Canada Bob

Oppps... near forgot... From what I'm told it was Dean Ashton for West Ham...

You are obviously an intelligent man Thankfully that's not how my mates measure me, I'd rather have a laugh or tell a joke than quote my IQ. As for intelligence I don't measure a man on his intelligence, and certainly not on what's commonly called his "social status" I measure a man on his honesty and integrity or the wit of a man, be a hell of an afternoon in the pub with nowt but intelligent men in it... I'd go as far as to say that wit is more important in a man than intelligence. According to Darwen et-al most of us are {for the most part} either born with varying degrees of it, hard to take credit for something that you were "gifted" with. On the other hand we attain honesty and integrity "of ourselves" therefore these are better measures of a man. and I do think that on a subject where you know your stuff I would have absolutely no chance in a debate with you No doubt some folks see debate as contest, to get one over on the other bloke, but the way I see it is to raise the awareness of people and get them to "think about what's going on", sensible debate isn't about who got one over on the other, it's about being able to reflect on how the other guy sees things, and to consider if there's credibility in what the opposition has to say. but in this case and for the reasons I have already stated you are wrong. I admire your conviction, grin... If you are not a socialist I do apologise for making that assumption but that was based on me recalling you having stated this fact in a previous post, I may be imagining this. You're probably not going off what I've had to say about Gordon Brown et-al then... I'm not eactly sure what a socialist is these days, the goal posts have been moved too many times for me, but... Going back 40 years I used to vote Labour, and did for a good few years, in those days it was the Harold Wilson era, I had the highest regard for Harold, but when he went things changed dramatically. By 1978 I was so hissed off seeing opportunists {rather than socialists} being parachuted into ridings, folks who couldn't spell Westhoughton let alone represent it, folks who's only concern was their betterment than their consituents, that I finished up campaigning for Carolyn Johnson the Tory candidate. I went to near every rally that she attended to speak {believe it or not} on her behalf, part of the reason being she didn't even know the language the locals spoke, she had more plums in her mouth than back street whore. Even though Carolyn didn't get in, she cut down the Labour vote from what was a 16,000 majority to about 11,000, but in it's hey day when Tom Price {one of the old brigade, a bloke who actually lived in, and knew the people of the town} the Labour majority was around 25,000 !!! When Tom {a bloke who did more for other than he did for himself, by the way, that's a socialist to me}, we saw Roger Stott parachuted in, he whittled the inherited 25,000 majority down to 16,000, if only you knew that part of the world, you'd say that was impossible. Roger Stott... now there was a man, voted in like a pig on wall just because we were told he was "Labour" yea right, after being voted in it took him 18 months before he made his maiden speech in Parliament, and that, believe it or not, was to congratulate Jim Callaghan on becoming the PM. boy did that bast*rd know which side of his bread the jam was on. 12 days later the tw*t became Callaghans Private Secretary, that was enough for me. Back to Carolyns campaign, it was the year Maggie got in, and as a "thank you" from Carolyn I was invited to a meeting of all the NW candidates, the winners and the losers, and before the end of the night I was introduced to Maggie {I had no time for her either}. As Maggie shook my hand I'm thinking "if only I knew karate now", sigh. Maggie had been primed on how I'd spoken {not really for the Tories, but} against Roger Stott and his ilk, and she asked me if I'd like to run for the Tory Party, I wer gobsmacked, I asked where, you know how the moment takes you, I'm thinking if it's Cheltenham, I'm packing me bags... but Maggie offered BARROW in FURNESS !!! FFS... The majority in Barrow at the time was over 30,000, there'd be more chance of them voting for Nikita Khrushcev than a Tory candidate... She told me that "you could run there, then if we saw fit we would find you a winnable seat". I thought long and hard about that, there's left wingers in the Tory Party, and right wingers in the Labour party, so I could have gone in as a fifth colomnists, the trouble with that was, I'd lost my respect for the scum that were presenting themselves as the Labour Party, so I jumped ship and sailed off to Canada, all Thanks to Maggie Thatcher, I could no more live under her regimes than under Stalins... I thought things would get bad, little did I know how bad. Remember that "Mad Cow Disease" ? well... who do you think the first mad cow was ? yea, you got it, Maggie Thatcher, it came with her, and it went with her, metaphorically speaking, and with some intended sardonic humour. Everything I have today I owe to Maggie, if it wasn't for her I'd still be in Wigin, probably out of work, watching the telly and wondering "what happened to the Labour Club" {no more cheap ale for the lads}... Odd how some fekker so alien to