That is theft, filching and tea-leafing.
That is the surplus you are filching.
There is a danger in dealing with matters like this ad hoc and filching from an authority a power without considering the general question of local government responsibility.
That, in itself, is a serious matter, but this filching of agricultural land has now greatly increased.
Therefore, you are filching from them that privilege which they have asserted and enjoyed for a century.
It would spend years filching and fighting to haul the levers of power away from the functional departments and into its own territory.
That, in my view, is really filching extra taxes from one particular unfortunate class of taxpayers.
This talk of filching or stealing money surreptitiously from the aid programme is completely wrong.
