Whitey Grandad

Unless the Sun comes in with an offer that matches his ambition.

Yes, good luck to him. I guess him leaving makes room for somebody else.

Ouch, that's nasty. What do they call it, puce? (Pronounced puke)

We won't accept a cheque?

What, ambition?

I lasted 2. For some silly reason I though it would be Portuguese or something. How long do you think Rongone will be able to put up with it?

The commissioners are chosen by the member governments. Our ministers are chosen by our Prime Minister, whom we also do not choose. We have no say in who is the leader of any of our political parties and the only choice that we have once in 5 years is to tick a box alongside the name of somebody who represents the party that we dislike the least. We have no say in the choice of any of these people. If there is a vote for Brexit then cameron's position would be seriously weakened and his judgement in ever calling a referendum would be severely criticised. We could do without all this unnecessary diversion, it is preventing the government from performing its duties and it is costing the economy an enormous amount of suffering. I would think that the loss of revenue so far would more than pay for next year's EU contribution.

I think Cameron is finished whatever the outcome. I can't think of any replacement who isn't scary.

Phew, that's a relief. Anything as long as he's not sleeping with the fishes.

#wemelton Pity. If you think that a great work of art is something that stimulates public discussion and encourages the viewer to see the world from a different point of view then perhaps it should have been saved as a reminder of what can happen when there is a failure of supervision and an artist is allowed to let his imagination roam. I always thought that if it was melted down they could have produced a limited edition range of desktop miniature statues.

Thanks, I needed something to cheer me up. Did we ever find out what happened to it?

None of it rang true to me so I'm not surprised.

Anybody good please, somebody with a bit of status and who can get us playing attractive attacking football, something to get me out of my seat.

The low sulphur fuel directive for shipping doesn't apply to cruise ships leaving Liverpool so they can be more pollutive than ours. http://www.imo.org/en/MediaCentre/PressBriefings/Pages/44-ECA-sulphur.aspx#.V1h2YJB4WK0

Earlier today I drove past the old HMS Daedalus at Lee-on-Solent. Many of us will remember the annual air days there. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNAS_Lee-on-Solent_(HMS_Daedalus) I too shall be cheering for NI and all the other home nations. It would be something to have two more f us in the final

Own goal?

I got bored with it all a couple of months ago. To my mind the whole shebang just hasn't been thought through. For example, what exactly are we voting for? Voting to remain is obvious but the other option is undefined. What is the legality of it? Is it just a sampling of public opinion or is the result binding on the government. Normally for constitutional decisions you would need a 2/3 majority. I can see another referendum before too long.

There is nothing positive in there that I can see..

It's quite common to have a clause in a contract (restrictive covenant) saying that you can't go off and work for a competitor for a limited period. How easy it is to enfoce them is open to question.

That's fair enough. Of course we're not talking about used cars here, these are footballers who may not exactly have minds of their own but whose heads can be easily turned or even transported off to another city entirely.

He takes a long while to get to the point but when he does he is merely re-iterating the same ill-founded arguments that we have come to here so often. I find this part very important: "That negotiation will no doubt be difficult, drawn-out and detailed, as all the UK’s negotiations with our EU partners have been. But self-interest on both sides, to say nothing of the underlying value placed by all sides on European cooperation, will certainly produce an outcome that all parties can accept and endorse." So there would be a lot of pain and indecision and we will end up with a situation far less beneficial than what we have now. What on earth is the point of that?

Many of those that aren't in that 6% trade with those that are. The figures can be compatible, you are confusing quantity of businesses with total amount of business. Don't forget that 80% of the British domestic economy is service-based. That means selling people cups of coffee whilst you cut their hair.

That would only work if the values in the release clauses were lower than our valuations of the players. Normally the longer the contract the higher the value.

Unless their first name is Ronald and second name Koeman.

The thing about history is that it's all in the past. Over. Done. Dead. Gone.