Whitey Grandad

Let's not confuse the wealth of the owners with the wealth of the club.

It's the most simplistic and stupid idea that I have ever heard of. To somehow think that making employers pay more will mean that lower-paid workers will be beter off. It just exports jobs in the manufacturing sector to countries with lower labour rates. In my business we use a lot of piece-rate outworkers and we have to pay them 25% more than the average time for the job to make sure that nobody receives less than the average rate. Work that one out! But in all honesty the benefits system has more effect than the minimum wage in that it sets a platform below which it is not worth going out to work. If benefits pay more than 37x the hourly minimum wage then nobody is going to take the lowest paid jobs.

So you don't expect to win, then?

Quite correct but the figures for incapacity benefiters at the moment are far higher than they have ever been.

There's not much good spalshing the cash in the summer, we ned to have a settled team way before then so that we can hit the ground running at the start of next season.

I remember it up to then as a time of closed shops, restrictive trade, inefficient companies, but the changes were absolutely necessary. You try opening a coal mine now and see if you can get anyone to work in it. Look, if you tax people for making money then they'll stop doing it. Then there's not enough for funding the essential public services. The trick is to set the right levels to maximise the revenue without stifling economic activity and at the moment we are way too far in the wrong direction.

I think you'll find that that is in dispute and subject to a court case. You're either in administration or out of existence, I'm afraid.

Are you on a promise? (Crap day though)

How about long-term sickness benefit? How many on that these days?

I'm looking forward to it already. From now on we shall finish in a higher position every season, and I haven't said that for a long while.

Not doing what he was told?

And what was wrong with the 80s? We have been going steadily downhill since then and the state has been taking an increasingly large share of what we all produce as a society with horrific results. But that is not the main point. If people cannot take risks and earn the rewards in this country then they will go to others where they can. I discussed this once in a private meeting with Nigel Lawson when he was chancellor, and he said that the idea is to encourage people to stay in Britain and pay taxes here. Oh, and the relatively rich are taxed more even with a flat tax, but why on earth should they? Should they pay more for a loaf of bread?

Oh FFS. I bloody well hope note. Have we learnt nothing from the last few years?

No no no. It doesn't work like that. Rich man pays less tax, spends more money. Rich man spends it more wisely than the government. Money is made 'round' to go round. Everything works more efficiently. There is an 'optimum' tax rate at around 20% which maximise the total tax take for the government. Anything above that is pure political spite.

BBC have now corrected the score

BBc website also says 2-1 to Saints. Papa with a penalty on 84.22 ??????

Seaborne for Harding according to BBC

And he won't be able to play for them either.

That's what he said in the post-match interview.

Oh yes we can, and with money stolen from the poor British taxpayer.

True, except for Fratton Park.

You don't subsidise people by not stealing money (taking taxes) from them, the same way that you're not subsidising them by not charging them for the air that they breathe.

But there was no longer the horrendous cost of maintenance.

An opinion is not a fact. Fact

An opinion is not a fact. Fact