your own standards can do you so much good hey, anyway, I've digressed... The facts here are simple Lord Ahmed was jailed for dangerous driving, he was cleared of causing death by dangerous driving. As I fully expect he would be, no doubt having a drink the next day with Lord Lucan, forgive me for my chagrin, I have nothing good to say about these r soles... Maybe I've come to the point where I have more suspicion about what The Establishment or Government says, than faith in what they say... Most people, regardless of social class receive a fixed penalty for using a mobile while at the wheel. My concern is that "most people" get what they deserve, yet the privaliged get served with a different spoon... You may be correct, Lord Ahmed may have plea bargained his way out of a death by dangerous driving charge but that is done by all manner of people in courts up and down the country daily, I have done this myself on more than one occassion and I am certainly not a Lord but if you reread your initial post this was not the topic of discussion which you were inviting us all to enter into. My intent was to point out how Lord whatever his name is, essentially got off, and I'll stick by that. Sure enough others may "wriggle their necks out of the noose", but to me if it's a Lord, or let's say a Policeman who knowinggly, repeately and blatantly ignores the Law, then they should be given a stiffer sentence. It's a bit fekkin much that r soles like Lord Ahmed take it upon themselves to impose Laws on the rest of us that they can't keep themselves !!! hence the Animal Farm quote, "we are all equal, but some of us are more equal than others". You are correct in your statement that people earn respect and you have earned mine with your previous threads but your last post is constructed in a way which you are trying to dig yourself out of a hole, I am sorry but in the context of this thread you have failed to get your point accross. I'll do better next time then... bear in mind this is "open expression" of how we feel about things, not Homework, there'd be something very wrong if we all felt the same... It is a point worthy of exploring but not using this subject or if you are to use this subject perhaps checking the facts eg "the texts stopped 3 minutes before the crash" mobile phone technology is very easy to verify yet you are trying, without offering any evidence, to infer that this may not have been the case. Now it's you that misses the point, "texts stopped 3 minutes before the crash"... First of all I'd like to know how they timed the crash so accurately, was it really that texts stopped 3 minutes before the crash, or 3 minutes before someone dialled 999 ? maybe it was, maybe it wasn't, but I just don't trust the b*stards when it comes to "reporting the facts". The ESTABLISHMENT don't have a good record on "reporting the facts" they are much better at telling us what they want us to believe, but... Let's say that's not the case, let's look at that statement that "texts had stopped" a REAL 3 minutes before the crash... Is it possible at all that Lord whatever could have been responding to the earlier text, when the crash happened ? but he hadn't hit the SEND button yet ? isn't THAT a possibility ? in my book it's a probability ? If they can lie to use about weapons of mass destruction, they won't shy away from what may have gone on here... Finally, as for me being a socialist, well, I can't stand Tony B Liar, nor anyone else I can think of in Nu Labour, especially Ruth Kelly, the MP who took over when Roger Stott popped his clogs. In the last 30 years I've railed against them all. Nothing has changed though, the same shyte descends from Labours central office. Like Stott, Kelly was parachuted in, and the old guard voted her in without a first or second thought, but now the majority is down to a few thousand. Seeing her ship sinking so fast like a rat she wanted to jum ship to a neighbouring ward, thankfully they didn't want her, so I hear that after Banking over a Million quid she's now "ready to retire" !!! about 30 years before you will... How sickening these b*stards are, how sickening Nu Labour is, to drop this women on Westhoughton knowing full well of her background. She hails from Limavady {just down the road from here} a STAUNCH republican town, where today they fly the Republican flag and celebrate the hard line Republicans in banners down one side of the street and the other. Kelly's granddfather was a staunch IRA man, in fact a high ranking official in the IRA, if I remember the story he was imprisoned for being involved in the murder of Scottish soldiers, HTF do people with this sort of background get to be elected for ANYONES Party in the UK ??? other than Sinn Fein !!! Now if you think she's distanced herself from her heritage, have a look at the names of her kids, and her connection with Opus Dei, then tell me how any of this fits into being a socialist or whatever they call themselves there days... Back to me, for the above reasons I don't fly anyones flag, if I don't like what I see I'll fire a broadside off at any of them, and I'm known for doing that, not just saying it... So I have no alliegiance at all, except that I respect the working class a damned site more than the b*stards who think they are Upper Class. Maybe I should start a "Loose Canon Party" I'd fit into that...

