shurlock

Proper bottle job.

Matt Targett?

His football at Ajax was hardly good to watch, either.

A breath of fresh air amid the noise and BS. It's a shame that the likes of AR-10 have to spoil things and muddy the line between those who have valuable info to contribute and those who don't.

Yep, she is shrill, isn't she? Can add Sarah Vine, Melanie Phillips and the new generation of guardianistas (Jessica Valenti, Laurie Penny etc) to that list. By contrast, Sarah Montague, Anne McElvoy, Gillian Tett. Kirsty Wark, Marina Hyde, Roula Khalaf etc -all very good. Also greatly admire the work of Kathleen Parker and Hu Shuli. Remind what your point was again?

Emma Barnett is an airhead and sh*t-stirrer, not as bad as Louise Mensch (yet) but has similar pretensions- she hardly covered herself in glory during coverage of Operation Protective Edge in 2014.

They should post nun pics to football forums and suchlike - would keep the old fårts distracted.

Not so sure. He was very upset the board sold Dortmund's three best players last summer and brought in younger players who had potential but could immediately fill the hole. He tends to fall out with the hierarchy (which happened both at Mainz and Dortmund), so not sure if he'd get on with our strategy or even Uncle Les.

#hipsterhardon

As if you wouldn't be wetting your little blue knickers if Labour hadn't costed their policies. Lack of accountability wah wah wah. Pie in the sky wah wah wah. Only complete morons would treat costings as hard constraints, rather than estimates around which there is inevitable uncertainty. Most people understand how 'quotes' work in their daily lives. Perhaps you don't, alas. The IEA makes a sensible case for costings here, mindful of the challenges and complexities involved: https://iea.org.uk/should-manifestos-be-costed/

Certainly the Lib Dems met some manifesto pledges -not least as there was ideological overlap between Cameron's closest circle and the Orange Book wing of the Lib Dems. Of course, none of this refutes the braindead contention that the Tories weren't in power from 2010-2015.

What of '...on most things' don't you understand, pal? And everything about the AV referendum (from the format of the referendum to the proposed system itself), so far from being a massive concession, paradoxically showed the limits of the Lib Dems power. You might want to pick a better example.

You mean the Lib Dems give and the Tories take, pal? Guess you missed the module in recent political history; but the Tories were the dominant member of the coalition and got their way on most things. Was in government at the time and the Lib Dems were literally pleading for crumbs, begging to have major, heavily signposted policy announcements included on that week's grid only for their coalition partners to turn around and postpone them at the last minute because Steve Hilton had a policy idea while on the shîttér that morning.

Still got your white sash top?

Of course, it does.

Why? May is hardly a great leader and the more the public sees of her, the less they seem to like her; the next 5 years promises to be pretty turbulent-not only as the government has to deliver on the ludicrously high expectations set by Brexit but also because the global economy remains highly vulnerable; and the Tories will have been in power for 12 years, the usual point when some form of incumbent party fatigue sets in. This is as good as it's going to get - the Tories need and should be profiting handsomely and building an electoral rainy day fund.

Don't understand the logic, pal. Just makes it more likely that the Tories get kicked out in 2022. This election is the party's high watermark - it can only go downhill from here so it needs as large a firewall as possible.

Mmm, maybe we should insert a couple of posters from here then? #learningfromthemaster

Yep, of course.

Who? Martina? Caceres?

Pretty c**tish behaviour, if true.

Murat Yakin yesterday's man?

Paxman should be put out to pasture. Hes been finished for years. The constant interruption is like a boxer who makes it easy for a weaker opponent to clinch and break the momentum of a fight.

Precisely.