CB Fry

Kenny Jackett has beaten you to it, mate.

You would have been in a minority. There were a few people doing the usual "give him a chance/don't write him off" stuff that they'd say even if we signed Steven Hawking with a Polo mallet. But it's not an exaggeration to say the reaction was very very negative. A proper good old fashioned meltdown.

Colin Clarke was sold to Queens Park Rangers.

The only politician on earth permitted to speak to unsavoury or questionable people is Jeremy Corbyn. When he does it he's, like, a brave trailblazer and pretty much invented peace and unity and peace and stuff. Talking to people one disagrees with is what true heroes do and he was so brave to do it. It's so wonderful. Any other politicians speaking to unsavoury or questionable people with are scum and it's a disgrace and why is anyone talking to those people. Speaking to people one disagrees with is what opportunistic weasels do and they should be ashamed to do it. It's so disgusting.

Oooh, If there's one thing big business hates it is free trade deals. As I said when you were dribbling this sh ite out last year, big business are not planning to suffer in Brexit Britain. And if they do end up in difficulty, I have a tiny suspicion that the people who will pay the price for that will be, you guessed it, "the general population". As usual, you're all over the fu cking place.

I miss the days of the referendum when you were saying you were voting out because you were sick of big business having too much power. And here you are drooling over CETA. Quite wonderful.

It's, like, loads better than the deal the EU members have. They insisted on it they did.

Fabian Delph is a perfect example of a player Palace or Stoke will sign and we have go through the entire summer reading Delldays and Glasgow whining about how we've missed out on a great signing. See also: Andros Townsend, Joe Allen. I wish we were Stoke.

Of course. The EU wouldn't sign up to it until all 27 nations all agreed it was offering much better terms than they had. Jesus wept.

The "point" being that you can't leave the EU and end up with a better deal than a country in the EU. Yeah, I think they might make that "point". Jesus wept.

I think they've got better things to do than fabricate stories about someone who, in celebrity circles, is a total nonentity.

You are insane.

They'll be disciplined now because there is much more of a threat from Labour which, until Thursday, wasn't there before. Both parties need discipline: Corbyn needs to heal the party and bring the moderates back in to form something that actually resembles a government in waiting rather than a sexy little protest vote. The Tories need to hold their sh it together to avoid a leadership contest or election that could see them tumble out of power. Both might succeed, both might fail.

I don't think any British ruling party has ever claimed more than 50% of the vote or anything close so that's a very odd benchmark. Whether people like it or not, the Tories are the only legitimate party with a claim to rule. Far more legitimate than Corbyn blathering about his alternative Queen's speech.

Right up the Old Kent Road.

1. Tony Blair didn't start the peace process, it started long before then. And if Corbyn wanted to be part of a government that wanted to, and did, make life better for huge numbers of people then he could have, but he chose to snipe and rebel and gripe from the sidelines, to narrow minded and arrogant actually try and drive any real change through. He could have 'sat down and talked to those he disagreed with' like Tony Blair. That way he could have got involved in the peace process rather than cheerleading one side of it in his own little bubble. He was never brave enough to play any role in any process for anything. Why bother retreating from the cosiness of the echo chamber? 2. I'm nearly 40, have voted in every election since 1997 in about six different constituencies and not once have I ever even considered voting for the Tories. So fu ck knows what May going into bed with the orangemen nutcases has got to do with me, don't support it, nothing I've ever said here suggests I would. You trying to call me a hypocrite? Nice fu cking try but I'll call the UDF/UDA/UFF a bunch of murderous cu nts all day long. Both sides exactly the same. Easy as ****ing pie. Just you swooning about the "plight of catholics" in your dreamy hero worship. He talked to the freedom fighters that St Jeremy did. Hypocrite me right up.

Patronising horsesh it. Well done you. So now you're saying Jeremy Corbyn pioneered the idea of speaking to your enemy? He didn't, and crucially they weren't his enemy when he spoken them - he was a giddy, gooey fan of them. He was on their side in the struggle against the crown. Just as crucially he had fu ck all. Nothing. Nothing at all to do with the northern Ireland peace process. No role at all. None. Just an pitifully pointless backbencher family hoping Gerry Adams might ring him while the actual grown up politicians had the guts to take the huge risks to make peace happen. You utter clown.

The absolute state of this. But Yeah, let's compare an actual leader making actual decisions and brave enough to take actual responsibility with a life long back bench irrelevance who has still yet to squeak out of his own comfortable bubble of surrounding himself with and talking to only those that completely agree with him.

This is also true. The point is May is the lamest lame duck since Huey, Dewey and Louis got hit by a giant anvil that time.

1922 Committee: yes, you can continue as Prime Minister and lead us into the most complex and important negotiations this country has ever known, but only if you are utterly emaciated by the removal of your two most trusted advisors and the people that give you unwavering support, advice and confidence. Nothing can possibly go wrong.

So just talking to the IRA is intrinsically a good thing regardless of your starting position or what you talk about or how it might balls up any process of actually trying to negotiate a ceasefire peace process? Okay. As far as I can see there is no evidence that anything Corbyn did had any impact whatsoever in delivering towards ceasefire or peace, and there are some accounts describing his intervention as being counter-productive. But any talk is just dandy.

Because Corbyn was a doe-eyed drooling fan-boy with a right-on hatred of, like, the evil empire. Thatcher was trying to stop the cu nts killing our soldiers and innocent people. This stuff is the most pathetic whataboutery I think I've ever seen. The history of the troubles and the peace process has been written. Jeremy Corbyn had fu ck all to so with it.

Well, in theory it was a fair assumption of the actual referendum result that we leave but the process lead by a remain leader - that's not an inaccurate reflection of the 52/48 result. I read this week a nice piece that compared the hard Brexit route taken by May as being akin to Cameron taking a 52/48 remain vote as being permission to sign us up for the Euro and join the Schengen area and claim it was "the will of the people" and those objecting were saboteurs. Clearly neither were really true and Mays result certainly will strengthen the soft Brexiteers in the party now. Gawd knows how the negotiations will start now as May will be walking into them a completely damaged and discredited individual with very little personal authority. Couple this with her lack of style/panache/force of personality (she's no Thatcher or Blair) then gawd help us. I think May was hoping a clear thumping majority would at least do some of the heavy lifting in the negotiations. Ironically she is the one naked in the negotiating chamber after all.

With Michaela Strachan as number two I'm in. Both I know favour utilising a fox in the box.

I actually think she would quite like to quit but she can't - she's trapped in role now. If she resigns and the Tories have 3/4 month leadership election just as the A50 negotiations kick off it's going like utterly chaotic and the electorate will not look kindly on that. And whatever people say, she won the most seats and votes so is the only credible Prime Minister. While her speech saying "let's get to work" sounded determined, really it is stoical and resigned. She effed it right up but but she's got to lie in it now. That said I have no doubt the Tory machine are trying to work out how they can switch her out in a smooth/orderly way somehow in the coming months/years.