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Oh jesus, it has: http://fansonline.net/portsmouth/mb/view.php?id=592402 Fair play to this guy

fackin hell, we've been ripped off again, innit?

How much over and above his release fee have they paid?

Taking the whole squad on holiday to Portugal too, for a bit of golf and some beers? All budgeted for, I'm sure...

Good result all round. Just need Hull and West Ham to do the business on Sunday and we can all have another massive laugh at the delusional Geordies.

Nothing to see here, move along. Their budget for the forthcoming season is obviously going to be fully funded.

My all time favourite just has to be After the first day of the first Test of 5 Tests series that we went on to win 3-1. Gold.

Labour might not find it quite so hard in 2020 if Cameron gets the EU immigration reforms that he wants and we then vote to stay in the EU. That will **** on the chips of UKIP (if they're still around in their current guise) who took an awful lot of "working class" votes away from Labour in the Midlands and the North and allowed the Tories to take a lot of their target seats from Labour. Give a wedge of those votes back to Labour and it's a different story.

Thanks, mediocremikey. Hope it's not been ruined

If my missus ever kicks me out I'd probably relocate to Edinburgh, even though the politics up there are as **** as the winter weather. Hey "super"mikey, do you know if Bar Kohl is still open?

Have you all taken behavelikedicks pills this afternoon? Go home, watch the football and come back refreshed and ready to go with something a little less childish in the morning. Jeeez.

15 of the bestest sound like 17,000 Steve, especially when they're booing.

Agree entirely Tim, which is why I'm generally against government intervention in anything unless it's absolutely necessary. They invariably make a horlicks of it.

I agree with the principle behind it - that the state should not pay for people to live in houses larger than they need when they could be better utilised by those who do. I doubt there are many people who disagree with that. However, to say that there have been issues with the method and the results of implementation would be a bit of an understatement.

Admin VI - Return Of The Registrar.

At least it sounds like they have a payment timescale, even though it probably looks a bit like this:

See, this is why Labour got trounced. All their oh-so-worthy supporters couldn't bring themselves to vote for what they wanted, as to do so would be selfish, and so they voted for what they thought other people might like, like UKIP. Nice one pap, you've cracked it.

What makes me think they'd follow suit? The fact that they've already done it, mostly. Oh, the uncalled-for irony.

Looks like a bunch of away fans being escorted from the station to the ground. What is is, Rochdale v Gillingham?

Moving on from giving Jeff abuse, did anyone see the chubster on ITV (urgh) News last night bemoaning the loss of automatic housing benefit for under-21s? He's a working apprentice and moaned that because his entitlement to housing benefit has been removed, he wouldn't be able to get his own place now. I'm sorry, but is that what housing benefit really should be used for? Should this guy be entitled to his own place, paid for by the taxpayer, just because he wants it? He's obviously not homeless right now but presumably can't afford his own place without help but so what? Plenty of young working people who receive no benefits can't afford their own places either, and it's always been that way. Vid is the bottom of this page, he appears about a minute in: http://www.itv.com/news/2015-05-12/concerns-over-where-tory-welfare-cuts-will-fall-next/

Wow, that's twice you've missed the point pap - you're on fire this morning.

Laurie Penny is a Labour party member and was quite happy to defend the vandalism of the war memorial in the name of party politics. That's pretty low and a little bit loony.

Other than the potential penalties varying, it's the same idea as the one that the Tories won't, yet have already, introduced.

Errrr, it's the same idea that they're using in Australia - you know, the idea that you're lauding and doubting would be introduced here despite it already having been.

Before anyone else joins these five in wailing at the nasty Tories being in bed with their big business friends and afraid to do something similar, you should probably remember the announcement by the Chancellor last year to do the same thing http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/dec/03/autumn-statement-2014-osborne-to-introduce-google-tax Australia - "The new law would allow the Australian Taxation Office to charge tax on profits diverted offshore." Nasty UK Tories - "George Osborne has launched a crackdown on tax avoidance by multinational technology firms such as Google and Amazon, by imposing a 25% levy on profits which are generated in Britain but “artificially shifted” abroad."