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Hmmm. This may surprise you but I'm genuinely interested in the subject and want to know the truth of the matter. I'm studying economics at masters level. A screen grab like that doesn't really have enough detail on it to make any informed judgement. And for me it's never been about winning an argument on a football message board, you're describing your own motives. I've invested this time talking about this because I think it's the most important issue of our times, and am genuinely concerned for the future of this country and especially the NE. I can't see that is an utterly alien concept to you. As you were.

Why do you keep arguing with this fuckwit? He knows the square root of fuck all, does not accept facts and will make shit up on the spot to prove his point. EU workers come in to Britain because we need them, if the jobs weren't there they wouldn't. Britain has a huge skills shortage in construction, Thatcher killed the shipyards and most young people are now working in tech.

They just couldn't cut the mustard in the end.

He gets taken to the cleaners every time He’s gone full “Daniel Hannan” this time though; he’s tried to make out it’s about trade, sovereignty and liberty for years but the mask has now slipped, exposing the true face of just another tired old bigot.

aye alright victor meldrew

Is this the same bloke who stands to make an absolute mint if the UK leave the single market?

Believable stuff from a true champion of the working classes.

Cult leader has spoken on this very issue this week.. ..do we need to know any more?

Mentioned it before but Des Lynam's commentary after they went up the other end and scored was "Would you believe it? One brother has just been booked and other one has just went and scored!"

Yeah and I think that's good to see. We've seen the way football has gone with diving and players surrounding ref's, I'm happy to see anything positive being done to stop cricket heading the same way.

Aye, build a team around the bloke who can't run and can't stop being a fucking spastic for 10 games.

And after one story you heard you think we need less foreign ship builders? What other areas do you feel we're over supplied with foreigners? And how does that tally with the record employment levels you like to crow on about?

Chase HQ, now that's a game. Admittedly I used to play it on the Amstrad CPC but I assume the principle is the same. Let's go, Mr. Driver!

Only latte after latte. You wouldn't understand what it's like for working-class people who've never seen the inside of a Costa before.

I can’t believe they were stupid enough to admit it was pre planned and there was more than 1 season involved

Did some thick mackem sit in the back of your grotty cab and tell you that fuckin bollocks? Who says there's a huge unemployed labour force in Polish shipbuilding? Speaking as some who has worked directly with Eastern European nationals in an English shipyard I can assure you that your informant and you are talking shite. The trouble with UK shipbuilding labour is that all the skills have been lost due to the virtual abandonment of large scale shipbuilding here in the last 50 years. No apprenticeships mean no skills passed on, which means a need for foreign labour. Yes, they're paid less, yes, they're stuffed into houses. But the need for them is fuck all to do with the EU.

Inflation just swallows up minimum wage rises though. Getting rid of the cancer that is employment agencies needs to be done. They were set up to exploit equal pay loopholes and have gotten away with it for over a decade now.

I thought everyone grew out of sticker books by the time they left school.