Whitey Grandad

Intra-community dealings do not normally attract VAT. I don't know about personnel contracts but it is certainly true of goods which is one reasonwhy the Single Market is so important to us.Items such as cars, boats and planes are different. 'm sure they would like VAT to apply but they couldn't agree over who should receive it. For example, if you had paid VAT to one country would you then be able to claim it back from your own?

I'm pretty sure that they are unless you're Portsmouth who argued that they didn't have to hand over any of the VAT that they received from player sales. That was part of the claim against them.

Let's be honest, who had heard of him two years ago?

Like a t**d that won't go away?

They would say that, wouldn't they. Or they could be right.

I'm more concerned about his replacement to be honest.

2011 is irrelevant. This was not an election it was a referendum. The enabling Act did not specify that the result was binding. It could have but it didn't.

I, for one, have always respected you for your service.

That principle was for general elections. Whatever you might want this referendum was 'advisory' and not binding as was the one in 2011 where the outcome was written into the relevant Act. Advisory in the sense that it is up to parliament to interpret and implement its result. That is the stage at which the actual democracy takes place.

Sorry to disappoint you but the choice is not ours. This will be a take it or leave it situation.

Not very hopeful is it. Let's just dismiss it as part of Project Fear and hope for the best shall we.

Dead men walking. No authority, no power, nowhere men.

He did. The plan was to resign.

Very true. The current situation is not good for democracy as we have seen.

Whilst Osborne has been locked in a dark room with a loaded revolver?

The situation regarding EU membership is unclear to say the least. Previously they would have left the UK and would have had to apply as a new state. At the moment they are part of the UK and if there was separation it could be argued that they are already a member and that it was England etc that were leaving. Nobody knows but you can bet your boots that discreet enquiries will be taking place at the moment. In any case EU membership is just the trigger for their ambitions. This will be seen as yet another case of England telling them what to do.

The petition was set up in May apparently, not that many people knew about it.

What's to stop the Scots holding their own referendum without Westminster's permission? Imagine what would happen if London said no.

No worries, no offence taken. There are plenty of countries whose currencies shadow others so it is not impossible but would take a strong banking system. I regard all the present talk as jostling for position and influence but the threat is always there.

I too would have regarded it as unfinished business.

The problem for Labour's electability is that the MPs think he's a disaster yet the party members think he's great.

That must make it awkward to carry.

Just a winky thing, David.

Now outside the tent píssing in.

Has he ever scored one? This scaremongering is just typical of the current climate.