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BBC Newsfeed 1049:Eurozone crisis: "Britain could end up as one country outside a club of 26," Economist columnist David Rennie tells World Update. "I think that's a catastrophe."

Nigel Farage MEP: EU leaders' lunch cancelled: Cameron's less popular than me at the moment

Nigel Farage MEP: It might be appealing to think that David Cameron has scored a great victory but we have not protected the City of London as we were promised.

I've just watched the interview and I actually came away thinking the opposite. He said pretty much the same thing just before Lallana made his come back earlier in the season. They also did the same thing with the training footage....made sure that Lallana wasn't shown training, to which everyone said "No Lallana this weekend - he wasn't in the training footage". And this week? Not a sign of Rickie in the training footage.... Make of that what you will.... It wouldn't surprise me at all if Lambert is named on the bench.

I like to call it 'offering a balanced persepctive'.... ;-)

Breaking News EU: Ireland may have to hold a referendum on building a fiscal union in the eurozone, Minister for European Affairs Lucinda Creighton says - Reuters.

Exam results have been going up because students have been getting better. Fact. *winky thing*

I think that's what pap was indeed saying

Exactly

BBC Newsfeed 0851: The foreign affairs spokesman for Britain's opposition Labour Party, Douglas Alexander, tells BBC Radio 4 he "regrets just how badly David Cameron's negotiation strategy has let Britain down" and the UK is more isolated today than at any point since it joined the EU about 35 years ago. "The outcome is not a sign of strength but a profound weakness," he says.

BBC Newsfeed 0952: Britain also comes in for some criticism in today's German newspapers. "Brits block big plan to save euro," says Spiegel Online. The headline in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reads "Merkel and Sarkozy thwarted by the British", while Financial Times Deutschland says: "Europe goes it alone without Britain".

BBC Newsfeed 0913: Graeme Leach, of the Institute of Directors in Britain, says David Cameron made the right decision. He tells BBC Radio 5 Live the proposed financial services tax is "absolutely last thing the UK economy needs at the present time or indeed at any time". He adds: "It has to be global to work. It will never be global and so it will never work."

BBC News 0931:Eurozone crisis: Former British foreign secretary David Miliband says David Cameron's actions showed "weakness not strength". Writing on Twitter, he says: "UK jumped into rowing boat with Hungary next to 25 nation supertanker. That is weakness not strength."

No, the European Commission rules themselves prevent this sort of thing happening (sub-groups going off and doing their own thing to the detriment of other member states and without accountability to the EU as a whole).....ah....doh....I see what you mean.... ;-)

That's a slightly disingenous headline: "No points loss verdict for Pompey" The word 'verdict' suggests a someone conclusive decision

Apart from the Scots and the Welsh of course (supposedly)

And not forgetting the average man in the street who took advantage of the banks' wafting of easy money in front of their noses

All very true, but because it's a nasty Tory chap at the helm, it's gotta be seen as a bad decision. If this had been Gordon Brown in his hay day (chuckle) it would have been hailed a masterstroke... Only kidding folks...

We're still fully paid up members of a 27 member European Union. We therefore still maintain a strong influence on this subset group of 17 members that want to forge closer and centralised fiscal controls over taxation etc. Most organisations have sub-groups, NATO for example. It's a perfectly natural operating model for a large organisation. Just a humble opinion of course.

Madness

I can guarantee he won't get booked tomorrow...

If it's so clear cut that CSI and PFC are not intrinsically linked, why would they need to defer the discussion? If there is so obviously no financial dependancy between the subsidiary and the parent company then they could make a recommendation and/or a decision to waive a points penalty there and then, surely? Unless there's an element of doubt of course...

I'll be at Waterloo c.17:50 Could be tempted if still chaos when I get there :-)

Man on line at New Malden. Great