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Jonathan Pie gives his caustic view:

Quite possibly. By refusing to rise to the bait you could have negated his argument.

If the question was so childish you should have had no problem in forming a suitably critical reply. Dumb insults show that he got to you.

France has a much more efficient means of removing those who do not qualify. Their national ID card scheme means that it is much more difficult to work illegally, so the UK is a more attractive destination. Also a lot of them speak English and can disappear into the black economy (car washes, restaurants etc).

Your childish reply tends to answer his question.

That's a very erudite and well-constructed riposte. You have hidden talents.

Poor chap's got another 18 months on £x000 a week doing sod all.

But they can adopt Irish citizenship as well as British and an Irish passport gives them free movement.

As it's in the Single Market it has the "4 Freedoms". Goods, capital, services and people.

https://www.facebook.com/watch/live?ref=watch_permalink&v=945076253599684

Andrea Leadsom telling British companies to invest in Northern Ireland to have access to the Single Market. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-64802929

Sunak appears to imply that things are better in the single market:

The standard of intellectual debate on here seems to have taken a bit of a nose dive.

Doesn't look like it.. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/supermarket-rationing-uk-europe-brexit-b2287809.html

He's got a radio with subtitles.

https://allsportsdaily.co/ss1-chelsea-vs-southampton/

Did he say that he could have stayed home in Valencia and married a nice Spanish girl?

Not sure. I'll have to mullet it over.

Bamford missed a large part of last season.

Meanwhile up at Burnley.....

Just over 2 years ago we were top of the table. Couldn't maintain that but finished 15th. Ings left and it appeared that Broja was a capable replacement until he went off the boil after Christmas. Pretty much downhill from there on. It was glaringly obvious that we needed to sign a striker in the summer and, when we didn't, I think that Ralph lost heart and was probably happy to take his payoff and go back to Austria. The Jones appointment was unexpected and although he had a 5 weeks to work with his squad, there appears to be no idea of what sort of a team we are. His media appearances are bizarre, mainly him telling us how good he was at Luton and constatly referring to the team as "they". Definite parallels with Liz Truss and her statement yesterday where she blamed everyone else.

He did similar with Frank after he lost 6 of his first 7 and then 8 of his first 10. But Frank seems to be a normal rational bloke.

Truss appears to be doing a Nathan Jones. It was everyone's fault but hers. The Treasury, the financial markets, the Queen for dying at the wrong time. Why could nobody see how brilliant she was?

Impersonating a football manager (best in Europe)?

Jo Tessem was pretty scathing. Basically said that Brentford were better than us in every department.