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Given what Gao has just said to the FT, we had better hope for some Liverpool title wins now as well(yuck)

100% this, excellent post

Yep, and there’s ample evidence of it on this thread as well. Why are we going to get a good deal with Trump when 1) the current trade arrangements leave the UK with a big surplus with the US and b) from a President and his loony followers who push an ‘America First’ agenda. Can anyone see any potential problems here, especially in respect of significant American corporate involvement in the NHS? Not quite what most of the 17m voted for in respect of taking back control is it?

Yeah, fine buddy. Good response from you the other week on racists with Diane Abbott - genuinely laughed at that.

Carrillo, Stephens and Targett moving on would be a positive start, although wish them all well. Targett is an excellent Championship full back but pace of the game is very quick in the PL. He’s had some good games but not consistently threatened to unseat Bertrand even though Ryan hasn’t been on top form himself, being a bit frustrated with the last two managers. What’s surprised me is the lack of interest in Cedric. Not sure he’s totally suited to the PL and on a fair old wedge allegedly but less than £10m for a 28 year old Euros winner with lots of top flight experience in today’s market has got to be a worth a punt for a decent club in another league. Boufal Ralph wants to look at but could be another asset who might have buyers. Didn’t do too bad at Celta. I know Sisto didn’t get back in Celta’s side last season, and quite a few fans would have liked to have bought him here. Forster, Moi and Hoedt are going to be a nightmare to shift though. Even Liverpool would struggle to sell them.

No comment whatsoever on AW’s appalling remarks then. I’ll take silence as assent. Still, it’s fun watching you get owned on here by quite a few of us week in, week out, except when a no deal Brexit is off the table and you vanish like Lord Lucan. Oh, and as for anti democratic, care to comment on both Trump and the US’s ambassador to the UK saying today that any trade deal will involve US companies having access to the NHS? Because that’s what people voted for wasn’t it, not Fat Boris’s fat whoppers about an extra £350m a week for the NHS. You can try to weasel about what he really meant but you know full well that plenty of not so smart people were taken in by that fib.

Yes, SA batted OK but bowled horribly, was a used pitch where cutters were more useful than the volume of bouncers we have seen so far although with short balls as a variation. Bangladesh’s spinners bowled a bit quicker and made the ball grip off the surface. Shakir was quality.

Ann Widdcombe the latest Brexit Party leader to express backward and extremist views today. Every time they stray a millimetre from their pet topic something from the Victorian era comes out. Backward party for backward people. In other news, Andrea Leadenhead saying she can deliver a managed no deal Brexit. Yeah right, of course you can. Thankfully even the small numbers left in the Tory membership won’t vote for her. Comes to something when Gove looks the reasonable option in the Tory leader race. He actually recognises the impact of no deal from working with DEFRA on basics like our water supply.

I’m not totally vegan but some serious food intolerances have pushed me that way. I still eat fish, and where I’m lactose intolerant lactose free milk and yogurt which is OK. Normal milk, yogurt, cheese, butter all out of bounds, as are a lot of highly processed foods made in an environment with lactose products. Eggs are fine though. Can only eat ice cream made with cashew nuts in the supermarket but recently Ben and Jerry’s have started doing dairy free which is quite decent. Going to buy an ice cream maker to do my own. Non dairy chocolate is much better than I’d thought, actually a more intense flavour. Have taken dairy free chocolate cakes into work and people have been very surprised by how nice it was.

A long walk on Dartmoor, the SW coast or Lakes/Dales Putting down a newly bought pint of beer on my beermat and taking the first mouthful of it A day at the cricket at any level or listening to TMS As Turkish said, a really cleanly struck tee shot Making a curry for family and friends Starting a new book The Friday night before a bank holiday Farting in a noisy public place where I can’t be heard

Yes it is, I've read that. Speaking of Boris himself, looks like a brand new gift for his opponents within and beyond the Tory Party. Nice try by his office junior to make it just about Brexit but the reality of it is also a major trust issue, even with this appalling era of politicians and the proposed TV debates on the leadership could get very lively: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-48445430

Would make sense for everybody - if Fraser and his representatives are willing to compromise on what's remaining on the contract a bit with the club. That second extension was the first sure sign Les was losing the plot and should have been removed very swiftly from his post at that point before he could do any more damage. Fraser would be nearer his native Northumbria, Leeds are a big club, outdoors lifestyle in the Dales, good standard of football, new coaching staff etc. Good for recovering his career and professional wellbeing as a goalkeeper.

