Wes Tender

Schadenfreude towards, not from. (typo)

I'm loving the schadenfreude from the forum's remoaners. As the time to our departure moves ever closer towards the 11pm Friday deadline, so we have the wailing and gnashing of teeth, the increase in the petty insults from those who don't recognise the concept of losers' consent. And for Badger, who wishes to kid himself that we won't actually be leaving until the end of the year, and Tame who just loves the new 50p coin, I offer this solution from Julia Hartley-Brewer:-

What do you mean we won't actually have left? Of course we will have. On that day we will be a third country outside of the EU. I don't believe that there are many leavers who don't understand what the transition/implementation period is all about and what the implications are for both us and the EU during that period. https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/explainers/brexit-transition-period

Not in the least bit angry, Gavyn. Very happy in fact. Only three more days and we're out. I'd give up on the amateur psychiatry if I were you, you're not much cop at it.

Really? Tame is all over the place in his confusion. In one post he says I am humourless, a few posts later he says I am funny. Perhaps he is older than I thought and losing his marbles. Of course you would support him, naturally all of you loser remoaners stick together on such things. Who cares what insults are hurled about by you remoaners on a football forum when it not only makes you look juvenile, but also you increasingly look bitter and twisted, a microcosm of the country as a whole.

You aren't very self-aware. I'm extracting the urine, but you don't realise it. The penny (or the 50p) hasn't dropped.

Continuing to feed Tames' appetite for off-topic pettiness, according to a You Gov poll on the new commemorative celebration 50p coin, over twice as many people don't use the Oxford comma. The percentages hardly move, whether those people are Remoaners or Brexiteers.

What, no Oxford comma after repetitive? I'm shocked seeing this from such a pedant as you.

Carry on giving me ammunition and I'll continue to post comments you might find amusing, but which are in fact at your expense. As you haven't had anything to say about the subject of the thread, Brexit, for some time, I'll take it that Boris' majority has effectively neutered remoaners like you. You're reduced to sniping from the sidelines, instead of partaking in pitched battles any longer.

I think that it is better that it is up to our discretion as to who we allow in.

It is widely accepted that the Oxford comma or serial comma isn't any more correct in usage than it is without, especially in journalistic circles, so what a surprise and an irony that a remoaner publication tries to make fun of it. What isn't a surprise, is that you as the forum's most boring pedant seeks to score cheap points from it. But still, you're in good company, alongside other serial remoaners like "mad as a box of frogs" Adonis and Campbell, who say that they won't accept the coin in their change.

Defeated, wasn't it?

If you believe that, then you live in cloud cuckoo land. When Boris won his stonking majority, some in the EU assumed wrongly that he wanted a soft Brexit all along, and it enabled him to go for one with a big enough majority to steamroller it through. That was wishful thinking by the EU, from the more gormless types like Verhofstadt, along with some of the arch remoaner losers in the UK, the likes of Campbell, Adonis and Blair. Any form of alignment and compliance will be a matter of what suits us, as you will have gleaned if you have been keeping abreast of current noises emanating from various government ministers stating categorically that we will cease be rule-takers. The ERG were always the most ardent advocates of the stance that no deal was better than a bad deal, and most stood firm on May's atrocious WA apart from a few who supported it when it was put to the House a third time and the Parliamentary arithmetic suggested that it was that bad deal or the possibility of no Brexit. Now, not only are the numbers of Conservative MPs supporting Brexit and the ERG position considerably increased, but also the Remoaner rebel group in the Party has been consigned to oblivion in the election, as has a substantial chunk of the Labour Party. Amendments to the WAB put forward by the Commons and Lords which would have made it softer, have been thrown out.The EU has our gun against its head that we will not extend the WA beyond the 31st December. We have made substantial arrangements to prepare for no deal. We have stated that we will be out of the SM, the CU, the CFP, CAP, ECJ and all that those entail. Why on earth would we go for some watered down soft Brexit, Norway in some sort of other disguise?

Timmy, I take it that this isn't a good time to ask when you will paying the £50 to charity because we aren't going for the Norway option. Ok, we aren't officially out until close of play Friday, and the WA only finishes December 31st, but only the most blinkered and lacking in self-awareness would believe that to be a credible option now.

