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He’s been a solid player for us never quite kicked on to the top level but if he had he would have left long ago. He’s exactly the sort of signing we need to make to give the team consistency when we inevitably loose the better players at the club. I’d be happy for him to extend his contract.

I don’t think anyone has said everyone who voted leave was less intelligent but just because some bright people voted to leave doesn’t mean that the majority were not less well educated less intelligent people it is simple statistics that they were. These people were deliberately exploited by the vote leave campaign who as pointed out by other posters contained plenty of rich bright people who profited or benefited in other ways from us leaving the EU.

This is because Brexit was totally undefined either before or during the referendum it was just leave or remain. Theresa May is entirely responsible for the balls up that followed she drew the red lines on the single market and customs union that even Farage had said was a silly idea before the vote. I will never ever understand why we didn’t do the sensible thing and have two votes (stayed up front) first to see if people wanted to leave then a follow up once leaving had actually been defined and negotiated to see if we actually still wanted to go through with it knowing the details. Both referendums should have been binding not advisory so they were subject to full electoral rules which oddly enough don’t allow you to put a lie on the side of a bus or reproduce nazi propaganda posters… In reality nobody outside of parliament voted for the brexit we got as the people were never given any detail about what they were voting for.

All of us lost freedom to work and live in the EU the day Brexit happened and as of next year will have to pay £7 every time we want to even visit on holiday.

Who knows you have to try consistently over a long period of time to bring people round. The real question is why would you want to end freedom of movement…

Back four and front two are solid and jones wasn’t bad on his day the midfield is dire with Oakley the only half decent player!

Potentially yes if we could convince the majority it was in their interests.

We had already accepted them, we could have had much more control over freedom of movement (as it was only freedom of movement to work) but successive governments chose not to even register people arriving in the country. Once we had signed up we would have needed to renegotiate our treaties or leave we chose leave.

I think you knows that’s not how it works, but Freedom of movement would never have been introduced if ALL members had not ratified the Maastricht treaty, we elected a government that chose to do so the rest is history. Our Sovereign governments elected as representatives by the British people chose to adopt these rules that were good for our country. The UK was a basket case when we first joined and thrived as members maybe we will have to be the poor man of Europe again before the knuckle draggers support us rejoining!

Freedom of movement came in under the Maastricht treaty I believe which was ratified by our government had it not been then we would have had no freedom of movement, fishing quotas were all covered by the common fisheries policy which again we signed up to (Why do people get so bent out of shape over such a tiny UK industry?) the Brexit messiah Nige was a part of the EU committee that ran it all but unsurprisingly the work shy grifter never attended... I could go on and on! If your list of feels is the reason you knowingly chose to do the damage that has been done to our economy then I would say maybe you should have thought about it a bit more first and done some actual research this is all assuming you are not just in denial that A)you were sucked in by the bus or B) you liked nigels Nazi inspired poster (Not saying wither of those things are true but it is funny how many people try ridiculous leaps of logic to justify Brexit support when actually it was those two things that did it)

Do you have some examples of this vague load of 'feels'? The UK government was always sovereign and was always responsible for every decision it took we had a veto on EU legislation, if this vague mush is the reason people decided to knowingly damage our economy to the extent they have then I would seriously question the cost v's benefit equation but at least they would be willing to admit that A) Brexit has had a significant negative impact on the countries economy and B) that they deliberately chose this damage believing it was the right thing to do. I have a lot more time for that position than I do those that are still denying the massive financial harm that Brexit has done to our economy, I'd still disagree with you though!

Then you would need to explain what those other factors were and what if any benefits they delivered to the country, essentially were these 'other factors' something other than 'feels' or not liking foreigners? You get double bonus points if you don't say Sovereignty (even the Tory government had to eventually admit that the UK Parliament was always Sovereign throughout our EU membership) and if when you say something about EU laws you can list the top three that were of such concern to you it was in your mind worth the financial damage you knew you were choosing.

