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No mention of the 300 outstanding cases of alleged Islamophobia by the Tory party then Duckie?

Our problems have not been down to Gao particularly, but the very poor recruitment in recent seasons.

I have been trying to figure this out and can only assume a major concern that people have if they have to “self isolate” for 14 days is not running out of loo roll. It makes you wonder how many rolls some people get through in a week!

He may or may not be the worst owner in our history, but we are still in the Premiership. No one will miss him if and when he goes, that much is true. But there is no guarantee that the next person will throw money at the club. Although Marcus is, quite rightly, held in high esteem, we do not know if he would have ploughed the money into the club in the last few years needed to make us competitive at the top end of the division. I have been a supporter since 1966 and can never remember a time when the owner/chairman/ceo threw tons of money into the club. Even when we finished runners up we still had a couple of positions in which we were a bit weak. A couple of high quality replacements and who knows, perhaps we would have won the league. This is not an argument to keep Gao, but a reminder that as a club we have only found a level of success through shrewd signings and the use of youth. Get the signings wrong and not have the quality in the youth coming through and we will struggle, whoever owns the club.

Absolutely. My wife says we can use it as an ornament. We would have to move to a bigger house to find room for it.

Novelty gifts that have absolutely no use. My wife’s sister bought her a massive wine glass which will hold a full bottle of wine, ha ha! It will never get used and takes up a load of space.

And hit the post.

The Echo are running the story but manage to call him Goa.

As you know, there is no quick fix. Hopefully now that the sentencing is done you can start to gradually move forward. I know you said it is down to the individual and you have to be strong, but there is no shame in leaning on others. Good luck with your recovery!

Whether Bill Clinton lied, was economical with the truth or whatever, has nothing to do with Trump being an appalling human being and an embarrassment of a President.

Silly me. They only go back 2.7 million years. D’oh.

Surely you recall his monumental cock up over the Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe case?

Don’t they find this stuff out through ice cores?

People who say “yeah, no.” Which is it? It is either one or the other.

Sounds horrendous! How are you doing now?

The cracks were very apparent before the election but the Great British public obviously felt that if the USA could vote in someone completely unfit for office, then so could we.

Stand by for a verruca pandemic.

I read about what your party gets away with every day and weep.

Reported on the BBC news tonight that the Tories don’t seem to be doing too much about the Islsmophobia in the party. Also an old Etonian chum and tennis partner of Johnson has a company which has just been given a juicy sum of public money. We are also still waiting to hear about whether Johnson has acted improperly about the funding given to his “tech adviser.” What was that you were saying about draining the swamp Duckie? Any idea when that is likely to start?

Go back and read what I said. Every situation is different but all difficult situations have to be addressed. Patel has a long history of bullying. Why hasn’t it been addressed properly before? It should not have been allowed to get this far. Not dealing with it earlier is an issue. In a normal workplace if you get to a point where someone has to be sacked, the system has failed. With senior cabinet ministers the standard used to be higher, to the point where you were expected to resign if you were caught lying or if your behaviour feel below an accepted level. During the last 10 years of Tory rule the standards have slipped.

Therefore no decent worker had ever been bullied in the work place? Lol. My wife worked for 33 years in the CPS and worked her way up to a senior management position. Every one of her annual appraisals for full of praise for her commitment, quality of work, interpersonal skills etc. All except the last when she was systematically bullied by several senior managers in her department. I was working there at the time and witnessed it first hand. There seems to be something inherent with people of a far right persusasion. People on benefits are scrounges. Only poor performing workers get bullied. All immigrants are lazy, sexual predators, thieves etc. Patel has managed to upset people in three different departments. There is a pattern of behaviour there. I don’t think that she should be sacked until an independent enquiry has taken place, but she should certainly be stood down from her very high and responsible office while she is under investigation.

Virtually every day the media or social media was calling out Corbyn for being an anti-Semite. Remember? You yourself said that Bercow had been pulled up for bullying when trying to pint score again me. Remember?

I don’t know if you have ever worked in management? I have and have been on several courses on how to manage poorly performing and/or difficult individuals. None of the courses mentioned that bullying was the answer. If situations become difficult most organisations have an HR policy to help both managers and employees deal with difficult situations. If there are long standing situations you have to ask why management/employees have left things so long before addressing poor behaviour. If the civil service is as useless as some would have us believe, why has it taken the Tories 10 years to do anything about it?

I don’t know if you have ever worked in management? I have and have been on several courses on how to manage poorly performing and/or difficult individuals. None of the courses mentioned that bullying was the answer. If situations become difficult most organisations have an HR policy to help both managers and employees deal with difficult situations. If there are long standing situations you have to ask why management/employees have left things so long before addressing poor behaviour. If the civil service is as useless as some would have us believe, why has it taken the Tories 10 years to do anything about it?

I should have added it is perfectly possible to hold people to account without bulling them and good managers should not let work situations get to the point where disciplinary action is necessary.