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Sorry, I don't follow this. In what sense is my point moot? Our Prime Minister is involved in establishing the priorities of the Commission for a given programme period in his role on the European Council. If you want the agenda for the Commission to be set instead by the Parliament, you would...

To be perfectly honest there are a couple of other inconsistencies but I wanted to stick to the clearly factual. I think the public has been done a massive disservice by the 'official' bodies. Both have summarily failed to depict an optimistic view of the future, to acknowledge the weaknesses...

I don't really want to get into a debate about the relative merits of the two main representative groups (who are all a shower of shit, quite frankly), but I feel duty-bound to point out there is one completely false number in this press release. I'll happily do the same for any Remain nonsense...

Genuine question here, from someone who favours Remain - how would you do it better? Specifically, how would you do it better without removing power from the (genuinely) democratically elected leaders of the Member States? I agree that there is a democractic deficit in the EU. I just don't see...

Depends how the government and the EU enact a vote to leave. Most likely, there'd be very little change in the short-term; both parties (UK and EU) would agree to continue to be bound by the terms of membership until a new agreement could be negotiated, on the understanding that such an...

I think you are misreading it. As I understand it it is the balance in favour of Remain; so a 50% balance of Labour voters favour Remain (i.e. 75% plays 25%). UKIP is about -94% (to make the maths easier) which would be 97% Leave 3% Remain (3-97= -94%).

*sigh* Where have I put spin on it? The point is that most of these 'facts' aren't outright lies. They have just enough truth in them that the other side can't flatly accuse them of lying and have to argue the point; therefore keeping the debate on that issue. Both official groups have been...

Sorry, but no-one I'm aware of has been complaining about the use of a 'per household' measure. It's much better to use that or a 'per head' measure than an absolute figure (particularly when talking about monetary figures) because it makes them relatable. The problem with the £4,300 figure is...

Oi! :angry: Actually, it's a fair cop - was in Tenby in South Wales last week, and even the shortest ride (23 miles) had 1,200+ ft of climbing. Cambridgeshire doesn't prepare me for that! Thanks all for the advice. Thankfully nursery to home is only just over 3 miles, and all along rural or...

Does anyone have experience of riding with a toddler in a child seat on a road bike? I have bought a Hamax Kiss seat, helmet for sprog and am supposed to be picking her up from nursery tomorrow on the bike for the first time (she's 18 months). Any advice besides being ridiculously cautious until...

As usual, from both sides, it looks a mixture of truth, half-truth and falsehoods. I'm happy to pick up a few that I know specifics about; Yes, public sector organisations are not (supposed to) be able to favour domestic firms over others from within the single market. Whether this is a good...

Hello! I was just thinking yesterday that it was about time I made a reappearance in this thread. I have no idea why it's called a 'climb'. It's even flatter than Strava makes it look. To be honest I have no idea why it's a segment at all - it's a turn off a main road onto a small side road...

Compton doesn't look mentally up to it, far too intense. On cricinfo someone's just made the Ramprakash comparison, which I think is valid. Unless he goes big in the 2nd innings (which I can't see) I think that's it for him, which puts England in a bit of a spot - do you bring in Robson, as the...

The pay issues were always (as far as I can tell) about distribution of pay, rather than absolute levels. The contract that government threatened to enforce would have cut incomes for those that work the crappiest shifts (i.e. the most nights and weekends) and benefitted the rest. It would also...

The problem is you're not interested in evidence, preferring your own unevidenced opinions. That makes it rather difficult to debate with you. For that reason I'm out.

You have some serious chutzpah, accusing me of pedalling myths and then spouting a load of unevidenced nonsense. On wages - there is mixed evidence (some studies have shown no negative impact, some a small negative impact particularly amongst the low skilled, and a couple a positive impact)...

My point is that if you take my characterisation of Maldini 's view to it's logical extension, any increase in working-age population should increase the number of people unemployed or economically inactive (because there's a fixed number of jobs and migrants are 'taking' jobs from the native...

You suppose (and have done in a few places) that more people in the country has no positive impact on the economy or public finances. I've seen a few other Brexit supporters do the same, and it's misguided. A European working here i) pays taxes and ii) spends money, creating revenues for...

I don't think anyone would argue that the quality of most infrastructure (in the broadest sense of the word) in this country has declined in recent years, and clearly the population growth plays a major role in this. What I would say is that the vast majority of evidence shows that the average...

I think we're talking in circles here. So there view is 'relevant' but can be disregarded because sometimes experts are wrong. I don't share your cynicism. Sure, some agents have agendas (and some are more obvious than others). I don't think it's fair to then say that every senior person on...