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No, but going to the trouble of having your lies carved into stone is perhaps a step too far

Story in the paper today suggesting that getting promoted to the PL will benefit the town of Bournemouth to the tune of £50m/year. Can anyone remember how much AFC Pompey (2012) contribute to the septic isle?

Did you guys miss the absolute spackfest that was the thread on fansonline (I think) where they got into a big *****fight about whether or not purchasing clubs would bid over and above the £275k release clause to enhance their chances of signing him? It's linked in the last couple of pages and is well worth a read for a chuckle.

Hey, it's alright to say that you made a simple mistake you know. It's far more dignified than squirming like that.

Well, yes, because our only point of difference is whether O'Donnell can or would make any predictions. You say he wouldn't, and yet he spent the the interview predicting what could happen in parliament over the coming weeks, months and years. Yet, when asked whether this might be the last GE for the UK, he refused to answer the question when apparently the answer is so very clear (other than Fry's confusion about how long a decade is,of course).

More than you, evidently. There's no reason why he wouldn't make predictions - in fact he spent most of the interview doing just that.

Actually, I'll ignore the lol and treat you like an intelligent individual who simply forgot that O'Donnell has actually retired and so has absolutely no reason at all not to comment on it. The fact that he was doing the interview for Newsnight in the first place, during purdah, should have made that perfectly clear.

A decade is five years, is it? Oh dear son, oh dear.

Chortle. By the way, did you see the Gus O'Donnell interview on Newsnight last night? Laura Kuenssberg asked him if this would be the last General Election for the UK and for some inexplicable reason he evaded giving a direct answer rather than saying It was all very odd

It's a Friday afternoon in 1989 in Liverpool.

Thank you for proving my point so swiftly.

Not sure if he Barbie threw him out, but it seems the thread's favourite results driven, creative individual with a proven history of achieving increased profits, sales volume and customer satisfaction has moved on to pastures new.

My word. Your comprehension skills are woeful.

Is those answering the questions can lie, it's only fair to allow those asking them to do the same

Bank (de)regulation was a worldwide issue and I can't honestly blame the last government for their stance on it. Any attempts to introduce the current levels of regulation back in 2006 would only have encouraged financial service institutions to move away from London towards Frankfurt or NY, and with the UK economy heavily reliant on financial services, it would have been suicidal for the UK to do so in isolation.

No, after a win.

"I'm frightened to death that the team is going to get somewhere, but the rest of the football club is not going to be able to sustain it. Maybe I worried about that too much." I like his excuse for making the team sh1t too.

That was a little tongue in cheek, to be fair. The real point is that the previous Labour government not only overspent when they were in power, they committed us to horrifically expensive contracts that won't be fully completed until after those who signed them will probably have died

By the way, does anyone understand what Ed said last night (and appears to be repeating this morning) that he'd rather not form a Labour government and would rather not be PM if the only way he could be was with the support of the SNP? I'm still confused by that because I just can't believe that he means it, does he? Maybe he does, but I'd be staggered. What was he really saying?

The money that we're being forced to spunk away under PFI contracts agreed by the previous government would plug the fabled £8bn "hole" in NHS financing, with a fair bit to spare....

Live by the sword, die by the sword. Gordon Brown, with Balls on his coat-tails, claimed that he'd been able to overcome the economic cycle and had eliminated "boom and bust" so, like King Canute, they deserve to get wet.

It's almost like Ed has never heard of the law of unintended consequences. Go figure.

Everyone on a zero hour contract is being exploited?

Lol.

Great, so the guy who employs people in his tourism business employs people on zero hours contracts as the start of the summer and then, 12 weeks later, as Leeds has seen the last of the sun, he has to employ them permanently? Great plan, Ed.