Lord Duckhunter

The bloke who abolished slavery in America. San Francisco to rename Abraham Lincoln High School because former president did not demonstrate that 'black lives mattered to him'

Looks good on paper & would probably be better, but the climate was totally different 2 years ago. With Boris in charge of an 80 seat majority, brought about by his Brexit position, we can be confident Norway then out will be just that. Whilst May was in charge, Bercow, Grievence, Miller, etc playing silly buggers Norway wouldn’t necessarily have meant out. It took the thrashing of second referendum/revoke side to make this plausible, and by then it was too late. You can’t run a “get Brexit done” campaign & then give the people Norway even if it meant out eventually. Nigel would have had a field day. Funnily enough Peter Hitchens has been advocating this position from the day Cameron called the referendum, and remain Wokies hate him.

Norway was an attractive argument to Euro sceptics whilst we were members, because it was a soft exit that then could be converted into a full exit later. When euro scepticism was a minority view, half out was better than in and they thought leaving from Norway was more feasible than straight out. Once the referendum was won however, we’d won the prize we wanted, and fully out was a lot better than half out. Norway is being used by remainers in exactly the same way. They advocate Norway because Norway then back in, is probably more sellable than out, straight back in. I read somewhere that Norway is Norway (in a Norway/EU way) because this was the Norwegian establishments way of getting in. Knowing the population were euro sceptical, they wanted a very close relationship that could then be converted to full membership. Unfortunately for them the Norwegians like the Norway option and twice voted No. If everyone was honest with themselves, Norway is just a means to an end for both sides of the debate.

Either I am, or others are misunderstanding. My understand is this. I used to have to use a fire stick to watch Amazon prime as the app wasn’t on the Virgin platform. That changed and I could watch prime via the virgin box, but still had to subscribe to prime. I’d imagine that’s what’s happened with sky. You can access prime via your sky box, but have to be a subscriber. Apologies if wrong, but that’s how I read it.

Are you going to pay up your losing bet?

Strange that my son lives in Australia, is there freedom of movement between UK & Aus

Alexander Von Schoenburg editor-at-large of Germany's biggest-selling newspaper Bild placing the blame firmly at the door of the French. This is what he wrote today. “The outcome had to be so detrimental to Britain that no other member state would ever again dare go down the road of secession. In short, Britain needed to be punished” “The running gag in Brussels was that whenever the French anti-secessionist general Michel Barnier was away and non-French-speaking civil servants were running the show, negotiations were constructive. When he had to leave the negotiating table and self-isolate after a colleague contracted Covid, for example, there are said to have been a few minor breakthroughs. But when he returned to the negotiating table, the tone of the talks turned distinctly hostile, thanks to Barnier’s insistence that the UK must abide by EU regulatory changes made after it leaves the bloc” “Once you are out completely, even if it is on WTO-terms, you may well look back on 2020 as the year in which you managed to escape the dead hand of Brussels and regain your role as a global player with a distinctly more liberal, more entrepreneur-friendly and hence more attractive and innovative place to do business”. “A kind of Singapore on Thames is exactly what is feared most in Berlin and this is why Germany will do everything it takes to avoid a trade war and to get Monsieur Barnier and France off their high horse”. “Ursula von der Leyen might be slightly bossy – but the good thing from your point of view is that she is not French but German”. “Given that our ‘golden decade’ of growth stuttered to a halt last year and the economy has since been devastated by the pandemic, the last thing we need is a tariff barrier to one of our biggest markets”.

I’ve actually reported racist abuse at St Mary’s, so I won’t take lectures from an anti white racist like you. To repeat, do you think the players should have walked off when Clattenberg and JRod were accused of racism.

Contrast Souness & Evra on sky with the 2 clowns on motd tonight. Horrendous.

Wonder why he got the gig, can’t think.

Fuck me, MOTD 2 is woeful. According to Jenas, Sheffield Utd gave Vestergaard & Hojberg too much space to knock balls today? Now watching Leicester on mute as the bird commentating has the most annoying voice ever. Like running finger nails down chalk board.

They’ve lost 4 home league games in a row.

Should be down to 9

& now Bellerín

Down to 10

Everyone I saw going through the purple zone had their ID checked.

One of the biggest turn round I’ve seen in 45 years of watching. Never in a million years did I think he’d make it here. Couldn’t head the bloody thing despite being so tall and moved like a statue. Commanding now, and has got a lovely ping. Still a doubt about his lack of pace, but his positional play is covering it up well. Long May it continue.

Rudiger, Clattenberg and the incident involving JRod, all 3 alleged incidents but weren’t. Soggy would have abandoned all 3 games, what a clown.

He did.

Patrice Evra was raving about him pre match, but what does he know compared to you.

God, hope the club didn’t hear it. They’ll be bringing out “Winners 12/13 Dec 2020 weekend” tee shirts

We did before we joined the glorious union.

Without the glorious EU we’d have kids up chimneys, people working 18 hour days before licking road clean, and families living in a hole in the ground covered by a piece of tarpolin, yet you try and tell the leavers that... and they won't believe ya

No, whole day was good natured. Stewarding was relaxed and friendly. We wandered in, got a coffee, stood around in concourse and then made our way to seats. I didn’t see any issues at all, far better than I’d imagined it would be. Maybe lack of alcohol helped, but everyone behaved and respectful of restrictions.

I had mine checked at purple. The Stewards were great, it was an extremely well organised system and all in all it was a good natured day imo.