Lord Duckhunter

Unfortunately that is how it is in most work places at present. I once had to speak in front of 25 staff and started with a joke about one of them. He didn't mind at all and laughed, but another member of staff complained , and I was hauled in front of the bosses. Had it been perceived as a racist incident(it wasn't a remark about race) there's no doubt I'd have been sacked, even if the guy the joke was aimed at didn't mind. It's why Suarez can not claim the defence that he didn't mean anything racist by his remark but he's still committed a racial incident. People like Abbott follow the Macpherson Report like it's some sort of holy scripture,especially when attacking the police. Therefore if we judge her comments by the wording of that report, it was a racist incident because people took offense. As someone posted earlier "hoist by one's own petard" springs to mind.

I cant believe there's any debate over this. There's obviously a problem between him and Adkin's and I know who I'd back every day of the week. If Adkin's wants to freeze him out, then that's fine by me. We are hardly talking about a Matt Le Tiss/Ian Branfoot situation here. The guy "appears" to not want to play for the club, is not paticulary good anyway, so if Adkin's wants to freeze him out, what's the problem? He's been out on loan at Millwall, Blackpool and Qpr, if he was a good as a few posters seem to think, then why is he still here? The occasional good game and a couple of flashes of good play, are not enough to convince me that Adkin's is wrong over this.

He has 4 problems in my opinion. Firstly;He ran against his brother and is seen as having “knifed him in the back”. Whether true or not that perception resonates with a lot of the public. That is why the Cameron putdown of “it’s not like we’re Brothers” the other day at PMQ played so well. The image of him stitching his brother up, will take a long time and a lot of good work to remove from the public’s mind. Secondly; On a mayor issue, that the Labour party should be supporting, he seems hamstrung. because he owes his job to the unions, he doesn’t want to be seen as a puppet to them. Therefore he half heartedly sits on the fence over pension reforms and union action over cuts. He comes across as weak and indecisive over strikes and protests against cuts. Thirdly; Due to Alan Johnsons unfortunate situation he has had to put Balls as shadow chancellor. Balls is a pretty good politician, taking the fight to the Tories, but he reminds people of the past. He was named and shamed in the RBS bailout report, which closes down an avenue to attack the Tory's over anything to do with banks. He is also a reminder of Brown and his right hand man when Brown made cock up after cock up. He is too wedded to the past economically, but too powerful for Milliband to over look a second time in the role. A better and braver thing would have been for Milliband to make his wife Shadow Chancellor, he could hardly resign over that, and would not be briefing against her ( as I’m sure he would of ,had Milliband given the job to someone else). Balls is a economic man through and through. To over look him a second time was impossible for Milliband to do, given his weakness amongst his own MP's. Fourthly; He comes across poorly. I think Cable and Boris, do as well. But they come across poorly in a way the public seem to like, whereas Milliband comes across as a gimp. Not nice, properly not how we should judge politicians, but a fact of political life nowadays.

This is spot on. 100% correct. The Macpherson Report rewrote the rules on racism and racist incidents and lefties like Abbott swear by it when it comes to the Met police. It defines a racist incident as one where someone takes offence, even if none was intended. Therefore, Abbot is guilty and Miliiband needs to stop dithering and act. The problem is the Unions, who he owes his job to, and the leftie membership wont have it, and he's not strong enough to act alone.

Abbott has form on this; On sending her kid to a private school she said 'West Indian mums will go to the wall for their children.'and said that white people would 'never understand' the Afro-Caribbean culture of parents wanting to do the best for their children. She should be sacked from Millibands team, had John Redwood uttered the same comments about "black people" he would have gone by now. It is racist. The The Macpherson report says the definition of a racist incident will now encompass" any incident which is perceived to be racist by the victim or any other person". As plenty of people have taken offense over her comments it is clearly a racist incident. How can she remain in her job?

What a bunch of plums, particulary the bloke on the push bike. People must lead pretty boring lives if one of the highlights of their year is watching people riding horses down the road. .........

I think it's great that the locals went out of their way to give Lambert and his family a traditional Scouse Xmas.

