johnthebrief

I listened to the whole interview yesterday and it is well worth taking the time to hear You can get it off the BBC website here Barton came across as someone who has thought seriously about his problems, understood them and faced up to them. His tips for that day's racing were shit though

If I may digress on drugs generally... The Chinese have adopted one (but in my view the worse) of the two viable options. We prevaricate between them and so achieve nothing. Option 1 - you have a genuine "war on drugs" which means you crack down on possession and use. There's no point just going after dealers, so long as the market's there and the profits are astronomical, new dealers will come forward to take the place of those you lock up. So what's necessary is to make the use of drugs prohibitively risky - it's too late to engender a culture of intolerance, too much of the population thinks drugs are ok. So you apply serious, meaningful criminal sanctions to the possession and use of drugs - and you cope with the backlash when the Mail complains about Tarquin and Jocasta getting a criminal record for doing a couple of E's at a party. You have to remove the market. Option 2 - you legalise, regulate, and tax it. You control quality of supply so ameliorating health consequences, you regulate the supply to addicts, and you cut the price dramatically so that the incentive for the majority of our property-related crime is removed. You treat problem use as a medical rather than criminal issue. Side by side with this you have really draconian punishments for crimes committed under the influence, and for unauthorised supply. So for example minimum 15 years for dealing to kids. I don't think anyone has the political will for either of these so we will continue to have a drugs culture which is generally accepted by society but also illegal, leading to all the associated crime associated with the supply and funding of use.

Aye it was dreadful And against Sheffield too I don't actually remember seeing one goal kick end up in toon possession

If you go to another country, you accept their laws I'm not going to mourn the death of a drug dealer

Can we close this thread now?

None of the above

He seems quite silver tongued to me

I predict there will be an announcement tomorrow Possibly

Is that actually possible? ... Of course. You have to pay Prostitutes to fuck you, student girls will do it if you buy them a Vodka Lime and Lemonade. Ah. So when you said "cheaper and easier" you actually meant "cheaper and cheaper" A bit tautologous, don't you think?

Is this a prostitute reference?

Fuck off

Sam Smiths makes me fart Although I should add that it's a well known fact that there is no decent beer whatsoever anywhere south of Yorkshire

Not that I've been on this board long enough to know anyone yet But I am meeting a couple of mates for a piss-up in Leeds on Sunday and to watch the match Our plan is to meet at 11.30, drink a lot, eat nothing, and fall over repeatedly. I don't see how it can go wrong

Can't stand Paul McCartney like, he's the living embodiment of smug. Although to be fair, he probably does a have a lot to be smug about Pity that ex-wife of his didn't sting him for more of his cash though If ever two people were made for each other...

I fucking hate the Beatles Scouse twats