If we started bankrupting politicians for making financial misjudgements then there would be no politicians. Nobody would dare do the job, and somebody has to at least try to provide a government. (View Post)

Although we're all talking about bankruptcy this is, of course, a colloquialism in the case of a council. Woking Borough Council cannot go bankrupt, because it is a public body. It is an arm of the s… (View Post)

No, because if it goes to Hell in a handcart it'll be someone else's fault. The only effective antidote to populism is a practical demonstration by the existing political establishment that it is abl… (View Post)

Except they can blame the stingy Government for everything that goes wrong. It's exactly the same formula as the SNP has always tried to use - anything good comes from local initiative, anything bad … (View Post)

We invest in lots of things. Unfortunately they're mostly vastly overpriced inert piles of bricks. If you create an economic system where the most important asset class is property and investment alm… (View Post)