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Absolutely! The same syndrome is applicable to all other government-controlled, directly or indirectly, services. When our firefighters were unable to fight the Grenfell Tower because of local government insulating on the cheap; when police state publicly that they have insufficient resources...

I'd call that realistic rather than aspirational. The present UK pension is a shade over £712 per month for those with entitlement to a full pension. That doesn't go very far and of course, the vast, vast majority have contributed for most of their adult life, not with other people's money but...

The last three words are totally superfluous. Tom

I think perhaps, 'Demonising' would be a more accurate term in this instance OG. Tom

Based on your extensive sample 'Woosh', I'm with the demonstrators! As some of my ancestors were French and had to emigrate to the UK (or die!), I hope the protestors gain some social and economic improvements for ordinary people. If they should succeed, perhaps I should think or returning to...

Have you no humanity in you? Perhaps you have just rocketed in from the planet Zog or somewhere but you seem to be, or pretend to be, ignorant of life for the people at the bottom of the heap in the UK. It really doesn't matter how you quantify 'a lot'; whether it's a thousand, a million or 10...

The Walter Mitty of Trollville! Tom

Well, that would be a first then! Tom

Previously, in response to suggestions that we can import all that we need from far-flung places around the world, I mentioned that to do so would be to ignore our commitment to reducing the UK's carbon footprint. The UK signed up to the Paris Agreement in 2016 yet those who talk of sunny...

Indeed; and it seems that we no longer have the capability to construct our own nuclear power stations. Tom

Says the poster who disregards the now closed Templehof airport refurbished by the nazis in the 1930s which many architects since have described as the greatest example of airport design and a city airport too! Not many people know this but our very own Stansted airport was once adjudged to...

Yawn! Anybody got anything interesting or new to add to the thread? Clearly, the prolific Sunday am poster, Ms Jenkins, is bereft of anything new and chooses to add lots of column inches, reprising the same old tosh we have heard (and ridiculed) so often before. Tom

We seem to have a morning drinker a recent acquisition to the active cast of correspondents to this thread. I'm struck by the similarity in tone perceptible in the barrage of unhelpful contributions from the recently invented new recruit, Jennifer Jenkins, and I note similarities with another...

You're welcome 'Wicky'…..and I don't charge for this public service.;) Tom

Well, I wonder what this week will bring us. The events of last week in parliament were a major blow for the government and gave a huge fillip to Labour's cause. The expression, 'Prime Minister Jeremy Corbyn' just became a lot closer than many imagine. Tom

As we have diverted somewhat off-topic, may I just take a moment to acknowledge that Noam Chomsky, one of my favourite rebellious intellectuals, has turned 90 years of age. Here is a brief pen-picture of the man from John Nichols, a left-of-centre blogger and journalist...

Another one quits - who knew? Never heard of him? Neither had I until I read this: another-minister-quits-over-brexit-whos-next There's a saying…..something to do with sinking ships and rats…? Tom

Mmm…….that bit works for me! Tom

Absolutely shocking! Why are they in dire financial straits? The government should send in specialist fraud investigators to examine the books as I suspect this hasn't just come about through bad luck or a challenging business environment. Have they been paying out dividends and bonuses to...

Is it now the case that our carbon footprint doesn't matter any more? France and Spain are generally regarded as the breadbasket of Europe, just across the channel and/or Bay of Biscay and a great deal of their produce comes our way. If we decide to trade with countries in the areas you have...