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AK wasn't criticising, he was being pedantic. 50Hertz said he got free money for two hours work, so AK pointed out it wasn't free if two hours work was involved. It was so much per hour. .

Egg was a banking venture by Prudential Assurance. Barclaycard eventually took over the credit card side and Yorkshire Building Society the mortgage and investment business. .

Do you remember the Egg Bank? They were crazy! They offered an interest free loan for two years and offered me £3000. I asked them to increase it and they did, to £4000 which I accepted. I then invested it with them at 6% interest!! Little wonder they are no longer with us. .

That's primarily sales fall, not investment which is for the future. .

True, but inclusive of considerable suffering and even suicides, due to consumer credit abuse. That needs attention, if only because it also enlarges the peaks and troughs of the boom and bust economy that we've so often suffered from. .

Of course consumer credit can be good credit too, since it supports the businesses which start and flourish on credit. But that depends on the consumer using credit intelligently. Unfortunately, since the inception of credit cards etc in the 1970s, a huge proportion of the UK population have...

The nub of the problem, parliament versus people. To most of parliament it is about money, to the people who want to leave, it's about freedom. .

This one is due to Brexit: Investment in the UK car industry has dropped by almost 80% in three years, all due to the uncertainties of course. The cost will be tomorrow's jobs and that returning investment will be in mainland Europe instead if WTO tariffs apply. Whatever else one thinks of...

That is totally untrue, another anti-EU myth. In fact the EU is the defender of the Carribean banana trade, its the WTO that Leavers love so much who blocked the Carribean producers from supplying Europe, see here: "The Union's ill-fated banana import arrangements, which gave preferential...

The wisest person here, expressing his opinions without posts which can be attacked. .

Not eternity, but set in stone for the duration of the EU since it is integral to the existence of the EU. The four freedoms are written deeply into every EU treaty from the outset, all eleven of them. In every case these treaties have been agreed by all EU member countries. Each one of them...

Making a healthy corpse for the coroner. .

As I would expect. Unfortunately cyclists themselves are a part of the problem, particularly in cities. Often at speed they squeeze between kerb and vehicles on the nearside of moving traffic or between vehicles in lanes, even knocking mirrors etc. What's good for the goose is good for the...

As if we haven't got enough discord with Brexit! :oops: .

One experience was being served cornflakes with a huge jug of thick double cream on the table. I asked the waitress for milk and pointing to the cream, she replied they only had enough milk for teas etc., so I couldn't have any. Another was after asking for kippers for breakfast, where else...

The medical profession have been saying this for years, albeit about Scotland overall. I must say I agree to a degree from some experiences there. .

Hence the EU being a good thing, close borderless neighbours doing just that in both respects. Seeking self sufficiency through local power generation, farming advances and recycling, while trading internally wherever possible for whatever else they need, including energy sharing. True and...

Oh dear, this same stubbornness that is at the root of the uk's problems. No, No, No, it is never and mentioning this changing at a stroke of a pen shows how little you understand the situation. The Four Freedoms are the EU, without them the EU doesn't exist, since through all its treaties...

I've no idea, I only posted the obvious alternative without any view on it's suitability or practicability. That's for the parties involved. .

Not my problem, it's the EU's if they choose that course. .