Then why call your link to the story "Afterall, it's not like he killed anyone important..." I guess that was an attempt at satirical humour... or the phrase "so called" it just seems to me that you, like every other socialist I have met, Not sure what makes you think I'm a socialist, maybe giving a damn about injustice, and having consideration for others might brand me as a socialist, but even if guilty of that then yer not saying that everyone else "tells it like it is", you're one in a million if you never put a spin on anything you wanted to promote, my guess is we're all guilty of that. like to distort the facts and use spin to create an illusion of favouritism towards the upper classes. Upper Class ??? how did these r soles get to be considered as "Upper Class" ? far as I'm concerned I "Honour all men, but I bow down to none". I have more respect for a bloke who's worked all his life, or a soldier doing his bit, or others who support society rather than live off it. Maybe yer right, maybe that makes me a socialist, in my book folks earn respect, they aren't awarded it for Political Favours, or because their mothers slept in the right bed. If you had opened this thread with a statement that Hang on, I'm not handing Homework in for your approval... like you I have a right to express myself in here... people are being treated far too leniently for using mobile phones whilst driving you would have had my full backing in this matter but this guy was jailed for using a mobile whilst driving, the accident was unavoidable, and was jailed for it. I know many people who have been caught using mobile while driving and had a fine of ?60 and three points, so to the question of what I would expect to get in the same circumstances I would say anything between a ?60 fine and 3 years imprisonment is what I'd expect. I'll go back to my original concern, if this appened to "the average guy" he'd be serving a lot longer than Lord whatever his name is. Bit odd how as a socialist I'd be ranting on about a Labour Lord ? If someone had been stopped for using a mobile whilst driving and then was involved in but cleared of blame in a fatal accident an hour later would he expect jail time? I don't think so. We're not talking "an hour" in the evidence presented to the Court said it was 3 minutes since his last text, could it be he was still texting when he hit the other car ? is that possibe ? maybe he hadn't hit the send button yet. I think the high media profile of this case and the short time between the two incidents lead to Lord Ahmed being jailed where a lesser noted case of the same circumstances may well have seen the accused being given a community order, fine and ban. You reckon hey... as far as I'm concerned folks who are responsible for passing Laws in the UK should be held to greater account when they blatantly and repeatedly break the Law, especially when their actions endanger lives...

Dumbarton @ 2.25 for me...

If you see the full facts involved in this case I'm not disputing the "so called facts" of the case, nor whether I believe them, what I'm saying is... What do you think you'd get in the same circumstances, it starts with him being able to pay for a top Lawyer, that's half the battle, who would you be able to afford ? and as a result do you think the outcome would be the same ? Looks like Animal Farm to me, the swine have risen to the top again... How did it go ? "we're all equal, but some of us are more equal than others"... Add to that he was found Guilty, and he still is, but he was given a sentence that few others would be given, then let out in a matter of days.

Could the credibility {or the nerve} of the Government and its Courts get any lower ? Afterall, it's not like he killed anyone important... Maybe he got out for ood behavior ? the thing is though, there's folks doing more time for shoplifting !!! I guess at the end of the day it's just another Criminal in the House of Lords...

Now that the printing presses are churning money out you can be sure the Banks will know what to do with it. You can Bank on the Banks... The Banks might benefit, but the average guy will still be in free fall... Worse to come The only good thing about the way this ship is sinking is the First Class cabins are goind down faster than the rest of us. Warren's sinking fast... I wonder how much Beckham and the other Prima Donna footballers around the world have lost in the last 6 months, odd how quiet they are aint it...

Hi Libero... Looks like the further away you go from Dublin the cheaper Guinness gets, and that rule carries across the pond too, Guinness is cheaper in Nova Scotia than in some places in Dublin... As for Cheltenham, no bet for me today, that saved me a few quid, marked a few off in the paper but not one in the first three, FFS... Me money will last longer in the pub than in the Bookies, had a good night out tonight, 4 pints for just ore a tenner... Don't know if the soccer brought them out tonight, but more folks seem to be turning out hoping that the murders have ended, I'm not so sure about that, I'm near certain that the RIRA are building up to something big, so I'll be keeping a low profile on St Paddy's day, I certainly won't be in the Orange Hall, some of the lads here have invited me for a game of darts on Thursday night, but it's a "no thanks" from me...

