shurlock

Good one Bertie. Because the failures of previous administrations and what amounts to a systemic crisis in our prisons can be resolved in no time at all. You’re one of the friends of complexity that Stewart was referring to.

He’s the grown up in the room, so there’s absolutely no chance he’s on the same page as people like you.

Yeh but would he nuke North Korea or Iran?

Quite a bit, thanks to a thing called the internet. I’d happily wager Marseille or Montpellier could beat a L1 side, though according to WC, even that might be a stretch

Have a lot of time for Rory Stewart. He’d be my choice for leader. Doubt he’ll go down with the swivels infesting the grassroots Tory membership though.

WC’s bias against Ligue 1 and the french leagues is legendary. The standard of football isn’t great but it’s not as bad as he claims either. Whether that means Fonte could still do a job in the PL is extremely doubtful but it won’t stop some latching onto any old anecdote or tenuous insight to confirm their existing prejudices.

Exactly

I’m fine Les and priced this in a long time ago - lets see how the remain vote, split as it is across various parties, totals and compares with the vote of the Brexit party before getting too carried away. You realise you have plenty in common with the more strident remainers - perhaps in some respects more than I do. See I was willing to accept May’s WA that honoured and delivered on the referendum, not because it’s my preferred option but because some of us are capable of compromise. As far for your breathless, incomprehensible last para (there were plenty of opportunities for industry to bring pressure on the EU -for instance, to get it to soften its stance on the backstop), let’s see how a ‘true’ Brexiteer fares (should they become PM). I can’t wait to see Johnson or Raab go to Brussels and attempt to renegotiate Brexit, threatening to leave with no deal on October 31. Let’s see what excuse you conjure up when Brussels again holds firm. You don’t have many left pal

You’re playing your little game again Les. Trying to pass off your narrow, sectarian vision of Brexit as the one true Brexit. Remember many of your fellow headbangers voted against the WA which like it or not delivers on the referendum result and would have ensured the UK left the EU. Are they worthy of the upmost contempt too? Sadly every one of your fundamentalist assumptions critical to the supposed ability to walk away -how the EU needed a deal more than the UK, how the UK could play off member states against each other, how the EU would fold in the face of lobbying from car manufacturers and prosecco makers- has been shown to be utter bunkum. It’s pretty clear you’re not the brightest bulb in the chandelier but even you must recognise that repeating same mantras and doing the same things is unlikely to deliver different results.

https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/blog/new-prime-minister-intent-no-deal-brexit-cant-be-stopped-mps-0

Sterling’s slightly up - wait a bit and it should be time to start shorting again

#jamiebingo

Yes and honouring the referendum result is compatible with a variety of outcomes - hence why a Brexiteer like Michael Gove could happily vote for the WA. I too would support it if it ensured some form of closure and exit from this mess. The problem is that this doesn’t satisfy your narrow and arguably undemocratic vision of Brexit, even though it was soundly rejected by the Labour manifesto which you’re now attempting to invoke as support for your position. Next time I hope you exercise a bit more care and honesty in your statements pal.

Both Les and Jihadi John got it spectacularly wrong - they told us we’d be out on March 29. When JJ wasn’t stockpiling piano wire, he was furiously claiming that any other outcome was a constitutional impossibility. So yeh given their track record, maybe worth their while placing a cheeky insurance bet.

No the club categorically stated that Ledong sports is not associated with Lander Sports Development or Gao. The guy you have in mind -Justin Tan- is not the same person as the MD of the marketing agency that the club have been using in China -same name, different people (Justin Tan is a pretty common name in China fwiw). At any rate, Justin Tan is not the CEO of Ledong Sports. A Daniel Knox reportedly is. Other than that you’re spot on

Les, Labour rejected a no-deal/WTO Brexit in its manifesto, so perhaps you should stop quoting the 80% figure and reading into the referendum and GE results the type of extreme Brexit that only swivels like you support.

Excited Les?

The link works on a desktop. It appears our friends have lifted (or plagiarised) the text from another company: that company Xinying Sports (新英体育) recently signed an agreement with iQiYi (爱奇艺), a huge video streaming service in China with global ambitions to bring together and consolidate all their sports content in a new entity, iQiYi Sports. That includes broadcasting rights to PL football in China.

That is basically a translation of the Chinese text posted by oldeuboi above (#354). It turns out that text is lifted directly from another company “Xinying Sports”, though that’s not uncommon in China, especially since business-speak is pretty formulaic.

Simple task: does Gary Diaz, a member of LD Sports senior management team, work at the Saints Academy as claimed on their now defunct website? That would take 5 mins to ascertain but you’re more likely to find our local journos having a jolly with the curry club in a happy hot tub than doing serious work.

During PMQs just now, Mark Francois has pointed to the press gallery, shaking his head and run his finger along his throat like a knife. Good lad.

The link is broken - not sure how you’ve jumped from LD Sports to Xinying Sports.

I must have missed that ‘something’ Coleslaw. What did he say?

Didn’t know you were so familiar with all those players.