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The BBC did an Inside Out special on Ashley's business practices donkeys ago. that's why they were sniffing around. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/t...ted/8487075.stm

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If you can provide evidence of that, I'll gladly concede the point....a cursory check of existing (labour) budgets of 2 of the councils being cut shows otherwise.... http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/uk...ity_funding.xls Labour - South Tyneside Spending Power 10/11 = £188.7m (Population 153,000 = £1233 per person) Tory - Windsor spending power 10/11 £99.3m (population 28,300 = £3508 per person) Windsor have also just announced the largest cut in council tax in history..... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics...ouncil-tax.html So you can't even argue that the inhabitants are contributing more to local serrvices in Windsor than they are in South Tyneside. Do you just believe whatever you're told rather than actually check the factoids you come out with? Excellent news tbh and long overdue. Most councils, particularly Labour just keep on taking and taking and taking. They will always find some new service to justify a rise, but just because they can find new ways to spend money, doesnt mean they should. Councils have long since become little empires for local fools to waste money. Nice to see the Tories once again leading the way. You seem to be agreeing it's wrong that councils that get too much, like Windsor, should go from getting £325 more per person in government cash, to getting £420 more? But then confounding your statement by supporting the Tories for doing it. If South Tyneside is a more cost effective council per person, why should it's cuts be higher? On returning from the pub and a quick look on the BBC website I understand there is a 152 page manual that clearly sets out how the council tax and goverment grant is worked out and why each individual council gets what it gets. The temptation to delve further into said manual for the bits that make the Tories look good escapes me. Bearing in mind I genuinely feel your fopless pain, I can only apologise for an extremely piss poor performance. As I trudge off to the Belta Minge thread I can only hope there is a more determined knight of the blue brigade, ready to step up and defend the honour. If you don't want to read the book, have a listen to this, the first report is on the complexities of council funding and should help you towards the Tory reasoning..... http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00wlh2t Or is it just me that enjoys this sort of thing in his spare time?

We watched The Ghost of Greville Lodge taped off Christmas 24 last night. Starring George (Authur Daley) Cole and Prunella (Sybil Fawlty) Scales. It was fucking atrocious.

The sooner the likes of Brusselsleaks.com and other wikileaks imitators get a foothold and take the attention away from this one individual the better. His work here is done.

If you can provide evidence of that, I'll gladly concede the point....a cursory check of existing (labour) budgets of 2 of the councils being cut shows otherwise.... http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/uk...ity_funding.xls Labour - South Tyneside Spending Power 10/11 = £188.7m (Population 153,000 = £1233 per person) Tory - Windsor spending power 10/11 £99.3m (population 28,300 = £3508 per person) Windsor have also just announced the largest cut in council tax in history..... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics...ouncil-tax.html So you can't even argue that the inhabitants are contributing more to local serrvices in Windsor than they are in South Tyneside. Do you just believe whatever you're told rather than actually check the factoids you come out with? Excellent news tbh and long overdue. Most councils, particularly Labour just keep on taking and taking and taking. They will always find some new service to justify a rise, but just because they can find new ways to spend money, doesnt mean they should. Councils have long since become little empires for local fools to waste money. Nice to see the Tories once again leading the way. You seem to be agreeing it's wrong that councils that get too much, like Windsor, should go from getting £325 more per person in government cash, to getting £420 more? But then confounding your statement by supporting the Tories for doing it. If South Tyneside is a more cost effective council per person, why should it's cuts be higher?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-12050158 Hope they weren't smoking doobies.

I value going to the game more. I've seen plenty of teams dismantled and remantled. Even the most succesful owners don't generally last more than 15 years at Newcastle....he'll be gone by the time I'm 40.

But I enjoy going to the game...whether we're shit or not. In fact, honestly, I enjoy it much more than i did at any time under Souness, Roeder or Allardyce. Am i ok to spend £380?

"Hi Mike, Derek here, just looking at the contract situation. Joey Barton's got 18 months to go on his contract. We can renew it on £60,000 a week or watch him walk on a free so we get nothing. The other option is to sell him in January for £1.5m, and don't pay his wages anymore giving you £6.1m in the bank." "Have we got any cover?" "Dan Gosling!" "Get him sold!"

The fact that we're even considering selling arguably our best player of the season beggars belief frankly. And if it is as Parky says and 'all made up', the fucking club should be coming out and saying so. Be interesting to see if there is a comment or if it's the same old deafening silence. Aye, totally mental....therefore highly plausible under Ashbias. Wouldn't believe whatever the club said about it anyway so i'm not fussed on getting a statement from them.....don't believe what Pardew says about Carroll being retained either.

Only a season and a half left on his contract. He'll be 30 when that contract is up. Doesn't sound too outlandish to me.

Further analysis of the numbers I linked to shows that if you take council tax out of the equation altogether (which you'd expect to be what's bumping Windsors coffers)....then the gap is being widened between what the rich south already recieve in excess of the poor north.... Last year South Tyneside grants = £131.3m = £858 per person Windsor grants = £33.5m = £1183 per person Next year South Tyneside grants = £111.5m = £728 per person (£130 cut) Windsor grants = £32.5m = £1148 per person (£35 cut) Where a Windsor resident was £325 a year better off from government handouts to councils, they will be £420 better off next year. A 30% increase. In it together.

If you can provide evidence of that, I'll gladly concede the point....a cursory check of existing (labour) budgets of 2 of the councils being cut shows otherwise.... http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/uk...ity_funding.xls Labour - South Tyneside Spending Power 10/11 = £188.7m (Population 153,000 = £1233 per person) Tory - Windsor spending power 10/11 £99.3m (population 28,300 = £3508 per person) Windsor have also just announced the largest cut in council tax in history..... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics...ouncil-tax.html So you can't even argue that the inhabitants are contributing more to local serrvices in Windsor than they are in South Tyneside. Do you just believe whatever you're told rather than actually check the factoids you come out with?

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11661_6605862,00.html

http://www.newstatesman.com/2010/12/cable-...nment-coalition Fighting a war? Seems more like appeasement to me.

"Next Christmas the iPod will be dead, finished, gone, kaput" Nice one Sir Al. Business genius.

http://www.statto.com/football/stats/engla...able/2009-12-20 Mancini has 3 points more, but Hughes has a game in hand.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/dec/2...ly-show-stewart Gutted about this. Still as brilliant as ever. The last show before the christmas break, devoted to 9/11 first responders being sold out by the Republicans for the sake of ensuring tax cuts go to the wealthiest, and the absolute failure of the news stations to cover that story in any detail was excellent. http://www.salon.com/news/trending/2010/12/17/jon_stewart

Apparently, thanks to the nineties, we really ARE a bigger club than Spurs..... http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content...amp;smoothing=3

http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content...amp;smoothing=3 Thatcher more infamous than Mussolini!

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