Whitey Grandad

And what does that have to do with the price of tea in China? Personally I think that not joining the Euro was one big missed opportunity but that ship has sailed.

That is most definitely not true and you have no reason for saying it. My view is based of a lifetime of experience and over 30 years of designing, manufacturing and exporting. My concern is for the next generations of Britain, some of whom do not have a vote at the moment. At my age I could no longer be described as very active in business terms but I remember what it used to be like in the bad old days before the Single Market arrived. As for leaving, I can see no pluses, just promises and predictions made by people who are in no position to understand what they are saying nor take any part in sorting out the mess that they would create. The creation of the Single Market was one of Thatcher's great achievements which swept away piles of red tape and bureaucracy and yet the Leavers want to bring it all back by re-introducing Customs controls and delays. These 'powers that be' of which you speak are based in London, not Brussels, and that is where we should be concentrating our pressure for change.

Voting Leave is almost the perfect definition of ignorance and dumbness.

Wishful thinking, Wes. The whole point about Project Fear is that there really is something to be terrified about.

Yes, totally agree. Here's a fact for you: There will be more matches at Euro 2016 than there were at Euro 1960, Euro 1964, Euro 1968, Euro 1972, Euro 1976, Euro 1980 and Euro 1984 combined (51 to 50). (http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-game-in-numbers-euro-inflation-at-france-finals-2072sx9jz) And a view from CNN: "Euro 2016: Quantity, not quality?" http://edition.cnn.com/2016/06/17/football/euro-2016-expansion-24-teams-mendieta-ancelotti/

I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned The Times from this morning: Southampton are planning to interview Carlos Carvalhal, the Sheffield Wednesday head coach, this week as they continue their search for a successor to Ronald Koeman. The south coast club suffered a blow yesterday when Rudi García, the former Roma and Lyons coach, rejected their advances on the grounds that he is only interested in working for a club in the Champions League. Southampton have several other candidates on their shortlist, including Fenerbahce coach Vitor Pereira, but speaking to Carvalhal is now their priority. The Portuguese has had an itinerant career, working at 14 different clubs in Portugal and Turkey before joining Wednesday at the start of last season, which finished with the South Yorkshire club losing to Hull City in the Championship play-off final. The 50-year-old’s representatives have been contacted by Southampton, who have been impressed with his almost reaching the Premier League on a limited budget, and he is expected to discuss the job in the next few days.

Pochettino's coming back

Not just the crossing, what happened to the first-time cross or shot? Throughout the Premier League these days everybody wants to take a touch first which only gives the defender time to make a block. If Sturridge had taken that chance of his with his right foot instead of trying to bring the ball down then the whole evening could have been different.

Failure

Yep. Pay more peanuts and you get bigger monkeys.

I don't know why I bother.

Turdious in the extreme.

I won't bother contesting all of these but two stand out for me. I know the Harwich route very well and the EU directive affects all shipping in the channel and the North Sea and is a measure to improve the environment through the restriction on sulphur in marine diesel. DFDS closed this route because it was an old ship and the route was losing money. Brittany Ferries has upgraded all its ships operating in the Channel. To say that the EU closed this route is deliberately misleading. The bit about the auditors is absolute nonsense. 'Clean bill of health'? Nothing more than trivial discrepancies would be a more accurate description. It's this sort of absolute hogwash that really makes me angry and I despair, really despair for the future of Britain. I'm only surprised that there are enough gullible people out there that fall for this nonsense. Where on earth did you dig it up from? At the very least you should put a name to its source so that the rest of us can know who to heap the scorn upon. Anonymous drivel is easy to copy and paste.

No.

Not a problem. It creates room for the new manager to bring in someone who is his own choice. As for Vic I think he may struggle to fit in at Tottenham. The fans there tend to prefer players who can pass to their teammates.

One person from Schaffhausen did which is hardly the whole of Switzerland.

I've just noticed where that link originates. According to Wikipedia FWIW: 'RT has been called a propaganda outlet for the Russian government and its foreign policy by news reporters, including former RT reporters. RT has also been accused of spreading disinformation. The United Kingdom media regulator, Ofcom, has repeatedly found RT to have breached rules on impartiality, and of broadcasting "materially misleading" content. RT states that it offers a Russian perspective on global events.' Not that anything they say is untruthful or inaccurate, of course.

Yet interestingly Switzerland, Iceland and Norway are full members of the Schengen accord with all the movement of people that goes with it.

Anch'io. My French customer once said to me: "I like Italians. They're like a Frenchman but with a sense of humour".

Italia 90 is what got my daughter first interested in football at the age of 14. Then she wanted to go to a live game so I took her to Bournemouth which was near my in-laws. Then she wanted to go to a first division game so I took her to the Dell and we beat QPR 3-1 (I think). Then she wanted to go more often so eventually I got a couple of season tickets which was easy because Branfoot was in charge and there were plenty to choose from. The rest is history and we have two season tickets on the halfway line at St Mary's. p.s. I used to like Nessun Dorma before it was famous.

Hmm.. Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India and of course Japan and a host of others, probably more than you would think. http://www.worldstandards.eu/cars/list-of-left-driving-countries/ When Japanese cars first started arriving in the UK in the sixties I was told that they could sell them cheaply to us because we drove on the left and there were no conversion costs..

Interesting body language. Hands crossed in front of the genitals suggests a feeling of vulnerability.

When I used to do a lot of business in Denmark they woould tell me that there cars were actually the cheapest in Europe before the government then stuck a registration tax of 180% on them. Last year this was reduced to 160%. I seem to remember that importing a 'used' car was cheaper, used meaning something like 10 years and 250,000km. Refurbished Mercedes taxis were quite popular among the businessmen.

Only in the context of dishonest politicians. As you rightly say, nothing to do with this debate whatsoever.

He's probably staying there before going off on a cruise today.