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I would hope that Salisu has set his ambitions higher than Newcastle could ever offer. If he continues to develop and put on the sort of performance he did against Man City, the real 'big boys', in Europe as well as the Prem, will be interested.

I don't recall the long haul 'road bridge' to and from Ireland being mentioned by Leave.EU.

Only the quotes in my post ( above ) from the port operators. Generally it would be more economic and quicker to drive as much of the journey as possible, and much freight between Ireland and the EU did indeed previously go via Holyhead, and the other Welsh ports. EDIT https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/brexit-has-significantly-altered-irish-british-freight-traffic-report-finds-2021-08-12/ "The most significant factor behind the changes was traders abandoning the once-speedier British "land bridge" - where hauliers would take a short sea crossing between Dublin and Holyhead in Wales, drive across Britain and then take another ferry to mainland Europe." ( Note, this is not from the Irish Embassy !!!! )

A port losing 30% of it's traffic is hardly "slight", especially when there is no alternative market / destination to chase to compensate. It is also likely that EU goods for/from NI are now routed via Eire, so even goods to UK destinations have been lost.

New HC rules come into effect from Saturday 29th Jan 2022. You have been warned.

And you wouldn't be able to go on about it on every thread.

From the Independent; " Officials working in No 10 claim they have held back information from Sue Gray’s investigation into the partygate scandal due to a “culture of fear” surrounding the probe. Three sources told The Independent they have not divulged messages and pictures on their phones after a senior member of staff told them to remove anything that could fuel speculation in the wake of the first party revelations. Messages in a WhatsApp group were said to contain photographs of people drinking and dancing, as well as references to how hungover people were the next day. The messages are from the eve of Prince Philip’s funeral, when there were two parties, one to mark the departure of a No 10 photographer and another to mark the departure of James Slack, Downing Street’s director of communications. Mr Slack has since made a public apology. One source claimed that after being asked to remove information, they subsequently deleted evidence of that party. They said they were also fearful that, having removed material, they could face censure: “I did the wrong thing and actually deleted stuff.” “Everyone’s terrified. It’s a witch hunt,” another source told The Independent. “There’s been a culture of fear [in the office] every day since the first party story broke.” Another source added: "I’ve held back from sharing evidence, it’s too risky. And I’d have to explain why I’d deleted some stuff, which would mean saying I’d felt intimidated." Ms Gray is expected to report back to the prime minister at the beginning of next week and he will then decide when to make the findings public. One source said going to Ms Gray with such information was tantamount to being asked to “snitch on the PM in an internal investigation”. "

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-60099413 "Holyhead and Fishguard ports saw a 30% drop in traffic in 2021, according to its operator Stena Line. Ian Davies, boss of Stena's UK ports, said it was down to the new post-Brexit trading relationship with the European Union rather than the pandemic."

For some of us, 24 is 'youth'.

Directive

49-7 at the moment.

It was GM - are you surprised ?

That's right boy, lick my boots.

As the ref booked Stu for the foul VAR had to assess if the yellow was a 'clear and obvious' error of judgement on the severity of the challenge.

Took too long though.

No more easy points 😞

Born in Slough.

And the commenaters mentioned that the ref should have gone back and booked him at the same time he booked Moi. On another point - how can play be called back for a VAR check nearly 3 minutes after the possible offence took place ?

none. Which is exactly how may we would lose if City score.

https://skepticalscience.com/climate-models.htm

On the other hand, what is the bad news ?

Question Time this week came from St Andrews, and included this response to JRM's slur - "I think there’s a degree of projection from Jacob Rees Mogg…given that Boris Johnson has entrusted him with a role that is no more important than to deal with etiquette and protocol, like he’s some kind of steampunk C-3P0"

The best finale to Paradise.... ?

David Milliband - the best PM we never had. If you think Corbyn should ever have got near a Government front bench post you are a total fool.

It takes very little imagination to realise Corbyn would have been a disaster.