With overt remainers like Hammond and Stewart very unlikely, Hunt and Javid are the only two competent and proven Ministers working in the hottest kitchens the Tories have available. Otherwise they are into the flops e.g. Boris, Raab etc and also likely to wreck the party and the economy. Gove has a mixed record but allegedly a toxic rep in the Tory Party and Boris really did him in last time around. Hunt or Javid is more likely to get something through Parliament - Labour doesn't seem to have any cohesion on Brexit, or on anything to be able to block - and both main parties are taking a hammering for not getting any agreement through. I agree with Hunt rather than the swivels on No Deal - that would be appalling for anyone of working age, whether it's big companies, SMEs, NHS (especially), Education etc. Can see the LDs cleaning up if there was an imminent GE in both Labour and Tory metropolitan seats, whereas I think regions like the SW have been changed by the long run for the referendum and will stay Tory/Brexit party whereas the region was a long term LD stronghold. Can see Southampton being split down the middle as well. Problem the Brexiteers have - and I'm talking Tory and Labour here, not Farage as he doesn't have to live with the consequences - is that those voting Brexit Party in the most deprived wards, particularly in the north west and east, are doing so against austerity e.g. 'they're not doing enough for the people'. A lot of the small minority of politicians advocating No Deal are the same ones with an evangelical belief in a very small state, anti-NHS, N American model with minimal employee rights which creates a huge issue for them. It's probably they've flocked around Boris as he is a 'pinko' (Lord Duckhunter 2019) although no-one really knows what Boris's views actually are, and he might be able to make that wing of the Tory Party less toxic and more palatable to the wider electorate (not the 50k SELs in the Tory membership), whether Leave or Remain. I'm not sure where it leaves Labour MPs like John Mann with strongly-Leave supporting seats either, drifting far away from where the rest of the membership base is and their NEC seems stuck-fast and unable to take up a clear position.

Class of 92 might think they can get him going again as they start their first season in League 2. Suppose he might do a job for Tranmere in League 1. Gateshead expelled from the National League so no chance of a homecoming.

Someone's rattled! NI voted overwhelmingly to remain yet the DUP are Brexiteers. Those people voted for it because of anger at the banking crisis, the injustices from that as not dealt with by Brown or Cameron, coupled with Cameron's lunatic austerity (we're spending too much as a repeated lie, it can't be because our donors have been reckless and corrupt can it?). Those communities - the industrial heartlands promised a government of the makers (Osborne) and the shires (as badly stripped of services as those industrial areas) - took the worst of the brunt of the cuts. Funnily enough, they've also voted Brexit in the largest numbers. Some would have done out of nationalist reasons but it explains some of the anger. Juncker or Barnier didn't cut those services, Cameron did out of ideological dogma. You can't run away from that fact sonny I'm afraid. As for negotiation, we are still waiting for those German car makers and Italian Prosecco firms to beat down our door. You surely cannot be so stupid that you actually believe Farage that the EU is going to batter down the door a moment after WTO (I won't even go into the stupidities of that) for a blockbuster free trade deal? The same claims about Nissan and Honda were made, that it didn't matter about Brexit that they'd still be producing cars here without frictionless trade. As for a purge on Hammond and Clark - lol, two of the few decent performing cabinet members. Who are you going to replace them with? - Fox; what is it, 3 trade deals ready to roll over? Faroe Islands.... - Grayling; commonly regarded as the worst cabinet minister ever... - Boris; the worst Foreign Secretary. Looks like Apparently very little work ethic and attention to detail. Could be PM in two weeks...fab if you are Charles Moore as nasty Boris mght not belittle him any longer at the DT - Davis - didn't even bother to attend most of the Brexit negotiations allegedly. Steven Davis is better qualified - Mordaunt - go and have a look on the PTS thread pal - Leadsom; even thicker than you are As a remainer, I'm happy to be on the same side as Philip Hammond, Ken Clarke, Vince Cable, Greg Clark, Heidi Allen rather than Mark Francois, Steve Baker, Boris, Chope, Nick Griffin, Robinson, Farage, and Batten. Not all leave voters are racist but all of the racists were leavers. Farage can deny it, but that poster he grinned in front of, plus his views on the NHS and a range of other topics deserve exposure. Proud my family brought me up to stay away from people like that and that a peaceful Europe is a good one. Oh, and before you call someone an idiot and immedaitely make it personal, do make sure your qualifications can cut it when challenged...

