As Malmesbury says, the income a bank is allowed to count as income for the purposes of affordability calculations is regulated by the FCA & is not necessarily the same as the income you report t… (View Post)

So long as the electorate persist in demanding the impossible from politicians, politicians will continue to promise to deliver it. The line “They certainly don't know what to do about (the prob… (View Post)

Right now it seems we have two choices: 1) Concede that Iran controls access to the Gulf & gets to extract a passage tax on every vessel through the Straits of Hormuz if they so choose. 2) A grou… (View Post)

I presume you mean Choose 1)? Perhaps the US government should have thought of that before backing Iran into a corner & forcing them to fight to the death? Sometimes you get to choose from a menu… (View Post)

They were withdrawn because the US was no longer able to sustain enough public support for an unwinnable war thousands of miles away. Sure, the US could have chosen to burn US lives in perpetuity to … (View Post)