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Lord Duckhunter

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  1. I wont give money to Comic relief or Children in need, in fact I will go out of my way to aviod it. Why dont the BBC run an evening of programmes around Remembrance Sunday with all proceeds going to Help for heroes or RBL. I suppose that's not trendy enough for the stars. By 2014 Britain's overseas aid bill will be £12.6 billion, that's nearly £500 a year from every family in this Country.Do we really need state television begging people to part with more of their hard earned money, when there are pensioners and war vets struggling to make ends meet. I also fail to see how anything involving Lenny Henry and James Corden can contain "comic" in the name.
  2. Chelsea V Man U
  3. Alan Ball Peter Osgood Michael Svensson Dean Richards Marion Pahars Jimmy Case
  4. I hope all the speculation turns his head slightly. I'm hoping that Norwich get promoted with 3 games left, and he starts to think that any injury could ruin his Premiership chance for the following season,so he starts to pull out of tackles take it easy and devolops a "groin strain", at the vital stage of the season. Is that too much wishful thinking?
  5. Looks like he's staying put. Sorry if already posted elsewhere. http://www.canaries.co.uk/page/NewsDetails/0,,10355~2318271,00.html
  6. I think we have to win all our home games and hopefully we'll get enough points on the road to sneak up. Although they're unbeaten this year Huddersfield are not convincing, my mates a supporter and he was more confident last year. Peterbourough are the ones to watch, but then Boscombe were a month a go. I just wish we could put a bit of pressure on Brighton a couple of slip ups with them still to play and we'll see what they are made of. As Adkins said on saturday they are so near and yet so far. They aren't as good as Leeds were and they had an awful finish to last season.
  7. Australia and Ireland do. I remember my old man telling me that in the '50's there was talk of us switching over, but the cost was too much.
  8. The worst cover I've ever heard is Sting's version of Bob Dylan's moving "I Shall Be Released". A truely dire upbeat version of one of Dylan's greatest. Richard Manuel who Dylan first gave it to sing, must have been turning in his grave.
  9. I'm going to play it to the kids to warn them about the dangers of too much weed.
  10. Sorry, but I just dont rate him. Too one paced and lightweight for me.
  11. They've picked up a bit lately winning 3 in a row, so I wouldn't be unhappy with a PP, then playing them once their form dips again.
  12. I just hope that all Saints fans behave themselves. The press are going to have a field day at our expense if there's any trouble. No matter what the circumstances are, painting us as the bad guys will make a better story.
  13. I have a mate who works in a National Press agency and NC is hated with a passion by the local boys (The nationals dont really care less in League 1). The press have an overinflated opinion of their importance in the game (look at things like Sunday Supplement, on Sky). NC has hurt their massive egos and combine that with Eddie Mitchell's nonsense has led to this stupid article. This clown is sucking up to Mitchell, his press buddies and Boscombe's supporters.........
  14. Most would stay the same under AV, if you're in a solid Labour area, it'll remain so. The electrol reform Society produced some research into what Parliament would look like under AV and it was a coalition, with the Tories having a handful of seats less. The only way for your vote to mean anything in a solid Labour area is under a purer form of PR and that is not on the table.
  15. "A system that has let them enjoy jobs for life in safe seats. A system that has bred the complacency we all saw in the expenses scandal." I'm sorry but this is total ********, talk about dishonest politics. If the "complacency" of the FPTP system led to the expenses scandal, then I presume the PR system used for European elections accounts for the expenses abuses in the EU. If people think Westminister expenses were bad they are nothing compared to what the EU get up to.This women cant have it both ways, if she going to claim FPTP led to expenses scandel in UK, then PR has led to it in Europe.
  16. Even supporters of pure PR should be against this measure. It is hardly any difference than FPTP, but if approved will kill the chances of any other move towards a more proportional system for generations. It'll be just like the EEC Referendum, the major parties will say, "you've had your vote" and that'll be the end of it. AV is the worst of all worlds, it wont change a thing, but will make voting a damn sight more complicated.
  17. I think parties lose their heads after losing elections, and end up electing the wrong man. The Tories did it with Hague, whereas they should have held their noses and gone for Clarke. It would have reassured the public that they were going to be a reasonable opposition. I like Hague, but he was too right wing and close to Thatcher for the public at that particular time. When people were giving New Labour a chance and they were in a honeymoon period, the Tories needed someone like Clarke (despite the fact he's hardly a Tory at all). Same now, Labour should have gone with a safe pair of hands (my choice would have been Harmen). Instead of that they've gone with someone from the left, perceived as a union man, and a bit of a policy wonk. If they were going to go down the "next generation" route, should have gone the whole hog and gone for Mrs Balls.I think she's quite impressive and would have looked good against the boys club that appear to run the Tory party. The only issue is her judgement, look at her choice of husband..........
