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I have to admit that I'm relieved I don't live in the UK to experience all of that. I'll have to see if causes me enough problems that I need to get a Norwegian passport.

That's how it sounds. There would be a relatively uncontrolled flow of people and cheap goods being smuggled in. Surely that would be terrible for UK businesses? I am genuinely confused about what they actually want in northern Ireland. The backstop, hard border and open border seem to be the only possibilities. Hard border is reversing the peace process, they rejected the backstop, so a ridiculous situation of keeping an open border is what they want. Surely Ireland will then have pressure on their EU membership if they keep an open border with a non EU country?

So the plan is currently an open border with the EU then?

So no new border controls on goods or people entering the UK then, as long as it's through Ireland?

Thanks!

So Johnson wants to keep the border with the EU open? Isn't that at odds with his Brexit stance?

This has probably been discussed at length, but there are too many pages. I was just wanting to hear, everyone keeps saying Johnson and his supporters don't want the backstop, but what is the alternative they actually do want? It never seems to be mentioned. Do they actually want the hard border, with all it entails, including going back on the peace agreement? What are they pushing for? Serious question.

Very surprising. I don't feel any particular rivalry with Reading and not really Bournemouth either. We developed a small one with Brighton as we climbed back up the leagues and the Spurs one mostly comes from around the time of Hoddle and Richards leaving, I'd say. Ouch for Everton though, with Liverpool not really seeing them as rivals. Both Manchester clubs look more at Liverpool too. Most of them drop off heavily after the first one or two though.

Not sure which way you're leaning with a comment like this. It's obviously not great for the British economy if it's more expensive for EU countries to buy from UK companies, or good for UK companies if it's cheap to import from abroad. I don't think it will be cheap to import though.

Thank you!

No decent links out there?

Flash enabled, tried in chrome and IE, just gives me a page of ads on laptop and ipad

That link doesn't work for me, are there any alternatives going?

Fantastic to see England showing some real spirit to come through to the semis clearly deserving their place. Roy, Bairstow and Root have played really well so far, Archer has done his bit too. Buttler seems to be searching for form and I still don't have that much confidence in our ability to take wickets against the best, but we can win. Can Pakistan still get past NZ?

Morgan Sxhneiderlin seemed lightweight and ineffectual for quite a while after he first came. Glad we stuck with him. Despite what happened to his career, he's still one of our best midfielders of all time. Not a player, but Strachan as a manager had been hopeless before he came to us, and was hopeless after us, but he certainly got us playing. Adkins was an underwhelming appointment that resulted in some of the most exciting times to have been a saints supporter. Otherwise I'd second Marsden as a player. Journeyman who became the heart of the team.

I can't help feeling Pakistan deserve this more than England. Of course I want England to go through and win, but I'll feel as if they got lucky right now. They haven't shown the heart and desire. Pakistan have battled back from the brink and from the mental blow of a hammering in the series against England. I hope we start showing some spirit against India, then I might feel like England deserve it a bit more.

Jesus, remind me to keep avoiding these threads. Why the **** is someone on a political thread suddenly making sinister, weird comments about who they aren't going to rape? Why the hell would anyone feel the need to start saying that? You need to take a break and work out where your thought process started to take you there, mate. That's not a normal thing to add into a political debate.

Agreed, because that ability to function under pressure, that mental strength, is vital. We don't have it. We have powerful hitters and decent bowlers, but we don't have that grit you see in the aussies.

Because our team is very good, but sadly, like most England teams, not under pressure.

The Aussies are going to hit top form as this competition goes on. You really couldn't call this between the top 4.

Every team playing every other team is both the fairest and the most ridiculous thing I've seen.

Also worth pointing out that Afghanistan have the number three rated ODI bowler in the world, who had a VERY bad day today.

I can't believe after that innings, I'm left a little disappointed and that they came up short... I don't think I heard them mention it, but he scored over a hundred runs just in sixes. That's an insane first.

It's amazing. The labour party managed to find the only leader unelectable enough to fail to make headway when the Tory party was at its lowest ebb. Now the tories have managed to find such an objectionable, laughable bunch of dislikeable idiots, it's like they are trying to keep it competitive.

Not much of a contest today. Despite England having two of their top batsmen injured and the WIndies supposedly having such a ferocious attack, England are strolling to an easy victory and the only concern is if it'll all be over before Root brings up his ton.