Window Cleaner

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.

So anyway your "fine Turkish lad" is being charged with Terrorist Homicides". Looks to have been a bit costly for Rutte, lost his majority in the Senate hasn't he?

I see that someone has been smashing windows and stuff in Birmigham mosques. Police say that they are "unsure" of the motives. Must have a fair old idea though right ? Aren't there problems with LGBT teaching around Birmingham just now? Opposed by? This will not end well.

7+ years in prison is a long time. Mind you they probably made a fair bit of money out of it.

But as we saw on a fair few occasions last season, if you haven't got solid openers everything else is fragilised.

The "Yellow Vests" as the UK populace know them started as a Facebook Group against an upcoming fuel tax hike for supposedly ecological reasons. It was quickly infested by the politicised few and anarchists from here, there and everywhere until you have today's movement with the army on the streets to supposedly protect public buildings because the police and gendarmerie just can't cope any more. Public opinion is a powder keg, just needs a spark to set it off.

That really isn't going to happen. There will be riots in the streets if bully EU gets it's way. As you know I live in France and here just now we are seeing the results of people having the impression that they're not being listened to, and take my word for it, it is ugly, every bloody week-end for over 3 months now. The British public voted to leave the EU by a nigh on 4% margin, that needs to happen now, some may not like it but denying the will of the people will end in serious revolt.

Ah there I couldn't say. Aren't there less Scottish Nationalists in this Parliament than in the previos one? There used to be 54 out of 59 seats but I think they're down to about 35 now. Mind you there are a lot of Independants who's attachments I know little about.

Well apparently the Lion aircraft had the same problems on the previous day but there was an off duty pilot with them who knew (or figured out) what to do. Then nothing was done about it afterwards.