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Escalation Of Food Banks

This is a dreadful situation,they have said this is the one "business" rising in UK,with twice as many outlets as Debenhams.Such a terrible admission and the chancellor and government are saying the...

rosehipseed

Flood Risk On New Properties

If you buy a new house, which later tuurns out to be on a flood plain, who is liable? Is it the builder, the planners who gave permission, or the Environment Agency for not raising the flood risk as...

sp1814

Did We Dodge A Massive Bullet

Imagine if she ran for President? Actually, it could still happen. Does anyone else worry about Ms Palin being elected the leader of the free world. By the way, you may think this is a spoof....

modeller

Spacetime ?

I've looked through the titles of many books but none of them explain how spacetime was created out of nothing. That has no more validity than saying it was created by God or who created God ? Can...

youngmafbog

Give Up Your Sovereinty?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2313140/Merkel-warns-eurozone-EU-word-national-budgets-ahead-crunch-talks-saving-single-currency.html?ito=feeds-newsxml Warnings from Merkel that Eurozone...

Hopkirk

Snp

If the Scots vote no, what will happen to the SNP? Their whole raison d'etre will be gone....

HPSauce

Scottish Independence

It was reported on the news this morning that should Scotland gain independence, they would like to maintain monetary union with the rest of the Union. Is this Scotland wanting the best of both...

jake-the-peg

Why Opt Out Of The European Arrest Warrants?

The House of Lords has criticised the Governments plans to opt out of Europen Crime enforcement legislation http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22256523 Whatever your views on Europe why would we want to opt...

ToraToraTora

Anyone Watch Panorama Tonight?

Surely there is no legal weight for the Sharia courts so how is some cleric able to grant "divorces" etc? This is UK! Should the authorities stop this silly religious posturing?...

Quizmonster

Percentages

In today’s Sun http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/politics/4896953/Tories-want-change-to-strike-laws.html Boris Johnson says, "The idea that a strike can be called by a majority of those that...

Prudie

Increase In Cigarette Prices

I've noticed in the last couple of weeks that cigarettes seem to have gone up by about 25p per packet. I didn't think there was a raise in the last budget. Is this something from previous budgets,...

sigma

Four Lanes Just Make It Worse.

Sorry to bring up lane hogging again, it is bad enough on a three lane motorway but four lanes just make it worse. I recently travelled on a four lane section of the M1 just north of Derby with light...

ST24

39 Years Outside Uk

If you'd lived 39 years outside the UK would you want to return to live there? Would you rather have a holiday to visit relatives and see new sites etc? The place where you live has a bearable climate...