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How do you think the British Empire came to cover a third of the globe, knocking politely and asking if the locals wanted to have a nice cup of tea ?

Wes has a set group of phrases that he is confident in using, and rarely strays from his script; remoaner, vicar's daughter, grocer Heath, regain control, sclerotic EU, pillaging our waters. At least he tends to refrain from"traitors", or asking for Remain voters to be strung up with piano wire. PS: and his match assessments are usually spot on.

There was never a snowflake's chance in hell that the UK would negotiate with the US as equals. Given the way the Brexit 'deal' has gone I dread to think how an FTA with the yanks might turn out.

A 6 vote margin, the closest ever, for a single seat is being disputed here, with many votes appearing to have not been counted for various reasons. I don't see her bringing in a 'World Class" legal hit squad to try to overturn the entire national poll by claiming a dead Venezualan dictator fed suitcases full of votes to a secret server farm in Germany funded by China.

Now the Attorney General in Texas has filed a complaint asking for the results in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Georgia, and Michigan to be set aside. He claims that changes made to dates and procedures for mail-in ballots by those 4 states in advance of the election were unlawful, despite Texas making exactly the same changes - which he isn't worried about because Trump won. And the Supreme Court, ( with 3 Trump appointees and a strong Republican majority ), issued a unanimous 1 line dismissal of the first case from the Trump side, so far, to reach them. I didn't realise the US was so keen on pantomime season. As gets so often posted on the Brexit thread - "You lost, get over it !".

Travis Fimmel reprises his performance as Ragnar Lothbrock.

Have you only just realised ?

https://www.business-live.co.uk/manufacturing/end-road-ineos-500-job-18749024 However, it is understood that with enabling work preparing the site, as well as road infrastructure, the Welsh Government has spent around £5m supporting the project to date.

Just another 2-faced rat seeking to help himself above the rest of us and abandoning the floundering Brexit project he helped to promote. It was announced in August that this was likely, they are saving millions in start up costs by taking over a former SMART plant from Mercedes-Benz. The abortive plan for Bridgend will have cost the Welsh Assembly about £5m.

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Safe Harbour Day - enough states have certified their results to ensure Biden wins, subject to somebody on Trump's side trying get Congress to go against it's own rules, and possibly challenge the Constitution. The ultimate irony will be Vice President Pence chairing the meeting of Congress that affirms Biden's Presidency.

The UK and EU have agreed procedures for the NI border, and the contentious clauses in the Internal Markets Bill are to be withdrawn. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-55229681

That's 2 yawns now - are you ready for your afternoon nap ?

Wes likes using silly names, it makes him feel smug and superior, thereby papering over his inate inferiority complex.

*yawn*

Collectively or individually ? When might it become OK for players to break ranks ?

At what point do they stop taking a knee ? What social change has to be shown to have been enacted ? At what point might it become accepted as tokenism, as some people assert it already has ? Do you think we'll see players and officials kneeling at the start of the 2024/5 season ? ( Does asking these questions make me a "wack-job" ? )

When was the last time you could say that ? Anyway, if the pen had not been given and it had remained an FK it would have led to the same result; JWP chips it in, Vest knock down for Danny to tap in.

"Easiest trade deal in human history" - Liam Fox

For a while I thought you were talking about the sitcom based in Wolverhampton that was on C4 a few years ago.

Goes with the territory.

Is the kneeling mandatory ? What would happen if a p!ayer wore a BLM t-shirt over his kit and didn't take the knee ?

Safe Harbour day tomorrow, Donny's running out of time, and Rudy's hors de combat.

But if winter becomes wetter then flooding, which is our local bane with run off from fields and overflowing drainage dykes, gets worse.

Have you gone slightly hoarse ?