Hardly anyone in the pub again tonight, even though it was near full this afternoon, all this stuff going on over here in Northern Ireland has definitely made a difference. Speaking of Cheltenham being a lottery, odd how that works aint it, there must be scores of pubs up and down Ireland and in England that are connected in some way with a horse, they all think their horse will win, and near all of them back it. How lucky was I to be in the right pub today, the one that had one of the winners, that's yer lottery for you. When Queveda jumped the last you'd have thought you were at Wembley ! they near lifted the roof off the place, I got 5/2 to me money on that, finished 2/1 @ SP... I think I'll be sticking with me winnings now, might just have the odd score on something, I won 3 grand today, and I don't fancy giving it back to the Bookie. The local shop must have taken a battering today, a couple of the local lads that I was drinking with when you sent me the text about Paddy the Plasterer backed it too, they were real curious as to why someone from Inverness was telling me ot back it, grin. I'll watch the rest of the races in the pub, but I'll be keeping what I've won, too bleedin' easy to send it back where it came from. Let me know Clacher if there's any PTL's... PS... what's a pint of Guinness in Inverness ? it was 3.60 Euro in County Mayo & Donegal, it's 2.60 quid here in Newcastle that's not bad, but the cheapest was in Londonderry 1.60 quid in a Weatherspoons..

Hello Clacher... Thanks for the text on Paddy the Plasterer, set me up for the day that did, I had 200 quid EW on it at SP, finished up 8/1 but the bookie couldnae pay me until his man had gone to the bank, sounds well don't it, that they don't have much more than a couple of grand behind the bar. Good job for him he dint pay me out as I was getting short of readies, so just 400 quid on Queveda, that horse I sent you by text, they locals were all over it, they said it would hiss it, and they were right, easiest winner of the day, I managed to get 400 quid on @ 5/2, knocking the local Bookie sick again, grin... Had a great time in the pub down the street from the Bookies, they raised the roof when Queveda jumped the last going clear !!! I'll have a look at Dumbarton tonight, but I might just hang on to me money...

Hmmm, where's me crystal ball when I need it... I'd say sooner rather than later, the logic being, just a year ago things seemed to be fine, no one would have predicted that interest rates would collapse to record lows, far as I know the Bank of England rate is now lower than it's been since there was a Bank of England. Who would have thought that house prices would collapse as fast as they have done, who would have thought that places like Woolworths, or many other retailers would crash into oblivion, or that every Bank in the UK would become insolvent ! add to that the car industry lay offs, etc etc. To me all this points to this being a wild ride, things happening fast rather than evolving, the shyte seems to be hurtling towards the fan. Under more normal circumstances in times like this Banks would have put the interest rate up to 12%by now, lending only to companies and individuals where they could be almost certain of a return. But the Banks have been sidelined now, we don't really have any Banks anymore, we have the Government "controlling" the Banks. This has driven interest rates down to where they are now, but there's a cost to the Government to do this, well a cost to the taxpayer, debt for the next 50 years is my guess. As more and more people lose their jobs less and less tax is paid, and more and more folks become dependent on "Benefits". The Government is already in trouble due to lost revenues, not least of these being the 8 Billion quid {to date} drop in income due to the lower rate of VAT, so Gordon is already feeling the pinch, his response to that is to print more money. The problem there is, since the Gold Standard was abandoned Governments can print as much money as they want, but look what happened in Zimbabwe, South America or Japan, when they ran the printing presses ragged, does anyone know where quantitative easing has worked ? it's not a horse that I want to bet on. I'd say that this could be the missing piece of the disasterous jigsaw, at least for the UK, and this could well happen this year, the speed of events so far has shocked us all, and it aint over yet. The Government and others are well aware of the dangers of printing money, they say that they'll know when to throttle back to avoid HYPER INFLATION but I have zero confidence in them, so I'll steer me own course through these waters, and I'd advise others to think for themselves rather than to go down with the ship. It's not that long ago since Gordon told us "I'm going to abolished the economic cycle, no more Boom and Bust", look where we are now FFS. I wouldn't trust Gordon to control a bicycle, let alone an economic cycle. Gordon thinks that if we feed the Banks enough money, eventually something is bound to come out at the other end"..., yea, my guess is they'll shyte on us...

