Lord Duckhunter

It will be extremely unlikely that Wigan get more than a point at Arsenal, therefore we are safe even on 39. My worry was always going into Sundays game only a point ahead of the bottom 3, I was worried how that would affect us on the back of 2 defeats. All of a sudden the Sunderland game seems easier, Wigan having blown a 1-0 and 2-1 lead at home , has taken the presure right off us. The big games are now Newcastle - qpr and Norwich -wba , if either of them lose sat, then Wigan have a squeak, if they both pick up 3 points then they're pretty much dead and buried . I just can't see Wigan getting 41 points.

Same here, I let mrs duck sort out the holiday this year and she's ****ed it up. If its an away game I'll end up behind the 8 ball regarding loyalty points and a home game will mean missing a game I've paid for already.

I get annoyed with my mates during the match.They sit to the right of me and I spend the whole game waving at them, even giving them the Gareth bale hand gesture, but they ignore me and pretend they don't know me. It makes me look like I have no friends

One thing I've noticed is how many of their mates they tell that they hate us. Ive lost count the number of other sides supporters I meet , who upon finding out I support Saints tell me about a work mate or mate, who really hates us "scummers" . They seem to want to be defined by how much they hate us. Unfortunately , we seem to be heading in that direction, im pretty sure the majority of saints fans weren't really that bothered about them when I was growing up, the hatred really came from them, I always felt they hated us a load more. Nowadays its pretty much mutual.

That was the first away game I took my little lad to. They played that Chelsea dagger thing after every goal they scored and our lot were making more noise than them, my nipper loved it. He thought it was so funny that we had let a goal in and were going mad by singing and dancing along. Loads of Forest fans spoke to us after the game, and he's never forgotten it. He's 13 now and he still goes on about it.

Exactly, and the Germans living at SW1A 1AA

It wont be VAT that we lose our membership over. It'll be denying the people a vote for so long, unrestricted immigration, pouring people's hard earned money down the drain and our parliament being neutered by unelected foreign bureaucrats.

I would be interested in which franchise dictates to the franchisee how much money they can personally put into the business, and what they can spend it on. If Roman Abramovich invested in a MacDonald's franchise I'm sure they wouldn't start telling him he could only spend x amount of his turnover on his burger flippers. the whole thing is immoral. Why can Man City spend what they like to get amongst the big boys and then vote to deny other clubs that chance. Has FFP rules been in place at the start of the Premiership then Wigan and Fulham would not be in the Premiership to take advantage of them. Because of the date these rules come into effect Bournemouth cant do what Fulham have done, is that really fair? My mate is a Plymouth supporter, if he won the lottery why shouldn't he be able to do a Jack Walker and buy Premiership football for his team?

Perhaps verbal can explain what exactly is wrong with the Farage statement he quoted "Every party changes their policies between general elections… Just because we stood under a different leader in a different general election with a policy of 31 per cent, doesn’t mean that’ll be our policy next time round: it won’t." Or is he trying to say that parties should fight election after election after election with the same tax policy?

The EEC ship sailed a long time ago.

Funny story from Ian Ridley on talksport today. Said as a young reporter he asked for an interview with Fergie, he had never met him before but Fergie agreed to meet him on Monday morning at 7am. Ridley turned up and made some comment about how early it was. Fergie said "I get to work at 6.30 every day, I don't need much sleep". Ridley making polite conversation said "a bit like Maggie Thatcher then". To which Fergie lost it, went red and shouted at him "do NOT compare me to that bloody woman"

That was one of my must unbelievable. My Brother in law who is an Arsenal fan saw it on Soccer Saturday and texted me "good luck getting out ok" after he saw 2 penos in last 5 minutes. Milwall's a strange one now-a-days, we never had contact with a Milwall fan until the guard checking our ticket on the train on our way home.

Careful, that was Mrs T's approach. Perhaps we are "all Thatcherites now" after all.

You do realise that while we remain part of the EU, we can not scrap VAT. If you want the British people to set their own VAT rates, put a big X next to UKIP next time you enter the polling station.

No surprise in was invented by the French. Whilst we are in the EU the standard rate is not allowed to fall below 15% and the EU must approve any cut in VAT. Still some people seem happy to let foreign bureaucrats dictate every aspect of British life, so that wont bother them.

He's completely bonkers. I loved the "who said that bloody Walt Disney", and "if I told you the world was going to end, you'll believe it". I hope they ring him back up tomorrow.

You seem to have accepted the principle that lower taxes don't nessesarily mean less money going into the exchcheur Joensuu, now you are just debating the levels at which maximum revenue can be achieved. Is that really so far from Nigel Farage's position? Pap makes a good point regarding a minimum wage. It is a political gesture designed to con the people into thinking the establishment care about low paid workers.

"BRITAIN faces the prospect of yet another unemployed, angry Scottish person at large" http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/sport/sport-headlines/angry-scotsman-to-be-released-into-community-2013050867819

The Labour party seem to have tentatively accepted the principle that you can reduce taxes to boost the economy and in the medium to long term bring in more revenue. That's exactly what they're proposing in their call for a cut to VAT. Personally, I think they've picked the wrong tax but unless (and it's a big unless) they're just playing gesture politics, it's not a massive jump from encouraging people to spend by reducing VAT and encouraging them to do so by leaving more of their money in their own pockets.

Is that Guly's wife?

Perhaps you could point me in the direction of another industry which has similar regulations.

I had a real bad feeling about the end of season and I'm glad to admit I was wrong. Cant see Wigan staying up now, they wont get anything at Arsenal defending like that. Sunderland's GD means they should be safe and I'm sure Newcastle will get at least a point at QPR. That leaves Norwich, who need a point from WBA and Man C, and then it's down to goal difference if Wigan beat Villa. Personally I want Wigan to stay up, in the Europa league they're going to struggle next season.

They will pay extra if they earn more. 25% of 100k is more than 25% of 50k. You seem to have fallen for the Establishments line that reducing the tax rate will reduce the tax take, this is not neccesarily the case. When the Torys came to power in 1979 the top rate of tax was 83% and the lowest rate was 33%. By 1988 it was 40% & 25% yet tax contributions went up. The Establishment set tax rates for political or comestic reasons, when the only thing that matters is which rates generates the most income. If you reduce the top rate to 30% and it brings in more money than a 45% rate surely that's a good thing. Although I'm sure there would be plenty of people like you howling about fairness and how individuals like Harry Redknapp had received a tax break, just like there was when Geoffrey Howe reduced it and Labour cuased the commons to be suspended by kicking up such a fuss.

I'm amazed it's taken this long for someone to challenge it. Personally I don't think you can go round dictating how people should run private business. I'm surprised nobody has challenged the Transfer Window, a restraint of trade if ever I saw one.

Therefore any movement of the top rate of tax downwards, providing there is no increase in the lower rate, is actually making the tax system fairer. I am a basic rate taxpayer by the way.