Wes Tender

Not really. It is your juvenile insults that make you a good laugh, not the opinions, which as I said are boring.

Very weak response. She's a good laugh, just as you are.

Here's one of yours:-

I can quite believe it.

Or the Not Independent not writing on behalf of their Russian former KGB owner.

Oh look, it's the Guardian propagating project fear with a bit of anecdotal whataboutery. Pathetic. Nobody takes them any more seriously on articles like this than they do with the equivalent ones in the Daily Express.

There were a couple of factors which swung the impetus of the match in Palace's favour. Hodgson who is an old and wise bird, set them up perfectly to neutralise the threat of our preferred high press under Hasenhuttl. Secondly, it appears that as is often the case, we don't play as well after an extended break between matches, losing impetus and weakening the confidence gained from our last win. Palace have speedy players in their team, so it was their natural away game plan against a high press team to create an impenetrable barrier at the back to stifle our attack, and to hit us on the break. On more than one occasion especially in the first half, they broke forward at speed and we were only saved by some last ditch tackles. Palace's defensive plan also meant that there was little benefit in us breaking fast, or putting the ball over the midfield, as our forwards weren't there to receive it. We were restricted to the ponderous build up play seeking an opening through a packed tight midfield, meaning that many of our short passes were intercepted. Palace were well drilled and riding high on their more recent success knocking Spurs out of the FA Cup three days earlier. The first half was an edgy affair, both sides playing tentatively, but Palace were looking the more threatening, especially through Zaha, and there was an inevitability that it would be him who broke the deadlock. Once ahead, Palace could sit on their lead, inviting us on to them, but increasing the chances of hitting us on the break as we sought the equaliser. Hasenhuttl had to make tactical changes to try and change the dynamics of our team, but when he made the substitutions, I was quite incredulous and had Hughes made the same ones, I would have accused him of losing his marbles. First, he took off Valery, who I thought had played quite well against Zaha most of the time, and replaced him with Armstrong just after the hour. OK, going for more bite and invention in midfield, but weakening the defence. But then I was astonished when he took off Vestergaard for Elyounoussi on 75 minutes. That seemed to leave a gaping hole in defence and add not a lot of anything in return. The later substitution of Hojbjerg for Slattery on 85 minutes was fair enough after Zaha was sent off and we were chasing all three points, so the introduction of fresh legs was a good tactic. Despite my misgivings, the substitutions worked, as we managed to score an equaliser, quite out of the blue, finally some incisive passing around the box allowing Ward-Prowse to slot home yet another goal. He is having a real purple patch, making himself difficult to leave out of the team. However, he had been quite poor up until then, but the scoresheet is what matters. The game-changer came with Zaha's red card towards the end of the match. Ward-Prowse blatantly pushed him out of play and instead of getting the free kick that he deserved, the incompetent referee, Mariner, awarded a throw in to us. Zaha was incensed and following a handbags scuffle he received a yellow card, followed shortly after by the second for dissent. Zaha had been their main threat, most of Palace's other shots having been poor, from distance, high and wide. We surged forwards trying to score the winner, having a goalward shot blocked at the death. Palace are a decent team, well managed, and were the better team on the night, and yet we could have won all three points. Such is football. When they had scored, it still looked as if we couldn't respond, so the point is a good one. We will do better against the teams that don't park the bus and allow us the space to press high and pass and move, which is our game under Hasenhuttl. Pochettino's team with Saints used to suffer in the same way against those tactics, and it is instructive that Palace beat Pochettino's high riding Spurs a few days previously.

Here you go again, plumbing the depths of the gutter to insult those who hold a different opinion to you, and even their wives and families, just by association. But if that's the way you are, then you have my pity.

I think that it's a good idea that you bugger off out of the UK, seeing as how you have such a low opinion of 17.4 million of our citizens who voted to leave the EU, presumably on the basis that they thought that we would do better outside of it. Without knowing it just by looking at them, they are all around you. How can you bear the thought of it?