Just watched "Body of Lies" pretty decent movie, a good mix of believable story line and a fair bit of action.

A bit of a debate in the local pub today on the following... Name the only English player to have scored against Manchester United in the Premiership this season ! Not sure what that says about English players...

Don't know if yer interested in the Hubble telescope, but there's some astonishing video's that you can download for free from this web site, well worth the download, especially the HD versions, they look incredible when you play them through the TV... Here's the link... The eye in the sky There's about 20 odd video's on the site so far, I'm just starting to wade through them the now...

I actually agree with most things there, although (and not a popular position), I'd probably defend Brown a bit more for his actions in the crisis. I disagree with the way the economy was run before that (which is why I'm staggered that the next election will be Labour v Tory - such similar economic policies). It's best not to look at what's going on as a party politics thing, when folks do that they never "think it through" they near always come up with the simple answer, "it's the other guys fault". Either one of them can bugger it up in their own way, but this is a World event, that's the only thing I can agree with Gordon on. Although I've always been left wing I can't associate myself with anyone in Government right now, nor do I see much hope in the opposition, or anyone in the UK's Third Party, we'd be better served with Fire & Theft... My advise is get rid of any debts you have, soon as you can, 100% correct. Especially if Conservative get in. The money has to be recouped somehow and the Tories aren't going to be taxing the wealthy. It'll be like Culloden for those who don't see it coming... Both the USD and GBP will be rocky for some time to come, which is why I don't think now's a good time to change ship. My advice would have been, last year, switch to dollars (?1=$2), now (well, a little later than now), switch to sterling ($2=?1.40), later in the year, switch to Euros (?1.40-E1.75). I've backed two horses in this race, the USD and the Euro, I fancy both will finish in the first three, as for ?, well I think they are drawing the screens around it already, so that we don't see the death of it, well not until they drop it on us... Although, of course, it really is a fools game to predict. Agreed, the honest man will say he doesn't know, but the most dangerous man of all is the one who tells us "it's all under control" yea, fekkin right it is... If you're a Europhobe, then keep all your money in Sterling as that will help the pound survive. Keeping money in sterling now is like piling money onto a dead horse... And it's probably worth mentioning that in the early 1980s the pound went much lower, even ending up at $1.0463 February 1985. The mode average must be somewhere around the $1.60/1.70 mark. Yea but, No but, we're sailing in different waters now, there's little if anything we can learn from the past, we really are in unchartered waters... And war in the Middle East would certainly be a disaster for me! Well, it's on the menu, but the missing piece of this disasterous jigsaw is probably something we couldn't even dream up, that's why when the final piece drops into place we won't know what hit us... That's why we need to be ready, best we can, for any event.

Bob, I've enjoyed the discussion between yourself and CaleyD and although I am not quite as well versed in money matters as either of you I must admit, from past experience, that I am on the same wavelength as yourself. I suggest that CaleyD should take your views on board, you could teach him a thing or two. (No disrespect meant to CD). I doubt that Don will be offended, the important thing is, we can't take the helm to steer the ship away from the rocks, yet those who think they know what's going on {the gobshyte Politicians, and their Powerful Puppets, like Meddlesome Mandelson}, gamble with the countries future. Believe me, that's all it is, they are throwing "our money" into the Bankers pockets, and they'll make sure they keep it for their own survival, it's "everyman for himself now" the Banks have figured that out. There'll be some tears and knashing of teeth before this situation gets sorted out, think YEARS, probably many years before stability returns, and by them my guess is a Million people will loose their homes, and Millions more will be begging for work, mind you, those who don't know what a clock card looks like won't see any change in their lifestyle, nothing for them to worry about, for the most part we've already paid for a roof over their heads and an income for life no matter what happens, so nowt for them to worry about, they could come out of this better than many of us ! If we can't steer the ship then it's time now to look for a life boat so that we can make sure that our women and children will survive it. If you don't have a plan yer knackered, you'll go down with the ship. All it needs right now is one more heavy wave, I don't have a crystal ball so I can't tell you what will cause the wave, nor can anyone else, could be war in the Middle East, but we are in such a precarious situation that one more "disaster" and the ship will go down like a stone, long as it take the r soles with it that works for me. My main concern is that folks think that low interest rates are here to stay, if ever there was a Fools Gold this is it. How can it benefit mortgage holders to be paying 3-500 quid a month less when the asset that their mortgage is attached to is going down by up to 2,000 quid a month !!! What does it take to wake these fekkers up FFS!!! My advise is get rid of any debts you have, soon as you can, if you can't get the mortgage paid off then get the rate locked in at anything under 5%, most folks can cope with 5% but few could weather the storm that 15% to 30% mortgage rates would throw at them. It's just a matter of time before hyper inflation replaces deflation, and everything that Gormless Gordon is doing right now is bringing that day nearer...

