Wes Tender

Shock result. West Ham beating Leicester 3-0. What a player Antonio has become. Imagine what we could do with him alongside Ings.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQ9ouQSOaYo Highlights

Judging by the celebrations, it looks like he is a popular member of the team and they all felt really pleased for him. It was a phenomenal and difficult strike, hit with venom.

A good win giving us a real confidence boost before the international break. Hopefully another couple of additions to the squad, one later today and another before the deadline tomorrow, giving some time for them to work on melding into the team. Nice to have goals from Romeu and Djenepo, who hadn't scored for a long time. Adams should have had a couple, as should have Bertrand, so with better finishing, or without such great goalkeeping, we could have had four or five. But the second clean sheet in a row is a great achievement. We looked comfortable throughout, with good width from Bertrand and Walker-Peters, solid in midfield with Romeu and Ward-Prowse, with Armstrong and Djenepo outside them. McCarthy hardly had anything to do, and both CBs looked solid. I'm pleased that Vestergaard looked assured, and came forward with the ball well on a couple of occasions. For once we weren't relying on Ings for a goal, as he didn't have many opportunities, but even so, he always contributes to the team in other ways. Hasenhuttl got it right tactically today, especially bringing on Long late on to add his pace, effort and nuisance value instead of Obafemi, who didn't seem too bothered to make the effort when he last came on. Thank God the team have turned it all around after a dire start to the season. I think that might have been down to a lack of match fitness combined with some tactical shortcomings from Ralph, but it looks as if both have been addressed now.

So you know the facts of the story we have been discussing and have arrived at a view on it, have you? And yet your view is full of conjecture, not facts, which I recognise to be the case, even if you don't. I have to laugh at the inference that you aren't tribal too. Your tribe lost the referendum and the last two elections and are feeling rather bitter about it, so I rather think that the cognitive dissonance applies to you.

You read into text what you want to infer from it, as do I and everybody else.

I refer you to my original post:- You appear to admit that there were leaks, you don't know for sure who made them, you think that apart from CSs, it could even be Ministers or advisers. My stated opinion was that this sort of damaging mischief should be investigated and the culprits should face the consequences. I stand by my post and nothing you have argued causes me to want to retract a single word of it.

My money is on remoaner CSs. Cummings isn't exactly their best friend, especially when he is proposing draining the swamp of some of them. So it is far more likely that they are attempting to create mischief by sowing the seeds of discontent between him and Ministers where it doesn't exist.

I have read all of the suggestions, Timmy, including some crackpot ones that are almost certainly fake, like the ones proposing that offshore barriers and wave machines be deployed in the Channel. Of course I had read about the Ascension Island one, and also St Helena. I expect that as a Conservative member I get a lot more inside information than you do about policy proposals and insider party politics.

So you are agreeing that it was the Foreign Office Civil Servants who leaked details of what was being considered as options? The very basis of my point, that CS leaks of information should be investigated a those responsible sanctioned or sacked.

Classic Timmy, who doesn't even know that Patel is the Home Secretary, and that Dominic Raab is Foreign Secretary. I based my comments on this line:- You will note that the accusations of leaks comes from Patel's allies, not her. The article says that they think that there have been leaks of false information to discredit her. Where do you think that these stories about the options being explored come from, Timmy? Do you have any links to the official statements from ministers that these stories are government policy instead of CS leaks?

behave yourself

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/priti-patel-and-foreign-office-at-war-over-asylum-plans-6m92vpwxg It seems that there is a lot of fake news going on regarding the Government's plans for accommodating these economic migrants arriving on our shores, crossing the Channel in their hordes in inflatable boats. The possibility that there are Civil Servants who are leaking false information because they are leftie remoaners who despise Patel, Boris and the Conservatives needs to be investigated and action taken to discipline or sack those responsible for leaks. According to the BBC report of opinions from the more deranged lefties, accommodating these illegal immigrants in out of service ferries is in the same bracket as putting them in prison hulks in a bygone age. 🤣 No doubt if there was talk of using luxury cruise liners, the analogy would still be applied. Really, how can we possibly bear to cross the seas to our holidays in Europe on these ferries if they are not deemed good enough for immigrant accommodation? And then the BBC featured a hostel in Glasgow, the Tartan Lodge, which the immigrants complained about. No doubt they were told that they would be accommodated in 4 star Hilton class hotels like many others have been. If they were paying for their accommodation as customers, then they are entitled to complain. If they are staying there because British taxpayers are bearing the cost, then they are just taking the piss, especially when comparisons can be made to the conditions in most of the refugee camps or the living conditions of the countries they have left. Maybe they were just upset at having to stay in what was formerly a Christian place of worship.

