money doesnt touch this figure. So yes, the UK deficit is pretty much up there as the worst in the world coupled with hte fact that the recession in the UK was longer and deeper than every other major economy. So if it wasnt the government's fault for...

Absolutely - because running up a deficit of £160bn+ could only consisted of sound rational decisions in public spending. They were spending money that they didnt have and ran up a deficit far outstretching anything seen in history - it was reckless.

I am down to the last few needed and have a few swaps going - I need 14,33,154,240,277,316,335,343,436,445,451,471,520,554 and 595. (as long as those I swapped with recently all deliver! If anyone has those then there could be some good dealing to do

"Deterrent"? Hmmm.. Didn't deter General Galtieri from invading the Falklands in 1982 though, did it! But it did deter the Soviet Union from invading Western Europe - unless you can prove otherwise? Unless you mean that maybe the "deterrent" only works against other countries who also have...

It was suggested as such on Radio 4 yesterday

Which is why for essentials such as food, kids clothes etc there is no VAT - everyone has a choice as to whether to buy pretty much everything else. But the facts are as everyone knows that VAT will have gone up to 20% under any government - no one ruled it out pre-election which is why it...

Yup - Section 3 of the Scotland Act 1998 - states that parliament can only be dissolved outside of the fixed term should 66% of the MSPs vote in favour of the motion.

bollocks - all they are stating they will do is redraw the boundaries so there are an even number of people in each constituency as opposed to now where you have the ridiculous situation of 40,000 voter constituencies in the inner cities and 110000 people in places like the Isle of Wight -...

Like it currently is - although correct me if I am wrong here but didnt the Labour run Scottish Parliament when it was established implement a requirement for a 66% majority to dissolve the Scottish parliament?

No - you vote for the individual to represent you at Westminster - not for the party - hence the reason why people like Quentin Davies are able to change parties and not have to put themselves up for election. The reality is of course - even more so now with the debates - that the vast...

Excellent post - just one minor correction is that NATO doesnt havea no first use policy - it stems from the beleif that the only way to stop a conventional assault from the Soviets would have been a nuclear strike. In reality though it is now an unwritten policy. No first use policies are...

As others have said - you dont know that the deterrent works - you only know when it has failed. Its a hedge against the future and a lot cheaper in terms of its impact (political impact not military) than anything else we have. China could well be a threat in the coming years - they state...

No-one of any influence in any party said that they would rule out a VAT increase - it was a main thrust of questioning from Paxman et al before the election and every party refused to answer - it was going to happen whoever won the election. I agree though that someone should have broken the...

The only two real choices for the government should be a replacement of the current system as it stands or abandoning it altogether. Any smaller system would not allow us to have the continuous at sea deterrence that we have operated since the 1960s which means there is always at least one sub...

Just ever so slightly misleading - that report only refers to direct taxation, which of course was planned to increase in the coming year with both the National Insurance Rise and the 50% tax band and the freezing of thresholds. It doesnt refer to the myriad of indirect taxes introduced and...

I agree that child tax credits are an absolute farce - friends of mine with a combined income pushing 100k have just separated (not divorced as yet) but becuase they have three kids they are entitled to claim around 500 quid a month - absolute madness and a total waste of money. On top of the...