In the short run its helping Chelsea under Financial Fair Play rules. When you buy a player the cost of the transfer is amortised over the length of the contract, so by giving a 9 year instead of 3 y… (View Post)

Oh great, are we going to go back to the days of "Go Home" vans? I did not vote for this xenophobic bullshit. I lent my vote to Labour and thought Labour might quickly lose it due to econom… (View Post)

Petrol prices were obscenely far too high in 2012 and should be lower, but equally the Treasury needs to detox from fleecing drivers and find someone else to fund its revenue as petrol tax is being p… (View Post)

Only over the economic cycle, and only if debt isn't index-linked (some but not all of it is). The problem is when you have eg periods of growth and then max out the deficit like that (eg 2002 t… (View Post)

He got into one little fight and his mum got scared and said "Tu migras cum amita et avunculo in Bel-Air" (View Post)