The limits are fine, a zero limit would not make it any more stright forward as there would be a lot of challanges around food ect. There would be more and more legal challanges with people claiming they didn't know X or Y had alcohol in it. At the moment the limit is set at a level where there is no defence, to be over the limit you must know you're over or on the border line. The issue is the enforcement of the present laws. I've never understood the "Xmas clampdown", there should be a clampdown all year long. Drive past a pub and the car park is pretty full, are all the drivers on soft drinks or keeping to the limit? I doubt it. The police should set up road blocks regulary from routes away from popular pubs. They should do so in the morning as well. I get the impression that the police turn a blind eye occasionally,not wanting to check on certain occasions. The other thing that needs stronger action is the law around accidents and deaths through drink driving. The thought of running someone over and killing them, stops me from drink driving, how could you live with yourself or enjoy Xmas knowing someone is not with their family because I ran them over/crashed into them on the way home from the pub, makes me get taxis. Surely a 15 year sentance for casuing death by drink driving will persuade others as well. I speak as someone who loves a drink and thinks pubs are one of the greatest inventions man has ever made, so I'm hardly a member of the Temperance movement .

My mates a Huddersfield supporter, he reckons Rhodes is going nowhere because the board are scared Clarke will walk into another job if he does. I think the guy from Cov looks like a good bet, they're in a terrible financial situation. Still wont address our lack of pace though. I've no doubt we've got targets and if they're a sensible price and available we'll get onboard. I've got a feeling it'll be a unknown or someone from abroad. I doubt very much that NC will get into a bidding war over some of the "names" being branded about.

I was dissapointed with harding conceding the corner in the first place as I'm sure that he could have knocked it for a throw instead. That said, Halford could have thrown it in long and they scored from that. I didn't think Guly's defending is as bad as people are making out. Yes someone like Franny may have put his head in there, took one for the team and cleared it. Guly isn't that sort of player, and neither is Adam, Morgan, De ridder or David Connolly.If Guly let us down it was not finishing the chance when we were 1-0 up, that's what he's in the team for, not throwing his head into defensive situations. Just did not want to lose, especially after the last 2 results against them.Could not have contemplated another defeat to them. Would have taken a point before the start, so can't complain too much. Come the return, I think we'll knock 3 or 4 past them at our place. Saw my Skate mate last night, could say to him "top of the league", "17 points clear of them", and all he could say was he was happy with a draw.

People like Ashdown, Huhme, and Denis MacShane are being wheeled out by the BBC to give us their views, despite being totally wrong about Britain staying out of it. It like Ian Branfoot being asked by Solent to do the saints games on radio.

Kelvin has to play Sunday, even if half fit.Anything else and were ****ed.......... We have to nurse Kelvin through the next 3 games and then get someone in on loan as cover for him.We have to face facts. We are going to be involved in some big games in the next few months. Saturday was not any where near the tension levels that'll come as we arrive nearer and nearer to may,yet Bard blow it. He blow it so bad that I'm afraid for all Adkins kind words, they're just that, words.He can not risk him again, until he's gone out on loan and shown it was a one off. Harsh, of course, but the prize is there for the taking and if you're not up to it, you're not up to it. It wasn't about one mistake, it was his overall performance.It was one of the worst displays I've seen from a Saints Keeper in 40 odd years, in a run of the mill home league game.

We had schooling that gave the brightest kids from the poorest families a decent education, but our political masters abolished them.

Exactly....... Why should I get rid of my hard working, easy to manage Poles, and replace them with people forced to work, who dont really want to? It is not my job to install a hard working positive attitude into workshy wasters. That's the job of their parents and the education system. If I had a choice, I'd even replace some of my English workers with more Poles.I've got blokes who do the bare minimum, wont do O/T because it effects their WFTC and keep moaning at The Poles that they're "showing them up", with their hard working attitude.........

No way, my Poles were the best workers I had. Willing to work any hours and do as much O/T as I could throw at them. My Company would suffer if I had to get rid of them and give the jobs to English people who were forced to do the work.

