Europe is by no means immune to these white elephants and projects with massive overruns. Someone has already mentioned Berlin Brandenburg Airport which makes Crossrail look like planning and executi… (View Post)

It was always a complete and utter waste of money. This is just reality catching up. (View Post)

We tried that - for 45 years. And things still got worse. We don't need to join clubs. We just need to look at how others do things and work out how to do that in our country. Many of us on here… (View Post)

And yet when we were first looking for houses in the 80s no bank would lend you more than 3.5 times your earnings as that was considered manageable. Not many of those out there these days. The real w… (View Post)

FPT This touches on one of my pet hates. Houses should be laces to live in - homes - not investments or pension plans. I don't blame the people themselves. Successive governments have so screwed… (View Post)