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We looked pretty good most of the time yes but I'd still question the need for all 3 CBs to go forward for a corner leaving Bertrand as our only backup in case of any breakaway from the set piece.

So then 525/8 declared and Fidel gets one of their openers in his second over. Unfortunately not that old stick in the mud Cooke.

Probably just getting old and decrepit. Then again it was his birthday yesterday, might have had a bit of a bender. 28 used to be about the age that footballers were at their peak, that's probably gone down to 23 or 24 now due to the younger age that they're starting out on pro-careers.

Very few workplace based private pension systems in operation here. Might even be none at all. The state "social charges" are so high that you'd have nothing left if you were paying into a parallel pension system at the same time. I can't remember the exact details because I wasn't in the private sector for very long in France but from what I can recall your take home pay is about 75% of your gross pay and about half of what it costs your employer.That's without income tax by the way. The French tax system is just fundamentally flawed. If you live away from where you work you can deduct what it costs you to get to work and back every day from your taxable income. Up to 25 miles or so, that's 50 miles a day they don't even ask any questions. Depending on the fiscal rating of your car you can knock off 40 or 50 euros a day with no questions asked. 200 or so days a year and about 4.60 euros a day for lunch. So that's 11000 euros before you start. Result is people with decent salaries are paying little or no income tax at all. So the system has to catch up by deducting whopping amounts from everyone whether they're making a decent living or not.

Well yes, but the French still manage to pump about 4 billion euros into savings accounts every month. Probably because at the end of your career your income takes a 50% (or more) hit bcause of the pension system based on 50% of the average of your best 25 years salaries.. Unless of course you're one of the 6 or 7 million or so civil servants who don't even notice a difference because of their pension based on 75% of their pay on their last day at work. That's where the real inequality lies in the French system.i

The funny thing is (well not so funny if you're fuel dependant) is that the prices at the pumps are now at least the equivalent of those that they would have been if the new fuel taxes had been implemented on 1/1/2019 as planned. The crux of the affair was to make E10 fuel less expensive than diesel. The diesel secteur of the car market plunged by about half as people traded in diesels for petrol versions, which are by far less economical and probably just as polluting. After a couple of weeks when E10 was a fraction cheaper than diesel we've gone back to diesel being about 3 or 4 centimes per litre cheaper than E10. So we've all bought "cleaner" cars and are now paying over the odds for our ecological gesture. Apart from that the original yellow vest movement has become a hobby horse for anarchists and political extremes.

Well yes but I'm kind of used to Hants collapsing in the mid-order. Still it's a great looking start to the season.

Probably would have taken a straight red after about 30 seconds. How long do you think Brian O'Neill would have lasted on the pitch with today's interpretations of the rules? We loved watching them, that was football as it was then but those blokes had very little skill and virtually no self control.

Ton up for Northeast. Good start, should get at least 4 batting points, perhaps 5.

Saved from what "au juste"? Good looking start to me. 303/4, Northeast just 6 away from a century, good knocks from Vince, Rossouw and Markram.

How strange, or not. The bottom 6 in the agents' fees tables mirrors exactly the bottom 6 in the actual premier league table as of today. Ah no, scrub that, the clubs are just in league order and not the amount spent on fees order.

Not just the pilot, he was obviously keen to take on the gig, even though it seems that he shouldn't have. Whoever was running the aircraft should have checked it all out surely.

Had they actually insured anything anyway. Some clubs don't because the cost is prohibitive. Obviously not going to get anything from the plane's insurers because of the pilot situation so perhaps they don't want to pay because they can't.

I told you that he won't allow a longer extension. Anyway got to rush off to the wife's art exhibition. Catch you all tomorrow on D-7.

Told you so. He has his own troubles, quite serious ones actually and he just wants the end of it. France has spent a fortune on preparing for a no-deal, probably less than the UK though and Macron just does not undestand, (well he does cos he's a bright bloke, probably too bright for his own public) the Uk's tarting about. The current arguments should have taken place many moons ago and not still going on 8 days before exit day.

For the voting public the referendum was binding and that's the only thing, 3 years down the line, that matters. If you wanted them to understand differently, then the time to speak out about that was on the morrow before the result had economic effects on the country, it's populace and basically the whole of the EU. Three years down the line and what 8 days before deadling day is not the time to be putting up the arguments.

But as he did absolutely nothing except run away his words have no value anyway. The referendum was promised I suppose to undermine the then rising support for the UKIP and others populist and it backfired on him.

Semantics, to the voting public there was one question, in or out. The result was out and Cameron himself should have been prepared to try to deliver on that or have the political courage to go before the people at that time and tell them that the referendum had no legal value and propose a new parliamentary election. Not just dump the responsability for his rash electioneering onto some other poor bugger. As I've said a few times it makes no difference to me personally but you just can not that sort of rash action to affect a country's politics.

And I will go to Parliament and propose that the British people decide our future in Europe through an in-out referendum on Thursday, the 23rd of June. "You will decide and whatever your decision I will do my best to deliver it" Cameron, announcing the referendum in 2016. So you see if the referendum was non-binding the people were mislead by the man who proposed it and then just ran away from the consequences.

No; that's a myth drummed up by the remain camp I'm afraid. Macron isn't having any of it apparently. You stay or you leave as far as he's concerned, doesn't want any half-way houses.

Doesn't matter, people like me were excluded from the first vote and still would be in 2021. If we expats had been called upon to vote the Remain camp would have won anyway. But then most of us are dual-nationals anyway so apart from the financial loss due to the fall of sterling it really doesn't matter to us anyway. The fact is that the will of the UK public should be respected.

Looking at a few articles that have appeared in France this morning looks as if the EU may not allow a delay beyond the first polls in the European Parliament elections, ie the 22/23 May. Won't change anything anyway.

You could say that about any election or referendum really. Trump wouldn't have been elected if after a couple of month's they'd have had a do-over, Macron neither probably. And yet in the UK you had a general election a while afterwards, the Conservatives still came out on top (just) and they were still pushing Brexit from the little I remember. The whole problem with the processus is the meaningful vote of the HOC. I don't think that was ever in the plans was it? Obviously with Labour pushing for a General Election all of the time and a big dose of Nationalist nay sayers, nothing will ever be clear cut in the HOC, what is more without an overall majority.

The time to vote nay or yay was the 23rd June 2016. All of the other petitions and calls for a do-over are pointless. Anyone can sign an on line petition or or participate in an opinion poll paid for by one party or the other. I believe that the turn out on that day was about 72%, so those of the 28% non-voters who'd have voted remain are paying the price of apathy.

Ah these petitons remind me of the sign in sheets we had at Imperial (probably would be illegal nowadays). 40 or so presents, 80 or so on the sheet. Profs didn't care anyway, as far as they were concerned you were there to learn and if you didn't turn up that was your problem. Missing tutorials was something else. Stopped your grant for missing 2 without good reason in any term.