Hecto-millionaire and deka-houses, surely. (View Post)

Still not the same as family income! (View Post)

There was that chap who started off with the Northumberland nationalists and ended up with the very firmly unionist Slab and then Scottish Tories. (View Post)

Quite right re the mines. Tiddly little partly worked out ones were replaced en masse by a very few superpits hereabouts. It's a process I well remember from when I were younger. The superpits were r… (View Post)

Only with the boost of North Sea oil, though. Any fool could do a lot with North Sea oil money. No sovereign wealth fund, either. Compare and contrast: Norway. (View Post)