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Don’t forget Austin too. We’ve got a lot of firepower off the bench for a decent title push.

It’s Piet Eeckhout, professor of EU law and dean of UCL law school. His suggestion is certainly possible, though don’t know how politically feasible it is. I think there are strong incentives to time-limit any extension, especially as there’s a high chance that no resolution will be found.

Had they implemented things as they wanted, we would have already crashed out. Just look at the record Brexiters who have had a free hand at their departments because they don’t directly impinge on negotiations with the EU. Liam Fox at Dit can’t even roll over the EU’s existing FTAs -never mind improve on them because the world is a bit more complicated than he imagined while Michael Gove at Defra is vigorously championing May’s deal because he knows the alternative would be disastrous for his stakeholders. It’s pretty clear the buck stops with the headbangers who promised the undeliverable.

In today’s news, we discover that UK factories are stockpiling goods at fastest pace in 27 years in the event of a no deal. Arron Banks has been fined for serious breaches of electronic marketing laws during the 2016 referendum. Meanwhile Gary Lineker has written a letter of love to the Germans It’s a laugh a minute in Brexit Britain. What an utter mess.

And that assumes we’re not co-funding their wages.

Because FPTP creates incentives for a two-party system. Duverger’s Law pal. Many EU countries operate PR.

Sounds a lot like what Corbyn is proposing on the CU (to the extent you can elicit any detail from him). Alas the swivels probably wouldn't buy it.

Agree. If we manage to shift all of this window's loanees, it will go down as a major success. The reality is that I can only see us shifting Cedric for anything close to good value with clubs using his contract status (out of contract next summer) to negotiate aggressively. If we can't remove some of this deadwood, I won't be surprised if RH ends up shifting first teamers i.e. Bertrand if he wants to build the side in his image. Of course, the Gabbi (and probable Austin) money will help.

Utterly clueless. Opening up the NHS to US private firms and the regulatory issues it raises have nothing to do with the CU.

That's a false dichotomy. Other clubs have brought in loans -not as short-term fixes but with an eye on the future. You would think with our recent abysmal record in the transfer record, getting a player in with an option to buy in the summer would, at least, give us the opportunity to run over them before taking the plunge. That's not to say that we didn't try (and fell short); but its wrong to say that it was far more likely that we would wait until the summer to do our business.

Buctootim didn't say access. He said full access Les. I'm also intrigued by your insistence on an independent trade policy. When did it become such a hot topic for you? I can understand your obsession with FoTM (though you're wrong to say that its uncontrolled freedom of movement of the citizens), the ECJ (though supervisory and enforcement mechanisms are a sine qua non of deep and comprehensive free trade which I thought you support) and the budget (though those mechanisms need to be adequately funded and the size of the budget is peanuts in the grand of scheme of things). But why are you so transfixed with an independent trade policy. It never featured highly in traditional eurosceptic arguments and is arguably pretty secondary to Brexit voters in the North. Out of all May's red lines, it would appear to be the one on which both sides could find a compromise.

The real verdict won't be known until the summer - not just in the sense of PL survival but whether we've been able to permanently shift any of the players we've loaned out. Slightly disappointed that we couldn't secure a loan or two - they've been all the rage this window. Ultimately try before you buy would have taken some of the risk out of doing all our business in the summer.

Exactly. Its no wonder that Fox wants to go down the multilateral route. Countries like US don’t want competition from UK financial services or its lawyers and accountants and the UK doesn't have the clout to make headway on these issues. Of course what Fox doesn't say is that the Doha Round made liberalisation of trade in services a priority backe in 2001. After a decade and more of fruitless and fractured negotiations, the Nairobi Ministerial Conference of 2015 basically put Doha out of its misery. The idea that the UK and Liam Fox are now going to revive this agenda through the WTO is simply fantastical thinking.

He played there under Poch and seems to have the engine to get up and down. I'd certainly consider him there in games where he's not up against real pace and power.

The contradictions are difficult to paper over, even for the ideologues. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/liam-fox-trump-trade-wto-brexit-uk-us-globalisation-policy-a8757161.html And to think Jihadi John took exception to the prediction that the election of Trump would make free trade more difficult and possibly complicate the UK's post-Brexit trade policy. He really is the anti-Nostradamus

Les you’re still struggling with the basics. Sad.

I thought Jihadi John was a Trump-MAGA supporter who only believed in bilateral trade deals? Never mind that TPP is halfway around the world, excludes China and India and is much shallower than the EU (just look at what Japan gave up to strike a FTA with EU compared to its concessions to TPP). Still it won’t stop John latching onto some fine woolly words from the Prime Minister of Japan (who’s also warned against the dire consequences of no deal). Of course, on planet earth the UK is struggling to do the basics and roll over its existing EU FTAs. Where’s the UK-US FTA that John promised us that was ready to come into force on Independence Day? This entire thread is a glorious tribute to what a gullible mug the man is.

These crude indices (another American invention) are heavily skewed by things like goals scored, so no wonder he features highly. Goal apart, thought he had a very average game on Wednesday.

We pushed them all the way but with the late collapse of the Austin deal, we just fell a little short this time. We missed Les experience and steady hand (and trigger finger); but am sure Wee Ross will get the hang of things.

The scousers have won it.

He’s had a Zaha of a window. Unplayable on his day but they’ve been few and far between. Feel that he’s lost his focus a bit in his beef with Cabbage Face rather than concentrating on his own game. Needs to get back to basics.

Good lad.

It'll be going to the scousers unless we sell Austin. There's hope yet...

I hope we give him a new four year deal in the summer to protect his resale value.