trousers

Somewhat of a tangent, but good to see the private sector deliver the Olympic stadium early and under budget. A fine example of how profit and taxpayer value can sit comfortably side-by-side...

Good luck with your mission though. Having participated in school runs for the last 10 years (as a parent rather than resident) it amazes me how 90% of the parents ever passed their driving test. They haven't got a clue about spatial awareness and etiquette. I'm sure the fact that 90% of school run drivers are women is an unfortunate coincidence... ;-)

So, in conclusion, no one knows what level of cuts any of the protesters are actually accepting of? Hmmm....now that's what I call convenient (volume 87) ;-)

I'd be more worried about the steady creep of European words into the English language if I was you. "cul-de-sac"? It's the thin end of the European domination wedge, I tell ye. ;-)

Looking at it another way (just a hypothesis if course)....let's say Pardew had pulled a tabor out of the hat and got us promoted last season. And then, after a decent start in the championship, Cortese had the sane cause to sack him. Does anyone think that Adkins would have been top of the list of managers to get us out of the championship? I'll repeat what I said, I think cortese WILL review the club's personnel across the board (because that's his job) but will conclude that he should stick with Nigel. Simple as that.

And they were labelled as "SWF weirdos" if memory serves me correctly. Rule nothing in, rule nothing out.

[sWF member exits time machine in August 2010] "Cortese will sack Pardew next month" Mental...

You reckon it's an impossibility then? If so, I assume you'll be happy to take my bet of £10 at odds of 1,000,000-1? ;-)

Lol

I've had similar thoughts over the last few weeks but not been brave enough to post it on here! :-) It would not surprise me in the slightest if Cortese reviewed his 'management team' to ensure they were 'fit for purpose' for the Championship. Upon conducting this review (and he may already have doen this pre-emptively), if he was to conclude that the team stood a better chance of promotion to the premier league under a different manager to Adkins then I believe he is ruthless enough to switch. My observation of Cortese is that he looks at things very businesslike and doesn't take human emotion into account. Of course, us supporters, being emotive creatures, would see the replacement of Adkins upon promotion to be an act of a mad man but, stripping away human nature, I can see why Cortese wouldn't rule it out. To me, that's a sign of a good leader: someone who is strong enough to replace a successful manager with someone who he believes will be even more successful at a higher level. Too often in this country, supposed leaders only replace a manager when they have failed. The really good leaders replace people before they fail.... All that said, I believe Cortese will conclude that Adkins is good enough to take us to the Premier League....famous last words....?!

Despite being National Google Champion 2007, I've searched high-and-low and failed to find any reference to these "large scale" anti-Labour protests. As you seem to have your finger more on the pulse about these rallies I simply assumed you'd have the links to hand. Actually, Hyperlink World Champion 2008 - 2011 (Bridge Too Far) might be a good port of call here..... ;-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6os0wiIqsNk

You've got two hands, haven't you?

Link? Cheers

Who?

Ok. Thanks. We're getting somewhere now. So, concentrating on those who are for "some cuts", what figures are we talking about? (no doubt there'll be subsets within the "some cuts" camp so stating a range of values will be fine - maybe best to specify this has a percentage of the cuts proposed by the ConDems to put it into best perspective) Once we have that information we'll then be able to deduce how many protesters agree with the Labour policy on cuts. Cheers :-)

At last. Something that we can't blame the ConDems for.... ;-)

Nope. Lost me there. So was the rally, that the leader of the Labour party endorsed, advocating 'no cuts' or 'some cuts'? (apologies, I'm now genuinely confused by what seems like a mixed message protest) Perhaps it would help if I asked the question from another angle: How many people who attended the rally back Labours plans to retain 4/5ths of the proposed ComDem cuts?

As per my earlier post, I had a quick look through the Guardian and Mirror. They mentioned his appearance in passing but they weren't shouting about it from the rooftops. If it was that inspirational I'd have expected to have read more about it today. Just an observation, not scientific by any means.

I'll leave you to believe that to be true so I don't have to point out yet another inaccuracy on here (me ol' mucker).... ;-)

Sorry to Labour the point (pun intended), but what numbers are we talking about here? How many job losses were the people on the march advocating? (rough numbers will suffice - say, to the nearest 10,000). I don't remember seeing any speeches where specific numbers were read out... cheers.... ;-)

Which makes a sad old sceptic like me wonder why the left wing press didn't seem to make a big splash of his appearance. It got a few mentions in passing when I had a quick butcher's at the Guardian and Mirror earlier.

;-)

No, but have you see the calibre of the people they are trying to educate....? ;-) Said Trousers, tongue-in-cheekily....

Maybe Labour bloated the public sector in their remaining few years of Government and as such a 'relatively small' reversion of 3 years by way of 'cuts' equates to an artificially inflated number of jobs? The honest answer though is that I don't know. I'm just quoting what I hear. Could be that I'm hearing complete tosh of course. That said, the private sector industry I work in has seen 'revertion' cuts far in excess of three years in recent times.