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That's what Linda McCartney said...

We help pay for both the NHS and a private scheme. It makes us feel good that on one hand we jump the queue when treatment is needed and on the other, help finance the treatment of the obese, beer swigging, heavy smoking socialists that are forced to use the NHS. It is interesting that the current NHS structure is far closer to that envisaged by the Conservatives in their 1944 White paper on a National Health Service. Labour's original structure was just plain wrong, as were the concepts of a national electricity organisation and a national rail authority. All of these were given up over the years to favour private enterprise and the benefits of competition and local needs. Like the Marxist states of the 70's, true socialism has been found to be a failed experiment and an expensive one at that. Enter New Labour, Tony Blair and his warped impersonation of Thatcherism... ...and still the mugs vote for them....although, hopefully in declining numbers since they have been found out again.

5 weeks in California: Malibu Santa Barbara Monterey Yosemite NP Santa Cruz San Francisco Napa Valley Sacramento Lake Tahoe Sequoia NP Las Vegas Beverly Hills

History of the Labour Party since the war....

You obviously never watched "The Killing Fields". Cambodia and Ethiopa were both Marxist states in the 1970's. Many of the residents living in these Utopian visions ceased to exist, but both societies definitely existed....

Putin and the other left wing apologists conveniently forget that the revolutionary Russia of 1917 refused to accept responsibility for Imperial Russia's foreign debt, just like Iceland did with its debts a couple of years ago. So, fast forward nearly a century and barely 10 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, we are taking lessons in economics from Russia. Putin's words may be listened to, by children living under his dictatorship in Russia and posting on here, but spare the rest of us the lectures, Vladimir and stick to repression, something we can all agree you know more than anyone about.

Apple is not richer than the USA. That is like saying, because the Queen never carries money, everyone is richer than her. Apple has cash in the bank because they are about make a large acquisition, so the analysts believe. There's no other reason, because it is always better to employ any spare cash, beyond reserves, in investing in a business, particularly one that grows at over 20% a year. Try and get that interest on your cash, however large an amount. The US also has a minor advantage over apple, in that it is allowed to print money and also holds $110.3 billion in gold at Fort Knox. A ridiculous story, really and one that has been aimed to make Apple fanboys cream all over their Ipods...

W32/Netsky-P virus...

Sick...

Word...

Who? What? Where?

...this tweet by the White House contains a link to an early video of the leader of the western world, working at a bar! Who would have thought he would become President?

That's why we should be piling into Saints, at the moment....

Birmingham are also 16:1 to win the Championship and 4:1 to get relegated???? We are 16:1 to get relegated....

....according to the latest composite odds from the bookies. West Ham Leicester Nottingham Forest Birmingham Middlesbrough Reading Southampton Blackpool Cardiff Leeds Brighton Ipswich Burnley Hull City Portsmouth Derby Bristol City Millwall Watford Crystal Palace Peterborough Coventry Barnsley Doncaster So, after watching the pre-season performances, my wagers will be: Saints to win the Championship at 16:1, (a la Norwich) - a dead Brazilian Saints to get promoted at 5:1 - a monkey Coterill (second favourite) to be the first manager to get the sack at 6:1 - a pony I will thus be collecting £2800 at the end of the season, which will easily finance a suitable celebration, at a five star hotel in London, for the weekend.... Don't say you weren't told.

I refrained from commenting on your offensive thread about the Norwegian murders by a crazed gunman and the distorted view you obviously have of the world, but I have one question for you. Given that you obviously believe you have such a complete grasp on economics, to an extent much greater than anyone else on this forum, WTF aren't you rich enough to give up work?

Benny Hill: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRNCeD6NVFI Southampton Legend.... Ben(ny) Elton: [video=youtube;8CxEFk8-F88] Annoying c***, isn't he....

Apologies for the walk down memory lane, but it all started with the latest issue of Private Eye (Incorporating the News of the World). Without doubt the best one for many years and inspired by the demise of their favourite target since the 1970's, Rupert "the Digger" Murdoch. I loved the headline "Gotcha", and petty much everything in the gloatfest that comprised the only news publication that has retained it's principles (i.e. it never had any). Rupert Murdoch's wife is satirised in a brilliant Benny Hill parody: "Rye you not risten to me, Lupert...?" ...that brings me to Benny Hill. Who would have thought it? Southampton's own comedy legend, used to take the p!$$ out of a dodgy Aussie. To complete my weekend, I discover that total c*** Ben Elton has bombed downunder, after emigrating from the country he never stopped complaining about. Never funny, sold out and responsible for the death of the greatest comedy talent this country ever produced. Australia is welcome to him and he follows in a long line of c**** we sent there... I could spend hours posting why Ben Elton is a total c*** and Benny Hill a genius, but maybe someone else could help...

I emailed the Pricipality of Monaco about this issue and think that it is high time it was brought up again.... http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?12445-Help-is-on-it-s-way...

Speaking to Meridian Tonight, Marc Jackson was asked what his background is and who was behind the consortium to buy Portsmouth Football Club. He told the programme... 'I was trained by Xerox, many many many years ago. I'm a business strategist, many people say I'm a photocopying salesman, which I always find quite amusing.' 'I actually have been in the past,been heavily involved in the fitting out of Southampton football club stadium. Obviously I have an IT background, sales background, but also I have had involvement at Southampton Academy and scouting for many, many years.' 'To give you an instance I was involved in the scouting of Adam Lallana from Bournemouth sadly, to Southampton.' 'I have many, many contacts in football, I have many contacts abroad as well, in American MLS football as well as in Dubai.' 'So it's a mixture of many many things, all put together with a vision for a football club and we are going to drop the blueprint into here, but all will be revealed.' When asked if it was his money he was investing in Portsmouth Football Club, Jackson smiled and said... 'It is a consortium' When pushed on who is in the consortium, he added... 'That is, something that really and honestly will never be answered properly and completely, but the truth of the matter is, there will be answers to that to an extent in next week's press conference.'

Just out of interest, here is the composite opinion of all the bookies, on where we will finish in the league, next season. A season of consolidation, then... West Ham Birmingham Leicester Nottingham Forest Reading Middlesbrough Blackpool Cardiff Burnley Ipswich Leeds Southampton Brighton Hull City Millwall Bristol City Portsmouth Derby Peterborough Watford Coventry Barnsley Crystal Palace Doncaster

Probably the most xenophobic, uninformed and puerile post of the year, so far. You should really travel more and try to take people as you find them. It is amazing how this broadens the horizons of your mind, beyond the confines of a small provincial city in southern England....

They are flying BA...

I heard last night that the Pompey deal collapsed and this drove Chanrai to a casino, where at one point, he was £1.4M down. He eventually ended the evening £0.5M up. Backs up what I have thought for a while. These Russians are just another bunch of chancers with little money and Chanrai is a reckless gambler.

Bellagio, lads, if it helps....