Lord Duckhunter

I've had a small dabble so fingers crossed.

He's defo in at Poole town and quite well known around local football. He was defo friendly with Austin even when he was at Swindon . But whether he still is, I wouldn't know. I don't see him as much as I did since hanging up my boots, but he's never struck me as a Billy Liar. I believe 100% that he's been told it, obviously that doesn't mean it'll happen , but I'd have said its better than 14/1

I bumped into somebody connected to Poole Town and he claimed he's going to Chelsea. He told to to lump on and make some money.

Hockey seemed to be making the point that Tory opposition to setting up NHS equates to wanting to destroy it. I was merely pointing out that doctors , before being bribed , also opposed it. So you can oppose its setting up without wanting to destroy 70 years later . I fail to see what that's got to do with acceptance of any election result , from the Docs maybe, but not me.

As did doctors, until Bevan " stuffed their mouths with gold"

I don't think there's anyone against a " safety net" but if you think someone on 39k with one kid needs the safety net of family allowance or Paul McCartney needs winter fuel allowance you're deluded. Too many people, far too many people receive state handouts and as a result they're spread way too thinly and the genuine needy struggle as a result . Any rowing back of the state is a great thing in my eyes, the less they do the less they can screw up

God you lefties won't let it go will you ? Why don't we have an election and let democracy reign . Whoever wins the most seats gets to right to make budgetary choices and the losers stfu and accept the result.

Surely a saints fan would know which decade the Everton defeat was in . LVG or Fry ? Bit of a no brainier

The richest have never paid a higher % of tax take as they do now . Have you learnt nothing from the past 40 years or from France . If you tax the rich too much you get less revenue in . It's also immoral to take more than 50% of a mans wages from him . Anyway what's " fair" . Surely fair is everybody pays the same % . At the end of the day , the electorate decided what they wanted and the Tories are delivering it.

Don't talk nonsense man . I made no distinction between chicks or men , 3rd place in a wc has no standing in football . If saints failed to get promotion from the championship , yet all jumped around , running on the pitch like demented half wits because they finished 7th and therefore were better than 15 other teams , it would be embarrassing . What about after losing to Everton in an FA cup semi , perhaps we should of had a game with the other losing semi finalist ( Plymouth wasn't it?) , we could then sing about our glorious 3rd place ,and maybe had a parade . LVG who is the last manager to attain this wonderful 3rd place trophy called it " pointless" . He's right , you're wrong . There's no 3rd place in a football cup , it's a joke prize . And players that jump around as if they've won the World Cup are pathetic , regardless if they're birds or blokes

I think it's about lefties fighting the 2015 election over and over again . The Tories have a mandate to cut welfare massively . As lefties pointed out , this would include in work benefits , yet the electorate gave them the ok to go ahead . You can't cut your cloth by taxing " millionaires" or " the bankers" only . Personally I'd have blown a hole in middle class benefits as well . No more family allowance , winter fuel payments or free TV licences .

" Everyone" , really? Winning the Third place game in a WC is not success .

Overall I think it looks a pretty decent budget , although these things do tend to fall apart in the following days. I wish he'd been a bit more radical . Am I right in assuming that the 2 children rule applies to benefits only and not family allowance. If so that's nonsense. If you establish a rule that the state will only pay for 2 children if you're poorly paid, and need benefits to top up your wages, why can a bloke & his Mrs on a combined income of £60k have a state handout for 3,4,5 brats?

Still £1 more an hour than labours manifesto promise. Surely lefties will think that's a good thing, or does their hatred of the Tories trump that?

Nonsense , how could it be " wrapped up then?"They clearly had to wait until the loan ended and the transfer window opened. What do you think, that spurs only became interested then?

You're right , he would have just got the job done . No fannying around with loan to buys , bang , stright in with the dough , like he did with Gaston & Osvsldo .

**** me , some of the posts on here are laughable . Who do they think is in charge of the club The Chuckle Brothers, , Forest Gump , some clueless ****wit ? I've no doubt the club did everything possible to sign the guy and then explored every legal angle to scupper the move to Spurs . Yet again the club are getting the clog , yet the player is the one who is signing for spurs . Les Read and co want what's best for the club and acted in the best interests of the club . Toby acted in the best interests of Toby, yet Read gets the clog on here from some jokers . Thank **** we don't have a " fan in the board" and I hope and pray one of our clowns doesnt win the euro millions and buy Kat out. We really would become a laughing stock then .

I think you're right . There's a massive difference from saying he's not bothered which one he signs for when there's no deal on the table , to Turning down Spurs to sign for a smaller club . I've heard of last minute gazumping , but any examples of when a bigger club , paying higher wages have been the victim. I don't care how many times his father , him, his mates, whoever tells us , I don't believe for one minute that there's not a deal signed sealed and delivered ready to go once the legal i's are dotted with regard to our claim . The actual agreement between clubs is the last piece of the jigsaw. Levy didn't travel to Spain without knowing Toby wanted to sign , clubs make offers once they get a nod and a wink , not before .

Why are people persisting in this nonsense that Mitchell is the reason any clause loophole or details became known to spurs . AM will have told anyone interested to drive up the price by creating an auction and agents will to drive up interest and therefore wages. Are people seriously trying to say that had Mitchell never left saints AM would have kept quiet and just accepted the £6.8 million . The only reason for the buy back clause is to open up an auction if he had a good season . To think its out because of an ex employe is barmy.

So basically he prefers Spurs to us. I hope people take that into account before they start moaning about our part in this .

My point exactly, proper players don't. LVG called it " pointless" even though Holland won this great historic game in Brazil and I don't recall the Italians or even Poles running onto the pitch like demented half bakes when they won this great prize .

A question to the people claiming we screwed up and should of matched spurs offer. Isn't that an admission that our deal was invalid or that AM did buy it out in time. What would our lawyers say in any action " we had a watertight agreement that AM broke . This agreement gave us the player for £6.8 million , but we decided to offer £11 million. ?"

The third place play off is a joke game. Its just a glorified friendly, no proper players give a toss about it.

What a load of old pony . " Scientific" evidence. There is no evidence either way no matter how many phoney " studies citing various papers " . The only facts are where we are now, the only truth is what we're living because there's no way of proving or disproving any other theory. The fact is we have a low wage economy with many many people not earning a living wage. Some people think increasing the supply of low skilled labour surpressed wages at the bottom end of the market. Its not provable or disprovable it is just an opinion. However I've yet to meet anyone who thinks increasing the supply of labour makes companies increase salaries. If that's the case maybe we should let Turkey join the EU , open our doors to millions of them and watch the wages of our poorest rocket upwards.

Depends on which other measures were taken at the same time. If the minimum wage was increased to a living wage & immigration was controlled , there would be job loses short term but in the longer run we would have higher wages for unskilled labour. Its not really something you can do in the present climate , the time for this is during the boom years , unfortunately Gordon Brown did the exact opposite during his years of growth .