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It's a bloody shame they don't do a GCSE for píss-taking. Anyway, people are starting to rob it and pass it off as their own now. That's when you really know you've hit the big time

I'd argue that Labour are in a bad way regardless. I don't know who they are designed to appeal to anymore. They're offering nothing like the radical proposals that the Red Labour lot want, and their overtures to Middle England aren't going to triumph over the populist but inaccurate shíte the Tories will sell. Today they're making a song and dance over their proposal to have a minimum wage of £8 per hour by 2020, if elected. It goes up to £6.50 in October anyway, so we're talking about a wage raise of £1.50 per hour over a period of six years, an extra £57 a week for anyone doing 38 hours. Sounds fantastic in principle, but anyone that has had any involvement in buying food, fuel or paying the cost of housing will know that the rise will probably be meaningless by time it is introduced. It may even be a real terms reduction. Labour need more radical ideas with a much tighter timeframe or they'll get nowhere this election.

Nah, I just knocked it up using Firefox, editing existing elements on the page. Took a screenshot and uploaded to the world!

Coming thick and fast now. Going down for this. I've never been to Emirates before, so looking forward to it. Daughter lives in London now so I reckon this'll be the first of many Saints trips to the capital.

Barry Glendenning had quite a bit to say about Rodgers at the beginning of last season. He wondered aloud if Brendan might be some kind of snake-oil salesman, and then was utterly proved wrong by Liverpool's arresting climb up the Premier League. Watching them this season, you'd have to give that opinion a bit of a reprieve. He has bought horribly, is too scared to drop Stevie G (most LFC fans aren't) and will be sacked if things don't turn around. Chelsea look awesome but Costa is a suspension or ban waiting to happen. He's already gotten away with quite a lot. He'll eventually rub a ref up the wrong way or get caught bang to rights doing one of his more cynical challenges and will leave the officials with no choice. Don't think MP will finish the season.

We're a bunch of thieving Southern bastards, according to reports

I am hearing this news, listening to 606's humble pie procession on their "Southampton are going down" comments. Life is fúcking great.

Fk me, I've got a nosebleed.

Bread is over 30 years old, and wasn't true at the time

Joe Anderson has no case for Liverpool, and is somewhat of a laughing stock in the city for various reasons. He is nicknamed "two bins" Joe, has moved us all to fortnightly bin collection, caught a load of shíte for closing the libraries down and has recently had his house picketed for using Liverpool's tax payer cash to fund G4S contracts. There is a much better case to be made for Merseyside, and it could be argued that we've been doing that for a while anyway. Emergency services and the OB are all tied to Merseyside. The mass transit system within the region is cheap, although the de-regulated buses are not. There are 1.38 million people living in the area, which is more than the whole of Northern Ireland, which stands at around 1.1m. Same thing could be said for any of the big conurbation authorities, like Greater Manchester (2.7 million) or West Midlands (5.6million). These are not small amounts of people, represent areas of shared culture and concerns, and in many cases, will know better than Westminster about what their communities need. The regional assemblies idea flopped when put to the public in 2004, but I do think we lost something when the metropolitan councils were abolished, leaving us in the odd position of having metropolitan counties with no overall council, powers devolved to individual boroughs. Would have been the most "natural" way to devolve powers in England, imo.

Can't find the link now, but he was also in the news afterwards, saying that lack of game time after their big money moves could cost them their England places. Fkn unbelievable!

Decent piece on Labour's mistakes during the referendum. http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/09/18/labour-lessons_n_5846282.html?1411147731 This piece at the end is interesting. I've been saying this for a while, but many Labour party people refuse to see it:-

I was being flippant anyway. Boiled down, Jamie was taking the píss out of the disabled. He did well up there.

Seen that name on some interesting lists.

Did Gordon Brown do anything else than be partially sighted? Jibes at his ocular capacity seem pretty common.

My mate went to school with Jamie Oliver. Said he was a twát. Anyway, what's going on with the mayo and chips, Bear. Both should be readily available in England's second city, unless there has been a trojan horse campaign to replace it with natural yoghurt.

I do accept and respect the result, and am encouraged by some of the talk of constitutional change for the whole of Britain. This poll, originally a Scottish matter only, could have implications that change the way that this country is governed. The Scots are re-engaged with democracy, although it remains to be seen where all the SNP votes will go in 2015, if anywhere.

Has SNP enjoyed its peak? Interesting question. As long as they keep doling out decent entitlements, people will keep voting for them. Assuming that Westminster grants further devolution, they can spin this loss as a win over the long-term. Labour won't build bridges with Galloway. He's one of Israel's fiercest critics, which is politically toxic in some circles. I do think that many in Scotland will abandon SNP for the 2015 General Election, swinging back to Labour. Couldn't get rid of the Tories through independence. The general election is the next big opportunity.

Don't think it'll happen, especially after the AV vote. Quite depressing really. I often moan about the Conservatives not actually conserving much, but they've kicked two large constitutional questions into the long grass.

Where do we go from here, then? I agree with the PM; no disputes, no reruns - but the fact remains that 1.6m Scots voted to get out. Difficult to tell how many people wanted extra powers devolved, and voted "no" because they were offered up last week. There will be a lot of clamouring from people outside Scotland about the additional funding they'll get, and uproar from the Scots if we renege on our deal, so it'll be interesting to see how things pan out. Around 40% of English people (according to the polls) already think that Scotland gets too much funding, compared to around 10% of Scots that think the same. I think one of the most depressing things about the campaign is seeing the English reaction to Scottish socially-oriented programs like free higher education. Too many ask "why do they get that?" instead of "why don't we get that?". In that sense, it's a shame that the Scots did not vote yes. A socially-oriented (as opposed to profit-oriented) sovereign state could have been a moderating influence down here.

Huw Edwards barely holding it together.

Can someone get Nick Robinson off the telly? He has the style of a man trying to convince a wary pedestrian into a Transit.

Not feeling quite as guilty about my Erwin Koeman anagram now.

Mayo on chips is just one of the things the Dutch get right.