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Making a 'safe' internal appointment like this might paradoxically indicate that the board don't really have a lot of faith in long-term prospects of the coaching staff - especially if something of a clear-out is required to bring in a new manager.

An asset bubble does not indicate economic well-being. You seem not to understand how an economy works.

Arteta.

Christ, the state of this place. It’s truly depressing how badly this forum has gone downhill since the referendum result. The overt racists on here have been emboldened and the covert ones feel that their incipient xenophobia is now somehow ‘legitimate’. We’ve had low points before – notably through the period when the chaotically idiotic pap was having fits of the paranoid vapours over, for example, how the grieving mother of a murdered British soldier was actually a conniving agent of the state, and how ITN was running a secret CGI department to produce ‘bloody hands’. But nothing like this. We have a once-seemingly innocuous poster lapse into echoing blatant Nazi-era Jew-baiting (with the pathetic mealy-mouthed excuse that it was just ‘a Jew’ who was supposedly controlling world events – a classic Nazi-era trope); a sad Corbynista who flat out denies the sheer plain-as-day volume of anti-Semitic behaviour of some in the Labour party (plus a deeply weird one who gets angry just at the mention of this behaviour, as though acknowledging its existence were somehow worse than actual anti-Semitism); a Britain First acolyte who’s given free rein; another poster who makes false equivalences between the migration crisis and terrorism; a Pony-like poster with a repulsive attitude towards women that would get him into serious trouble in the workplace; a couple (or more) of unhinged posters who attack every argument with factless rage; and any number of Brexiteers who behave exactly like cultists; ad nauseum. The Lounge, not coincidentally, is a dead zone. I can’t remember the last time a woman or a black or Asian poster last contributed in any sustained way. It’s simply a hostile environment for them and I don’t blame anyone for giving this place a wide berth. The lack of diversity – including of opinion – makes the Lounge irredeemable. What is oddest of all is the apparent attitude of the owner of this site. Moderation appears to have been completely withdrawn, and the lunatics are literally in charge of asylum, with the site’s own policies on racism etc having clearly been set aside. If I were he, I’d be ashamed to have this place still open – and the association of this site with Southampton football club drags down everyone’s reputation. Still, specks in the dustbin of history and all that.

Yet another thread started by some ****wit who needs the sordid history of racism and the point of racist caricature explaining to him.

Ah, so it was the Seventh Day Adventist terrorists you had in mind? This equivalence of terrorism and the migration crisis is seeping out of the sewers. It may have started with the fascists in Britain First, and been explicitly endorsed by Trump, but it also seems to have found (presumably unwitting) echo chambers in people like you. The numbers of people saying this stuff is truly disturbing - that it gets a pass and even tacit endorsement for others on here is just appalling (if thankfully inconsequential - no one could possibly take such halfwits seriously in real life). If you break the linkage, the rage will subside, and you will return to your usual sunny self. Please take that in the spirit intended.

I'd take that bet but I just don't think you'd honour it. I wouldn't trust a Jew-hater's sympathiser as far as I could throw him. Norway - or 'Norway plus' (the plus being membership of the CU) has been obvious for ages. It's just that you Jihadists are too dim to see it. There's no other way - other than remaining - to reach an outcome that doesn't tear huge chunks out of the British economy.

You missed out the fact that I'm also a threat to world peace. Never mind. Here's my heartfelt apology: I'm sorry you've sided with racist scumbags, Jihadi John. Here's a simple demonstration of logic. If the racist-scumbag Britain First tweets, and Trump retweets, provably false videos purporting to demonstrate a direct link between Muslims, the migration crisis and terrorism, then it might follow that anyone making the same equation is similarly scumbag-inclined. That suspicion increases if yet more deliberately misleading visuals are put up supposedly to show some link, which is nonetheless still false. So by simple logic, you're a racist scumbag. It's not me calling you that; it's a fact. For which I am also sorry. Sorry. On the other hand, if you DIDN'T intend to claim a direct link between Muslims, the migration crisis and terrorism then you're merely stupid. You should probably aim for this, just to be on the safe side.

Lean to read? You lean in order to read? No wonder your posts make no sense. Besides, your tantrum should be directed not at me but at that Missile thingy! Lean to read his post, which I was reacting to (if you lean carefully, you'll see this), because he makes the connection absolutely explicit. And it surprises me not at all that he should use a graphic from an entirely different story to make a false equation between terrorism and the migration crisis. So here's your chance - off you go. Talk to missile. I'll just sit here quietly and watch you make fools of yourselves.

