Sergei Gotsmanov

I would like to thank all those who have put in the time and effort to make the site work. From a professional standpoint I would confess that I am probably 5% less effective at my work!

There will and already has been lots of 'substitution'. UK agricultural is more competitive than it has been for a few years and the supermarkets make decisions ruthlessly based on price - even more so now that Lidl and Aldi have taken share from them. Farmers rotate their crops every year and it takes no real extra investment. Most people want cheap food and that is why Lidl and Aldi have taken share. Consumption habits will shift. I apologise but I cannot resist pointing out that EU imported beer brands like Heineken will be more expensive and will lose out to British brewed beers.

It is quite straight forward for if the £ is drops then Mr Tesco sources his Bacon from the UK not Holland or Denmark, his beef from the UK not Ireland etc etc and I would still think that most food is not manufactured it is reared or grown and if it is processed then factories around Europe will be sourcing from us now because of the favourable exchange rate. It is not a question of people reverting back to eating seasonal fruit and veg, more a question of more people eating seasonal fruit and veg because it is cheaper.

I think it is great that all these supermarkets will now be sourcing their products where they can domestically. That is good news for the economy. Countries like Greece and Spain must be a bit miffed they joined the Euro and will be in perpetual poverty for years to come unable to change their exchange rates. Enforced austerity from the EU.

Agreed, defies all the stereotypes. Proud he is a Saint.

My position would be that if I am having a dinner party in my nice house I will need to know who is coming and how many. How can I cater for them otherwise?

Good point.

I think a lot do struggle. There is a high rate of bankruptcy among many ex players. Badly advised, bad investments and continuing to spend like they are still on 30K a week.

I found it a very good read. I liked the contributors and their writing style. If fanzines do remerge then I would not expect them not to be 'retro' but beat their own path and this one does have its own style. I appreciated that. It will be interesting how much is raised for Southampton hospital.

I wouldn't buy season tickets if I could not lend them to people when we cannot go - I have been once this season. I would also suggest that sometimes companies buy them and let people in the office borrow them.

I was there and reckon it was 11K but that is at the top of my head

Great idea to mix a good cause with a good read. Where can I buy it locally?

So people will buy local? It has boosted farming.

I think your assumptions about Brexiteers are unfounded and the inability to emphasise would suggest that the intellectual gulf between stay and leave is not as great as you would believe. Were you one of the nearly three quarters of economists who predicted a post Brexit recession? Do you think change is more likely now we have voted out than if we had voted in? I hope that I am on the right side of the argument but I cannot of course ever be sure.

What is a typical Brexit post? Sorry I should have said biggest European fishing fleet. Like others in the remain camp you cannot accept that Europe's dysfunctional, inflexible and undemocratic ways was a major factor in people voting for Brexit. It's unwillingness to change will threaten its very existence. Its parliament has become increasingly full of protest parties and the next European elections will probably make it completely unworkable and full of crackpots. I think we should go out there and fight like hell for the best deal using every tactic and bargaining tool at our disposal. 'Manning up' and accepting that our GDP will fall is what I would expect of those that were happy to stand by and accept that the EU needed to change but never would.

Was our fishing fleet not the largest in the world before we signed up? Publicly there is plenty of bravado but behind the scenes one would obviously like to think that people recognise the damage done to both sides if it is not an amicable break up. You talk us down again, this is the UK not Norway. Believe it or not the benefits were two way. David Cameron went to the EU and asked for concessions and he could not even persuade them to allow us to demand that people had a job before they came to the UK. It was no surprise that we voted out. How exactly were you expecting the EU to embrace reform. The referendum result was ultimately a good result because if we had voted to stay in then nothing would have changed but now there is a political will to address some of the issues.

So under your logic the UK fishing industry would have been very keen to stay in the EU? Not sure too many voted in especially those hard working west country fisherman abused by Bob Geldof and his shipmates. I am not sure I would be alone in detecting an appetite to 'punish' the UK in certain circles of the EU. You also seem to be suggesting that democracy is the price we have to pay for being in the Union. What I find a little odd about those that voted to stay in is that there is no willingness to concede that the EU has some very pronounced issues to address.

Despite some rather vindictive noises coming from a Commission that increasingly resembles FIFA in the way it conducts itself, we have to hope that the pragmatists will triumph. Some fine tuning to the existing arrangements will be more straight forward and will be in everyone's interest than the political posturing of some of the EU's higher profile bureaucrats. Do you really think that the French and the Spanish want to lose access to our highly productive fishing waters, the ones we gave away to join in the first place. Do the Germans want to lose out on their second biggest market for their cars. Do you think that the Irish can risk playing games with their biggest export market. Do you think the Dutch want to stop selling flowers competitively to Covent Garden. Will Danish farmers not be petitioning their government to protect their bacon exports. The list goes on and on. In fragile economic times for the region, a bitter divorce is in nobody's interest. Hopefully Brexit will be seen as an opportunity to fix the EU not damage it further.

That hair is sensational!

Verbal part of the problem for the 'remainers' is that they genuinely believe that they are more intelligent and rounded human beings. It seems that the remedy being put forward by another highly paid, unelected bureaucrat is a more rigid, less flexible and undemocratic Europe. Who will be in this new hard core of Euro Super state? Germany, France, Belgium and all those countries who are so skint that they have no choice.

Welcome. How good is Boufal?

Would be fantastic to have him back. A player with a point to prove who knows the set up. Level headed as well so I am told. We could hardly begrudge him a move to Arsenal could we.

I am not trying to justify atrocities just trying to point out albeit clumsily that I do not really see this as a clash between good and evil; both sides are just as bad.

I meant to say more qualified than my own opinion. Why is the foreign office full of the right people.

I think that as Assad represents this minority party of the country it is probably appropriate. I do not condone the bombing of hospitals but I expect that understandably the hospitals were probably not just full of civilians. I think that it was great that Syria was a relatively secular society under Assad but I doubt it ever will be again. It saddens me that it became a focus of conflict between Russian and the West. I do know that Syria before the war was a good country and if we should never have let it deteriorate into this tragic situation. That is a crime between us and the Russians. I also greatly respect your opinion on this part of the world and enjoy your viewpoint because it is my qualified than my own. It genuinely shapes my understanding and hopefully others.