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I'm not sure how stretching the admin fees out into a 7 figure sum is helping him achieve said value for money...

The conspiracy theorist in me has been mulling over a similar hypothsis for a few weeks now. I'm convinced (as someone who makes things up can be) that Birch is somehow in 'collusion' with one or more of the players in this game (be it Chainrai, The Football League, HMRC, etc) in order to stretch things out until the next parachute payemnts arrive. I'm not sure whether the Trust are part of this hypothetical collusion or whether they are unwittingly being used by those stringing it out but it all points to a manipulation of the situation....In somone else's opinion of course....

Margaret Thatcher??

I do love rhetorical questions... ;-)

Yeah, but what about Labour?

I've been following the shenanegins (sp?) unfold on their Facebook page for the last 24 hours: https://www.facebook.com/iwfestival Some unhappy bunnies on there but quite amusing for the impartial observer....

Disclaimer: nothing I ever post on this forum is my own words or opinion. Apart from my infatuation with the Goddess Thatcher that is. Obviously.

Ergo....the Football League will agree to it...

@pn_neil_allen: Aaron Mokoena departure 'imminent' according to his agent. Let's hope so. For the sake of #Pompey's future players must go ASAP.

Eddie 'The Eagle' Edwards was our best ski jumper... ;-) (ok, poor analogy, but there's a drift there somewhere...pun intended)

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Davis

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18545545

The clue is in the question...

"Survival hopes" my arse! Don't they know our plans for world domination FFS?! ;-)

@pn_neil_allen: Appleton promises not to let the #Pompey payroll spiral out of control. If only certain chief executives felt the same! http://t.co/G0qIqkes

Yeah, but what about Labour?

@Peston: Most interesting downgrade may be RBS: short-term rating expected to be cut from P-1 to P-2. Embarrassing for RBS, no funding problems

@SunSportNow: Clarence Seedorf on leaving AC Milan: "I thank everyone. I'll let you know soon about my future. I'm taking my time. I have lots of offers."

@Peston: Am hearing the Moody's downgrades of UK banks likely to be at 6.30 our time, with US banks downgraded later tonight

Do what I did and get a t-shirt printed with it on.

Recently bought a 2009 Renault Grand Espace. Not the prettiest looking vehicle in the world but comfortable holds 7 adults / teenagers. Would recommend for growing families looking for flexibility and space. Driving 6 of us down to Italy in August.

Nice one, although it's several tens of millions of pounds that they've avoided paying HMRC rather than a measly few hundred thousand :-)

On the surface, I agree, 3 years sounds relatively high in this case. That said, 12 men and women decided he was guilty of a crime that, one assumes, they would have known what the maximum punishment was for it. As such, he's been judged by his peers in accordance with a system that's been in use for hundreds of years. Whether we think this is right or wrong, I'm sure we'd all agree that it'll make people think hard before even jesting about inciting riots in the future. I'm not agreeing with the sentence per se, just trying to see both sides of the coin. I assume we'll see this go to appeal anyway and a lesser sentence handed down in due course.

This is true and there have been several debates on here and eleswhere about the seemingly disproportionate punishments for various different crimes. When someone gets a tougher sentence for a lesser crime the natural reaction is often to say that the lesser crime should attract a lesser sentence. People rarely look at it the other way around - i.e. that the worst crimes should attract a much higher sentence. The are two ways of making punishments proportional to the crime....lower the disproportionately high punishments so they are below the existing punishments for the worst crimes or raise the disproportionately low punishments for the worst crimes so they are above the not so bad crimes. That's a long winded way of me saying that I would increase the punishments for worse crimes rather than, necessarily, decrease the punishment for lesser crimes.

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