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make that page 39706, after the third world war and the hundred year russian empire..

yes the "special relationship" has always been a one way street heap of BS for when america needs a fig leaf to invade a third world oil producer. But i cant help imagining that - when a majority of the UK electorate finally wakes up - it may be too late. I wouldnt be surprised if the EU treated...

agree, but we would have to reinvent ourselves as some kind of cutting edge research base (like california/silicon valley/Maasachesets Institute of technology). There's loads of very good research and development in the UK - but it benefits from EU membership. We'd be competing with everyone -...

Good. Ironic as well. When the benefits dry up permanently in a few months, try to think about the analogy.

here's the UK's deficit on trade in goods - that is how much more goods we import than manufacture and export http://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/nationalaccounts/balanceofpayments/bulletins/uktrade/january2016 But don't take the office for national statistics (or my) word for it. Reality will give...

What do you mean with "stand on our own two feet"? The UK economy is mainly based on services, provided largely to the EU. It doesn't manufacture much and imports much more than it exports. This imbalance used to be made up by overseas investment pouring in - into property etc. We are also very...

No offence,but I find you and flud's posts a compelling argument for the right to vote in a democracy being based on some kind of knowledge test

so what is this really about flud? you trying to prove to us what a busy, entertaining life you live? Does "the lady doth protest too much" ring a bell? OK, let's assume English lit wasn't in your curriculum. Those of us who do have lives don't feel the need to shout about it to others. Does...

there's still a great deal to do about brexit. nothing is clear about it yet. except that it's an unplanned un thought through mess - no doubt not least because people vote and live without considering the future, or their own role in it, at all (I must confess your post comes to mind) made the...

apologies flud, indeed, it was Brendan. Now how on earth could I possibly confuse you with Brendan? I mean its not as if the two of you have similar belligerent, unmindful, antagonistic manners?

You have mentioned her. But perhaps this post of yours illustrates my point about leave voters becoming more insulting than remainers. For some reason a number of cliches occur to me. One is that being this dismissive of others you don't know must leave you with loads of unhappiness/anger. Give...

In my experience its been mostly those who voted leave that became insulting. Your racist remarks about my wife or tillson's about my profession comes to mind. I don't mind either,to be frank. Everyone gets too riled here occasionally. But those who voted remaine have not been as personally...

or they may sip schnaps on a sloop somewhere off villefranche sur mer. Ironically its the great unwashed in the uk that will pay the price for this decision.

It's not a contest. To a point were all in the same boat. There's a brutal reality out there that busy savagely punishing the UK economy for the decision to leave the EU. That isnt going to stop. It's also not only financial: as the UK economy goes into recession, and inflation goes up, and the...

a final add, ive got 26 1.75 marathon plus' on a dahon espresso (as also afraid of 2.00 fouling mudguards) and they were ideal for potholed roads back in england, from the bone jarring perspective of brompton marathon plus' they seemed decidedly balloony and relatively free rolling

that sounds a good description and probably true - perhaps with significcant anti establishment feelings following years of austerity, loss of services, disability benefits etc while observing the pay of executives and MP's soar. But - frankly - it's not good enough. most remain voters were also...

as far as i know it was thatcher's deregulation of financial services that produced much of teh 2008 finiancial crisis. The fantasy that it was spending by teh left is a travesty, as is the fact that the poor is paying for bankers' bonusses by loosing health services, disability benefits...

well one answer i guess is that the pound will go down to 1.14 this week https://www.poundsterlinglive.com/eur/5316-pound-to-euro-forecast-for-the-week-ahead-2 so about 7 weeks untill parity. I guess article 50 or not we will revert to the way we were in before joining the EU, and all the...

if i knew invoking article 50 would simply eject a tory government via a temporary financial hernia, i'd say let's go for it. the problem is that its unclear where the bottom of this particular barrel is? And its not only a financial issue, if the economy goes badly wrontg, it's hard not to...