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And out he slithers. What a surprise.
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Fascinating that the debate always goes back to heavy industrial manufacturing - that's not really what we do anymore and not really why businesses might set up shop in the UK to access the EU. The little bit of production line parts assembly of Nissans and Toyotas is a small-to-negligible part of the UK economy. We're all driving around in cars with parts and assembled in different places all over the world. Being in or out isn't going to make much difference to that.
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World leaders at it.
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The French owning our electricity has nothing to do with the EU and absolutely everything to do with the Conservative sell-offs of the 1980s and 1990s, cheer-led by the kind of people who are lining up for Leave now. It's also been said many times but the kind of de-regulating free market folk that the Leave campaign are typically drawn to would sign up to TTIP in a flash and it's the Brits in the EU who are pushing to get it done. Leaving the EU is zero protection from TTIP. There's plenty of that persuasion that would shut down Port Talbot tomorrow because "the market" has spoken. The idea that old school protectionism will take over come Leave is pretty fanciful. It won't be Boris's style that's for sure. And I'm not convinced that in the battle of the widget makers, the one not adhering to EU regulations is the one with the competitive advantage over the one that does. As the largest trading bloc in the world, EU regs are a very strong currency and guide of quality across the globe. I'm not convinced there is any evidence that manufacturing things to a completely new set of regs we have to make up is going to genuinely unlock any market for any British business.
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One point better off than Liverpool with one game to go ain't half bad. I don't think we will finish sixth but expect us to secure seventh now. All we can do is win and I think we will.
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I thought we get EL if we finish sixth come what may - we get Man City's league cup spot. The EL spot only disappears if Liverpool win the EL if that spot is occupied by Liverpool. It doesn't come from another club.
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I wish we were Everton.
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I think that's right. One EL spot for the league (5th) and one each for the two cups, with the League Cup one given now to sixth. Yesterday's result left us really needing a MUFC Cup win to be certain.
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If they lose tonight we could draw and still finish above Liverpool even if they win on Sunday. Which would be nice.
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It's the sheer volume of people that believe this kind of meaningless nonsense that convinced me that leave will win pretty easily.
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Pretty spectacular people are still peddling that one when it was comprehensively debunked in about day three of the campaign.
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Terrorist Attacks - WARNING: CONTAINS DISTRESSING IMAGES
CB Fry replied to sadoldgit's topic in The Lounge
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Of course. *****! Sixth or bust then.
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Nah. Can't see them blowing it now - they deserve to finish above us to be fair. But if we get 63 points we can still nick 7th from someone. Like Man U.
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Hate say it but West Ham deserve to finish at least sixth far more than MU deserve to finish fourth.
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The romance of it all.
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Our own George Weahs Cousin is doing fantastic work on Twitter. Very funny.
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Every living WHU player invited to the closing ceremony. Who's your favourite? I'm going Richard Hall.
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Choke at Newcastle, finish third on Sunday, he's taken them as far as he can, time for a new challenge.
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David Gold blaming Manchester United. Obviously.
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Imagine the meltdown if that was Koeman. Then double it.
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Just stick Kelvin in at RB. We've given everyone else a go there.
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Terrorist Attacks - WARNING: CONTAINS DISTRESSING IMAGES
CB Fry replied to sadoldgit's topic in The Lounge
He's off again, failing to realise that pretty much all socio-political discourse in the western world is moderates vs moderates. Pretty much everyone is a moderate but you don't like that because it destroys the little fiction you've created around yourself that you are the great visionary moderate thinker and everyone else is a racist/sexist/homophobic/etc. This leads you to come our with absolute guff like your claim that people in the UK are fine with the Ku Klux Klan, a nonsensical comment you have never been brave enough to explain. In many, many ways the man who comes out with the most ill-informed prejudice-ridden sweeping statements on this forum is, well, you. Definitely you. Anyway, your mission has failed but nice try. As a lifelong Labour voter and someone who thinks Corbyn is effing useless, Khan's election is great news as he ticks both boxes for me. -
Er, Manchester United.