Cue the other incoherent babbler (and the dog-whistle Pony). Why don't you cut out the mindless rage and address the point I made. You might then (I doubt it, but there's always a chance) say something intelligible. So here's my point again. The map graphic from the Express makes a false equation between terrorism in a select number of countries and migration, while ignoring the complete lack of terrorism in those countries most affected by the migration crisis, and in so doing is playing the race card - stirring up people prone to this kind of stuff into mindless rages. If you have another view, put it, rather throwing a toddler's wobbly.

Only a racist scumbag - and the Daily Express, your undeclared source - would connect terrorist attacks to migration with an 'equals' sign. And why did you/The Express omit UK stats? Too inconvenient even for your flimsy argument? Or stats for Italy and Greece, which has borne the brunt of the migration crisis? The rest of your post is ignorant waffle desperately in search of a point - all that emerges from it is a woozy sentiment of blind hatred, mindlessly undermining its own point about dictators by accidentally mimicking dictatorial rhetoric about evil Other in the world.

No, he's perfect. As the final wording of the deal made clear, what's ultimately going on is a negotiated loss of national status. That is best done with a preening idiot, because making things worse is one thing idiots are guaranteed to do well.

Looks like it. And any deal struck is likely to include 'full alignment' too, given the fact there's no other way around the border problem in Ireland. 'Full alignment' seems to effectively mean full membership of the single market and the customs union, without, of course, any real say on decisions relating to them. Such is the tangled wreckage created by the fantasies of Brexit.

Usual magical thinking from DD. What's the difference between a regulation and its outcome? Surely if a regulation states that chicken cannot be chlorine washed, then the outcome is that chickens are not chlorine washed. You poor Jihadists, wrapping up your hopes and dreams in this government and incompetent and ludicrous Brexit cheerleaders.

I see the Jihadists are piping up in a collective howl of stupidity.

Yes, but he looks the spitting image of George Cohen now.

Here you go, Shahid al-Scumbagi, a nice little film from the fifties when all of London was purest white. It'll make you feel better. https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-sunshine-in-soho-1956-online?utm_source=twitterbfi&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=bof-event-post&utm_content=151117sunshineinsoho

Another day, another Corbynista Jew-hater crawls out of the woodwork. Nasreen Khan, a possible candidate for Bradford council, avails herself of the following opinion: "It's such a shame that the history teachers in our school never taught us this but they are the first to start brainwashing us and our children into thinking the bad guy was Hitler. What have the Jews done good in this world?" And another: "The Jews have reaped the rewards of playing victims. Enough is enough!"

How the EDL racist scum and far right are exactly like Islamist jihadists: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/long_reads/english-defence-league-hizb-ut-tahrir-the-rage-far-right-terrorism-islamist-racism-a8042011.html

Barnier is doing his best to chivy along a May/Davis coalition of indolence and incompetence by pointing them towards the only option open to them: Norway. As this is both the most sensible (it's achievable in something like the time) and most stupid (paying into the EU with no influence) option, it'll have the added benefit of tearing the Tories to shreds while fulfilling the 'mandate'. Happy days!

It isn't the first result when I google him - mainstream papers appear at the top. I suggest you delete your cookies and lay low.

Aside from the fact that sexual assault and harassment is condemned by people regardless of party, why the actual fu ck are you cruising on a site like that? To quote its aims: "It was the Labour Government that introduced explicit sex education for 5 year olds. Acceptances of homosexuality material also aim at primary school children. Are these grooming tactics brought into the curriculum by the Labour party."

I give up. Which comedy character from the Fast Show is this?

So I wonder what losing three ministers looks like? I forgot to include one of the resignees. That department is in absolute chaos, as you'd expect from a secretary of state who, in the words of his own ideological supporters, is 'as thick as mince'. Still, tick tock.

I see that David Davis has lost yet another senior member of his 'team'. Baroness Anelay (if that's not misspelt), the DExEU minister of state in the House of Lords has just resigned. That means Davis has lost two ministers, his permanent secretary and a special advisor - all in the space of a few months. Things seem to be very going well. Very well indeed.