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Yep. You're not investing in a top end championship club with hundreds of millions. And his name sounds too much like Yul Brynner for my liking.

Israel could attack any NATO country and article 5 wouldn't get invoked, and Turkey wouldn't have entered into the middle east defence pact if they had confidence in NATO article 5 support.

But nobody would get on boat if they could become one of the 300. Or something like that.

It'll be a test for sure. I suspect the line will be that Turkey were the aggressor, so article 5 shouldn't apply, or some nonsense.

Hilarious that people saw that as a solution, and still think it would have been.

Now turning up the heat in Syria. Chunks of the West occupied (plus Golan), attacks to the north, coupled with veiled threats to Turkey which Bibi has said is due to "security", but basically means Turkey will stop them doing what they want. So Gaza destroyed and occupied, the west bank being eroded daily, more settlements promised, southern Lebanon smashed up and occupied, western Syria occupied, and now teeing up for a scrap with Turkey. Fair play to Turkey for doing more than strongly worded letters, but the west beed to do more about this expansionism and behaviour.

Indeed. There are no labour policies which have led to the illegal immigration problem. They inherited the mess from their predecessors. Brexit was a Tory created, and implemented, problem. Labour have increased enforcement metrics - returns have increased (nearly 60,000 under labour), workplace raids have increased massively, asylum hotels have reduced. People should have an opinion, and a political leaning, but we're surrounded by the likes of BP/Ralph/Osvoldoramo and a few others who appear to be catching their cold, who have become convinced that this is a labour created issue, cheered on by people who aren't actually cheering it on, and that only brown people rape others. Weird.

We owed £99m in transfer fees. The books are out of balance.

Yep. Team selection was odd. You put your best wingers on the wings, and your best 10 as a 10. Scienza left, Azaz in behind, Matsuki or Fellows right shouldn't have been in dispute imo.

That doesn't address the point that was being made. Sure, he got an assist. For the rest of the game he was largely anonymous. Controlling midfield is vital. Bragg doesn't do that.

Agreed, that's how I see Bragg. He can do a job, but he gets a better press than he deserves as he's home grown. I'm not sure he's much or any better than Smallbone, and I wasn't disappointed to see him leave. If we want a serious promotion push, we need better.

No. We still get on a plane and do a proper holiday once a year, and a city break if we can. The campervan is for beach or forest days, weekends, the odd small festival, and up to a week here or there.

Sitting around all day doing nothing sounds horrendous, unless you're about 80 and have lived your life. On one hand you're suggesting people want to come here and sit on their arse, and on the other hand saying they want to work for deliveroo. Pick a lane.

I haven't watched it, but to suggest the condition is a myth is a nonsense. I read diagnosis reports, and the SEND reports of the kids, on a regular basis. There's a consistency of symptoms and behaviour in those diagnosed. Now what causes it I can understand debate about - screen time, diet, environment, all manner of things - but dismissing it as a myth is wrong.

Cheers, will take a look. I've got 2 kids who've now been diagnosed, and I see it as an issue in one of my work roles, so I'd be interested in this perspective.

That it's widely claimed is a reason why it should be up for debate. Russian interference, to some extent, isn't beyond the realms. BP's Qatar claim though.

FFS, the state of some people.

The Israeli state.

Thanks. I don't subscribe to this powers above government/elite stuff. Nobody can point to who they mean. I think that Israel influence is much wider than people can imagine, and their wish for power goes beyond the middle east, and that people find it easier to point to unspecifieds than say Israel. Qatar was BP's point. I thought you were aligned with him, but if you're not on that point, understood.

The penultimate paragraph is particularly interesting, and carefully worded. Does your acquaintance frame it on that way, or more of a lean towards indoctrination/policies of those authorities?

To BP. Have you ever met an asylum seeker? When you do, ask them if they'd have stayed if their country was safe and they could have a reasonable life there. Every one would, and does, truthfully answer yes. Where I'm with you and Turkish is the whole moving to a safe place, then to here. Asylum is about safety and security, not a place of choice.

Where do Qatar fit into that? Who are you suggesting planned this in the 50's as you said yesterday?

I'm surprised the unspecified "elites" haven't had a mention yet. Regardless, I'm scratching my head as to why Qatar could possibly want to see Europe destabilised by a flood of Muslim migrants. Mossad / CIA orchestrating the recent Ceuta nonsense to aggravate the Spanish momentarily I can just about get, but the notion that Qatar is somehow, and for reasons unknown, trying to destabilise Europe as a whole is mental.

How do you know Qatar and Russia are funding any of this? What do Qatar gain by Muslims moving to Europe?

You earlier said there's a "grander plan to flood Europe with Muslims is looking more sensible by the day". I'll also again, who's making this plan to flood Europe with Muslims?