Sergei Gotsmanov

As I say great respect.

Great respect.

When do you think that China and India will want to cash in on our debts? Why should their people remain in poverty. Your something for nothing society simply does not work.

Why should somebody in China work in a sweatshop in China for £2.50 a day when we owe trillions and they have lent it to us? The tragedy of Spanish unemployment should make us realise that at some point China will want its people to reap the rewards of their graft.

No on the premise that the world does not owe them a living.

I would reverse the question and say why are emplyees not more grateful that there are people prepared to start up businesses to give them jobs.

It is not in the interest of small company's to treat their workforce badly in fact if you treat them well then you will get more out of them. However if they employ ten people and one ends up being useless then that is 10% of the workforce and no employer can operate with 10% of their employees being unproductive apart from your local council. You need to address the issue quickly but to do so will invariably result in a time consuming and expensive tribunal - if you turnover £1m and it costs you £50,000 that is 5% of turnover and a lot of your time sorting it out. Employment law is a complicated tightrope that can hit small company's a lot harder than bigger ones. The point that you are missing is that nobody wants to take on bad people but why not remove the risk from doing so.

Curious to justify something this outrageous behaviour by saying it happens all the time. It is wrong and will ultimately hit local jobs here where we play fair.

That really was awful. A national embarrassment.

Always at my most relaxed in the Highlands. If you want the best seafood restaurant go to Loch Leven seafood cafe on Loch Leven. Renting a cottage in the middle of nowhere is very cheap.

I recall in the mid nineties being lost on our way to the Anfield. Asked a random scouser who told us he was going - we parked up and he then drove us to the ground in his van which I know made him late because I watched him turn round. I admired that.

There is ambition and then there is realism. We are a medium to small premier league club and are aspirations based on our resources should be to punch above our weight. I think that means competing on the fringes of mid table with a decent cup run.

I would settle for a good cup run and premiership stability.

Proud to be a Southampton supporter

Can you write to them. These idiots have devalued the greatest cup competition in the world. How I miss the old days.

That is very true. Had not thought about that. The BBC recruit bland punditd.

We used to always do quite well on the TV until we went down.

If you noted the price of corn and meat at the moment then you will actually see that it is very much worth farming every inch at the moment. Once again you are using outdated thinking to garnish your argument Pap. Set Aside is now redundant.

I apologise Buctotim for the way our debate degenerated into petty point scoring. We will have to agree to disagree. We are after all Saints fans.

Yes I thought that about yours when you insisted that Heineken wasn't imported and that it was common practice to release pheasants out of the back of a lorry on the day of a shoot! Anyway good luck with your land reforms and reducing the size of farms to make them more efficient!!

It is a recruitment advertisement because they are trying to increase their subs. CLA members in the main wear mustard cords and tweed jackets.

Very clever phrase Buctotim but you fail to contest what I have said. Why would paintballers, sawmills and Equestrian centres be in the CLA? they are businesses who normally rent out their buildings not lanmdowners wanting to be represneted on issues like footpaths.

Sorry just analysing the data you sent me. The CLA is generally a lobby group for toffs so all the people you are trying to bash are incorporated in those numbers - the other 50% of non members would on the whole have smaller farms. Your feudal model is almost completely balls.

Sorry I was working around the 6000 people owning two thirds of the land that was being used on this thread. 36000 owning 50% equates to 686 acres each on average (hardly an estate) - about what you would need to make a decent living out of farming - 5 years ago you would have just made a living out of that. Is this too large a farm or will you still be having a handout to make them smaller (and of course more efficient!!!!)

I have not the time to dig around for statistics; as you have proved they can be very deceptive. I have merely pointed out that the really big estates you keep going on about are in the main mountainous highland estates that distort your figures about the percentage of the UK that is owned by a few people. If you looked at the English figures they would be very different. Yes you have a few Aristocratic landowners but your argument about land reform would perhaps be relevant pre first world war but actually today it is pretty irrelevent because land ownership has evolved dramatically since the 40's. With regard to Heineken, I politely pointed out to you that it was in fact imported. You then went to the Heineken UK website and in a very condescendingly manner threw a load of numbers at me that referred to the company and not the brand. I merely explained that it was in fact imported, which it is. (Ring them up or read the label if you still do not believe me.