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Why should you get an answer to that question? The current protesters were likely around 6 years old when Labour introduced tuition fees anyway so you can't hold them responsible if you think the response in 1997 was underwhelming. What does it matter anyway? You can justify pretty much anything with "whatabout....". "class war" seems a little over the top, you probably couldn't get a more middle class protest than the current student protests.

It seems widely accepted across the political spectrum that those who are richer pay a higher rate of tax. The young and those below top rate tax have been penalised disproportionately by recession and spending cuts, it is only fair that the rich share some of the pain. If you want to argue that 'people who do well' shouldn't pay higher rates of tax then that is a much different debate. I think that if people have enjoyed a free university education and then decide to pull the ladder up behind them for others then they should be really careful when talking about fairness and how "we're all in it together". I think education should be free, it has been free and I think it should remain free. I don't think students should ever have been able to draw the dole, therefore I'm comfortable that it hasn't been a possibility for a number of years.

I don't think you understand logic. Cleggnut and Cameron are denying something favourable to others that they've already enjoyed. I don't think women see losing the vote as favourable, I don't think Africans think slavery is favourable, and I don't think India view being a colony is favourable. Pathetic analogy.

Presumably you will happily volunteer to pay back for the full cost of the univeristy education that you received - after all why should we pay for you to advance yourself? The solution is simple. Increase top rate taxation by a couple of percentage points so that anyone who does benefit financially from unversity does pay extra. At the same time reduce the numbers of unversity places for Arts degrees, give financial incentives to universities to enrol disadvantaged youngsters and make vocational training more attractive,

Politicians come up with **** slogans and you think to yourself "no ones going to be sucked in by that ****" and yet every now and again someone proves you wrong. "We're all in it together"! ha, you really believe that? Cameron's generation are now going to saddle young people with £ks of debt for something that they've already enjoyed for free. Doesn't sound very fair to me. Maybe if weasels like Clegg volunteered to repay an equivalent amount in liueu of the university education they had enjoyed I might be more ameanable. The cuts and tax rises fall disproportionately on the young, and the working and middle classes. The super-rich haven't been touched yet. There's been no move to close tax avoidance routes and no extra penny or two on top rate tax. Even the banks that went so far to cause this crisis are able to use their losses (which the taxpayer have under written) to reduce the tax they pay on future profits and will even soon benefit from lower corporation taxs. We all in it together - my arse.

I'm pretty sure I just spotted a Saint in the sash shirt in the background as Andy Flower was interviewed.

get in, great result. tables turned on Australia big time. think I've just spotted a Saints fan in the sash top in the background behind Andy Flower.

To be fair funding for sport in schools isn't intended to diredctly boost the prospects of a tiny handful of talented footballing youngsters and I doubt it has anything to do at all with county youth teams, they've been around for years.

reading those artciles does beg the question: if your son was offered an academy sport by both Saints and Pompey, and the roles were reversed in that they are by far the superior set-up, who would you plump for? Me? I'd send my kid to whoever gave the best chance of becoming a top player, so would let him go to Pompey. Plenty on the News articles would put their rivalry before the kids' interests.

You can imagine that all of the top leagues will be happy to suspend play for two months and let all of their players go to Qatar in January, and then reschedule the league to finish in late June/early July, and then go straight into pre-season for the next season. absolutely mental.

I know that thanks, just pointing out that several others have hosted twice.

No we just know when we've been screwed over that is all. FIFA said that ours was the best technical bid, independent consultants said we would be the biggest commercial success and our presentation was well ahead of the others. To then only get two votes (one of which was from an Englishman) shows we got screwed over. If we'd have lost out narrowly to Russia I don't think it would nearly have been the same reaction.

You really have taken the prize for the biggest load of tosh there. History of hooliganism - Russia haven't got a good rep have they. While England is now increasingly known for very good crowd control at major events, you get Russian club owners openly admitting they wouldn't sign black players and the club that sold Odemwinge to West Brom held up a huge banner thanking WBA for taking him which also included a picture of a banana. What so England can't host another world cup until Fiji or Swaziland or Haiti have had their turn. Italy, Germany, France, Mexico, and Brazil (by 2014) will all have hosted it twice anyway.

damn right, the only people who mention England being the home of football are foreigners.

So Mr Blatter what first attracted you to oil rich Qatar? To be honest we were always up against it with Russia as they are a massive country who had never held it before. But Qatar?! FFS! Who's for a bit heatstroke? Don't like to be defeatist but I really can't see the point in bidding for another World Cup. We had the best technical bid (as assessed by FIFA) and FIFA's consultants said that our bid would be the most commercially successful. The fact we get knocked out in the first round suggests we'll never win. And before anyone says that we should pursue the brown envelope option - don't bother, our media would jump all over that. Unfortunately other national media either don't care or are to repressed to uncover their dodgy dealing.

http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/Pompey39s-pledge-to-creditors-and.6645882.jp I thought Chanrai had paid the charities out of his own pocket already. Apparently not. The charities they stole from have still not been remibursed but Pompey still managed to pay best part of £50k on 'public relations' and £88k on 'consultancy' from Peter Storrie. Disgusting scumbag club.

Haha, I thought this would encourage a lively debate, even if our thicko conservative posters are finding it hard to follow I thought the best bit was the assertion that men don't have mid-life crises because they are old, rather that their wives are old!

from today's Independent http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/inconvenient-truths-about-our-evolution-2146994.html "A controversial scientist claims he can shed light on human behaviour. But not everyone will like his theories" Some of them seem politically incorrect by today's standards - they include: > Having sons reduces the likelihood of divorce > The myth of the male mid-life crisis > It's natural for male politicians to risk everything for an affair > Men sexually harass women because they are not sexist Not sure I agree with all of them but I definitely agree with one key assertion "Liberals are more intelligent than conservatives"....

Yes but we have had the biggest gates of the rounds one and two.

No .

I'm not irked in the slightest. "you dirty northern bastard" was never meant to be an amusing chant, and they are not aimed at a specific team to rile them. Many people singing those "Brighton chants" seem to be under the mistaken impression that it winds them up. It doesn't, Brighton fans have heard it so many times before.

Think you missed my point. I was just saying that those chants are boring and completely unoriginal, they are therefore cringeworthy and not even slightly amusing. I don't have any problem with "you dirty northern bastard" etc.

Crap decision to scrap Ark Roayl ahead of schedule. It will save very little money for the taxpayer in comparison to the billions that are spent elsewhere.

You've hit the nail on the head. At some point, many moons ago, those chants would have been fairly amusing and would have wound up their fans a little. That was a long time ago. As boring as away fans singing "play up pompey" when they visit St Mary's - yawn, that was original.

we're not actually sharing any aircraft carriers with the French.