Shaw_nuff

WTF does McLaren need to do to be found out? It's like that bloke at work who always seems to escape the flak when everything turns to shit and somehow gets promoted or at worst moved sideways. He's been an abject failure as a manager everywhere, with the possible exception of M'bro, where he had enough money to make Solomon blush. Absolute cack in the same mould as Sven.

sne, you are mental. But I love you.

He already does. Unfortunately it's down his local nonce barbers.

wtf do you need two separate boards for? 'Right gentlemen, have we come to an agreement? No, we need to to pass it by the football board - better convene that group in two week's time then, even though it contains most of the current members.' Total waste of time - just combine the two and extend the agenda.

Vive la republique!

Yeah, thanks Milton for forty years of neo con trickery and borrowing from the future - and I include Tory Blair in that. How is socialism going for your rich mates in wall street?

Capitalism has been failing (dieing) for at least a century since 1917. Nobody suddenly thought 'wouldn't it be nice to have a revolution' in Russia. No, living conditions were unbearable. The need for greater profits leading to lower wages, leading to nobody having money to spend, leading to lower wages etc. Then the rest of the western world started to shit themselves in case the proles rose and it happened in their back yard and made concessions that completely went against capitalism such as pension providing after ww1 and an nhs after ww2. So socialism was a natural by-product of the destructive nature of capitalism, but it can't save capitalism because of one very simple thing: Capitalism eats itself as it relies on perpetual exponential growth WHICH IS IMPOSSIBLE. It's why we struggle to get any growth now, it's why we are in ZIRP territory for so long (even negative interest rates are upon us), it's why we have borrowed trillions from the future that won't be paid back, it's why immigration is deliberately high. It's why we have socialism for the rich aka bailouts. It's why bail-ins are inevitable (thought your cash was safe didn't you) and it's why asset bubbles are being blown up as all that printed funny-money finds home to roost. Nobody wants any more tat from China so the whole rotten edifice starts to crumble. Maybe socialism isn't the complete answer but capitalism isn't, it's on life support. We need something similar though that is based on resource sharing and 0% growth, and we need it damned quick 'cos the last time capitalism needed a reset it resulted in WW2.

Nah, it's general 'Cheeseburger' Krulak. All we need is to summon the spirit of the US marines and the rest will take care of itself.

I have to admit, that was very, very poor.

While I agree that there is some truth to point about the selfishness human nature, it always leaves out one important part of altruism which is just as integral to human nature if not more so. There is no way our species (or any other from lions to ants) could have survived without cooperation. `Everyone has altruistic values honed into them from millions of years of natural selection. It's what makes you defend your friends and family or makes you give to charity, it's just those who want power always seem to to have less than most and sometimes it manifests itself in a Hitler or Stalin. The real conundrum is trying to get someone in power who doesn't crave power (no mean feat). Corbyn, although not perfect, seems to fit this bill at least.

Capitalism is robbing as much productivity from the producers as possible and syphoning the proceeds off to the top - leaving the proles with just enough to survive to carry on working. Socialism is the only thing that makes capitalism bearable - unions/pensions/holiday-maternity pay/sickness pay/improved working conditions etc. All these are an anathema to capitalism. Don't believe me? read a Dickens novel or Les Miserables and you'll have some idea of what pure capitalism is like for the vast majority.

Genius.

By the time this government has finished dismantling anything left that is remotely socialist voters attitudes may change at last when they realise what socialism is. When there is no NHS and they find out that Bronze Standard private insurance won't cover their hip operation without a 5K excess fee, when there is no state pension whatsoever and when workers rights are completely trashed (zero hour contracts) in favour of corporations. When the welfare state is whittled down to the bone, apart from rich land-owner subsidies, then finally people will wake up to the fact that a hundred years of struggle to drag living standards out of the gutter are being eroded by this wonderful Neo-conservatism/liberalsim and that trickle-down economics is BS. The greatest achievement the Tories have made is convincing ordinary people that they have their best interest at heart while secretly loathing them, also their pretence that they are fiscally competent when all they have ever done is sell as much family silver as possible to their Eton chums to prop things up. Osbourne has failed miserably as Chancellor and has borrowed more money than any other in history (and some). The only reason we have and growth is through mass immigration (which is why it won't be stopped) and a housing bubble (which will explode soon). Yanis Varoufakis is going to be advising on Labour's economic policy. I'd rather him with his MSc in Mathematical Statistics and PhD in Economics have a say than Osbourne with his 2:1 in History. Still, people are generally stupid so I won't hold my breath.

Can't wait until he teams up with Merv.

Do you have an example of this ever working?

I hope he's got something sensible to say rather than 'summoning up the spirit of the marines'.

Didn't the accounts only cover the period Fox was employed - 08/14 onwards? (genuine question) It could be closer to 40k

King said something similar in the 2007/8. He meant the plebs would suffer. I'm assuming this time around the plebs are the fans.

Women who just want you to 'listen' If you don't want answers, don't ask **** questions.

I was trying to think of a team who could possibly be a bigger waste of space, be more overrated, overpaid or more arrogant than the pricks we churn out each week. Then I found this picture:

This is how religions start.

Remi told him to pull his socks up - Mr Mensa took it literally.

What would you prefer him to do? Cry?