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I'm in the Bassett ward though I live at the top end of Shirley. All 3 Lib Dems were elected. They were very active in the weeks leading up to the poll with lots of leaflets and knocking on doors. Didn't hear a word from the Tories, no literature, no visits and now no Councillors (in Bassett).

Who comes up with this rubbish?

More lunacy from over the pond: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-65433304

Don't sit on the fence, Rut. Tell us what you really think.

Compulsory guns would be even better.

£475 for a sad old git in the Chapel. If unchanged, that would work out as £20.65 per game which I think is ok.

The difference with that season is that after 27 games we were 10th in the table partly due to Broja's goals. After the 4-0 defeat at Villa it was downhill, but we had enough points in the bag to survive. This season we were bottom after game 27 and that's probably where we'll end up.

I take it that the "arse licking" was metaphorical.

This was the 129th mass shooting this year. A mass shooting is defined as at least 4 people killed and/or injured. This site gives a lot more detail: https://www.gunviolencearchive.org

I think that Willian will only miss 1 game as it wasn't violent conduct.

According to the OBR we are set for a total 7% fall in living standards over '23 and '24. This wipes out the previous 8 years of growth and is the biggest fall since records began.

Scored loads of goals for Forest under Cloughie and a less successful spell at Man U. Never knew he played for QPR.

Jonathan Pie gives his caustic view:

Quite possibly. By refusing to rise to the bait you could have negated his argument.

If the question was so childish you should have had no problem in forming a suitably critical reply. Dumb insults show that he got to you.

France has a much more efficient means of removing those who do not qualify. Their national ID card scheme means that it is much more difficult to work illegally, so the UK is a more attractive destination. Also a lot of them speak English and can disappear into the black economy (car washes, restaurants etc).

Your childish reply tends to answer his question.

That's a very erudite and well-constructed riposte. You have hidden talents.

Poor chap's got another 18 months on £x000 a week doing sod all.

But they can adopt Irish citizenship as well as British and an Irish passport gives them free movement.

As it's in the Single Market it has the "4 Freedoms". Goods, capital, services and people.

https://www.facebook.com/watch/live?ref=watch_permalink&v=945076253599684

Andrea Leadsom telling British companies to invest in Northern Ireland to have access to the Single Market. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-64802929

Sunak appears to imply that things are better in the single market:

The standard of intellectual debate on here seems to have taken a bit of a nose dive.