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Considering the Brexit bill passed through Parliament unamended and Theresa May will trigger Article 50 any day now, I would say the march is a waste of time.  You'd be better off spending the coach fare on something worthwhile.

Which paper was that then?

16 Mar 2017

Rutte's VDD party lost 25% of its seats, while Wilders increased his to become the second largest party in The Netherlands.  That doesn't seem much of a downward trend to me.  Mijne is een pint van Heineken.

A lot of surgeries/hospitals have an automated system for sending out appointment reminders via text message.  The wonders of modern technology.

Your original post didn't say anything about them contributing more, just that they should contribute something. Make your mind up.

22 Jan 2017

According to the article from the Monarchy-hating Indy the Royals do contribute to the upkeep.

22 Jan 2017

How do you know they don't?

22 Jan 2017

Does the royal family personally own all the residencies?

Just bloody rude
17 Dec 2016

It's a pity we were not informed about all this supranationalism and integration in the early 70s when we joined the Common Market, instead of being lied to and told we were merely joining a trading bloc.  The result of the 1975 referendum might have been very different if people knew the truth back then, but at least we put it right in June this year. If anything the EU has made war more ...

16 Dec 2016

NATO and nuclear weapons have prevented war in Europe, they existed long before the six founding countries formed the European Economic Community.  The answer is in the name of the organisation.  Defence has never been a part of the EEC/EU until just recently when the formation of an EU army was mooted by the President of the European Commission. Incidentally, that idea was something the Remainers ...