Ex Lion Tamer

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?

I don't deny they work hard, even harder than most people. But poor and middle class people work hard as well. And it's impossible to work even 10 times harder, there aren't enough hours in the day

They haven't. And anyway, look at the graphs, they have at a guess 20 to 30 times as much wealth as even middle class people. Have they worked 20 times as hard as, say, a supermarket worker? Is that even possible?

The exact amount is irrelevant, we know that the profits are huge. They can't be expected to memorise every statistic. It was a different time, such drastic action wasn't deemed to be necessary then, he had work within the guidelines of his party strategy, which was still operating under the neo-liberal orthodoxy. When are you saying they are going to raise prices? By the end of the freeze the market will be properly regulated. There is a risk that they will rise before it is introduced but I trust the calculation that they won't rise much more than they would have done anyway - after all, we don't even know if Labour will get elected and the energy companies shouldn't want to risk damaging their reputations any further. It's also hilarious to hear a Tory making accusations of populism, after the dumb immigration, benefits and Europe policies we've had to put up with. And there's no need to use cheap insults by calling me a dreamer. It doesn't add any weight to your argument.

Straw man argument. Of course there has to be disparities of wealth to encourage people to work hard and do boring / hard jobs. But there's easily scope for a more equal society without the sky caving in. And it's only fair that once you have a certain level of wealth, you should have to work harder to increase it.

Because taking money from a rich person will impact on their lifestyle less than if you do so to someone who is struggling to pay their heating bill each month? Isn't that obvious? 'The rich' pay a disproportionate amount of tax to make up for the fact that they're fabulously wealthy compared to everyone else. :

So he didn't know the exact figure, big deal. If thats the criterion we should appoint the Grandmaster of Memory as PM and be done with it. His overall point is right - everyone knows Centrica made big profits, thanks to big price rises and poor investment levels. The point about Tesco is that if food prices are too high, it is easy for people to shop elsewhere. With energy, people find it a hassle to switch all the time (especially if they need their landlord's permission). The market is dominated by the big 6, who are slow to reduce prices when wholesale prices fall, and who bamboozle people with a range of tariffs and misselling practices. Its a failing market that needs better regulation. Dont forget that this is just a temporary freeze to protect people's living standards until Labour can put in place a framework to properly regulate the market. They're not bringing back price controls on everything. The is a good article: http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2013/09/labours-plan-reform-our-broken-energy-market-deserves-cross-party-support This is also good: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/25/ed-miliband-resetting-energy-market Also, Andrew Neil is a Tory who wear a ridiculous wig.