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Get a grip! The child trust fund contributed £500 to the total - but in reality that is probably negligible as the money (including the deposits made by me) were tied to the fund and could not be withdrawn whether it was performing or not. No point moaning about it, just accept it. Nothing 'lucky' there. She chose to continue saving, when, in reality, she could have taken all the money and spunked it on useless junk. Good decision that or is it just lucky? I agree, sometimes luck does play a part, you seem unwilling to accept that sometimes good decision create good 'luck'.

Some of the choices were mine, some will be hers. The point is they were choices and not luck.

Not necessarily. My daughter turned 18 this week and her child trust fund (that I've paid into for 18 years) 'matured'. She's now got around £10.5k. Fortunately, the conversation I was dreading went well and she decided straight away to save the money (I will continue to contribute every month). She's planning to study nursing at Cardiff where pretty much everything (course fees, accomodation, uniforms etc) will be paid for her and will work at weekends to earn spending money. She will then have to work in Wales for 2 years once qualified but at the end of her course will have around £14k for a deposit. A two bed (fairly new) flat in a reasonable area in Cardiff with an easy commute to the hospital currently costs around £110k, in 3.5 years expect that to be around £120k, so she can easily afford a 10% deposit. I'm not convinced that's a happy accident or luck, more 'good choices'.

Not for an "average person earning an average wage" it isn't....

London

New manager bounce, only lose 7-0.

Seriously? You think a deposit of over £100k is ahievable for the average person earning the average wage whilst paying rent, bills etc etc? I agree about the must have it now generation, but if you think that kind of deposit is achievable you are way out of touch....

Welcome Nathan, you've been gone too long.

It's only really Tuesday and Thursday that need inspiring, not everyday.

It's weird. Russia should have been clearing out the furthest reaches of Europe by now, but haven't actually managed to take over (and hold) a single provincial capital in Ukraine yet. So much for the mighty red army.

So you'll be over the moon when we finish 8th in the Championship next season?

Not all of them

To be fair, the celebration is about the foiling of the act of terrorism - I'd have thought it was right up their street.

Not a clue what point you are trying to make. No-one has ever claimed that all illegal immigrants are Albanian.

If a claim "might not be considered", that is a barrier isn't it? Not even complicated semantics. We do grant asylum to many thousands of people who do cross France. I don't think anyone is arguing against that. We also reject the claims of many thousands more people.

Trail. He wants a trail, not a trial.

Typical. No respect for the environment using all those trees. You should watch out for a vengeful smiting.

So you're arguing for argument's sake. And you pretend you aren't MLG

So you agree with the reality that he won't. Fabulous.

Moron. The reality is he hasn't been sacked, despite his results in the past two years. The reality is he won't be sacked if we beat Liverpool or Newcastle. What are you basing your converse argument on that he WILL be sacked?

Probably in the cities that's about right. Where I live and ride, I'd say it's probably more like one in 30 that are morons. Get out on the country lanes and people are far more accomodating!

Conversely, a new manager comes in, spends a month with the majority of the squad and gets fuck all from Brighton, Fulham and Forest and we're looking for a third manager in a couple of months....

Reality.

More heavy lifting from the BBC regarding where the illegal migrants are coming from and for some of them, their motives for wanting to come to the UK. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-63488070 Rather than kid ourselves that these are all genuine asylum seekers, howabout considering the possibility that the 'middlemen' referred to in the article, might, just maybe, briefing those making the crossings on what to say should the get caught? One quote from the article : Although, to be fair, if all those who currently declare that they hate living in the UK would actually bother doing something about it, maybe we would have more room for those that do want to come and work legitimately....

By jove, I think he's finally getting the point that there ARE legal routes of entry into the country for genuine refugees that don't involve small boats across the channel. Congrats. I think he may also have agreed that Ukrainian refugees also applied for refugee status in the first 'safe' country they entered (i.e. Poland).