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Very few are rerunning the referendum Les - they're questioning you on how negotiations since the referendum could have gone differently - how this mythical deal you were promised and swallowed hook, line and sinker could have been delivered in practice. Anyway run away if you must pal

Technically Norway is outside the EU’s customs union but is part of the EEA and so is aligned in regulatory terms (and regulatory differences or nontariff barriers are a larger source of trade frictions than customs)

If -and its a big if, the manifesto is anything like the 2017 GE manifesto, your fears are unfounded, bordering on the hysterical. Work by IFS and Citi has shown that Boris Johnson has already raised public spending to the path proposed by Corbyn in the 2017 GE.

I know you and OldNick think trade deals with a more powerful party are like running a carboot sale but the walk-away threat was never credible. You persist in it because every other myth you've held and based your vote on in June 2016 has been exposed as bunkum. That's all you've got left -a tenuous what if- to convince yourself that it has been the implementation of Brexit, not the inherent idiocy of Brexit that has landed us in this mess.

That was never on the cards Les. Withdrawal agreement first, future relationship second. The sequencing was clear from the start. Cue you to bloviate about Donald Tusk and misunderstand what was actually said. And no a FTA wouldn't have solved the NI border both in terms of customs and SM regulatory alignment.

And? Some historical allegations that he swore and shouted at colleagues (emphasis allegations). I thought tempers got pretty frayed in the kitchen (I’ve watched Gordon Ramsay) and you’d have bit more of a backbone Jamie.

Who will you be voting for Les? Or is that an Official Secret?

So the momentumification of the conservative party continues...

So Sir Martin Moore-Bick’s Grenfell inquiry report has found that the fire was caused by electrical fault in the large fridge freezer which “occurred without any fault on the part of the tenant... and I am pleased to clear him of any blame, given that some people have unfairly accused him of having some responsibility for what happened”. Those people know who they are...

Les was convinced we had uncovered the next Beckenbauer.

Weston - clutching at straws and failing miserably

Hiring Allardyce is the footballing equivalent of an alcoholic losing his wife and kids and waking up a ditch covered in his own s**t. #rockbottom

We’re crashing out next December barring an extension. Johnson’s “deal” really is a misnomer as it only deals with a small subset of issues governing the UK’s trade relationship with the EU.

I think they dispense with formalities like reading week.

Freedom Charter Johnson folded quicker than a cheap suit and basically went back to the EU’s original deal - elements of which he, May and the ERG declared they could never accept. I think you’re the only person to whom even the broken clock adage doesn’t apply.

Didn’t you used to be a benefits officer Les? I hope you run your business better than your performances on this thread pal.

Pharma companies, lobbyists on Capitol Hill and the Trump administration absolutely hate the fact that as a single payer, the UK Government is able to negotiate with pharmaceutical companies to set prices en bloc. Imagine that: governments using their unique clout as a large customer to negotiate better terms? Paradoxically Medicare, the US federal government’s health insurance programme for people aged 65 years and older, is prohibited from doing this by law. The US government and lobbyists also hate the fact that the UK’s National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) which evaluates and makes recommendations about which drugs should be available, puts a heavy emphasis on cost effectiveness in its decision-making. Whereas narrow producer interests see a conspiratorial technical barrier to trade, most people appreciate that cost -along with safety and efficacy- is an important element of any sensible and sustainable policy and social welfare analysis. As for the suggestion that pharma R&D is all about breakthrough innovations, that’s pony. In some cases, that’s certainly true but many new medicines are actually pretty similar to existing products and have no real therapeutic advance -never mind they are often subsidised, in part or whole, by the taxpayer through R&D tax credits and other policy instruments. I suggest a special someone has been drinking the kool aid and getting high on their own supply

Good article but odd interpretation of Reed and Wilson’s legacy. Being a “football man” -often shorthand for tenure- is a reason why frauds like Reed can stay in the game so long. No wonder Koeman saw through Reed and the two didn’t get on. And whats the point of being a football man if it leads to increasingly costly mistakes. Indeed it seems that the Goas have overcompensated for poor recruitment and waste by micromanaging and keeping the football people on a short leash which is probably the only thing worse than having a duffer who should have been out to pasture years ago.

She doesn’t want to club buy back.

When making absolutely zero sense, go for the Hail Mary and throw Venezuela into the mix #fückwitforever

You and GM are out in force today. It’s like an episode of the walking dead Needless to say, Les, you’re talking complete tosh (and in all seriousness you know it). Different degrees from different institutions are not the same - you just have to look at wages and labour market outcomes to appreciate that. Oxbridge, Russell Group, jokes about useless media degrees ring any bells? While GCSE/A-levels vary to some extent reflecting differences in subject and exam board they are far more standardised and regulated than university degrees. Touch a raw nerve pal?

We didn’t significantly bulk up the squad. Ultimately when you experience the type of player churn and sales we have, you’re compelled to bring more players in and need to run just to stand still. Either way, if it’s an explanation, it’s a second-order one. Poor recruitment and an unwillingness to keep up with market inflation are the main culprits.

I hope you waved your ST at them pal.

And f**k Wee Ross for hastily leaving the scene of the crime.