You really have no idea at all, do you? What gave you the impression that I was in the camp of "it couldn't be any worse"? I have wanted to leave since Maastricht. I have always believed since then that it would be better for us outside the EU. There is absolutely no reason at all why we shouldn't thrive as a nation post-Brexit provided that we take the right political steps on trade, taxation, immigration, investment in our economy, etc. I expect that you thought the same thing when we decided to leave the ERM and not to join the Eurozone, but we seem to have done really quite well since then. Happy to inform you that I do know how big Canada is, having been to Vancouver and Toronto. It seemed a reasonable assumption having guessed that you were talking about Canada instead of Amsterdam, that you might have been planning to live near your family there.

No, he didn't. This is a lie, put about by the Remoaner press as part of their campaign to discredit one of the people they fear most on the Leave side. If you bothered to read what he actually said, instead of being gullible enough to accept this propaganda at face value, he said “The overwhelming opportunity for Brexit is over the next 50 years.” I'm sure that you are intelligent enough to recognise that this statement does not mean that it will only be after 50 years before we see the opportunities that Brexit will bring. If somebody told you that your new born son could expect to lead a life overwhelmingly filled with opportunity over the next 50 years, would you believe that to mean that he would have to wait until he was 50 to have the benefits of this opportunity?

But console yourself that you will be able to be near your family in Canada, was it? I suspect that when you have put yourself thousands of miles distant, you will soon lose interest in events over here. You can always return though in a few years when the UK is thriving post Brexit.

So Jeff throwing his toys out of the pram in a fit of pique and calling this country a sh*thole because the Remoaners lost their votes last night wasn't him exhibiting a bitter persona? He shouldn't be such a drama queen.

LOL. Good one. Who said satire is dead?

Goodbye. You won't be missed.

Caroline Spelman's amendment passes. But is not binding on the Government "Caroline Spelman MP has gained considerable Labour support for her amendment that ‘rejects’ no deal. Now it’s possible to argue whether it’s logically possible to vote to force the EU to agree a deal when the Commons has voted down the Prime Minister’s deal. Logic is not a bar to amendments, however, and it may gain support from the ‘no no deal’ crowd. However, it is legally meaningless as it’s not binding. The Government will never have to work through its faulty logic."

Rachel Reeves amendment also defeated

Similar to the majority that they held in opinion polls just prior to the Referendum?

So far, the amendments from Corbyn, Grieve and Cooper have all been defeated. So far so good.

I post this once more to illustrate how opinion polls can be influenced. The larger the sample, the greater the spread of the demographic area, the broader the spectrum of political affiliation, the more straightforward the question, the more accurate the result. I am yet to be convinced that this collection of polls satisfies those parameters to any great degree, so please excuse my scepticism.

Surely you realise that there is a great deal of difference between negotiating free trade deals with a bloc and seeking membership of a union with it. I don't see any country wanting to trade with a bloc involving annual payments to it, acceptance of that bloc's laws having precedence over theirs, having to accept uncontrolled immigration, etc. Would Canada, Japan, Korea, etc have accepted those as a price they were prepared to pay to trade with the EU?

As I said, there is scant evidence of changing opinion in great numbers. You can link to limited number of voters polls all you like, but they are dependent on where they take their samples, what question is asked, etc.

No, May has ensured that through her complete incompetence. Most of the civilised rest of the World can't understand how she has allowed the EU to set the agenda, to show no backbone, dither and obfuscate her way through the negotiations like a complete amateur, surrounding herself with useless advisors who are Remoaners, as she herself is. Many of our friends and allies applauded our decision to leave the failing, busted flush EU and to take back control of our own destiny, to free ourselves from the bureaucratic ties that bound us. Now they are as exasperated as many of us are at the feeble attempts of our government to achieve it. Corbyn is the other reason why we have lost respect in the World; he is a complete joke.

Oh, I thought I was answering Shurlock's question about what I would do if I didn't like a deal. That is what he asked me, wasn't it? Reading difficulties? But in answer to your point:- As the discussion was about the demerits of taking no deal of the table, do please let me know whether you believe our negotiating position is weakened or strengthened by telling the EU that we want a deal, but we aren't going to leave without a deal even if what they offer is a crap deal. Under those circumstances, not only would we be the laughing stock of the World, but the EU would think that all of their Christmases had come at once.

No signs of anybody changing their minds in any great numbers. If anything, positions are becoming more entrenched. There have though been increasing signs of growing anger and exasperation at the delays in getting Brexit done and dusted, with talk of extensions, payment of £billions without guarantees of a deal, losers' referendums, and even stopping our leaving.