Your arithmetic is off. Not to mention your comprehension and logic. The correct balanced figures are 23 and 27 respectively, once your spin is dumped in the wpb. (View Post)

BigG, the little persons were watching Teletubbies rather than Andrew Neil at the relevant time ... (View Post)

Also, often with the four-weeklies money is *owed* to DWP, so they want every milligram of flesh. Happened with my mum, though I can't remember how quick they were with it. (View Post)

There's a distinction between the direct civil service (eg Sir Humphrey) and employees of what used to be Quangos but are more commonly called agencies. But in practice they are all civil servants. T… (View Post)

I know the feeling only too well. I was trapped by slow and useless respondents the first time I was an executor and trying to DIY when a friend, whose father had died some years before, came to stay… (View Post)