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All the League 2 teams seem especially crap this season. 17 points from 10 games gets you second - which could be a problem for those of us who like a laugh at Pompey's expense.

were either of your parents goldfish,or from Portsmouth? You seem to have a lot of trouble remembering which points were made and who said what. Again for clarity. He is blowing with the wind. Pre-referendum he was advocating remain. It's one person in isolation. Verbal quoted the journo not me.

It also depends on what is real and what is positioning yourself to look good in changed circumstances. Axel Springer's two main publications are Bild and Die Welt. Both of whom strongly backed Britain remaining in the EU.

You know things are desperate when a lone German businessman supporting Brexit is news.

Seriously? Maybe they should also never ever eat chips or watch tv as it dulls the senses. Players are human. They'll train and play best when they're happy and enjoying their football.

Deutsche can still raise capital privately and they will - although current shareholders will be so heavily diluted as to be largely wiped out. I imagine they are looking at ringfencing the US fine in the US bank and considering putting into Chapter 13 so it doesnt weaken the whole bank.

They don't anymore though. As Verbal says the Tories don't have effective opposition. May wont have to kowtow to the Tory right because she will have an easy majority regardless.

Corbyn re-elected as expected. Its hard to know what will happen next. I cant see anyone being particularly keen on a Lib Dem / Labours MPs merger given it was tried once before with the SDP and most MPs lost their seats.

The academy seems to have gradually slipped backwards since Georges Prost left. I'd credit him with making the right recruitments

...and you never see Puel and Mr Burns together..

Another midfield dwarf.... We should go for the kid with the hair 30secs in

Brexit leaders told us it was all about control and building a brave new world, trigger article 50 and strike out on our own. In reality Britain wont leave before the EU tells us what we can have. Ooh, thats showing Johnny Foreigner and their dastardly plots to interfere in our lives.

According to some of the media May is trying to get an indication from EU members about what kind of deal they will accept before she decides whether or not to trigger Article 50. Can you imagine it from their point of view? Teenage Britain flumps off announcing its leaving home, but then hangs in the doorway asking if he can still use dad's credit credit card, get his washing done and his rent paid.

A turf war in the government is unsettling businesses, who are unsure about how the UK’s negotiating strategy for Brexit will develop “One strand is gung-ho and wants to drive on without fully understanding the consequences, the other is more measured.” The CBI is so frustrated by the lack of a clear communication channel with the government on Brexit that its director-general, Carolyn Fairbairn is ringing round to marshal support for a formal request for a single contact point to be established. The CBI and several of the business leaders who met with Mr Hammond on Wednesday believe the Treasury to be the most obvious choice for such a single point of contact....... Business demands essentially boiled down to access to the single market “without any of the bad bits”, in effect a retention of financial services’ passporting rights, intellectual property protection and access to the single market — but with no interference from the EU on issues such as pay. https://www.ft.com/content/1f91316c-8099-11e6-bc52-0c7211ef3198

I might get three - EU, Irish and British.

tbf they are improving, as is his English. One of the biggest concerns I had was that if he came across as tongue tied and passionless in interviews then he might be the same on the training ground. If you can communicate well everything else becomes less difficult. We are still a goalscorer short, but whether that is his fault or not is moot.

Gift one of their customers to an Accrington based competitor.

So if the club sell a 50% stake by issuing new shares then the Trust's shareholding will drop to 24.2%. Its gonna be tricky to keep that fan owned claim up.

Well done Wes. Another spectacular inability to comprehend what is being said. My position hasn't changed since before the referendum. I think we will end up with the Switzerland or Norway deal. simply because the alternative of pulling out of the single market will be too damaging to contemplate. May knows that, she's just casting around to find the best way to make continuation of free movement of labour acceptable to the electorate. Imo there will be some tiny figleaf compromises probably requiring firm job offers and no serious criminal convictions which will allow the Government to trumpet a work permit scheme which gives back control (huzzah!) even though they'll be issued to anyone from the EU who asks. ps Twitter is a means of communication, like the telephone or letter. Garbage in garbage out is the apt phrase. If Twitter is vacuous its down to whoever tweeted and their followers, not the medium.

The scientist didn't attach enough importance to the phenomena of 'wanting something to be true'. You want it enough and it trumps all facts apparently.

The former, as stated in the first line of the article "planning an export boom outside Europe after Brexit as it seeks to boost profits from the US and Canada" Obviously thats good news, but the decision and commencement of the tooling was made before Brexit. Its too late for them to change now. Car plants work on cycles of 6-7 years so there isnt going to be an immediate exit. Lack of access to the single market would simply mean a failure by UK plants to win production of new models ansd a gradual running down of the industry. As the FT reported in July https://www.ft.com/content/27d7b066-447c-11e6-b22f-79eb4891c97don "The PA Consulting report argues that of the British plants owned by overseas carmakers, those operated by Japanese companies — Honda, Toyota and Nissan — are at greatest risk of eventual closure if the factories become uneconomic after Brexit. The three companies’ factories, which PA Consulting says have a “high reliance on exports to Europe and relatively low margins”, account for roughly half the vehicles made in the UK. Tim Lawrence, head of manufacturing at PA, says Honda and Toyota have struggled to extract meaningful profits from their UK operations since the late 1980s because the plants are running at low capacity, reflecting how the factories are making some of the companies’ less popular vehicles. Honda’s Swindon site will become the global manufacturing hub for the five-door Civic car in 2017, but within three years the company must take a long-term decision about whether to renew this or move the work elsewhere. http://www.paconsulting.com/our-thinking/brexit-and-the-automotive-sector/

Back to basics. 1. You might be a little less obviously out of your depth if when talking about trade the EU and WTO you knew how to spell tariffs. 2. Manufacturers dont base their strategy on short term currency fluctuations. Sure the exchange rate currently is 12% lower than June but the long term average exchange rate is around 1.4 euros to the pound - ie higher than before the referendum. Higher exchange rate equals more expensive exports. 3. Corporation tax is mostly paid by companies in their home countries. Rates paid by permanent establishments is normally much lower. Guess how many of Ford, Nissan, Honda, Mini and Toyota are British? Even Jaguar LR probably have a sweetheart deal with India. 4. It was verbal who quoted him, not me.

You can join the Wes club. As has been explained before, so congrats for still not getting it, no manufacturer is going to stay in Britain if they have to pay 10% duty on imported parts and then another 10% on exports.

Err no. The EU apply 10% tariffs to cars imported from non single market countries under WTO rules. I'm surprised you hadn't heard, being so clued up on the EU an all. See post 1427 rinse and repeat. Learning curve flatlining. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-36628918

I know. They obsess about fisheries too, despite it being 0.05% of GDP whilst the car industry, 80 times the size at 4%, will just have to lump tariffs. Economic illiterates mostly.