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Now I thought the sun never gets high enough in the sky to be directly overhead at this latitude, only between the two tropics of capricorn and cancer, which is what they mean. So she would be right?

Blairs mistakes eh? Look at it like this. The guy reckoned he could maybe get 3 terms. he got 3 terms. he reckoned he could go off and have a dust up and no one could stop him. No one did. What mistake?

Whose that chap, was it maggies friend, from Argentina? Couldnt try him for killing loads of people, so they are trying to get him for tax evasion?

So thats ff is better than mm, which is better than mf. right. Doesn't that rather suggest the whole notion of a legal age of consent is a bit absurd? Heres another on, if I remember it right. 60 year old chats up (etc!) 16 year old. 16 year old chats up 15 year old. Guess who might be...

I rember the companies have to pay a fee for each train they run, so if you can get one train jammed like sardines instead of two with seats for everyone, why of course they are full. Market forces obviously mean it is better for the train operators to always have jam full trains. One of the...

Who said anyone was in doubt?

I dont know for sure which mcb you are using. However some type C have extra plastic moulding around the clamp screw, which you can cut back. Compare with the existing one to see if this is the case.

Which I'm afraid rather reflects its true value. Price of land in this country would most likely go the same way if was not for everyone wanting two acres for their horse or speculating on the chance of getting planning permission. We and the US are paying loads of money to subsidise food...

Um Freddie, I think you might find the US uses import quotas to stop other countries selling goods there. Which could explain how come they manage to sell their own produce . Just like the EU, really.

well they subsidise cotton, rice, soybean, corn, wheat, sunflower, canola, sorghum, honey, barley, peanuts, flax, oats, dairy apparently. Here, rad it for yourself. Havn't time to understand it all. Production subsidy, Payment if prics falls below target level. Loans. Import quotas...

Erm, the funny thing about renting a nouse is that generally it is cheaper to buy and pay the mortgage. So people who are refused a moortgage for enough to buy have to pay out even more just to rent. So is it a surprise they lie to get a mortgage? Mr Brown has kept interest rates low. This...

Don't know exactly how the system works, but they got one. Apparently mr Bush chickened out of cancelling it. No doubt the reason the EU manages to get away with its own farm protection and subsidy policies is exactly because the US has got one too.

I just read a piece about American farm subsidies, for a change. It said that 2/3 of US farmers get nothing. Of the remainder, 80% get an average payment of $8000. The rest, about the top 10%, get all the money. Broadly because the bigger your farm the more money you get. Or to put it...

In this case I think the cthe 'they' would be the council of ministers. Unanimous agreement required. But possibly also the parliament, presumably by simple majority. Mandlesson suggesting the Uk should give up its rebate? Hardly. I wondered who had turned the thumbscrews on him to force him...

Apparently the current EU treaties allow the EU to do things other than explicitly written down in the treaty provided they unanimously agree. Which in a sense would mean that yes, they could take upon themselves powers to do more things. That might even mean they are entitled to re-write the...

Apparently the new constitution would give the parliament more control over the budget. They would be able to vote down the agricultural budget, which they can not do now. Maybe this is why the French did not like it?

shame towaste a good joke then

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What goes in the pot depends on how much people buy in the shops. A small proportion of VAT I think. It is a simple principle which is kind of fixed and more or less fair. The problem is that most of the money gets spend on very specific things and Britain tends to get left out. So everyone...

Well how about sleeping in the same bed as your own children? As to dubious material, quite a lot of people out there plainly have it in their homes. Otherwise there would not be a huge industry printing it. And rather a lot of those people must also have children. Would have been interesting...