For much of the game we were the better team. We played a high press very effectively, but ran the risk of being hit on the break. Having lost Cedric to injury, we were exposed at right back by having Danso play there, which had not worked well the last time that happened. Also, I had some trepidation with Gunn in goal. However, although Spurs exploited our right flank, Danso was better than the last time, possibly because other of our players around him had improved since then. But when Armstrong had to be substituted for his injury early on, I feared the worst, as he was cover on the right, tracking back well with his usual energy. Largely though, those fears were ungrounded, as we continued to press Spurs well in midfield and high up the pitch, although frustratingly reverting to the annoying habit of passing sideways and backwards from defence. Because of wayward shooting from Spurs whenever they did break through, Gunn wasn't troubled much, but produced a stunning save to deflect a goalwards shot with an outstretched foot. It took Spurs almost an hour to produce their goal, although even then it was inspected by VAR for offside and a possible foul. The goal stood and Spurs' confidence had its boost, but to our credit, our heads did not drop and we had a succession of our own chances, but shot just wide, or struck or headed the ball with not enough power to trouble Lloris. Just as time began to run out and it looked as if we wouldn't get anything from the game, Boufal scored to silence the Spurs fans. We then tried hard to get the winner right at the death, but it wasn't to be. We had a good shout ourselves for a penalty for handball, but there was no notification that it was being looked at by VAR. The match highlights made a good case for one. Honourable mentions for Redmond, Ward-Prowse and Hojbjerg in particular for me. The Spurs fans will have left the stadium feeling pretty sick at conceding such a late equaliser. They must also feel a degree of trepidation facing the replay when we have such a good away record. With luck, by then one or two of our players will have returned from injury. As another plus, we will also have the support of tens of thousands of fans singing our anthem and "spurring" on our team.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/av/football/51240263 highlights

The last one was the third time, but who's counting? I'm pleased that you won't be putting me on ignore, sonny, so that I can continue to annoy you. No doubt you will also be pleased to be able to post your usual small-minded, nit-picking responses, so we'll both be happy.

As I've told you many times before, sonny, you don't have to read it. Just put me on ignore. (ps I don't work Saturdays).

You are, so it's a good idea.

You forgot the plague of locusts, death of the firstborn, the four horsemen of the Apocalypse. Get a grip, man.

I'm entirely content with the state of play at the moment, Gavyn. We're out of the EU at 11pm next Friday, so I'll probably have a bit of a hangover next Saturday from an excess of bubbly during celebrations. You've come out with a load of project fear drivel ever since before the referendum and very little of it has come to pass, so excuse me if I ignore a lot of what you will be coming out with in the next few months. I'm on the right side of history with the Brexiteers on the question of terminating our membership of the EU, you remoaners aren't, so again, it's probably not a very astute position for you to take on other peoples' judgement, Gavyn. When you talk about a threadbare zero tariff, zero quota FTA, you mean one that allows us to control our immigration, fix up our own trade deals around the world, stop having to pay billions into the EU coffers, the cessation of our laws being subjugated to EU laws, regaining control of our own coastal waters? Only that, eh, Gavyn? It looks like a pretty mouthwatering cake to me.

I'm happy for him to provide a string of predictions as to how the Brexit thing will pan out, WSS. I expect to have a good laugh at him when he has egg all over his face when it doesn't come to pass, just as I expect that he was probably for us joining the Eurozone too. Also just as we will not be entering into a Norway style deal with the EU as forecast by Buctootim, who bet £50 on it three plus years ago. Where has he disappeared to lately?

I'm not confused at all, Gavyn, you are. It appears that you are stuck in some sort of time-warp whereby you haven't realised that May and Robbins are no longer in charge of our negotiations and that we are no longer still tied by Benn's Surrender Bill to accept any deal the EU offers us, no matter how bad it might be. If the EU believe that all they have to do is procrastinate until the end of July and expect us to ask for an extension to the WA, then they are in for a nasty shock. Ditto if they believe that we would not be prepared to leave on WTO terms if the deal they propose is not acceptable to us.

How was Davos? I've been following it avidly, Gavyn, old China. What I've been reading of late tells me that fishing and the level playing field aren't on the table our end. The bare-bones trade deal was what was on offer under those circumstances. The EU sabre-rattling says that the closer the alignment, the better the deal, but if no SM, no CU, no ECJ, no alignment, no fisheries means a bare-bones deal or no deal, then I expect that we are quite content with that. The EU maintain that they will not give as good a deal to us as they did to Canada and S Korea. Are you gullible enough to believe everything they say as gospel?

https://order-order.com/2020/01/23/european-parliament-trade-committee-boss-uk-eu-fta-can-completed-year/ It appears that a trade deal with the EU before the end of December is a viable possibility after all, as could a trade deal with Japan. Japan was cool on the idea of a trade deal a few months ago, but now they are keen to do a deal as quickly as possible, potentially by the Autumn. What a difference it makes having a government with a stonking great majority and the clarity of purpose that it brings to negotiations.