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Fair enough, but to put it in context, Biden's near-four decades' worth of politics and policy history place him somewhere between Michael Heseltine and (on law and order) Margaret Thatcher. His current platform would have looked a little middle-of-the-road to Blairites. On the flip side, the term 'communist' has specific meaning - to be one, you have, at a a minimum, to believe in the common ownership of all the means of production, distribution and exchange. I think we can safely say, as a matter of fact, that Joe Biden is not advocating that - whatever 'rhetoric' we indulge in.

No, he's saying that it's absurd to characterise Biden's platform as 'socialist' or 'communist'. This isn't a difference of views but a difference of facts. Unless, that is, you can tell us which of Biden's proposals is 'socialist' or 'communist'.

Ach that's right. My first game was Spurs v Saints in Jan 1970 and I remember Chivers playing (and Davies scoring the winning goal). But of course Chivers was in white.

Chivers for Channon maybe?

That's not what you said though. You said: 'Without Ings we are fucked.'

One ad hominem sneer after another. That's all you have. Have you got anything to actually say? One other startling fact: many of the same companies that have just been warned by Johnson and Gove to do much more to prepare for no deal are from Thursday being closed for at least four weeks and - judging by this government's record - far longer. How's that going to work?

So there's more than a remote possibility that the UK will crash out of the EU while it's in a national lockdown for coronavirus. Good luck with that.

Odd post. Firstly, comparing him to Ings is baffling - which team plays with two identikit strikers? Second, his supposed 'tangled feet' can't disguise the fact that some of his goals have come from taking shots early. And why is the Man City goal 'strange', rather than quick witted? His assist rate complements Ings, his power complements Ings' guile, and his partnership with Ings stretches defenders. He's still learning, but the quality of his all-round game seems to be on a pleasing upward curve.

Actually it's not all of Corbynists who've disgraced themselves by refusing to acknowledge the truth of the EHRC report. The Corbynist memes and youtubes being dropped in here by the usual suspect are a small taste of the misinformation industry from his mindless cult - but for others, there's no escaping the awful reality that Corbynism sucked into Labour some of the most vile, Jew-baiting characters on the far left, and have said so.

At least you got the first part right. Now what about your view on the Corbyn-led culture of vicious and illegal anti-semitism now formally confirmed by the EHRC?

Your strawman edifice needs some work. Still, if it makes you happy to invent stuff to get furious in your own head, be my guest.

So I expect Corbynists here there and everywhere will be crafting their fulsome mea culpas for the crimes and abuses highlighted in today's EHRC report.

One of the things that's great about watching the side now is seeing the sort of one and two touch football that was a kind of signature at Saints in the late 70s and 80s. (Steve Williams would fit well into this set-up.) But JWP's goal was a particularly good example of it.

The Guardian was also good - leading on Che Adams' performance. On which subject, what a pleasure it is to see him playing so well.

Very droll.

Hamez Ward-Prowse my MotM.

Triggered.

I think you'll find the expression is: Feeble minds seldom differ.

It is written.

Good analysis Ed. I know everyone (or everyone with sense) in the US freaks out at the suggestion that Biden has already won, but it's difficult to see a way back for Trump.* The harder he tries, the more he blows up his own campaign. In just a few days now, the US will wake up from the most surreal dream. *(Let's see how well this post does when compared with the outcome - will it out-Nostradamus our always-wrong OP?)

Separated at birth.

Gavyn Davies?

And so are expressed the hopes, prayers and wishes of the multitudes.

I saw that. I wish I knew what it meant.

I know I've been away a while but how the fork has hypo, of all people, come to be thought of as ITK?