For clarification, I mean the new Tory leader winning a GE, and then the inquest in Labour will start after that as with the mid-80s.

Broadly agree, especially on Windrush and the Home Office, although I rate Cameron as the worst PM of all time. Coward who created all of this mess and then wimped off in a sulk after the referendum. A lot of the austerity and cuts, like the referendum, she inherited from him and the scary thing is the work on the Whitehall grapevine about on this is that Cameron wanted to go even further but Osborne, Cable and Clegg talked him out of it (although there may be some revisionist self-interest from some of the information sources of course). I don't think her red lines helped with Brexit at all and as Chamberlain learned, you should never pander to far right extremism, whether in your cabinet, backbenches, other parties or the media. If you do, the other lesson of history is that as with 1945-85, you let the far left in the back door. Next Tory leader will somehow have to get something through the Commons on Brexit, GE and then needs a Militant Tendancy style purge of the MPs and membership to kick the extremist gammon out and attract a new generation of members and voters. Presuming they win, somebody else in the Labour Party is going to have to do a Kinnock on Momentum as well. Fasten your seatbelts folks.

Nigel really should wipe his face properly after giving Aaron and Vladimir a personal thank you

Just merge with them and UKIP - then the sensible ex Tories can join Change UK and break FTTP. Beyond the Telegraph, where he embarrasses Charles Moore for his pocket money, and the increasingly very elderly and rabid stub of a Tory membership, Boris has at best patchy public support beyond the Home Counties despite being London Mayor and is despised north of Birmingham. Unlike Hunt or Javid, he has no experience in the hottest departmental kitchens and was a disaster as Foreign Secretary, barely stringing a sentence together. The man has no eye for detail - hope the civil service is ready to take the leadership controls of the country. Ignore the economy, social care, education - none of those matter apparently according to a party’s membership almost entirely older than working age.

Trump is a reaction to the election of a BME president for two terms beforehand - they call themselves the Alt Right but Neo Nazis are what they are and what my grandfathers fought in WW2. Trump is a racist voted for by racists and climate change deniers. As for the UK, the key issues are a long running sense of public injustice after the financial crisis and austerity where they paid for the banking sector’s corruption and incompetence (enabled by Brown, Blair and Thatcher’s poor regulation) through the slashing of the public services they used. It has also knackered the Labour Party by facilitating the rise of the Trots from their 1980s graves and Momentum. If you really want to understand this, read the OECD report on the sharp growth of inequalities between the middle class in the west and the top 0.1%.

Lloyd Kelly joins Bournemouth from Bristol City for £13m, a player Saints were linked with. Probably the right move for him, Saints have got Bertrand and Kelly would want to be first choice. Any spending created by selling the senile one’s signings will need to be on absolute first team automatic selections only. Do need to offer Targett the opportunity of a move for first team football this summer though.

They really were as toothless in the stands as they were on the pitch. Mr Nike tracksuit will be getting a visit from the old Bill shortly.

Fishy woe! Jeremy Kyle performance in the stands and Southern Premier on the pitch. Police might be about to earn their money.

Hoof, dive, play act, Neanderthals complain, referee blows, free kick, give ball away, hoof, foul rinse and repeat

Shows you strong Surrey are that they felt able to let him join Warks on loan then permanently. Would have loved him at the top of the order for us. Still, good start to this game and to the season, Lords final by late May and only bad display was Yorks in four day with Root in tow.