Lord Duckhunter

If HMRC win the case, could they be classed as a prefered creditor alongside the football creditors. I am sure this used to be the case a few years back. Are HMRC challanging the fact that they aren't a prefered creditor or the fact that football creditors are?

What, not The Mail, another paper whose beliefs seem to offend the lefties. I suppose all those readers are ignorant scum bags as well. Which ever way you look at it, Murdoch is a genius. And no matter how offended they are by him, and NI, they keep buying his papers and watching his TV. The British people could finish Murdoch tomorrow. They dont, because despite what the lefties say, he gives the people what they want. That's the thing that really sticks in the throat of luvvies like Grant & Coogan.

Despite Murdoch being the bogey man it looks like the Sun sold 3.26 million copies on Sunday. The British people are obviously not as bothered as the great and the good about phone hacking, the Murdochs and "gutter press". I would love to see a reporter ask those luvvies Hugh Grant and Steve Coogan what they think of the circulation figures and what it means for their high profile anti Murdoch agenda.

Left wing-Loved on the BBC Right wing-Called an extremist on the BBC

I am still bitter and twisted about our relegation. Now with teams like Norwich, Swansea coming up and playing pretty decent football, I could have taken relegation, but WBA, Norwich and Palace were dog turd awful sides. It still grates when the old stat that only WBA have been bottom Xmas and stayed up, Bryan Robson the only man that kept a side up from that position GRRRR. They didn't stay up, we handed it to them on a solid silver bloody plate. I will never get closure for that god awful season, to see 27 years of fighting and punching above our weight chucked away with a load of lily livered gutless performances, with a Manager who couldn't give a toss and a chairman who thought he was jesus, was gut wrenching. Dont get me wrong the last 2 seasons have been great, but closure club wise, will come for me when the final whistle goes on the day we're back in the Premiership.

I told my daughter that I was now down with the kids and hip as I had a "download" of a modern band. Her reply was "they maybe young, but it's old mans music". LOL

The left wing has been blured by Blair's electoral con trick on the British public. New Labour realised after years in opposition that they need to sound tough on certain popular Right wing issues, like law and order, national security and low direct taxes, especially for the rich. They had seen that the the common ownership of the means of production, their vicious punishing income tax policy and their seeming weakness on protecting the Country had led to defeat after defeat at the polls. You ended up with the sight of lefties like John Prescott doing a complete about turn on many of the issues that brought him into politics in the first place. We now have the smae happening in reverse with Cameron picking up on popular leftie issues and trying to marry that with the natural centre right Toryism. It has always been a bit like that with Grocer Heath being a bit of a wet "one nation" Tory. My opinion is that this rush for the popular centre is the reason our politicans are so boring and politics so stale. They are focused on following focus groups rather than leading opinion. People like Thatcher& Foot had policies and principles and stuck to them, trying to take the people with them. Nowadays policics can be summed up in the line "Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others", I think it was the Marx brothers. At a really basic level I would say that the left is about the state creating the circumstances where people can progress and better themselves, but actively getting involved and creating some sort of level playing field. The right is about the state getting out of people lives and allowing people to do the same. I always think that the left is right in principle and the right in practise.What could be fairer than a society where everybody has the same chances, where everyone is looked after and where everyone owns everything? It's just in real life it doesn't work.

At last I've got some music by someone who is now under 50, I think these guys are great,

I'm not a S/T holder.They should have priority for every away or cup game, regardless of how many they've been to previously. They have made a financial commitment to go to every game regardless of how we are doing. Take this season, they didn't know if we'd be bottom 3 or boring midtable, they dont know which games are going to be changed to some god awful Sky inspired time, but still committed a large wedge of dosh. So it should be S/T holders Followed by 1 point for a home game, 2 for away. Then go on sale to people with X amount of points. How far you travel, who we're playing, what day it is are all factors in what sort of supporter you are, but it's hard to quantify. There will be a bit of unfairness, but it's simple. It's certainly fairer than S/T holders mates getting first dibs.

Having watched the Utube special, I'm even more ****ed off with Lowe than ever before. Why didn't he get Stern John, Raisak, Sagonowsi ect to appeal on utube for us Saints to "Keep calm", where were Ruperts pleas of "One Club chaps". We didn't need to loan out our high wage earners, play the youth, or close corners of the ground. All we needed was a players plea and we'd have been ok..................

I saw this on the BBC news last night, it was a typical picece of BBC reporting. Right at the end the guy said, " have they made the bank safer, and therefore protected the British taxpayer, undoubtably yes". I then looked at a few facts. It is far now less reliant than it was on borrowing from unreliable providers of funds, such as other banks and big financial institutions. They have off loaded billion of £ worth of debt. It's retail arm, increased profits by 45%,insyrance from a £295mil loss to a £454Mil profit. It has taken a loss of £1bn plus Euros in Greece, It's Ulster bank is making massive losses due to what happened in Ireland, and it had to pay out £850 mil in misselling compo, sold to people years ago.None of which is of the present regime making. The whole picture is not black and white with RBS, and it being used as a political football is no good at all. Hester and his people had 2 goals, 1 was to stop the taxpayer from more exposure and then 2, was to return the taxpayers money. It has pretty much done number 1, does that not merit some sort of bonus, bearing in mind it's pay levels are a lot lower than other banks (the BBC say RBS's average pay per investment banker of £112,000 compared with £199,000 at Barclays Capital.) I liken it to a football manager asked to take on a job mid season with a team bottom of the league. First season the board want him to save them from relegation, the next season they want promtion.They wouldn't go back at the end of the first season and say, "you cant have your bonus, because although you saved us from relegation you lost a lot of games, and we cant reward failure". I'm not saying it's right or proper that in one year Bankers earn enough for me to retire on. But, the better the bankers, the quicker we'll get our money back. If you want the best, unfortunately you have to pay. If we left some bods in Whitehall to run RBS on civil service salaries, we'd never see our money back.

