Given the problems which Mrs C had on getting a Government Gateway account and then a taxpayers' account before she could prove she existed and deal with the tax she had paid for decades, there's a b… (View Post)

You mean, like Colditz was a "royal* palace". *Electoral, I think, but am hazy ... (View Post)

The donor might have kept the fishing rights and farmland, for all I know. Potentially lucrative and wasted on the average pol anyway (especially if they were only there for weekends). Interesting an… (View Post)

Hotels can be and often are shite, everyone knows that, but military bases are supposed to be reasonably superior accommodation. Wouldn't do recruiting much good, would it? Just imagine the slogan: &… (View Post)

Given the tripe already having been put out on this sort of thing today, as discussed passim on PB, I'd want to check whether that doesn't simply reflect the fact that a lot of UC claimants may not n… (View Post)