I didn't say they all were, but all the statistics support that those with lower levels of education and intelligence were much more likely to support Brexit than those that were more intelligent and more educated. These are simple verifiable facts, you might not like them but it is reality We haven't saved £19 billion a year, did you fall for the 350m a week bus slogan? You can't say that money that was invested for a return is a saving when you lose the return on the investment you have made a loss. The German government estimates that membership of the single market is worth 132 billion euro's a year, it's difficult to find these figures (as you knew) nobody does the research as France and Germany are unlikely to leave the EU anytime soon so there is no interest in it. There is reams of research around the negative impact to the UK economy of Brexit though because it is interesting and relevant, you could use that as a basis for estimating the impact the EU has on France and Germany but you won't do that because you are arguing disingenuously. I could ask you to list out the benefits of Brexit and evidence to support them but I know you won't because even the last governments own minister for Brexit benefits couldn't find any!

Who is the proven 10-15 goal a year premier league striker we should sign though? I don’t see them available at a price we can afford and any player we can afford from abroad is going to be as much of a risk as BBD or Archer.

Archer and Armstrong have both shown they are top quality Championship players so there is no reason to suspect they can’t step up and get 7/8 goals in the premier league. Archer did well when you look at his XG for last year and BBD’s stats say if he played the whole season he would have been into double figures playing for one of the worst teams in the leagues history. Let’s try and be optimistic, I’m not seeing a lot of proven premier league goal scorers going for a price we can afford!

BBD’s stats from last year suggest he would have been around that number if he had played the whole season and that was for one of the worst sides the league has ever seen.

Creating chances is the key, doesn’t matter who we have up top if we don’t create opportunities. Diaz, Archer and Armstrong have all shown they can score goals given the chances.

If he’s out on license he’s lucky he only got 20 months and not the remaining 10 years. I’ve no time for any of these thugs and it is hardly surprising to see that a large number of those arrested seem to have rap sheets longer than the combined works of Shakespeare and often are only just out from the last stint inside! Obviously they are all just innocent protestors standing up for those little girls though…. Oh and is anyone even slightly surprised that Tommy is losing and manipulating the truth to pro long his graft? The man is a serial criminal who has been taking money from the terminally stupid for years and is unlikely to ever change!

He seems to think that his one set of figures in isolation is some sort of gotcha for all the arguments around the economic harm done to the country by Brexit, exhibiting exactly the lower levels of intelligence and reasoning that typify the Brexit supporter (Not saying GM is a thicko but typically Brexit supporters are as supported by the statistics)

Underpinned by things done by the treasury and the Bank of England in response to the Brexit vote. Like the government abandoning its plan to reduce the deficit during that period and the Bank of England reducing interest rates and hinting strongly at further interest rate cuts. You are looking at one statistic in isolation and sadly the world isn’t that simple. If you are trying to claim that Brexit hasn’t had a negative impact on the UK economy you are going against basically every respected economist and institute. If you want to say Brexit is a success because of ‘sovereignty’ or what ever other ‘feels’ then I can just laugh at you but you can’t go against every expert in the field and expect to be taken seriously!

Would be a good move for him, he needs game time!

lol they were exaggerated like everything in a political debate the exaggeration wasn’t quite on a par with the 300million to the NHS printed down the side of it or the Nazi inspired propaganda poster of migrants but then like most Brexit supporters you seem to have a very limited memory for the events of that time period when even the messiah like Nigel said that leaving the single market was a bad idea. The vast majority of economists including the governments own office for budget responsibility have shown lasting negative economic impacts of Brexit when what you were sold was growth and opportunity the leave campaign painted Brexit as the sunny uplands where we would all get a golden unicorn but instead you traded our economic prosperity for ‘sovereignty’ and ‘control’ it is laughable that this far down the line you still can’t see the damage done. Oh and I fully respect democracy which in a free country like the UK includes the right to criticise the sections of the government and even heaven forbid campaign to change or reverse them, after all it was ok for Nige and the ERG to blame the EU for all our woes for 20-30 years so surely those in favour of EU membership should be afforded the same platform?

The key stat from last year would be chance conversion rate as Sheffield united created almost nothing all season and he seems to have done alright on the xg measure.

Those predictions, over dramatic and exaggerated as they were, were all pre-faced with an ‘if the government does nothing’ which is the exact opposite of what happened following the leave vote. Actions were taken by the government and Bank of England rapidly to stave off the inevitable negative outcomes. So actually the vast majority of ‘project fear’ as you label it did come true, Brexit has been a disaster for the UK economy and will only get worse with time.

Seems bonkers money to me which is unusual for Brighton they have a habit of making good transfer decisions recently and this one looks odd to me!