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Centrist scum

Wrong again Balders. He never said "If you want a centrist, remain party, go and form your own & get on with it" He said "if you want a centrist party, this is not going to be it for the next ten years. If you want pro-remain party that is in favour of illegal wars and privatisation, form your own party" A difference in emphasis; for starters, he's not saying the party isn't for you if you're a remainer; rather he's saying the party the party isn't for you are a pro-remain and in favour of illegal wars and privatisation. Lord P also omitted what Mason meant by centrism i.e. "in favour of illegal wars and privatisation" - there are many self-styled centrists who definitely oppose illegal wars and are sceptical about the benefits of across-the-board privatisation. Would they be unwelcome? Alas Lord P's lazy and simplistic conflation distorted what Mason said.

Am afraid I have no idea what you're talking about.

Couldn't give two f**ks pal - the articles are probably written by the same thick, tribal types as you. Listen to the speech in question: it also referred to illegal wars and privatisation.

Slightly misquoting him, aren't you pal. Maybe you want to try again.

Probably would account for his post before that.

The bumpkins among our fanbase like a cheeky chappy.

#doublestandards

Expect many were against PFI and saw it as one of the ruinous legacies of Blairism, pal.

Seems as if some people would be happier with the dismissal of Black than an appointment of a new manager.

Welcome MPII. Our squad, according to Uncle Les, is only a tuning fork away from continued success. Let's hope it's a #quietsummer.

- one of my favs.

Agree.

Being a financial hub or a destination for FDI -both of which bump up debt- are not in themselves risky or bad, depending on the legal regime in place and the way in which the foreign creditors/depositors are treated. This is especially true with corporate debt as companies may set up and incur debt in one country but it will be supported by earnings in another country.

Spot on.

To be fair those numbers are rather dated and do no take into account subsequent efforts to deleverage. The latest set of McKinsey figures are here and present the UK in a more favourable light. http://www.mckinsey.com/global-themes/employment-and-growth/debt-and-not-much-deleveraging (page 4) However, they too are likely dated as household debt, the main driver of deleveraging during the recession and recovery, has again started to pick up.

#feelingsoverfacts #thekipperway

Take some economics classes Trident. Then come back and maybe we can have a proper discussion.

It was you who called you James O'Brien, wasn't it pal? The combination of circular reasoning, repetitiveness and plain old fûckwîttery is a dead give away

Like how the Brexit loons claim that the great British public is wiser than the elites when they agree on Brexit but is immediately dismissed as thick and deluded when it votes in large numbers for Corbyn. If Corbyn was seen as promising lots of free swag, then he simply took a page out of the Brexiteer playbook. It would also be useful if our kipper friends were precise in their terminology. Re. youth unemployment - it is widely agreed that using rates rather than ratios (or preferably both) can be deeply misleading. Educate yourselves on the difference before mindlessly copying and pasting from Google like excitable parrots. More important, while the economy matters, the elixir of economic growth in the long-run is productivity growth. The UK can point its finger and chuckle at the structurally low levels of economic activity in some countries (though how and why the EU should be singularly blamed is anyone's guess), but the Uk has got its own massive problems to straighten out in terms of poor productivity. Alas nobody's explained how leaving the EU will solve this.

Guess I meant with respect to how they feel they're living in the shadow of Japan and China - that no matter how far they've come economically, they're not given their due which grates existentially. I've also had a tough time working with some South Koreans. Worked on a project for the World Bank (2011), funded by the KDI. It was very difficult to convince them that despite their funding, the project was not a branding exercise for the country as poster child for the rest of the developing world. Worse this was not just opportunism: they genuinely seemed to believe their own hype.

Pellegrino mentioned him with fondness in the Sun interview put up earlier.

Textbook.

Don't think it did Koeman any harm and was at an asset at a time when we needed stability and someone who could command instant respect.