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• David Evans
  Expats, I note your comment that Tom Bailey has 'accused him and his wife of personal misuse of public funds,' but I can't see it in this thread. Is it somewhe...
• Tanya Park
  @Peter Martin "Works reasonably well for most people." Maybe so. It works for people who stay employed, healthy, and un-sanctioned. It works considerably less w...
• David Evans
  Thank you Jack for exposing in your very first paragraph the inanity of another part of Andy Burnham's short lived and not thought out slogan/strategy of "Manch...
• expats
  Tom Bailey 30th Jun '26 - 5:38pm............Burnham’s people are trying to keep him away from media scrutiny, but they cannot do that indefinitely. Once the p...
• Peter Martin
  @ Tanya, I take your point. However the system works reasonably well for most people so we can't simply jettison it because of its obvious problems without ...