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Regarding the test series, I wonder if SpecSavers will be rethinking their sponsorship given the appalling quality of the umpiring.

That referendum was a farce, as PR was never offered as an option, as you well know.

So, less than a third of the votes cast results in a significant overall majority. FPTP is anything but democratic.

Shame really that Brexiteers ignored their warnings, dismissing them as more Project Fear.

Perhaps playing batsmen in their accustomed batting place, and permitting them to play first class matches outside tests, might help. As far as I can work out, Root has played 3 first class county innings this year, most of them have played none.

Perhaps because they knew it stood a chance of becoming the dominant point, and they lacked a reasoned solution, so it was simply swept under the carpet in the hope that nobody would notice until it was too late. Edit; BoJo said before the referendum vote that the Irish border would "remain absolutely unchanged". "There's been a free travel area between the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland for, I think, getting on for 100 years, there's no reason at all why that should cease to be the case." https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-35692452 "Theresa Villiers, then Northern Ireland secretary, said the border would “remain as free-flowing after a Brexit vote as it is today” and anyone suggesting otherwise was “scaremongering”." http://www.irishnews.com/news/2016/04/18/news/irish-border-concerns-over-brexit-scaremongering-theresa-villiers-489126/

Middx 121-4 to 128 all out, Hants easy win.

Making up contrived names for cross bred dogs, then charging pure bred prices for the puppies; it isn't a labradoodle, it's a f_cking mongrel.

A small nuisance perhaps, but GM is implying that the government and general population of Eire supported Hitler, which is pure fantasy.

If you actually read the articles you link you may find that sometimes they actually don't support your argument. That there was a degree of antipathy to returning WW1 veterans from Sinn Fein supporters in 1919 is hardly surprising, particularly as the Free State was about to embark on a bloody civil war, and as your article indicates a large number of the veterans actually joined the Republican militants ( And yet again I have to remind you that during WW1 Ireland was part of the UK, not an independent entity, and it remained a dominion until 1938 ).

Where is the support for the Germans, either in manpower, access to facilities and airspace, or intelligence, that balances that given to the UK ?

Obviously fake news.

Where is the evidence that Ireland, as part of the UK, supported the Kaiser in WW1, or that Eire, more than 70000 of whose citizens fought in our armed forces and merchant marine, supported Hitler in WW2 ? Perhaps there was an ambivalence, driven by their position as a neutral country with a poor recent history regarding the UK, but what assistance are they supposed to have given to Germany, that measures against the covert aid they provided to us in the form of permitting our aircraft to traverse Irish airspace and supplying weather reports to the RAF and RN. ( Also, throughout WW2 Eire was still a member of the British Commonwealth ).

Well at least we know why he voted leave - to save English football from those meddling Eurocrats. Funny how Leave.UK didn't pick up on that one, it might have helped push their vote beyond 52%.

Trump has cancelled a planned state visit to Denmark after the Danes said that Greenland was not for sale.

The vote wasn't based on the EU 10 years ago, it was based on the EU 3 years ago, modified by Cameron's 'concessions'. We already had opt-outs for certain functions, and stood outside the Schengen and euro zones, and the potential new agreement wouild have kept the UK out of some of the more federalist fancies that were being floated. My vote was cast on the basis of being quite content, and informed, about these circumstances. ( Note, not Osborne's "Project Fear", I treated this propaganda with the same disdain I held for all of the Leave.UK BS ). I ask again, what concrete promises persuaded you to vote leave ?

I voted remain, for the status quo, and therefore knew exactly what I was voting for. I assume you voted leave, based on what hard evidence of benefits ?

Just think what the effect of 0% import tariffs will be, especially when the EU imposes tariffs on trade going the other way.

I think that is blindingly obvious.

The solution to post-Brexit food supply issues, M&S tinned sausages.

"What's driving Brexit? From here it looks like it's probably the Duke of Edinburgh" ( Milton Jones at the Edinburgh Fringe )

It's going over dead ground, but the EU did address most of Cameron's concerns, although not necessarily giving him all that he wanted in each case. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/eu-renegotiation-what-david-cameron-wanted-and-what-he-really-got-a6885761.html

When ? Without PR the FPTP system will continue to deliver Governments elected by a minority of votes cast, let alone a minority of the electorate.

Where's Oddball from Kelly's Heroes when you need him ?

Project Fear writ large on the front page of today's Sunday Times, as they reveal the details of Operation Yellowhammer.