If it is necessary, we have got to have it, and it is less unfair and less cruel than the same amount of money taken irrecoverably in taxation.
But we have got to realise that many of the things which we valued in the past have now irrecoverably gone, and we have to do the best we can.
It is really too shocking, as a financial transaction, to admit of justification, because you are making up money that is irrecoverably gone.
It is terrible that we should spend so much on them, only to see them slip away so easily and apparently irrecoverably.
In the process of implementing that administrative change, some £100 million in benefit would be irrecoverably lost.
Nothing could have altered the fact that goods had been irrecoverably ordered before the regulations took effect.
But once we spend the extra dollars they are gone, and the product of them is irrecoverably consumed.
Now much of that old home lore has irrecoverably gone.
