I have just read the original BBC report and it doesn't seem to be about expenses at all. Expenses would be travel, subsistence, accommodation and maybe entertaining clients. This looks more like thr… (View Post)

The next round of local elections is going to be a bit of a damp squib anyway, it is mostly only counties and some of those will be cancelled due to being in the first wave of "devolution" … (View Post)

And then promptly published them so we can all see the truth... presumably not (View Post)

As an alleged regular visitor to Spain, you'd have thought she would have noticed most of those things. I know living somewhere is different to being on holiday, but you'd have thought she would have… (View Post)

Apparently it's originally a Northern European thing, if a bear or badger emerges from its burrow on Candlemas and sees its shadow, you will get 6 more weeks of winter. Which is not that unlikely as … (View Post)