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http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2014/oct/22/ukips-polarising-effect-support-for-staying-in-the-eu-hits-23-year-high

And whilst we're on the topic of clarifying stuff, can anyone tell me why the PFA still have 3 charges on the football club (according to http://wck2.companieshouse.gov.uk/ ) when they've supposedly cleared all legacy debts...? Portsmouth City Council's and Southpoint Finance's charges were discharged last month, to coincide with the "Hoorah, we're debt free!" announcement, but the 3 PFA ones weren't... Just curious.

Before us notjobs get too excited, can someone remind me how dependent Pompey's business model* is on the Tesco development going ahead? Genuine question as I've lost track of the various dependencies over the last year or so. (* yes, I know...I used the words Pompey and Business Model in the same sentence. Apologies to anyone who is having difficulties in stopping laughing right now)

Fair enough. So which bits about Italy's economy did he get wrong?

Lallana is a wasp. Tadic is a fox. Well, that's the best animal analogy I can muster.

A 92% drop in profits. Which is an eerily similar percentage to the drop in payout amounts to Pompey creditors....

For those who like to talk down the Tory attempts at recovering the economy, it could be a lot worse.... http://www.spectator.co.uk/features/9349002/italys-in-terminal-decline-and-no-one-has-the-guts-to-stop-it/

" In an exclusive consultative online poll" Wow, what an "exclusive" there for the club. Quite a coup for them securing rights to a vote on their own kit.... And why does Farmery keep referring to the fans as "fans"...sure he means "co-owners"...? One assumes all the "shareholders" got an equal say on the kit design shortlist....

If Glen Johnson gets back in the England side ahead of Clyne I think I might cry

Yep, 0-0 I reckon....

No Lambert tonight then.

Shouldn't laugh....

This has got 8-0 written all over it

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Isn't it the "media savvy Tories, Labs and Libs" slick PR that tends to steer people to UKIP in the first place, in a sort of back-firing kinda way?

I agree that there is currently a blip in the deficit reduction but the overall trend for this parliamentary term is down. (Net borrowing in 2009/10 was £153bn pa; current net borrowing is £99bn pa)

Is Osborne still running at a deficit because he wants to or because it's impossible to reduce 13 years of deficit at the drop of a hat? I thought people were moaning at Osborne in the first couple of years of this parliament for trying to reduce the deficit too quickly. Now he's being criticised for not doing it quickly enough....?

Perhaps Read should have stuck to banning other people's songs....

Blimey....that's almost as low as it was under the heady days of Blair and Brown....

Which of Brown's 2010 manifesto policies would have caused the national debt to have risen at a slower rate than it has under the Tories?

So, what's the solution? (other than trying to squeeze more tax out of "the rich" than New Labour ever aspired to)