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In our parliamentary democracy whatever answer they give will be correct. Whether its the best one is a wholly different matter though, and something the record suggests they are not very good at doing. If they don't reach the best answer I will not accept it and will continue to promote its...

This seems to be true of every case of these elected Cities of Culture, a stimulus in the hope that it will trigger actual improvement. .

Ther's no such thing any more, long ago the title was changed to European Capital of Culture, and Hull isn't one of those. After Liverpool became a European Capital of Culture in 2008, the UK government thought it would be a good idea to start a UK City of Culture competition, administered by...

It's modern profile has been raised now though, Hull being the 2017 City of Culture. .

In local elections I think UKIP doesn't really make sense to most people, since that vote cannot be for UK independence. No-one ever hears Nigel Farage talking about bin collection frequency or maintaining local libraries, all they hear is his anti-EU rants. .

It's because the true reason they voted leave was dissatisfaction, expressed in the only way available at the time, a vote against something. Now they've been able to be more selective and vote against the current government and main opposition parties by voting Lib Dem. .

That may or may not be her motives, we can only guess. .

Let's test how effective they were. Was that a box for old shoes, an old box for shoes, or even an old box for old shoes? .

All she did as she's ever done is emphasize our status as a parliamentary democracy. That is not indoctrination. She or anyone else are precisely right to remind of that at every opportunity, since we have executives who are only too willing to sideline parliament whenever it suits them, as in...

Well, La La Land is all the rage at the moment! :D .

How very true. With the wartime education system, two pathetic village schools I suffered and only having part time schooling some years, once my formal education was over the only thing I really knew well was that I hated school. I'm told they are better now, but I'm not so sure. I think...

The three dissenting judges clearly made a mistake in only considering the UK aspects, ignoring the provisions of article 50. Their dissenting ruling was that the executive could trigger article 50, but adding that parliamentary approval was needed to complete leaving the EU. Their mistake was...

That was because they knew in advance that they would lose the case so were prepared to make the resigned statement. As I posted before the Supreme Court decision, the court had absolutely no choice but to find as it did. In taking the case to the court, the government weren't hoping for...

They should vote for what their conservative majority electorate wanted, since they won the general election. So since the clear majority of the conservative voting electorate wanted to remain and the MPs and cabinet want to as well, there is no problem, don't trigger article 50, scrapping...

They're in a trap. Labour MPs are almost entirely against leaving the EU, but know that the great majority of those who elected them are for leaving. The Tory MPs, almost all in favour of remaining in the EU, have a more split electorate also balanced in favour of remaining. Therefore they...

You surprise me even posting this. The ignorance of the public is no excuse for anything. How can the nationality of judges be more important than the immense value of the judgements we've received from the two European Courts, reversing so many wrongs? And to say the benefit is secondary to...

Danidl, if you click Edit on your last post and enter the missing square bracket after [/QUOTE to close it, the post will display correctly with your answer showing. .

What nationality a judge is is of no importance, the number of judges can be. The two European courts have done nothing other than good for UK citizens, in many cases making up for the shortfalls of our own law and its implementation. Our own legal system had become seriously flawed by a...

I'm not in any way against you doing this, I merely mentioned that you could get challenged and the odds are the challenger would be in the right. This appears to be the position: "Footways are paths alongside roads set aside for pedestrians and it is an offence to cycle along them...

I think it's far more marginal than this implies, like the referendum result. This extract from your linked article is relevant: "A higher median age meant an area was slightly more likely to vote for Remain, though the correlation is surprisingly weak given YouGov’s age findings." And that's...