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It was certainly not meant to be patronising, so sorry if it reads like that -this happens when all we have to go on is the written word. And then you talk about horse . . . whilst lecturing me about the tone of my post. Pot, kettle, black? Might it have been an idea to have actually contributed...

I think you are rather too naïve for your own good, my friend. OK, it is "evidence" as you say, but anyone can find "evidence" to support their viewpoint, if they tried hard enough. I am not suggesting that there is a deliberate plan to mislead, just that you are happy to believe "evidence" when...

I have given up on believing any of the research into this sort of thing, as it is so easy to ignore what is inconvenient. Given that half of all immigrants come from non EU countries with health systems nowhere near as good as ours, whatever one thinks of the NHS, I find it very hard to believe...

I do genuinely think that most folk go into public service initially out of altruistic reasons, whatever their party, but along the way, when their earlier idealism is lost, they fall prey to all sorts of temptations, usually revolving around money, when they see how easy it is to fiddle, and...

It might in theory but realistically, most voters are now so immune to fiddles, that it is almost par for the course, or certainly viewed as such. Furthermore, considering the scandals that dogged John Major's government and then that of Tony Blair (who vowed to put a stop to it all), we would...