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oh now i most certainly will: go on...smear away brexitter, show us all the ugliness that's behind that fake "rational" tory mask..

the brexit movement is/was blatantly xenophobic. you don't do yourself any favours by trying to make my comments about it comments about the uk. that deliberate attempt at distortion on your part really does say a great deal about you. trying to ascribe to me your own xenophobic prejudice won't...

speaking as a skilled immigrant, who know many other skilled immigrants, well - I would point out that choosing to migrate is also (for most mainly) a moral, existential decision. Would I have migrated to an inward looking, racist uk under the leadership of a xenophobic toad like farage who is...

Stating the obvious, but:immigrants to the UK contribute more in taxes than the services they consume. However, I am grateful to you for illustrating my point by, as a brexiters, again parading that old xenophobic lie. Take away the immigrants and the hard up in the UK would loose a significant...

This whitewashing of the brexit campaign, pun intended and made nice and explicit for the benefit of brexiters challenged levels of intuitive nouse, is ironic indeed. Where were you when Nige posture in front of posters filled with streams of migrants or anyone interviewed made it blatantly...

I see, a bit like the war on terror? That turned out all right..

Well, the entire nightmare came about as a result of a contrived simplistic question (do you want to destroy you and your children's livelihoods by threatening to cut all ties with your larger more civilised neighbour) asked by the utterly insincere of the utterly uninformed. So, yes, in a sense...

'it will be all right on the night' does sound a rock solid premise for gambling the country's future on. Seriously, brexit seems like crack cocaine, it makes otherwise sentient intelligent souls come out with stuff king julien in penguins of Madagascar would find challenging.

that is interesting, apparently Sweden 46th highest, Norway 102nd (compared to UK 123d) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_rate of course there is also the cliché about culture and self awareness (that those who have that introject anger and are more likely to become...

interesting article, in the bigger picture (I mean in the presence of repellant slime like reese mog, boris or may) I rather fancy merkel, her response to the migrant crisis was at least compassionate

yup, the social contract is desperately flawed in the uk, but still better than much that passes as states elsewhere or cons we pay for otherwise

In the Anglo saxon world where greed is good and runaway narcissism creates self serving freaks like trump or boris, yes, no one wants to pay and everyone wants everything. In Scandinavian countries paying tax is much more acceptable, and the happiness index much higher.

no its not, the poor have lower life expectancy than the rich, as one would expect. I'm not really hung up with the specific case, more the general principle. But whether they felt hard done by has little bearing on the injustice.

this is really what it gets back to for me, the rich arranging their lives and the poor paying for it, the next time anyone complains about the house of lords bear in mind what you said about the chairman, after all it is simply about "backhanders and charity" on a different scale isn't it?

you seem to forget that they were his "servants" - one of whom was "working into her eighties", the other "dying of prostate cancer two years short of retirement age" - while he was "retired". that may seem a level playing field to you, it doesn't to me. it about more than "backhanders", its...

you mean robin hood keeping most of the money himself and working the little band of brothers to death serving his needs? the snag with this morality is that what goes around really does come around (as you will likely find out if you get old in a conservative England and the nurse doesn't come...

Life is not only a financial zero sum equation. Read about the Chinese contaminated baby food scandal(or spend some time in the third world), the infrastructure the EU provides allow for a degree of civilisation

Yup, nature has a way of dealing with the ignorant,also in an uncaring way, as the electorate are discovering.

That would be true, and potentially lovely in a an adolescent post modern we'll always have Paris kind of way, if the soap opera didn't involve nuclear weapons, drowning refugees, foreign invasions, protectionism, racism, etc

Yes, I vaguely like the liberal tradition, individualism of Anglo saxon culture, the angst, emptiness and flights into states of temporary insanity like brexit or trump I can do without