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For one, they had to give that reason to a judge in court, where anodyne might not wash when there's 9 billion quid at stake. Secondly banking doesn't quite have that emotional pull as car manufacturing does, either as a product people are interested in buying or as an industry of workers that people feel an affinity with, so won't be under the same microscope. Also, they won't have lots of plausible other reasons. And, of course, there's probably not that many jobs at obvious and immediate threat from this. There won't be reporters speaking to honest workers trudging into the Aviva office like there was in Swindon earlier this week. Lastly, bankers really don't give a fu ck. Yeah it's Brexit. You all voted for it, we'll take our money elsewhere.

https://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKCN1Q81YW?__twitter_impression=true Aviva Insurance is going to shift nine billion pounds out of the UK into Ireland. The transaction will process on 22:59 on 29th March 2019. Apparently its all to to do with diesel engines or something.

Bizarre that people don't get that simple point. Honda have played an absolute blinder. They just say it's not Brexit and the swivel-eyed swallow it and crow like it's some kind of victory. Absolute blinder.

Don't believe this for a second but still pretty funny. One day in. LOLZ There's a pretty big chunk of people out there I think who would give a non-Tory non-Cretin party a go. Probably not enough to actually win a general election but enough to completely decimate Seamus Milne and Magic Grandad's little dream.

Here's a tweet for Jonnyboy and Bexy to rub one out to: Scumbags of the world unite on planet Corbyn.

I think we should just bring back the Austin Allegro and label anyone who doesn't drive one a commie quisling traitor. Fetch the piano wire.

Are free trade deals with countries that aren't in Europe a bad thing now, then?

They are a B-list bunch of nobodies really. I'm a Blairite but even I don't think much of Chukka who is utterly without charm. Very difficult to see anything coming of this, except it might give me someone else to vote for on the "anyone but Corbyn's Labour or the Tories" on my ballot paper next election time.

Too little, too pointless, too late. The whole thing feels self-defeating because if nothing else it gives the Cretin and his supporters a ready made excuse when they don't win the next election. First past the post makes it all utterly futile, and quite frankly I despair of it all.

You've stretched that premise pretty thin, there. Mandaric owned Leicester not that long ago.

Haven't won in the league since new year's day. LOLZ

Hi Noah. Suck my balls.

Amen brother. I'd say the main problem with Italy is it's domestic leadership. I mean, Italy had no chance when it was run for so long by that sopping wet leftie Europhile pinko commie Silvio Berlusconi.

Fair play they are choking with the best of them. 6 draws in their last 7 league games is not automatic promotion form. Dear me.

Banging on Merkel's door they will be. Banging on the door. ....... Porsche asks UK buyers to commit to 10% no-deal Brexit surcharge https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/feb/15/porsche-asks-uk-buyers-to-commit-to-10-no-deal-brexit-surcharge?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Copy_to_clipboard

I imagine Nicola Cortese has taken this passion for real estate/property development, which he never got round to doing any of at SFC, into his subsequent career. Weird that Gao decided to buy the single most expensive piece of real estate in the area, the one with most of the ball-ache of a going concern attached to it rather than just buy all around it and start this development he us so desperate to get started on. Personally I cannot wait to see Gao-town take shape in Southampton. Presumably it will be just like all the other major urban regeneration projects has taken on in his time. So excited [emoji2956][emoji2956][emoji16][emoji16][emoji16]

Time will tell, won't it. All I know is if a Chinese businessman wanted to spend millions/billions developing property in Southampton then buying the local, privately owned football club is utterly pointless and completely unnecessary course of action. Just buy some land, mate. That, kinda, "open doors" with "council chiefs" entirely by itself. If he wants to schmooze council leaders at the football then he could just buy an executive box.

Is lying bad now?

This season you only need to win five games and you're safe. FACT. Someone's mate said so and he does the numbers for a betting company so he would know.

And he's still going.

You should be arrested for that post. 0.5/10.

If you're that interested, read up on the EU and what it does. There's plenty out there. But you're not that interested. All you want to do is draw an utterly ridiculous false equivalence making out the zero planning or strategic direction from the architects of Brexit is equal and opposite to the fairly straightforward maintenance of the status quo and returning to business as usual day to day politics if remain had won in 2016. You've made your sh itty point, have a peanut. Run along now. Off you go and read lots of EU literature about their objectives because you really want to know, right? Let us know what you learn. https://europa.eu/european-union/about-eu/eu-in-brief_en

Somebody will do the maths but I would think that if Ralph gets to the end of the season then he will have managed more Premier League matches than Hughes did with us. Plus the same number of transfer windows. If we go down, then Ralph will be a very significant factor.

Too right. How often do we hear managers saying how they are just two or three sales away from the squad they need, or that if they can definitely sell this player it would be the last piece of jigsaw.

Do people still believe this utter horsesh it?