The Irish Naval Service has commissioned two new ships today. One of the key advantages of the new ships is that they need fewer crew to put to sea than the other ships in the Irish fleet. Which is j… (View Post)

I don't think there is [anything wrong with being Eurocentric*], but a previous poster was suggesting that Eurocentrism was a fiction, but it's right there in the Greenwich meridian and the… (View Post)

Do you really believe that fuel duty would have been increased as the budget set out? Are you that naive? (View Post)

The fiscal rule was to balance the budget in five years. Five years in the future never comes. It's always five years away. That's what they did in the most recent Tory budget. It was never… (View Post)

Always five years in the future, and always with policies that they knew they wouldn't implement, like increasing fuel duty. Deferred every budget. It was a complete work of fiction. You're… (View Post)