There's only a limitted amount any Govt can do. Govt job creation schemes are expensive and rarely lead to long term sustainable jobs, unless they are jobs in the public sector. The public sector is already too bloated but it should have been dealt with during the "boom years". In my opinion the time to make efficiencies and to cut public sector jobs is when the private sector are creating jobs. Labour bottled the reforms needed, when there were jobs in the private sector, and the coalition now have to do it when the outlook is bleak. My personal opinion is that Labour mishandled the boom years,even more so than they mismanged the bust.Welfare needed sorting out and Frank Field was brought in to do so. They had whopping great majorities and are the only party that could have the political ground to do so. They completely and utterly bottled it and seemed more intent to be permanently fighting the next election, rather than do what was right.What we see now is the result of years of an overbloated public sector, a generous welfare system that encouraged people to stay at home, and the lack of political will to sort things out. 5 years ago, I had full time job vaccancies that paid just above the minimum wage. All I could get to work these jobs were Poles. There were no English people applying unless they were complete and utter drop outs.This was mainly down to them loosing their benefits and being just as well off on the dole. I bet there are some people in the area that have been unemplyed for 5+ years, that are now blaming the recession. Now the Govt's hands are pretty much tied together. There is no other way, except for creating jobs with Govt money. Doing that brings us round and round to where we are. It's really sad for the hard working people looking for work now, but they are the inevitable casualties of a failed system.

Must be mine, it's OK now, but a bit slow.

It's gone down now

He seems to have declined mine as well. I really wanted the answer to Mr Pete S, asking him to get some players in and gamble for the top flight.

I've sent 2 in as well.

My obsevvations were that Cameron did ok. The question to Red Ed of "what would you have done", is clever and simple. It takes the sting out of any questions.These things are never black and white, but the "would you have signed" will play well with most voters. It is a win-win question for Cameron, and the type of tactic that Blair used to use to such good effect. Cleggy did a Gordon Brown and vanished, pretty poor form, particulary when a weekend opinion poll showed 49% of Lib/Dem supporters back Cameron's stance. Again shows how out of his depth Cleggy is, you have to man up in these situations. As a person who wants to withdraw from the EU I was glad that the Tory loyalists behaved. All this bulldog, Churchillian ect referneces are embarressing and put voters off. They gave Cameron an easy ride and realised today was not the day to push him.

My boy has just come home from school well exicted. Seems that Gus Poyet & The Premiership trophy were visiting local schools in Poole today. He said that Poyet was great, signed his football and had a chat with him about Saints. My boy told him that he was a supporter and at the Saints Brighton game. Poyet said, Saints deserved to be top, and will go up. My boy also asked him if Adkins left would Gus like to manage Saints, He's reply was " I dont think so". His mate then said "what about Chelsea"? and Poyet replied "absolutely, yes tomorrow if possible". He said Poyet was fantastic, so perhaps in private he's a decent bloke.

All this nonsense over the past few days has not changed the one important fact in all this. The Euro is still ****ed. There were fiscal rules written into the maastricht treaty, that were fiddled by The Greeks, or just ignored in the case of Germany and France. The Euro will never suvive in it's present form. Where we are heading is the worst of all worlds. Poor countries hamstrung by the rules and unable to set their own policies or devalue to promote growth, and Germany unwilling to underwrite the debts of the Eurozone. It's all very good Cleggy and Red ED rallying against Cameron, but they aviod the simple facts. Had the economic conditions been different both would have had us in this useless currency. Both have refused to rule out joining in future, and the majority of British people are nearer the Tory's view on Europe than theirs. Had Europe listened to people like Redwood, IDS and Bill Cash in the first place, we wouldn't be in this mess. Europe is in this mess because it made a political decision, supported by some useful idiots like Clarke Hestletine and Patten, along with all the Lib/dems and most of the Labour party to embark on a journey which would lead to this inevitable car crash that threatens the world's economy. Instead of slagging Cameron off, the French, German and other Euro nutters, should be holding their hands up, apoligising to their peoples and asking the UK's advise on getting out of this mess. They got it spectacularly wrong, yet put their head in the sand and try to give advise to the people who got it right, bizzare.

To be in the EU, or to be out of the EU........There's only one way to find out.....................FIGHT..............Sory I mean referendum.

Personally, I dont think 32,000 is enough and should be looking around 40,000-45,000. Whether it';s finacially viable to spend that much money to add 8,000 is something the club will obviously look at. By increasing the away attendance and having a sensible pricing policy I see no reason why we couldn't get between 32,000 & 40,000 for most PL games, and sell 40,000 for about 12 of them, but that obviously depends on who is in the Premiership and other such stuff. Take Boxing day for example, we sold 32,000 for Exeter, so would sell 40,000 for say Fulham. If Reading, Skates or Brighton were up, that would possible sell out. Add the Man U's, Chelsea, Spurs, liverpool's to the mix, plus important relegation battles or hopefully Europa league battles and it does become viable. Obvioulsy, nobody knows for sure, and I dont quite see why people are getting so hot and bothered about a little bit of ambition.