Ex Lion Tamer

Surely you're are conflating working tax credits and the minimum wage? It's the government topping up that is the problem, not having a minimum level that companies have to pay.

Child benefit? Working tax credit? Old age pension?

OR Until there is justice, there will be riots that aren't incited by them

And none of the cameras on the platform or the train were working, mmm not fishy at all http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Jean_Charles_de_Menezes#Missing_CCTV_footage

True to some extent although not entirely. Buying clothes online is a right ball-ache.

It isn't though.

Saw him score a great goal against Blackburn, if I remember right

as Labour found out in the 80s, if you have too strong a vision then you end up turning half the electorate against you

The objective view is to acknowledge that there can be good and bad 'terrorists' (or whatever label you want to use) depending on the circumstances. Some violent acts are just and necessary to prevent greater harm. Not everyone who sanctions violence is 'a baddie'.

Alongside what has been said in this thread, there are three more reasons why we don't score many goals: - We ask a lot of our attackers in terms of pressing so they may not have as much energy (mental or physical) when they do get the ball - Lallana and Rodrigues both have pretty powder-puff shooting a lot of the time - We lack pace to drive through defences

Possibly I have misunderstood but I thought you were condemning Labour supporters for still voting Blair even though they disapproved of Iraq. But I'll throw my comments out to whoever they are relevant to, I guess

I didn't agree with the Iraq war and went on the march (the UK's biggest ever protest). But with that decision already made to go into Iraq, people in certain constituencies had a choice. Either vote Labour, or let the Tories back in and have them do damage to our country as well (obviously not damage that is comparable to Iraq, but still). That, alongside all those middle England and floating voters who had been won over from the Tories and didn't really care about Iraq, was why Blair won another majority. Iraq was a disgrace but things like the minimum wage (which both the Tories and Lib Dems opposed) and investment in the NHS were worth protecting.

Pompey had ambition and look what happened to them. You have to push forward but also be sensible and know your limits, which I think for the most part we are.

I can only read the sample paragraphs but to be honest I agree with him. There was waste that could have been whittled down. However: - That doesn't mean Labour isn't the best party for government now - It doesn't mean the Tories would have done anything different - most countries were running similar levels of debt and the Tories didn't oppose Labour's spending plans at the time - We would still have an enormous debt due to the banks even if we had a run a surplus

Can he take the pace of the Premier League though?

I'm not sure anyone will bid the amount that we would be looking for to cut our losses at this stage.

He's simply not been performing, he gives the ball away so much. I personally feel it is a lack of pace to pull a defence around rather than a lack of creativity. We have players who can put in a nice through ball.

Number of part-timers people looking for full-time work doubles to 1.45m Overall unemployment rate falls to 7.7% but mostly part-time jobs Four out of five new jobs since 2008 have gone to part-time women http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2417392/Part-time-Britain-Record-numbers-jobs-employed-work-25-hours.html

If idiots gets in financial trouble then the state has to pick up the pieces by giving benefits etc. Better to protect people in the first place.

Sorry to dredge this up, but I thought it was very striking last night how Andros Townsend's pace was able to open up the defence of a team that was parking the bus. We could definitely improve our goal threat if we get someone with pace in Jan.

Well done for completely ignoring the point in hand and getting personal instead

Thanks for the advice all. The thing for me living in London is that £50 for a ticket is still cheaper than the train to Southampton plus a ticket on top!

Ok thanks. But maybe Chelsea?

LOL! Those whinging unemployed. How dare their raise awareness of their plight. They should shut up and gratefully accept the crumbs that fall from the top table. I agree with you about Brand etc though. It has improved recently but for a while it was embarrassing that some celebrity would take the non-politician left wing spot rather than an intelligent commentator. Medhi Hasan's letter wasn't public knowledge when he went on the show, the Mail leaked it to punish him, in the same way they try to intimidate anyone who criticises them. The letter is certainly embarrassing, but he still hit the nail on the head with his speech and is allowed to make a mistake in his younger days. It was the way he whipped up controversy on abortion a while ago that lost him my respect.

Apologies if this is a really obvious question, but I am inexperienced in these matters. Given that I have yet to make it to a game this season, do I have any chance of picking up a ticket for this one?