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I did and got a very nice and informative reply as it happens.

If you play that backwards it says "Beelzebub is great. Support the Saints".

Wonder if it works with footballers?

Too true. There was a place I used to go to in Cleveland to for years for relaxing and emitting, but Ohio Saint pm'ed me to say there was a big hoo ha about it now. I haven't seen him around this board since, hope he's ok.

That's not entirely accurate. Like for like Sky and BT offers are very similar in price - except you get the BT Sport genuinely for free and for the more expensive options BT is much much faster. I re-signed with BT last week and for 80mb infinity am paying £36pm including line rental and free UK calls with discounted international calls. Sky max out at 14mb. If you factor in the six months free, the £25 Sainsburys voucher and pay for the line rental 1 year in advance you can get unlimited broadband including the line rental and BT Sport for £16pm, which is a fantastic deal imo (and I don't work for them or a reseller). You also get access to millions of wifi hotspots for free - which has saved me a lot of money and aggro over the years - at airports, coffee shops etc. When British Gas chopped through the cables in my road I found I could still work from my home office by logging onto BT wifi.

191 posts of supposition and not one fact beyond what was in the Echo article.

Clyne might actually be better suited doing a Bale and moving up to midfield imo.

You apologise then immediately continue the snarkiness

I find the way people process the same bits of information differently to be more interesting than the issue often. Supposedly when you match peoples views with party policies c30% of people are actually voting for the wrong party. Some people can be persuaded and "when the facts change I change my mind". Others just cant handle the implications of being wrong so mould reality to fit what they want to believe. Cognitive dissonance is a funny thing.

The difference is that Chaplow cost £50,000 and was invaluable to us for a season. Ramirez cost £13m and hasn't been. I'm not digging at Ramirez specifically but for years its been the case that our best players have usually been home grown or picked up relatively cheap somewhere. When we spend serious money it seems to misfire somehow. If someone were to offer for Ramirez now what we paid for him last year then Cortese and Pochettino would snatch their hands off imo.

Haywards Heath if you want good quality housing at a reasonable price and don't need the buzz of London. Nice countryside, 45 mins on the train to London Bridge and you can get this three bed house for the price of 1 bed flat in a dodgy part of London. http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-to-rent/property-41456204.html

VAT is a good tax to pull in money from those who live or visit here but don't pay tax here (non doms, tourists, visitors etc). Its also pretty hard to avoid paying. Given VAT pulls in £103bn pa (about the same as National insurance) and far more than other taxes, say corporation tax (£39bn). If you didn't have some kind of consumption tax you would have much higher income taxes and be pushing up to the levels where it becomes a disincentive to work. You can argue endlessly about which individuals should pay a bit more and who should pay a bit less, but the real issue is that corporate tax receipts have been declining as a share of the total tax take for decades.

I actually like the sound of him. His answers are unvarnished, without too much of the corporate spin everyone has got used to. Bit of humour and honesty goes a long way.

No, but her name is De Ridder

These prepaid currency cards are supposed to be very good (the Daily Mail recommend them!) though I havent personal experience. http://www.caxtonfx.com/currency-cards/

The leader of the Conservative party in Norway reckons their paying for trade access to the EU would not fly in the UK. It costs them £205m pa for a population of 5m, so about £2.46 bn equivalent for the UK. If the UK left and negotiated a trade agreement ala Norway and Switzerland it would basically be the same costs as at present, we'd still have to accept 75% of the legislation and get none of the say. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22188028 The EU has deliberately been demonised as the bogey man by the media and both the left and right for narrow domestic political self interest . For example the EU didn't force us to give free admittance to the new Eastern bloc citizens, the Blair government chose to. The EU costs us £4bn pa nett, compared with Health at £120bn or Social Security at £190bn its small potatos. By all means have a vote on In/Out, but do so on the basis of balanced information - and you wont get that from the Telegraph or Daily Mail.

The leader of the Conservative party in Norway reckons their paying for trade access to the EU would not fly in the UK. It costs them £205m pa for a population of 5m, so about £2.46 bn equivalent for the UK. Basically if the UK left and negotiated a trade agreement ala Norway and Switzerland it would be basically basically the same costs as at present, we'd still have to accept 75% of the legislation and get none of the say. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22188028 The thing with the EU is that for years it has deliberately been demonised as the bogey man by the media and successive governments. For example the EU didn't force us to give free admittance to the new Eastern bloc citizens, the Blair government chose to. The EU costs us £4bn pa nett, compared with Health at £120bn or Social Security at £190bn its small potatos. By all means have a vote on In/Out, but do so on the basis of balanced information - and you wont get that from the Telegraph or Daily Mail.

Better than that, its a thread about an interview which nobody including the OP heard. Really nice

Its not though. Spoiled ballot papers are just a mish mash of ineligible votes submitted by the careless, forgetful, loopy and senile - torn in half, two crosses, obscenities, coloured in or papers where some old dear forgot to put a cross. The deliberate political statements aren't read or registered as such, just in the heap with the rest.

I don't think that will happen simply because unlike may European countries the UK electorate don't like coalition governments. As a nation we aren't that sophisticated, we like someone to be in control so its clear who to blame. Yes 25% is a big number even for a protest vote (in the seats where they fielded a candidate not overall btw) but its in the context of a mid term election where all the major parties are uniquely unpopular at the same time. That support will disappear like morning mist once people actually start to ask what they stand for rather than what they stand against.

Think its a been a bit overblown. UKIP have got a grand total of 74 council seats out of 20,000 in total - fewer than the greens.

Rape is a far more serious charge than indecent assault. hth. Im not defending Hall in anyway. What he almost certainly did is repellant and he deserves to be fully punished. I am deeply uneasy about prosecuting crimes now which took place in the 1960s or 1970s however. FWIW I found an unconscious man in Above Bar in 1980, called an ambulance and called the police. Next day I was arrested with my mate for GBH and attempted murder. After locking us up for 5 days and trying to frame us by trying to get our prints onto the guys wallet, telling me my mate had confessed and blamed me (and telling him the same thing) etc we were eventually let go if we agreed to be prosecuted for theft - a fig leaf for them to justify our wrongful arrest. I agreed because the alternative was at least six months in Winchester prison on remand before the uncertain outcome of a trial. You are exceptionally naive if you think that doesn't still happen.

Wow simple sentences appear to difficult for you to follow. Clear as I can make it. 1. Child abuse is abhorrent and if he did it then he deserves the full wrath of the law 2. Number 1 above notwithstanding people do sometimes admit to crimes they haven't done under a plea bargain because the simple prospect of being charged with something more serious and being locked up on remand for months or years is too much of a risk to take. How did I do, grasp it?

Could be that. Could also be an old man being bullied by the police / CPS to accept a lower charge and suspended sentence otherwise be dragged through the courts for years and face prison for the rest of life.

In the last 10 years ir so the academy has produced three outstanding left backs, three top class right mids and a couple of okay CMs. Not a sniff of a decent goalkeeper, CB, or striker. Wonder if that is co-incidence or deliberate planning.