To be honest, it was defo both on the article. Maybe the bloke I spoke to messed it up (although somebody posted the same earlier in the thread). It's just come up on my history online with a booking ref, so 100% I only got Barnsley.

Local Radio is dire, Solent is well words fail me, it's like stuck in some sort of time warp. It's knitting pattern radio. Wave is not much better. I worked in the States during the 80's and local radio is so much better than here (I know there's obviously a larger "local" area) but it was diverse, exicting and different. ****ing hell, my Granny would like Solent & Wave.............

Just booked mine. Can confirm it is defo Barnsley OR Ipswich. They were really busy, so I'd get a move on if people want to be sure of making the promotion party.............

I agree, gave up my Season Ticket because I can only really make Saturday games, and there were more and more Sun games, particulary in Premierhip and a lot of midweek games when we got relegated. If we were playing Donny on Easter Saturday and not Skates I would be there. I've had to text round mates asking for 2 extra tickets . I had no trouble getting them, but that's beside the point. Most of the ST holders thought it was a bit strange, and some have had work collagues or mates who dont normally bother to go, pestering them already for tickets. Seems a strange thing to do, particulary as they seemed to discourage ST sales preseason. I guess it's just a simple and cheap option, with the added benefit of extra ST sales next season, I'm defo starting to think about getting my lad and me one and taking the hit or selling them on/giving them to family, for midweek/sun games.

This is a great idea, should use it more often in my opinion. Was going to go to Barnsley, but struggle to make midweek games so may not make Ipswich. Will defo do this even if I cant make Ipswich,£27 is worth paying to make the last game of the season. I'm not going to miss out on a potential celebration of promotion, just the the sake of £27

I just got a "good point" , but was so quick to post I forgot to use my Pompey name. Just posted as Storrie-Teller offering to help as well.

It was more a question of "what oath do you want to take"? rather than "Do you want to use a bible". We have moved on and I'm sure more and more people will not want to use the bible. In my case I thought ,"this book is meaningless to me, so swearing an oath on it is pointless"

They dont, I was a witness in a crown court case 2 years ago, and I was asked if I wanted to before I went in the box. I was given some sort of card, which I read from. It had nothing about god on it. I cant quite remember all the details, because it was a nasty case of racially aggravated assault that I had witnessed and I was ****ting myself. It was the worst 45 mins of my life.

This happened to me for the last linked game. I already had a ticket for the "smaller" of the 2 games. What they did was allowed me to link it ( It was either Man U or Pompey I cant remember which) to another game. They would not accept the reference number of the linked game I had tickets for already.

I cant work out whether this is the best system or not. When I used to have a ST I'm sure we just got priority over away and cup games (gave it up in 2004). As I get to 75% of home matches, know a lot of S/T holders, so most supporters who attend regulary will be in the same boat and should be able to get one. So that's a good thing. The bad side of it is that it doesn't take into account the loyalty of the extra ticket body. Just texted 2 mates for 2 tickets, one said fine, other one said he is taking his brother. Haven't seen his brother at a game for a couple of years, and I doubt if he would be going if we had Watford on that day. Will be able to get extra ticket, no problem, but bit annoyed about having to scramble about texting people or taking my chances a week later on database sales. May get my nipper a S/T and an adult one next to it, and use it for family/ friends ect , next season. Maybe worthwhile if they're going to continue to sell like this for big games. Dont really want to get into all this "I'm a better supporter than you debate", but do need some sort of loyalty/membership scheme if we go up.

If an MP has his children on the NHS, does it come out of the NHS budget. Had they gone private would it have cost the NHS anything?

Do you rely believe that Cameron has to wait in the doctors waiting room with the Hoi polloi, really believe that Mrs Brown was laying in bed next to the great unwashed prior to being wheeled down to the delivery suite. My Daughter had a hospital appointment to cast her broken wrist (she had a lightweight one put on until the swelling went down), despite having an appointment she waited nearly 3 hours. Would Mrs Milliband have to wait with Ed's nearest and dearest. No wonder the politicans think the NHS is the envy of the world. The NHS they use is vastly different to everyone else's. I'd be all for them using it and pressing for improvements if it took them 3 days to get a basic Doctors appointment, and then they had to see the Triage Nurse first to determine if you are ill enough to get to see the Doc. I can see it now "Well Mrs Cameron Dr So and So can see you in 3 days time at 4.15pm," (5pm by the time she's waited)

Where have I said I am pretty keen on it. All I have pointed out is that the BMA and medical bodies tend to oppose every single thing, including the setting up of the NHS in the first place. There is a complete and utter irrationality when people debate the NHS, it is the sacred cow of British politics. The truth of the matter is, it's not free. It's not even free at the point of delivery, how do I clear up my tonsillitis after seeing my "free" Doctor, I have to pay towards my cure then and there. The debate seems to be that you're either for the UK's version of the NHS or you're for the USA version. We also have the spectacle of rich politicians trying to outNHS each other." Me and my Family use the NHS", I feel like shouting at the TV, you can afford to go Private, you want to go private, but you take finance and capacity from someone who cant afford it, to prove how dedicated you are to the NHS. I dont know what the answer is, I suggest an Insurance based sceme, maybe or a top up type thing, like we top up our state pension. But no matter what people say the NHS is not the envy of the world. I spend a lot of time in France and the French people dont moan that they wish their health service was like the NHS, nor I suspect do Germans or other similar Western Countries.