  18. He's an Eton toff and yet compared to Gordon Brown he's a man of the people. You only have to look at the way Brown behaved when his spin Doctors allowed him to meet ordinary people. Turning up at Gillian Duffy's house and standing on her doorstep, like a 2 bob Neville Chamberlain " I have today managed to get an apoligy accepted by Mrs Duffy", was one of the most pathetic and demeaning sights ever seen of a British Prime Minister. Who were Brown's advisers through all those years, who were his closet political allies, The 2 Eds God help us.
  19. I was a prosecution witness in a racial motivated assault case. I was in a pub when it all kicked off. Normally I wouldn't get involved, but it was a family pub and i was in there with my kids. The bloke accussed was shouting ****ing n***** and calling the other bloke a co*n. When the police asked for witness', I stepped forward as I didn't want the kids seeing things like that. It was unbelievably intimdating giving evidence and the fact that there were people in the public gallery made it even worse, as I was sure they were his mates. The bloke got 18 months, but I went around for months thinking I was going to get set on.
  20. My mate follows Boscombe home and away and yesterday he told me he's convinced we're going to beat them. Says they play too much football, rather than get "stuck in" and disrupt our game.He could be double bluffing me, but he was really confident about the game at SMS. If we win both games this week, things will look a whole lot better.I think we'll beat Yeovil and draw at Boscombe, and will still go up.
  21. Rubbish, he is just the type of wet wishy washy Tory that Thatcher couldn't stand. He's a wannabe Blair, rather than Thatcher.
  22. "David Cameron is a total bellend. " Political debate is alive and well, looks like we have the next Andrew Neil on our hands.
  23. People dont seem to be able to get their head round the fact that Lib/Dem election policy pre elction boxed them into a corner post election. They have spent years telling us about how coalition works and has worked abroad, and also spent months before the election stressing they would deal with whichever party had the largest madate from the people. They did this to ensure that their votes held up in England (mainly the south and south east), because had they said they would only deal with Labour, they would have lost a vast amount of seats to the Tories in "middle" England. Once the election result maths ruled out a coalition with labour, none of the remaining options were attractive to them at all. A minority Tory Govt proped up by a "supply and confidence" agreement with the Lib/dems, would have meant the Lib/Dems waving through a Tory budget and any confidence votes. They would in effect be propping up the Tories, voting with the cuts, but receiving no concessions in return (an even worse senerio than they face now). They could have voted down the queens speech and therefore triggered a new election.In this senerio, they could hardly bang on about coalition policies and working together, when they had refused to do so when given the chance. Their vote would collapse in areas where Labour couldn't win and they would lose seats in traditional "Tory" areas. Remember in this senerio, there would have been no cuts before a second election, and the Tories could well have been rewarded with a majority as happened with labour back in 1974. So the "least worst" option for the Lib/Dems was a full coalition with the Tories and the hope that they will get rewarded if the economy picks up in 5 years. They also get to implement some of their policies and also get to show that they can work within a coalition.It is a high risk strategy, but far better than any of the others. Whilst we have FPTP, the best result for the Lib/Dems is always a Labour / Tory majority or a hung parliament with Labour having the most seats, anything outside of that will always cause them problems. The result of this by election should not be taken as any sort of indicator of the demise of Lib/Dems. Thatcher used to regulary lose by elections, as did Blair. Lib/Dem support is always going to drop if they're in a coalition. If it's with the Tories, they'll lose Labour leaning supporters and if it's with Labour they'll lose Tory leaning supporters. I've no doubt the sensible ones amongst them would have factored in poor by elections and poll ratings for the next 2/3 years, when deciding what to do post election.
  24. Even with -10 we should have made the play offs. Pardew's side started poorly this season and whilst they undoubtably would have picked up, dont think it would have picked up much more that NA's side has done. So I reckon we'd have been pretty much the same.
  25. I remember reading an article about how a goal keeper was a poster on his clubs forum. Other posters didn’t believe him so he said he would do something unusual during the next game to prove it was him. They asked him to kick both posts before taking his first goal kick, which he did proving it was him. The story then went on to say that another poster also claimed he was a player and said he would prove it as well. When he asked what he should do that was unusual to prove who he was, the answer he got was “pass to one of our players”. .........Made me laugh anyway.I wish I could remember where I read it.
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