And then complain loudly that they have to pay anything at all because they've "paid my taxes all these years" (View Post)

Did he try for Oxbridge? My school (a different Surrey grammar) had a 'Scholarship 6th' whereby you went back for a term and a bit and crammed for the entrance exam. That left you 6 months … (View Post)

I was thinking about this earlier. When the full price rise comes in, it will effectively eat up my entire monthly discretionary spending. So I won't be going out at all for meals, pub, entertai… (View Post)

Not quite true. No demand for passenger, granted (though on my line last train is about 1AM, first one about 5AM) but a lot of freight runs overnight, when there are no passenger trains to disrupt. I… (View Post)

That's the point though, we still had ultimate sovereignty but we had chosen to pool it with others for a wider shared benefit. It may be argued that the loss of sovereignty wasn't worth th… (View Post)