Markwadsworth

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• Fun Online Polls: Free Wi-fi & Wearing a Poppy (or Not)

  The results to last week's Fun Online Poll were as follows: Has anyone, anywhere, ever connected to free wifi successfully? Yes, it usually works - 72%... Read more

  Posted on 09 November 2015 DEBATE

• Life Outside the EU

  1. I am not dead 2. Point of disclosure I live in Switzerland (if the UK wants to bum rape slum kids made good to pay for Essex millionaire grannies it can do s... Read more

  Posted on 09 November 2015 DEBATE

• Quite Frankly My Dear, I Don't Give a Damn'

  Lots of whinging by uber-rich footballer's losing out as a result of "investment advice" to put their hard earned into film partnerships and similar. Sorry lads... Read more

  Posted on 08 November 2015 DEBATE

• Killer Arguments Against LVT, Not (378)

  I went to a Labour Land Campaign meeting last weekend to discuss "implementation". If you want to skip the boring background to all this, click here. Read more

  Posted on 08 November 2015 DEBATE

• Killer Arguments Against LVT, Not (377)

  Peter D Smith (in the pub yesterday) pointed out another inherent contradiction in that anti-LVT squealing by London First: 5. Read more

  Posted on 07 November 2015 DEBATE

• "Taxpayer Lost £2.2bn from 'rushed’ Sale of Eurostar"

  Emailed in by MBK from The Times: The sale raised more than £757 million and the final price was 90 per cent higher than earlier valuations, a report by th... Read more

  Posted on 07 November 2015 DEBATE

• Killer Arguments Against LVT, Not (376)

  BenJamin' stumbled across the letter sent by a rent-seekers' lobbying front to the chap looking into LVT for the London Assembly. There's nothing new in there,... Read more

  Posted on 06 November 2015 DEBATE

• Talk Talk Hack 'affected 157,000 Customers'

  From the BBC Talk Talk has given more details of the cyber-attack on their website, saying nearly 157,000 of its customers' personal details were accessed. Read more

  Posted on 06 November 2015 DEBATE

• "Bumble Bee Flies Near Pensioner Couple"

  From The Telegraph: It was a heart-stopping moment that could have had painful consequences for Sid Smith, 66, of Sydenham, south London. Read more

  Posted on 06 November 2015 DEBATE

• Things That Can Make You Very Angry Indeed.

  Here I am not, absolutely not, a 'customer' of the HMRC. They do not sell me anything I want. I am a 'taxpayer'. Which of course, they aren't. Read more

  Posted on 06 November 2015 DEBATE

• The War on Cash 2

  The Grauniad picks up the idea of the cashless society, meanwhile last week Business Insider had this to say about Sweden: Sweden is shaping up to be the first... Read more

  Posted on 05 November 2015 DEBATE

• More Gloriously Vacuous pro-EU Waffle.

  From this morning's City AM readers' letters: RE: Don't be stupid: The US won't cut off Britain post-Brexit, Monday I get the impression that Eurosceptics live... Read more

  Posted on 05 November 2015 DEBATE

• Local Council Incompetence Reaches Rage-inducing Levels.

  From the BBC: A pre-fabricated property dubbed a "shed" in south-east London has been auctioned off for just under £1m. The 1950s bungalow situated on 0. Read more

  Posted on 04 November 2015 DEBATE

• "Wherever There is Fun, There's Always Coca Cola Keith Vaz"

  From the BBC: A diabetic MP is asking Coca-Cola not to bring its Christmas truck to Leicester, accusing the company of marketing a "real health hazard". Read more

  Posted on 04 November 2015 DEBATE

• Some Sensible Talk from the Torygraph

  Everything you need to know about business rates, but were afraid to ask "The opposition from businesses on the grounds of their cost is rather strange,... Read more

  Posted on 04 November 2015 DEBATE

• Is This the Best the EU Can Come up With?

  Chris Patten ("As a former EU Commissioner Lord Patten’s EU pension, amounting to around £100,000 per year is removable if he acts in a way which is... Read more

  Posted on 04 November 2015 DEBATE

• "That's Partly Down to ... the Way Property Developers Work."

  On the subject of new towns, the BBC states the obvious: In a revealing article [page 72 onwards of this] published last year, Francis Salway, former chief... Read more

  Posted on 03 November 2015 DEBATE

• Killer Arguments Against LVT, Not (366)

  Not sure if I've done this one yet. From Inside Housing: A City Hall investigation will examine whether a new land value tax in London would cut the number of... Read more

  Posted on 03 November 2015 DEBATE

• Fun Online Polls: Israel & Free Wifi

  The responses to last week's Fun Online Poll were as follows: Which of the following has a smaller surface area than Israel? Albania - 7 votes Latvia - 12... Read more

  Posted on 02 November 2015 DEBATE

• Please Don't Take Away Our Subsidies! We'll Be Straight out of Business!

  From The Evening Standard: Cash-strapped Chancellors should not be given the temptation to take two helpings of tax from pension savings, the boss of the UK’s... Read more

  Posted on 02 November 2015 DEBATE