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Nutshell. Nothing to add m'lud. The defence rests.

How come? Surely, Labour and the Lib Dems will put 'proper' PR in their election manifestos in 4 years and if it's what people want they'll vote for it? Why would a 'no' vote to AV stop that happening? (apart from the 'yes' campaign using it as a scaremongering tactic of course...)

Is anyone else feeling much older this morning having seen those academy photos?

We'll walk League One next year....

And it's equally no good pouring huge amounts of extra money into a service where a significant portion of it goes down the drain. Again, reams of examples of this over the last decade or so.

No, they're not completely certain, but they are not irrationally dismissing it out of hand either. I believe they call it pragmatism.

Depends what the net result is.

;-)

Nope, no confusion here

I'm more than happy to share the 'inside view' of how NHS targets were met over the last decade...

1 wrong + 1 wrong = ?

My wife and her sister are frontline NHS hospital professionals and they say that the coalition efficiency measures (or reforms as some people like to call them because that sounds more emotive) are needed and will work. Not everyone in the NHS is as negative about the changes as some people like to portray them. But those that don't kick up a fuss don't make headlines or labour MPs salivate of course. Two sides to every story.

And there was me thinking that the question was only aimed at those who stand a chance of being in this position... ;-)

Source?

Good job the loony left didn't retain power then...they were going to put less into the NHS this parliament than the nasty Tories...

That question assumes I agree with your opinion...

One problem with that approach......How many games this season have Saints killed off the game in the first half...? (with Adam in the starting line-up)

Am I the only one who would start Lallana on the bench and bring him on in the 2nd half if things weren't going our way? My thinking is that (a) we need to protect him as much as we can if he has an underlying/recurring groin problem, (b) we nearly always play relatively poorly in the first half anyway, even when Adam is playing, so we can maintain that first-half status quo without overly risking him and © Brighton will probably shape up their tactics to deal with a Saints side with Lallana in the starting line-up, thus wrong-footing them somewhat (perhaps) Bonkers or genius? You decide.

Have they ever been seen in the same room together....?

Interesting Panorama programme last night on the Notts County "fake Sheik" saga.... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13109493 Malwhinny was squirming when asked by the reporter why the Football League's "Fit and Proper Owner" tests failed abysmally to weed out what was an obvious fraud - everyone from the Football League to the club chairman to the supporters trust were happy everything was kosha based on a piece of headed paper from a bank that the fraudster had infiltrated. Further confirmation of how lucky we were/are

Here's a new SWF competition: It's called 'Predict an end of season thread title'....here's my go: "Wow! Connolly! Barny's injury was a blessing in disguise!"

I'm confused. I thought AV was supposed to be a miserable compromise...?

A reasonable request on the SaintsWeb Forum? Nah, it'll never catch on... ;-)

Please sir, can I go in your 'naive' pigeon hole too? Please sir? A 'no' result will not cause a lib dem revolt. They're too happy to have got a share of power after trying, and failing, for 70 years.

Ah, politics. One of mankind's greatest inventions. Make of that what you will.