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If you believe that you really haven’t been paying attention John. I think you’ll find the Americans (that will be the people with the upper hand in the negotiations) have very different ideas.

Getting Brexit Done by 31st October - fail Dead in a ditch if he doesn’t - fail

What is comedy gold is the way you take one small part of a programme to denigrate it rather than deal with the message of the programme as a whole. Probably because you can’t defend the indefensible. This has nothing to do with The Guardian. This is to do with the future of the NHS. Perhaps you should put your prejudices to one side and look at the situation objectively.

No, I don’t think that a Labour Government would ruin the country. They certainly cannot do any worse than Cameron, May and Johnson. Still with the rabid right wing press on your side you could well end up foisting Johnson on us for another 5 years. Dear God! Have you notice how little notice your media of choice have made of Johnson’s failed promise to take us out of the EU by 31st October? If it had been Corbyn who failed do spectacularly he would be vilified on the front of the Sun, Express,Mail, Telegraph and Times. All we get with Johnson is news of another failed attempt to get a decision in Parliament with no criticism whatsoever. The Sun even manage to get another pop at putting a chicken picture of Corbyn on the front page. Why no poss take of Johnson not actually being dead in a ditch? Far funnier and far more relevant. And yes, I believe that any who voted for Johnson as PM and who votes him back is is guilty of ruining this country. It is called freedom of speech. Suck it up.

I don’t usually agree with much of what Adrian Durham has to say on TalkSport, but last night he was rightly laying into the Gooners about booing their own captain when he left the pitch. The team need support when things are going badly more so than when things are going well. They don’t need to be reminded how embarrassing Friday not was for everyone involved with SFC. They need to be encouraged to get over it, move on and do better. None of us expect a result tonight, but a performance with effort and pride will be a move in the right direction.

I expect that there are a number of managers who could keep us up without going backwards. They have him on TalkSport a lot as he doesn’t currently have a day job and it is worrying just how rooted in the past he is.

Oh and John, a tip for you. If you want to be taken seriously don’t use the term “fake news.” As soon as anyone, especially Trump says it you know that they are in dodgy ground.

I don’t expect companies not to make a profit. The issue here (clearly) is the NHS’s ability to negotiate best prices once sucked into a trade deal with the US. Surely as a red blooded dyed in the wool capitalist you can see that this will not be good for the NHS and for the UK as a whole? Potentially the money we save on membership to the EU could all go to the pharma giants in the US. Good for the UK? I don’t think so. We are heading down the same road as the US in terms of unaffordable health care. You and Wes really need to spend more time in your local surgeries or A & E wards.The socialists that you appear to have such sustain for want to improve the NHS for the benefit of our society, not to boosts profits even more for US pharma companies.

I’ve come to the conclusion that you either work for the Express or the Mail. Sadly it is people like you who vote for people like Johnson and are ruining this country. Despite your childish attempts to discredit the programme, there should be enough there to ring warning bells, even for blinkered right wingers like yourself. Taken with the numerous warnings coming from people within the NHS there is clearly plenty to be concerned about. The naive people are those who think that a weak UK isn’t going to get royally shafted by Trump in any future trade deals. The special relationship ******** is long dead.

So Corbyn will get grief for not supporting a 12th December election. Meanwhile the DUP, who the Tories paid a lot of money to buy their support, also failed to support the motion - but that is not an issue.

The whole situation has been damaging since the referendum. I would love for him to be ousted but unfortunately many of this country’s voters seem to have a Trump mentality where they will quite happily vote for a pathetic narcissistic charlatan because they will say what they want to hear. Get Brexit Done sums it up. Getting Brexit Done is going to take years yet Johnson will have us believe that it will all be wrapped up once he gets his vote in Parliament. He will also have the backing of the right wing press so we can expect daily hatchet on Corbyn and the Labour Party. Apparently all you need to get elected now is charisma. Policies don’t matter.

Fortunately he can do little damage whilst he doesn’t have a majority.

Does losing one game by lots of goals mean you are a worse manager than say, Pellegrino?

Plenty of cross party MPs saying the same thing about campaigning in winter. The longer Johnson is PM the more people will see what a liability he is so I can see the sense in drawing it out a bit longer.

On Channel 4 at 8pm tonight Dispatches - Trump’s plan for the NHS As if by magic John!

https://inews.co.uk/news/health/nhs-drugs-cost-brexit-trade-deal-usa-820816

What, my post about the worries about the future of the NHS in the hands of the Tories?

What has that got to do with selling it off to America?

To be fair our cones are in the top four of the training cones league.

How do you know that Ralph bases his judgement on training sessions. He is a very experienced manager. Don’t you think he would weigh up his options based on both training and match performances? Neither you nor I have ever managed a professional football team. Whatever you think of his choices and tactics he will base those decisions on what he believes his squad/team can deliver. As you say, they don’t always deliver what they practice during the week, but then doesn’t that happen with most teams every match day?

They don’t just play against training cones though do they? The play against each other to practice various set up and systems. Granted those sessions will not be as intense as a proper game but let’s not pretend that they don’t have to show the manager what they are about by going round a cone or two.

We can always rely on Batman for an insightful post. He might have been better off saying we get the Government we deserve.

Did the club go back on its word? We were told several times of the need to sell in order to buy. Our issue over the summer was the problem we had in offloading a number of players and how long that took.

Yes I did work for the Guardian (for 22 years and very proud of it) but I wasn’t a journalist. It wasn’t and still isn’t owned by rich businessmen (it is owned by a trust) with right wing agendas and is still our only independent national newspaper. It doesn’t support any political party although it is liberal with a small l. I am not against capitalism but capitalism for the benefit of all. I don’t believe any of us believe in the trickle down theory any more. There is something seriously wrong when a country with the 5th largest economy has a percentage of its population that has to rely on food banks. For 8 years I saw at first hand what the Tories enforced austerity measures did to the Criminal Justice System. It comes as no surprise that violent crime and sexual offences have increased as the chance of seeing police out and about nowadays. I could go on and on about how our society is becoming more and more fragmented thanks to Tory policies but I guess you won’t see it as their fault.

I am not an old socialist. I have only voted Labour once and that was a tactical vote. However I want the NHS protected. I want the Universal Credit system replaced by something fit for purpose, I want see the railways renationalised and run for the benefit of the people and not for profit and I want the super rich to pay a reasonable amount in tax. I think most people would see those as reasonable aspirations. We are not going to get these things from a Tory government so if that makes me a socialist, so be it. Surely better to want a better society for all rather than for a minority of selfish self centred arseholes.