bridge too far

My fat aunt Hilda, who ate spare ribs and chips every day, once tried to suggest to me that it wasn't her fault she was fat, it was the ribs and chips.

Shame our menfolk let us down eh

Yay - the Chairboys are winning!

Oh dear - 2 down now

I have friends who live in Javea - it's quite nice there but very much a British enclave.

Not just pigs, it seems http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/04/02/uk-britain-cameron-sheep-idUKBRE9310KZ20130402

I think your post says more about you than it does about the idea of having 'people's questions' and calm, measured debate.

Doing very well so far in PMQs

And, as a consequence, being subsidised by you and me as taxpayers

Because of the irresponsibility of the banking sector in lending them money they couldn't afford to pay back and because many in the financial sector actually hedged in favour of this happening making it a self-fulfilling prophecy. They're the ones who ruined the lives of hard working families.

Because more younger people could get on the property ladder if they wanted to. Most young people these days are unlikely to be in a position to buy their first property until they're in their 40s and, since lenders will only lend until 65 (although the retirement age is 67), many won't even get a chance of getting a mortgage.

And many small buy to let investors will sell their properties meaning there will be more on the market and that will help to reduce the prices of average properties. And that will be a good thing in the main.

This

Yay go Tom Watson!

Same could be said for idiots who need to pee in alleyways http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-34187998

Oh dear lord - the thought of uber-sycophantic Nicholas Witchell on my screen all day fills me with dread!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-34176631

Being a refugee and being poor aren't necessarily the same thing. Some, if not most, of them are fleeing war, not poverty.

Who?

Good article by my old buddy Bryan Gould http://www.bryangould.com/who-is-jeremy-corbyn/

Aah I get you. You think appearance is far more important than principle. Fortunately a lot of people are less shallow than that. And dodgy links to shady characters? You mean like our current government that sucks up to places like Saudi Arabia because it wants to sell them arms even though that state funds terrorism?

What DOES a leader look like? How does he not sound like a leader - he's calm, authoritative,polite and doesn't resort to insults or sound bites. Oh I see what you mean! How DOES a leader act?

For

It does look like a Pollock