Before Andy Burnam gives up being Mayor of Greater Manchester he should look at the 1965 Leyton by-election when Patrick Gordon Walker stood to become an MP and stay as Foreign Secretary. (View Post)

My mother was in a shelter next to their house on Biggar Bank, Walney Island - A mine was dropped on the beach - The planes came in from the Irish Sea to bomb Barrow shipyards. The mine went off late… (View Post)

Someone should tell him that the United States is also the largest user of oil in the world!! (View Post)

About 500,000 voters die every year - perhaps 80% of them are Conservative and they tend to actually vote. (View Post)

Worse than that -Observer Everyman crossword clue yesterday wanted a former president 5 letters starting with B ending with N! Happily my wife remembered! (View Post)