Wes Tender

Badger started it:- It's strange how there seems to be a correlation between those thinkng the lockdown is unwarranted and those who support Brexit. No doubt they will claim that they are 'free thinkers' who can see through the BS.

This comment from you illustrates that you must be completely clueless about the Brexit/Remain vote demographics.

I'd never heard of it, so had to Google it. The chances are that until you mentioned it, I was never likely to come across it, but then would never watch it anyway. I don't care whether the Americans wish to rewrite their history, that's up to them. It is a musical and the context is totally different from the Ann Boleyn thing, which is just a case of deliberate mischief by the leftie virtue signalling woke brigade.

If there is to be zero historical accuracy in the programme because that is irrelevant, then they might as well skip the costume authenticity too and have her dressed in a leopard print leotard just for added interest. A bit of lesbian action with her courtiers wouldn't go amiss too. But if the producers of this programme aren't that bothered about historical accuracy, then why would anybody take them seriously when it comes to their speculation about her psychological make up? The subject matter is far better suited to be presented by an eminent historian specialising in the Tudors, somebody of the calibre of Mary Beard, but that wouldn't suit their loony leftie black lives matter agenda.

LOL. That almost sounds as ludicrous as the black Ann Boleyn thing, but of course this kind of diversity virtue signalling is a one way street and it would never be tolerated for black historical figures to be played by white actors. The days of whites blacking up are long gone. Will this black actress playing Ann Boleyn be "whiting up" I wonder?

Here we are after 7 matches, ahead of Arsenal, Man Utd and Chelsea so far, and possibly Spurs and City if they don't win their matches

It seems that there is going to be an historical costume drama coming soon on Channel Five as part of the Black Lives Matter/cultural diversity season. The lead character, in a three part series, Ann Boleyn, is going to be played by a black actress. Why not go the whole hog and have Henry VIII as a black king too? I haven't heard anything about the other cast characters, but I'm sure that there will be plenty of scope to introduce lesbians or homosexuals into her family or among the courtiers. In order not to confuse the yoof in their future history exams, I'm expecting that before every episode there will be a disclaimer explaining that Queen Ann Boleyn was actually white. I won't be watching though unless there is a pre-broadcast warning that the programme contains lots of explicit sexual content.

What with England winning the 6 Nations Cup, and the Skates losing at home, it hasn't been a bad weekend for sports overall.

It was awarded for the quality of Grealish's dive. The ref was mighty impressed by it. As I said, as good as the one from Salah yesterday.

I'm sure that you remoaners will grasp any straw you can that our departure will be delayed again and again. That bitter has-been Gauke was saying much the same thing in the last day or so too. Of course, the same implications of a no deal conclusion to the talks during the period of the lockdown because of the Chinese virus affects the EU as much, if not more than it affects us. So if they decide to be sensible and accept our red lines over fisheries, the level playing field rules and that the ECJ has no jurisdiction over our laws, the FTA can be agreed quite quickly to the benefit of all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8qH7JlgSd0

On the stream I watched, the mention of it being one week after the anniversary of our 9-0 pasting by Leicester came just before 15 minutes. But now the commentators qualify it by assessing our form since then.

A great game from us to go ahead by the 4 goals and could have been more but for offsides. However the balance of the team was upset when Bednarek went off for Stephens, and further impetus was lost when Ings went off. Villa's headed goal from Mings was unstoppable, but Grealish's penalty was a joke. A great theatrical performance from him, almost as good as Salah's yesterday. But Grealish's goal in the last minute of the match was superb. The way that we had capitulated in the second half, it was a good thing that there was only 6 minutes of extra time. But looking at the positives, when all is said and done, the important thing is the 3 points against the team that hammered the Scousers 7-2. The stand out performances from us were Ward-Prowse, Vestergaard, McCarthy and Ings, J W-P MOTM by a mile.

