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So you're on the side of David icke, assad, putin and American republicans. Interesting.

Bring Austin on please.

Interesting post thanks. I definitely think that that is a part of why certain people act the way they do, but I'd question the suggestion that all Muslims who hold regressive views about homosexuals for example or who believe that women should have less rights than men are victims of this cult phenomenon. Even if we are to accept that all Muslims who hold views that don't align with western Liberal values are somehow in thrall to thought leaders like imams, the question then becomes how we are to deal with it. My argument has always been that there should be greater security in mosques to guard against radical and regressive teachings, that reforming Muslims should be properly supported by European governments and the Islamic communities have their own part to play in recognising the issues within their communities and working with authorities to make it clear that radical Islam, sharia courts and the subjugation of women and minorities is unacceptable in Islam. Would you agree? Thanks for the suggestion, I'll try and watch the documentary this week as I personally find this sort of stuff fascinating.

I'm expecting them to be long gone. Les and Ross I mean.

Yes I largely agree with that. Austin won't be fit all season- he can play the David connolly role next year- and Long can be next years tadanari Lee or Billy Sharp in terms of contribution to the team. We need a talismatic striker still to lead the line coupled with a desperately needed creative midfielder player and then a complete defensive rebuild. Something like Mccarthy New rb new cb yoshida new lb (targett will be off) Jwp romeu Reed sims New Creative Am Austin/ new striker With long as an impact sub and Gallagher on the bench

We need better than long and Austin. Scoring goals has been a real issue this year and that will continue next season.

I think some of the players you mention will be able to do a job in the championship. The secret is to complement these players with some quality.

He won't be staying.

This entire season has been an abortion. I hope we can bring in someone next season who can help us start again and pretend this was all a bad dream.

Hughes has done a good job and our performance today was better than pretty much every game under pellegrino despite the loss. Just gutting that we couldn't get at least a point here.

Just f*ck off. Ffs.

This is it now. This is our season right here over the next twenty minutes.

Bednarek.

I really hope we don't sit back and try to protect this lead because it won't work.

The worse signing we have made in our history and probably takes the record for the most expensive striker never to score for their club.

If you ask them who won the 1975 fa Cup it says Southampton.

The two things are entirely unrelated.

Lol! He isn't alt right in the slightest you clearly know nothing about him at all. The content of the joke video he made whilst viewed by many in poor taste is a side issue to the absolutely shocking verdict which ruled that it was for the court to decide the context of a joke. It's summed up well by the always excellent Jonathan Pie character here:

I think the clear implication of the speech was that it was against black people- or from what I've read that's how people viewed it at the time.

What's interesting about the rivers of blood speech is that it complains about an influx of immigration that is many times slower than the current levels. It's curious that such low levels caused such alarm fifty years ago- it obviously wasn't just Powell fretting about immigration- yet massively higher levels today barely cause a ripple amongst politicians or those at the top. Certainly the speech has some ideas worth discussing- though the tone and how it comes across is undoubtedly racialist in nature and was more about venting against foreigners than actually trying to solve any problems. Unfortunately it started the polarisation of the issue of immigration to the point that you can't now have sensible discussions about control without being called racist of a nazi so in that sense it was incredibly damaging.

Not sure I agree with you there- the whole debate was lame- but at least that was a good example of potentially controversial ideas being given a good airing and allowing people to make their own minds up. I'm not a massive fan of Harris anyway.

Turkish I do agree regarding nick Griffin and I was going to make that point that he didn't really get a fair crack of the whip- it was more Jeremy Kyle than question time- nevertheless it's true that once his views gained more exposure his parties popularity waned.

We don't live in a country of free speech. See Count Dankula being sentenced later this month for proof of that.

Grownups allow all ideas airtime so that the racist or poor ones can be refuted by better arguments. Far far better to give commonly held views an airing and watch them lose their attraction to many. Nick Griffin for example was allowed to share his views on Question Time and overnight his parties popularity crumbled. Many so called adults have now been infantalised by some aspects of modern culture and so believe that ideas they disagree with should be censored. The rivers of blood speech should absolutely be heard and then discussed, analysed and challenged. Its bizarre to think that it would encourage racism by being broadcast, particularly because I could find it with a thirty second Google search and also because there are ideas just as insidious and likely to incite division and hatred being given mainstream airtime today- the ideas of intersectionality, white privelege and identity politics for example.

Plus the speculation that his daughter could have been an agent too. If that is the case then we can be certain it was Russia. Whilst that may not be true, I'm sure the security services will have more evidence that we are not aware of that would make them sure. I simply don't believe they are accusing Russia with this level of certainty without being sure themselves.