If you are born in Northern Ireland, you can get an Irish passport. Nothing more required. Quite a lot of people from the South get a British passport, if they can, to access benefits and services in… (View Post)

Exactly. Managed bankruptcy for public ltd is exactly about this. The debt is killed off in order of seniority until the ship refloats. What the government needs to do is to legislate to cover the de… (View Post)

As usual, with Northern Ireland, the bit that has been missed is that a non trivial percentage of *Nationalist* voters say, in all polls, they would vote against unification. Even during the “Armalit… (View Post)

I think it was Tony Blair who said that UK mainstream politics was about a difference in spending 5% of GDP. (View Post)

The facts were that coal was getting more and more expensive to mine in the U.K. it had been doing so for generations. At the same time world coal prices were collapsing (due to vast, open cast pits)… (View Post)