East Fife v Raith to Draw @ 3.40

Here's this weeks odds... Home. Draw Away. Scottish Division 1. Airdrie v Livingston 2.37 3.50 2.37 Partick v Clyde 1.61 3.60 4.33 Queen of South v Morton 2.00 3.40 3.00 St Johnstone v Ross County 1.67 3.50 4.20 Scottish Division 2 Alloa v Stirling 2.37 3.50 2.37 Arbroath v Brechin 2.37 3.50 2.37 Ayr v Stranraer 1.20 5.50 9.00 East Fife v Raith 2.50 3.40 2.30 Peterhead v Queens Park 1.57 3.75 4.50 Scottish Division 3 Annan Ath v Elgin 1.57 3.75 4.50 Berwick v Cowdenbeath 4.00 3.60 1.67 Dumbarton v Albion 1.80 3.60 3.40 Montrose v Forfar 1.83 3.60 3.30 Stenny v East Stirling 2.00 3.60 2.87

As Gordon says, "this should speed things up a bit", yea, right, that's all a rudderless ship needs. The only thing this will achieve will be to drive us on the rocks faster. Dint help Zimbabwe when they tried "quantitative easing", wouldn't you think we could pull something better out of the hat ? Then there's the ever decreasing interest rates, celebrated by folks with floating mortgages, talk about short sightedness, sure enough they may be saving up to 500 quid a month, but the value of their property is plunging at 1200 quid a month towards negative equity, can't they see that, FFS, gawd help them if they need to remortgage sometime soon... The end run of this will be {as I've said before}, when the government runs out of ideas and money the folks who have managed to scoop up the "easy money" think Fred the Shred and his ilk, will be the only ones with money, and they won't be lending it out at 0.5%. It's just a matter of time before rates rip right up to 15% or more, who knows where that will end, except in tears...

Love it, laughin' me b*llocks off, great idea though...

Aft agree with yer Davie, the way that Meddlesome Mendelson and his cronies are trying to distance themselves from this is "as ever" when the truth is embarrassing lie through yer fekkin teeth. I'm sure they all knew about it, but in their circles pensions like this are par for the bleedin course, so it's no reason to raise an eye brow for them. They never expected it to become public, now that it has they blame each other like kids who just put a ball through a window. The bigger picture is though, that "we" have allowed Politicians, Lords, Directors and other Businessmen to dip into the Public Purse or the Shareholders money for obscene amounts of money. Stuff like this has been common place, going on for years, and as long as we were all "managing" more of less, it didn't bother us, now that the poor are getting poorer we are taking a closer look at how the rich have been taking the *iss. If there is a fault in all that's going on, it's ours, as voters and/or shareholders for letting these things evolve...

Dundee @ 4.00 for me...

Beggar's belief, but it's true... Guess the odd one out: Lord Stevenson, former chairman, HBOS Bank Andy Hornby, former CEO, HBOS Bank Sir Fred Goodwin, former CEO, RBS Bank Sir Tom McKillup, former chairman, RBS Bank John McFall MP, chairman, Treasury Select Committee Alistair Darling, Chancellor of the Exchequer Terry Wogan, presenter of the BBC Radio 2 Breakfast Show It's Terry Wogan, the only one with a banking qualification.

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How come they came down as heavy as they did on Lester, for next to nothing compared to what this lot has done, slapping him in jail, AND taking away his Knighthood. No one has even mentioned demoting SIR Fred, nor taking away privileges {think expenses at least} enjoyed by the ever lengthening list of Lords who've been dipping their snouts into the Public Purse...