No, therefore several other people sharing the carriage on the train (and her colleague MPs in the House) can thank her for her largesse in passing on the virus to them. But the actions of people like this are as nothing compared to the idiots attending protest marches, illegal raves and university parties in their droves, so the only perspective that gives them news air time is the "don't so as I do, do as I say" hypocrisy aspect.

Little did she know in June when she roundly condemned Cummings that she herself would be responsible for an even greater breach, travelling a much further distance by train and even attending the House too. I hadn't heard of her either, but one only has to read that she is a SNP MP to realise what her position is on Brexit and the government's performance on the Chinese virus and indeed anything else. She typifies the muddled thinking of the SNP, whose essence is to campaign to leave one union, whilst wishing to remain in another.

I don't read the Daily Mail, blood pressure around 120ish/70ish most times I take it. What do you read and what is your blood pressure?

I don't care a toss what you based your bet on. You bet £50 that we would go for the Norway option, I bet we wouldn't. As I say, on the basis of you reneging on this, I conclude that you are not an honourable person..

Read again; I said people like you. A bit unwoke of you to use the insult "gammon" against older people who were included in the majority of those among the electorate voting to leave the EU , isn't it? Or isn't treating the elderly with contempt considered to be a societal injustice? Perhaps that doesn't apply to elderly white people, eh? Regarding the contempt that the political right are beginning to show towards this term "woke", it's similar to political correctness before and only falls into contempt because it is taken to extreme and ridiculous levels. And of course, it isn't as if the left don't have their own insults that they hurl towards those they despise on the right, is it? Gammon?

When it comes to credibility about Brexit, I expect that you have as much idea about current events as you did about predicting that we would go for the Norway option. 🤣 I think that you'll find that the majority of the electorate are split in their views on current events along political party lines and referendum voting lines. I suspect that regarding the Chinese virus, most wouldn't think that Labour would do things any better. Some people in the City believe that Boris will serve out his term and maybe even win the next election. Speaking of people placing bets that he will be gone by Christmas, would you like to put £50 towards a charity on it? Oh, I forgot, you don't honour your bets, do you?

Being a bit ageist there, aren't you? Things like the BLM pantomime, the woke agenda from SJWs is a minor annoyance. It doesn't affect me beyond that and it will pass when the lefties embark onto their next woke crusade. And as I say, the chief culprits responsible for it, like the BBC, will get their comeuppance. That's already underway at the moment. What's funny as fuck is imagining how wound up people like you must be at the current situation. A couple of GEs lost, the referendum lost, a huge Conservative Party majority; you must feel so helpless at your complete inability to change anything every day.

Good luck with this one, EU. Maybe we ought to counter threaten legal action against the EU for their legal breaches.

Both Presidential candidates are shockingly poor, Trump for being a buffoon and Biden for being senile and corrupt. It is a mystery how those two got to the top of the pile. As to the events in the USA which culminated in the formation of the BLM Marxist movement there and over here, the result has been the tearing down of statues, mobs breaking social isolation measures, the ridiculous scenes of police and footballers "giving the knee," schools having to discuss it in lessons on diversity when a large percentage of pupils are behind in their education because of the Chinese virus, and now some post office letter boxes being painted black as part of Black History month. Will we also be having History months for other ethnic groups celebrating their historical contribution to our history? Will there be a Police Lives Matter organisation formed following the murder of Sergeant Matiu Ratana in Croydon recently? Will it be equally acceptable to the BBC if a white comedian said kill blackie, or is it the case that only whites can be racist? At some stage, there is going to be a backlash against all this woke, virtue signalling by the SJW's in the media. People are getting mighty fed up with it.

Go on, indulge me with the reasoning behind your assertion. Explain how the Tories with probably another four years until the next election and a stoking majority, will be "stuffed" if there is a change of party elected in the USA

You crack me up. I understand that the BBC might b looking for somebody to replace Hislop and Merton on HIGNFY soon. Have you thought of applying? No, on second thoughts, that's a complete non-starter; you are miles off their diversity requirements 😁

So is there going to be an EU Army or not? I thought that the very idea was being ridiculed. Could it be that by reading the quotes from Merkel, Macron, Verhofstadt and others of the EU hierarchy that you're warming to the idea that they are actually planning it?