Rayvin

Happy Birthday mate!

If there is a problem, it'll be selling people. We have a large squad and no one is buying any of them.

Is that good?

Agree with this. They do seem to come out of the blue to a degree.

UK. The CBI, basically. And I agree with you, they won't. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/jul/06/uk-business-leaders-to-call-for-indefinite-delay-in-leaving-single-market

Business leaders have now come out and said that we need an indefinite period to conduct Brexit negotiations within. Starting to come around to parky's vision actually. This is all looking so fucking ridiculous now that surely, at some point, some grown up in the Tory party is going to have to come forward and just tell us that this is mental and they're not going to do it.

Aye, you want to see the club being prudent really. The problem these days is trying to establish what prudent even is - certainly it doesn't appear to be anything like what it was a couple of years ago.

He's probably telling the truth there, but he's set the framework that everyone will be operating under. The methodology will be approved by him.

I wish I'd thought of that

I think it is falling, but only because of the advent of zero hours. The gig economy in full swing.

Well yeah, they might do - but to what end? I'm really not sure they'd take any significant following with them. And even if they won a few seats, and it turned out to make a difference - they'd never get away with shoring up the Tories.

Puke Skywalker

They are quite similar at a glance. Do you cycle CT? Or did you find that while metal detecting?

I have mixed feelings on de-selections, but the outcomes aren't necessarily the same as splitting off. It's not like those being deselected would be poised to become a separate political entity. If they did leave to form a new party under that basis, they'd be doing so from a position of weakness and would be little to no threat by the next election (especially if it's another head to head between the main parties, as I think is likely). I have to say, I thought Labour were dead for all I agreed with the strategy. However, May has proven more incompetent than I thought and allowed Corbyn the legitimacy to mould the party. I think Renton highlighted a comment from a Tory insider the other day stating that 'Corbyn is the only thing keeping the Tories together'. That's fear - they really don't want Corbyn in.

It's as unimaginative a name as it is pretentious. It's everything the Tory party stand for.

I read this morning that Rees Mogg has had his sixth child. Named it Sixtus. That's the kind of person we're talking about

£75m... Lukaku is good but £75m ffs.

Actually, that's the one thing I don't think will happen now, and represents the one area that I think most people would agree represents a full victory for Corbyn. Maybe in another 5 years, if the Corbynite left doesn't relinquish control after another election loss, but not now. Also, it's the Labour right you're talking about - they're in the general centre, but they're not the Labour centre. There's no guarantee at all that the Labour centre would follow the Labour right if they did break off. I don't believe there'll be another election loss for Corbyn either. The Tories have nowhere to go and the longer they're in power, the more likely they are to be exposed to the failings of austerity and Brexit. They need an absolute visionary to come forward at this point, if they're going to turn this around. I understand Jacob Rees Mogg and Boris Johnson are frontrunners - a long way from being good enough.

To The Fish He had been suffering in silence over in the Yes Gemmill thread, but he makes a fair point - as is tradition, I will apologise on behalf of everyone for missing this auspicious day. Hope you had a good one mate

He's a kid with a toy. We're just something he can take an occasional interest in. Why anyone would think he's a focused and mature enough individual to properly run a football club against a backdrop of some of the shit he gets up to at SD is beyond me. When/if Benitez goes, it will be because Ashley woke up one morning and decided he wanted to 'have a say' on some random aspect of the club that he should be nowhere near being involved with.

Well played.

It's after tax though. They'd need to be paying him something close to £1m/week to match that.

I actually think a good case could be made for women running the world. Part of that case would be the realisation that they're no better at it than men, and that we could all finally move past fucking identity politics, but who knows - it might well be better. It can't get much worse I just don't want to pay reparations for things I've never been part of, to women who were never affected by them

Hard to imagine even City paying him that much...