shurlock

What do you make of Jim O’Neill’s comments pal?

Wasn’t Melanie Phillips advocating a Nigel Farage coup d’état the other week - all because May was betraying Brexit and endangering democracy? Her views are an absolute mess - therefore it must mean I have a problem with Jewish women Verbal doesn’t help himself with his hysterical, disingenuous and fatuous smear tactics.

Citing Melanie Phillips doesn’t help anyone understand the issue.

How do you know that posters aren’t part of and/or don’t have contact with the Jewish community? It’s worth remembering that much of the security that has gone up has been in response to Islamic terrorism, not the left or the Labour Party.

You mean the clip from the Borat film - not sure what you’re trying to say. That I’m an internationally acclaimed actor? That I’m Sacha Baron Cohen? Something else? You’ve totally lost me gummy

Let’s call out antisemitism where it exists and flourishes but also keep some (historical) perspective ffs.

Could have been our fergie.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-45656004

If only for the manager, we'd be challenging top half. I respect the hustle.

Yeh if you think nontariff barriers are irrelevant to international trade.

Les - did your therapist advise you to stay away from the Brexit thread?

So now, according to May, no deal is better than a Canada-style agreement. She’s right in the narrow sense that a Canada-style deal is the definition of a bad deal. But talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face. Even the jihadists in all their ignorant, scorched-earth glory can’t make this up.

Define sensible. Where did I say nationalisation was an unmixed blessing?

You’re knocking on 60 pal. Are you proud of your antics?

Leaving aside the rather loose definition of a cross, I don't recall many of our goals this season coming from crosses. Do you? But lets run with your cute little thought experiment. Last season we attempted 800 crosses, 2nd in the league; yet scored a meagre 37 goals. If as you say virtually all goals come from crosses -other things being equal- we can't be very good at them if we're getting very little return from the sheer volume of crosses we're putting in. Now you might claim we miss a Pelle-type player. But anyone who's actually watched us play knows that is not the whole story. A for effort as usual pal.

In english pal?

And that’s why for a team that has been at the top of the table in terms of crosses, we hardly score from them

Who knows. Government can still issue debt at very low rates and there are good structural reasons for this. Many think these forces will persist, and some may even build further. See https://www.ijcb.org/journal/ijcb17q3a1.pdfWould a radical labour government scare investors? Possibly yes; but enough to trump these wider forces? Unlikely. Stealing is a loaded term: it depends on what terms private investors are compensated: whether it’s below or at full market value (if it’s the latter that would probably include a takeover premium, bumping up the cost to the taxpayer). Note not every nationalisation would require the government to pay off private investors: in the case of the train operating companies, which operate passenger services, government could just wait for franchises to lapse. Frankly financing isn’t not insurmountable: a more pressing issue is whether publicly owned companies can deliver services efficiently as the private sector. The evidence here is mixed, confounding both defenders of public and private ownership.

Borrowing pal. Government can still borrow at low rates -much lower than the private sector. The profits from the companies under public ownership would then pay for the extra debt. All this, of course, assumes that government can manage these utilities efficiently.

Shame you voted Puel OUT in the polls on here - as early as midseason. Hindsight’s a beautiful thing. We’re all guilty of it

Like any of that matters. We'll do what its in our interests. It also assumes that JWP would turn down the opportunity of first team football which is ridiculous.

Though Long’s best spell occurred when Pelle was out of the side and he had Tadic and Mané playing off or around him.

Its what happens when you invest too much in your make believe, mboard character. A cautionary tale for you coleslaw.

Myth. Long’s most effective position is not on the wing. He was average there for koeman until he was moved more centrally.