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Still nowhere near as good as Case and Cockerill from a couple of decades ago.

Further complicated by the pro-EU majority in the Commons (at the moment and assuming no General Election) and the Lords which will have to approve any new legislation.

Can I use my 10% Season Ticket discount? I'll buy it anyway but may as well save money if possible.

In her speech outside No. 10 last week, May said that she would stop UK companies being sold to foreign owners. So when ARM, a world-leading technology company which designs the chips in 95% of the world's smartphones, gets flogged off to the Japanese, she welcomes it. Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose.

They very nearly did. Leadsom could have been elected by 150000 retired colonels from Tunbridge Wells.

I think they use playdough now. When my missus taught infants, she used to make her own from food colouring, flour, oil and water so it didn't matter if they ate some.

I think that you're a bit muddled there. Invoking Article 50 signals the start of formal negotiations. There is then a 2-year period at the end of which we leave. As existing EU legislation will no longer apply, we will need new laws and regulations to take their place and they will require the approval of parliament. As there is a pro-EU majority in the Commons and the Lords, we'll probably end up with something similar to what we have already but by a different name.

So Gove supported Boris then, after shafting him, supported Leadsome and now said that he will give his full support to May. Hope she wears a stab-proof vest when Michael's around.

I see that Leadsom's had to re-publish her CV after she claimed that she had experience of managing "hundreds of people and billions of funds" and “managing the investment banks team at Barclays”. In fact she never managed any funds and, according to one retired senior banker who worked with her, she didn't manage any teams, large or small.

You certainly put forward a lucid and cogent argument. You're not a past President of the Oxford University Debating Society by any chance?

If you work in a small business, you'd better hope that Leadsom doesn't get in. This is what she said in Parliament in 2012: “I envisage there being absolutely no regulation whatsoever—no minimum wage, no maternity or paternity rights, no unfair dismissal rights, no pension rights—for the smallest companies that are trying to get off the ground, in order to give them a chance."

Who said in 2013: “I don’t think the UK should leave the EU. I think it would be a disaster for our economy and it would lead to a decade of economic and political uncertainty at a time when the tectonic plates of global success are moving. “Like the rise and fall of the Roman and Greek Empires we are seeing the rise of the Asian and South American economies at a time when our own future is less certain. And to be honest economic success is the vital underpinning of every happy nation. The wellbeing we all crave goes hand in hand with economic success.” Another opportunist jumping on the Brexit bandwagon.

The "other" is a homophobic welshman. So, as the Daily Mash put it: "Two half-baked Thatcher clones, an evil woodland troll, a Welsh Christian homophobe with an untrustworthy beard and the creepiest man in politics since Norman Tebbit."

Glenn Hoddle has invented a new word: fatigueness - as in "The Iceland team look to have some fatigueness".

Eric Black spent 5 years at Metz and speaks fluent French.

But Gove has said on more than one occasion that he didn't want the job and "If anyone wants to get me to sign a piece of parchment in my own blood saying that I don't want to be Prime Minister, if that's what it takes, then I'm perfectly happy to do that." Surely he wouldn't lie, would he?

I don't know why you're so worried. Once the Brexit lot has published their plan, everything will be sunshine and light. They do have a plan, don't they? Surely they wouldn't embark on such a momentous change without first drawing up a detailed programme of how do deal with the hundreds of strategic issues that will need to be addressed? Or am I being naive?

Can you give us some numbers to back that up bearing in mind that the club owes her £40m?

A Tory lesbian Prime Minister? All the old retired Colonels in Tunbridge Wells would have apoplexy.

France score 2 in 3 minutes.

He's probably holed up with Michael Gove saying "What the f*ck do we do now?"

As someone who would vote Labour in the right circumstances, I found it amusing (and a bit depressing) to see John McDonnell talking to Andrew Neil and saying that they should all unite behind Corbyn as there may be a General Election before the end of the year. Corbyn hasn't a hope in hell of winning an election. Don't these "activists", Union leaders and party members realise that you can't change anything in opposition so you need a leader who will appeal to a broad spectrum of the electorate. Tony Blair may have turned out to be a bit of a tosser but he won 3 elections by getting the votes of middle England as well as what used to be Labour's traditional support.

This is where problems could arise. About 75% of MPs are pro-EU and there is also a majority in the Lords. Any new legislation will have to get through the Commons. At that point, the referendum is irrelevant. The Government would have complied with the result, but we may end up with new laws that aren't a lot different to the present. I see that the backtracking has already started. Farage has disowned the "£350m which will go to the NHS" claim and now MEP Dan Hannan and MP Nigel Evans (both from the leave campaign) have said that they couldn't promise that immigration will come down.

Reminds me of a remark made by Nigel Farage when asked why UKIP*always did badly in London despite it having very high immigration. He replied that Londoners were generally too young and well-educated.

No, but with all the lies and deception put out by both sides and papers like the Mail and Express, it needed a fair bit of digging to find out any reliable data. The Independant's sister paper, The i, adopted a strictly neutral stance and did a good job of trying to present the facts behind the various issues as well as having contributions from both sides.