CB Saint

Happy days. Right then, get the cheque book out Marcus.

If I owned a club that I have spent between £15m and £20m in a year (including purchase) then I would want to be in of the important decisions, lilke sacking a manager, or talking to said manager about what he was going to do about it next year, or asking the manager just what he thought he was going to do with yet another £2m he had just asked for, or telling my chairman and manager to play nicely. but that's just me

Here is Willie Walsh's explaination - emailed today As you are undoubtedly aware, Unite, the trade union that represents British Airways' cabin crew has announced further strike action. I wanted to update you on the situation and thank you for your continued loyalty and support. We were saddened but not surprised that Unite has announced plans for strikes that span 23 days including the May bank holiday and half term. I can assure you that this action will not ground British Airways. Unite officials continue to show a callous disregard for our customers. A small minority act as if they want to destroy BA and the jobs of thousands of their colleagues. And just when the UK economy needs help to get back on its feet, Unite will deal it another blow. The offer on the table is very fair. It includes a guaranteed pay rise for the next two years, meets the union's concerns on crewing levels, access to routes and maintains a standard of living that reflects the value and service our cabin crew deliver to our customers. During the last two periods of industrial action, thousands of staff from across the airline, including volunteers, kept British Airways flying and we flew more than half a million customers to their destinations. We are confident that many cabin crew will again ignore Unite's pointless strike call and support the efforts of the rest of the airline. On the strike dates we will operate all London Gatwick and London City services. At Heathrow we plan to operate a substantial part of our longhaul schedule. There will also be a number of daily flights to every destination across our shorthaul network. We are talking to other airlines about leasing in extra aircraft to support our shorthaul schedule and we will buy thousands of seats from other airlines to help our customers rebook if their original flight is cancelled. I fully appreciate that information is critical during such a period so we will regularly update ba.com with details of our revised schedule and options available. Your support, patience and understanding during the recent months have been invaluable and I would like to thank you in advance for your continued loyalty in support of our business. Yours sincerely,

This, even under PR I think that the Libs will remain the third party. Kingmakers but always the junior party.

Fulham hanging on in there. Chris baird is doing alright as well

I will never ever ask you to do my tax return

Made me look - A hole

Imagine they would be the front runners - but often they are not the winners. Any dark horse candidates?

They reckon it will take them at least three months to sort it out. Shame about Alan Johnson - I quite liked him - gave straight answers to questions. Perhaps DC should call a snap election now - Labour would be all over the place.

Question is, at what point did he reach "his level of imcompetance"?

I wasn't sure if Dune was perving over the leaders wives or talking about them as people?

I can't help thinking that this will be the last day for AP. If it happens I will be dieappointed as I think it would be a mistake. NC needs to consider his public image here. Fair enough he had a spat with the local rag, but he needs to avoids getting a rep with the nationals otherwise who will want to work for him. and to avoid upsetting Sour Mash again, all of the above is my opinion - no source, mole or inside info.

Why?

I think giving the Bank of England independence will be his greatest legacy. The fact that he took a budget that balanced when he inherited it and spent more that he earnt from 2002 onwards will be the legacy that everyone remembers. I think we were heading for a meltdown at some point - the credit crunch just brought it to a head.

Thorpie's anger is amusing, but to be fair I would have been furious if Lab - Lib had gone ahead.

I can see Ken Clarke as chancellor - Need a heavyweight to offset Cable.

Well assuming that you figured in all the possible results up to 3 - 3, I think it is something like 10 to the power 64 : 1 or 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 to 1

Sorry Duncan, I had assumed from what they said that Unite had taken you on full time. My bad.

Agreed, but... 71% didn't want labour, and 77% didn't want liberal and no one voted for a coalition. Therefore 100% of the electorate didn't want the outcome they wanted - you can't get fairer than that!

There was a clip on drive time - Duncan arguing with a hostie. The hostie said if unite had accepted the deal last year then the hosties would have had a share scheme, a bonus scheme a an extra free ticket per year. Incidently, they said that Duncan is now a full time employee of Unite so it seems like he is now sorted.

They should go for aurigney - then they would realise how good they had it.

I can but I won't. AS I said before, believe it or don't believe it, your choice.

WTF I am only posting what I have heard. I am not a wum. You can believe it or not, I couldn't care less. I happen to believe what I have been told hence my concern.

I have heard that NC views not reaching the play offs as a failure and blames AP entirely. I really hope this isn't the case but I trust the source of the info (and no I will not name names). I am becoming concerned.

I can see the Lab - Lib coalition failing to get past the first hurdle it comes to i.e. get AV / PR through. The Conservative will vote enmass against it so 306 Nays. Add to that there are a large number of labour MPs who are "avowedly" against PR according to Tessa Jowell. The Tories only need 20 of those to vote against and the coalition will fall apart as the central requirement of the Libs would have failed.