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Very well said, and many of course don't even own a home at all: "For 25- to 34-year-olds earning between £22,200 and £30,600 per year, home ownership fell to just 27% in 2016 from 65% two decades ago." .

That's weird and somewhat irrational. The only viable way to produce the hydrogen at present is using electricity, an inefficient energy conversion. Having hydrogen trains instead of electric would be very silly indeed. Hydrogen used in transport is mainly for fuel cells to produce...

More nonsense, Raleigh manufacturing like our whole bicycle industry died long before we joined the EU. I know because I was in the trade when it was first happening and for obvious reasons it was the first of our major industries to fail. .

Something the food banks make worse since of necessity they are supplying canned and packeted processed foods and not fresh ingredients. As I had to explain to a pair of young friends a short while ago, heating a tray of sliced roast beef in gravy and pre-roasted potatoes in the oven isn't...

Here's a sample of the Radio 4 programs on Brexit that I mentioned Tom, just listened to on the i-player: Brexit on the Border No politicians, just questioning people on and around the Scottish border on their Brexit views and generally calm and sensible for a change. .

Worse odds on that than winning the lottery jackpot. .

Out of embarrassment? .

How blind can you be? They are only clamouring for trade links so they can sell to us at far lower prices than we can manage. With our costs we can't possible sell to those countries, especially when they can buy from cheaper and much closer China. Not even services, India supplies us with...

Yes indeed, sooner the better. Can't you understand how silly it is to threaten us with what we want? It's like a boss threatening a pay rise if we don't perform better. :D .

Untrue, I've already done so more than once. They are keen to keep us for the same reasons we Remainers are keen to stay. Greater political and economic strength and influence for each and all. Brexit loses us any of that, opting to be a minnow in a very large lake filled with pike and...

Untrue, that recession wasn't caused by Labour, they inherited the mess that Ted Heath's management and the Arab oil crisis left for the economy. Agreed Labour then didn't do much to help put it right, it was the IMF which steered things back on course. Thatcher's opening contribution was to...

Yes, narrowest of margins, under 4%. Still, Brexit looks like turning out to be a joke, a pretence of leaving the EU thanks to the national incompetence that would ensure we'd fail if we left. .

Another joke, Thatcher was a disaster we are still suffering from. .

That's amusing, you a Leaver was convinced Remain would win, but Old Groaner in here who is a Remainer was convinced Leave would win and posted as such before the referendum. Perhaps we should have him in government, it would be nice to have someone there who can get things right. .

Just as well, we took 14 years to construct our last one, the Sizewell B PWR, and it was way over budget. South Korea is almost totally dependent on nuclear energy. They typically built their PWRs in 4 years and hold the world record for one built in two years. In the face of that only a...

There's truth in that, I'm old enough to have lived through the huge decline before we joined with Europe, when we lost virtually all of our industries and then much of our commerce. That ended up with us teetering on the edge of bankruptcy and the IMF having to come in and run our economy for...

But why? Why pay more for no reason? We can already trade with the whole world, one of the many Brexit lies is that the EU stops us doing that. It does not. Go anywhere in the world and you see German products, the likes of Mercedes, Bosch, Siemens et al. Germany is an EU member and...

Yes, a bit like those two or three pound wins on the lottery. .

That map has reversed now, the latest version posted in here recently is predominantly blue. The people have changed their minds, at least the ones who think have. .

No, they seem to have been popping up more on Radio 4 recently. .