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I don't think thats the best argument against having one. If I understand correctly you think it will be flawed based on the authors support. Well aren't all government statistics like that? Surely its better than having to rely on either the Mail or Guardian for our information

welcome mate, forget us just love Villa.

just wondering if there are any on that list you may agree with in principle

That scale of the universe is crap. Its got a planck down as the smallest thing, well I've got a length of 4 by 2 in the garage and thats bigger than me

Too many bad ones to choose from, so I propose shooting every third one at random, then see what dross is left then choose from that

I think he must have worked much harder than any recent Villa manager. In the depths of the winter of our discontent, he was still looking for fresh faces, scouting all over Europe. And not just the well known players. The 30 game dossier for westwood etc. I know its not just him, but he must have massive involvement. Even Given said Lambert sat him down and explained why he wasn't playing and no one had done that before. I think he wants players in his own mould, hard working and committed to the club. Good Lad

Thanks very much Aab-Aalborg

wherever its coming from its fun, if you take 99% of it with a pinch of salt. So much better than listening to 'Arry or being linked to Jenas and the likes

I think this would be the deal that most impresses me most. He looks a real player.

A lot of it came about when the first manual printing press' were used. The type setters used to add letters to words on important documents to make the page neater

i am really liking the cut of this mans gib. In the words of the proclaimers Jenas no more defoe no more McCarthy no more etc

I agree with this. If you just see a property as somewhere to live and not an investment, generally within 30 or 40 years you will have no actual housing costs. This in most cases will far outweigh most pensions. Furthermore nor should your offspring So no bills or council tax or maintenance? I guess you wou would have bills or council tax whether you rented or bought. So I don't include those in housing costs, just a tax on, well being alive really. Maintenance you have a point, but I would reckon that is very small compared to the cost of renting. If I had spent £10,000 in the last 8 years, and thats a guess at the extreme high end, that still only comes out at about £100 per month. We could of course, if times got difficult, not decorate so much, or do so much in the garden. In fact if we wanted to we could just replace what broke. I reckon that would be about £200 a year. So I suppose in our case I should amend that to say our housing costs would be a fiver a week

I agree with this. If you just see a property as somewhere to live and not an investment, generally within 30 or 40 years you will have no actual housing costs. This in most cases will far outweigh most pensions. Furthermore nor should your offspring

Well I don't know what the answer is to the education system is. My point was just because you haven't worked in it, shouldn't exclude you from making the decisions. I think about 50 years ago we had one of the best systems in the world. Now I doubt it would make the top 10. But I'm not sure how to fix it.

I haven't responded to your post yet Telling

i stand by my point though. It seems, to me anyway, that your point is, a person who has had no involvement in education should be involved in education reform. Fine, but by that argument, no one who has not been involved with the armed services should be allowed to vote in whether our troops go to war. I agree and as I don't want a miltary junta in power, we'd never start a war i agree

i stand by my point though. It seems, to me anyway, that your point is, a person who has had no involvement in education should be involved in education reform. Fine, but by that argument, no one who has not been involved with the armed services should be allowed to vote in whether our troops go to war.

Any rational reason for this hatred ? He's never had a job in education in his life. Yet he thinks that he is best suited to make 'the biggest changes to education in years'. Teachers already have a tough job and literally cannot win, so making it even harder when you have absolutely no basis to do it just makes me so angry. I agree that education needs some reform. There's a lot of shite teachers who are impossible to sack, but to punish the whole profession is just wrong on so many levels. i have to disagree with this. No one in the labour cabinet had ever been in the armed forces, yet they sent troops into war twice. So should only people involved in education make changes to education, if so should only those who have served in the military be allowed to vote if we are to go to war.

Just a thought on companies seriously avoiding Tax on the starbucks scale. By law they have to have an AGM and report accounts etc. So if they are telling HMRC one thing, very little profit. Then telling the shareholders another, luverly jubberly profits. Couldn't the gov Suspend all trading in their shares, until its resolved, maybe give it a month. Maybe shut down operations. I reckon you would only have to do it a few times and they would all be on side

I think Dave whelan should have put a kit on to lift the FA cup

This had me in stitches

to my mind the economics of it doesn't really come into it, until we have a ceiling in mind. Its the natural resource in the country that is the problem. Water food and fuel being the prime concerns. Thats not to say immigration is a bad thing, its just you have to look at what the land can provide. I liken it to Villa selling 100,000 tickets for the Chelsea game. Yes it would be good for the finances of the club, but could Villa Park hold them all. And its no good believing that all of the UK is easily inhabitable, its not. Vast tracts of Scotland and Wales are empty, they are so for a reason, its difficult to build or farm the land. It took Gordon Brown about 18 months to work out whether we should join the Euro, quite rightly too. It shouldn't take that long to work out A: the optimum and B: the ceiling. for the size of the population

i think you underestimate the vast majority of British people

Didn't the population grow by 3.7m or 7% in a decade?. Anyway to Peters point. Yes the big cities are less densely populated than years ago, but then people were living in back to back tenement buildings, where there was no space for anyone to move or kids to play. Disease spread very quickly in this environment. What has happened since is that people have moved further from the City centre to the outskirts. The west midlands conurbation for example didn't really exist. Walsall, Wolverhampton Coventry etc were separate units. Today they are pretty much all one. Same happened in all the big Cities. So the population density may have dropped the whole has increased and the urban size has too. This has seriously affected price of land. Furthermore it has affected the facilities in the City. Take the hospitals for example, they cannot just build new wings on open land, cos there ain't any. They have to extend within, taking away parking spaces for example.Try visiting most hospitals at visiting time, you have to be early to get a place, its like parking at a football match. As for the land, well vast areas are fenced off for grouse shooting, but these are mainly moors, where nothing grows. It cant be used for farming. Do you honestly think that anyone with land that could be used for farming which makes far more profit, would just use it for hunting for a few months a year. But the big point though is water. We just don't have enough. Every year we have hosepipe bans. They do this because we are low on water, very low. Most of the water we have is in the wrong place for the Cites, Birminghams comes nearly 100 miles. Some people just assume we can have some sort of water M1 running through the country picking up from all over. This is not possible due to the geology of the land and the different minerals in the lakes and rivers, Mixing the wrong types becomes toxic. So a 7% growth in population for the next 50 years would give us a population close to 80m. I reckon at that there would be a permanent hose pipe ban and you would probably only be able to flush your bog twice a day.

I think spurs can have him £8m should do it. well with Bale and Vertonghen thrown in as well