I'm heartily pissed off with the prospect of a second lockdown. The government is putting far too much store on the advice of so-called exerts, who are making lurid predictions of the number of deaths that will be caused unless we all live like hermits for the next month. There is not even universal agreement among virology experts, but neither could there be, as this Chinese virus is one on which there is not any accurate experience of a precedent. We can only go on the evidence of what has happened in other countries, and we have the example of Sweden which didn't have a lockdown, observed simple rules on self-isolation for the most vulnerable (the elderly) and is now in a situation whereby their deaths from the Chinese virus are not higher than most other countries, yet their economy has not been screwed in the process. The trouble with so-called virology experts, is that they are there only to advise only on the virus and make guesses about the death rate. The government however, is there to assess this information and balance it against all of the other implications affecting the country and the economy. On the other side of the equation, the bit that they appear to judge as being of secondary importance, is the massive cost of the lockdown to the economy, the demise of much of the hospitality industry, many other businesses going under, resulting in a huge increase of unemployment, the rise of mental problems and domestic violence, and the increase of deaths from cancer and other illnesses and diseases because the NHS is concentrating on the Chinese virus. We have reached the stage whereby the cure is more deadly than the disease. The lockdown is just kicking the can down the road, and will flare up again when it is eased in early December. There is rising civil disobedience against it, particularly among the young. I can't say I blame them, after all they are going to paying for all this through taxation for the next decade or so.

Go on then. Put the sentence in the order you believe it should have been in then.

So the sentence the right way around should have been that it was a race for the Presidency, instead of a race towards senility, right? That's what I took the post to mean, so it seems that you are a little confused. And you are sufficiently arrogant to assume that just because you agreed with a nuance of a post, that everybody else must have got it too. Ergo, a smiley/winkey thing would have made it clear what he meant. Thanks for the cartoon you added to your earlier post in an edit. It brings some much needed levity to your usual dull opinions.

Oh, pardon me for believing that the "race" that he was talking about was the race towards senility instead of the race towards the Presidency. 🙄 How silly it must have been of me to believe that a mention of a race between Trump and Biden did not refer to the race to the Presidency, when there was no smiley/winkey thing to indicate that the comment was supposed to be his attempt at humour? Regarding the rest of your little diatribe, it is the usual patronising arrogance that I expect to read from you, and you really must be deluding yourself if you believe for one second that the point I made about the shyness of voters being polled admitting that they were going to vote for Trump was filched from you. I have followed the debate about the elections quite thoroughly, and don't need to be told by you what my views should be, thank you.

Quite possibly he might be. But then again, Clinton was beating him in the polls last time around too. I'm a bit of a cynic when it comes to polls, as you probably know. Where Trump is shown to be bit of a buffoon in the left-wing biased media over there, there is very possibly a large element who tell pollsters that they are voting Biden, but who intend to vote Trump. When there is apparently a Biden polling majority of around 9% or so, it depends on how many of those secret Trump voters there are.

It was Timmy and Saint1977 who took the topic onto Brexit, LD and I just responded. I have already posted my opinion on Trump and Biden before. Essentially it is that Trump is a buffoon, but has done some good things for the USA. Biden is pretty well senile. There isn't much to choose between them, and I marvel at the American's inability to come up with two better candidates than them, but I would always favour the Republicans over the Democrats politically.

Remoaners and Lib Dumbs is pretty mild stuff compared to some of the insults hurled at those on here who voted to leave the failing EU and who are deemed by them to be on the right of the political spectrum. I don't recall you calling out those who called posters village idiot, gammons, thick, etc.

This has gone right over your head, soggy. Kamala Harris has a husband, not a wife. It was just another incident demonstrating that Biden is fast approaching senility.

Apparently Biden's female running mate Kamala Harris has a wife.

I agree. I'd also question this nationalist/internationalist position in the light of the Brexit vote. In a narrow perspective, leaving the Federal EU was labeled as appealing to little Englanders, but the Brexiteer policy of wishing to expand our trade around the World and to accept immigration from anywhere subject to certain qualification provisos, rather flies in the face of the little Englander stance, and is more suggestive of an internationalist position. Arguably the remoaner position of wishing to continue suckling on the EU teat as a vassal colony is the little Englander position.

I don't watch Liverpool matches apart from MOTD highlights, but it will be interesting to see how long and how often the commentators happen to mention the 7-2 thrashing that Aston Villa delivered to them. Arguably that defeat was more embarrassing as a result than ours was against Leicester when we were playing for much of the match with 10 players. After all, we are just mediocre Saints, whereas the Scousers are one of the World's greatest glory teams, and last year's champions. I expect that when people heard our result, there was much shrugging of shoulders, whereas when Liverpool plastics around the World heard of their result, there would have been incredulous disbelief. But I also suspect that the commentators over here will want to forget that it ever happened and certainly won't be rabbiting on about a year later -unless of course they are Man Utd fans.

Does it have to have caused serious injury and have the player stretchered off to justify it? Digne had one tackle through the back, K W-P did well to keep on his feet and carry on, so Digne thought I'll stop him properly this time, which is what he did.