Listen to Stride yesterday as well. "We're right, you're wrong" only works when you are winning. When you got absolutely demolished it takes a special kind of person to declare mo… (View Post)

What's the problem with the Gibraltar deal? They have fixed the border FUBAR so that people are able to cross it freely again as they need to. Gibraltar remains a BOT, the military facility rema… (View Post)

No, they're paying a small part of the defence budget to lease the base, just as we pay other small parts of our defence budgets operating bases in Cyprus and elsewhere. I know that the Chagos i… (View Post)

External factors are truly massive. Nobody is denying that. But there is a reality as well that domestic politics sets the mood, and the mood set is grim. So many people are short of money and that m… (View Post)

Before I read the thread can I just say that “trailblazer neighbourhoods” is as word salady as “4th sector pathfinders”. I expect the Tilery on receipt of its £20m to be full of quiet but people… (View Post)