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If you have a bird on it, is that allowed? My outback bathroom, a bit ago.

Is it such a black and white er, issue?

Ultra pedantically - It's not in the book, is it? At least it's not in my book.

Oh it is recent. All the evidence suggest Tony didn't have a mind of his own in the past.

That's not a screenshot of his (or anyone else's) inbox. It's a screenshot of someone's Draft e mithers folder. Here's one from mine

They’re losing members at a heck of a rate, too.

Yeah, the first tweet is a dumpster fire, the second not so much. The first one is cringe, because he’s linking two completely unconnected things at two different times, to try and make himself look good to US voters. The second one is absolutely fine and common sense.

Oh yes!

Add Palace and Bournemouth into that list, Watford at a stretch and I’d say they’re the ones we might have a chance of finishing above. I doubt we’ll be better than all of them, but hopefully at least 3 of them. Newcastle, Palace and Burnley to go down, Villa 15th.

That’s what beer is for.

It was announced, as it had to be by law, to Companies House earlier today. PDF and https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/10176070/officers

They were, you're right. I think my comment is that he either through instinct or coaching got himself into those positions to tap in. Kienan less so. It was stark for example at Bolton away, when TA went off and KD came on. Lots of good play, and with better positioning, he could have had about 4 or 5 chances to finish, but he just didn't make the moves. It's not his fault, and he can and should get better, with coaching. You're right as well that as long as we score, it doesn't matter who - and also DS's style of play is one which is not all focused on getting the bal to a deadly striker to finish, it's much more about creating opportunities for whoever /anyone to score. The difference in the Prem, as mentioned already is that defences are generally stronger and less prone to positional and individual errors, so we'll not pick up as many goals from gifts, as we got in the EFL.

I don't want to spoil the mood, but from the limited amount I've seen, scoring and finishing doesn't look like a strong suit for Wesley either. Sorry.

Definitely the way I've seen it too. It's not that his finishing is terrible, it's that he often doesn't actually get into the position to have a chance to finish. If he can be coached to see the moves he needs to make, to learn where to go, not just for holding the ball up or playing in a team mate, but also to get on the end of potential chances to score, then he'll be an excellent player. Right now, he's like a recipe for a really good meal, but with just one key ingredient missing.

meeoww.

There's actually 10 jokes in there. (maybe I flatter myself)

Well, statistically, though not hard to spot, it doesn't happen - looking at over a thousand dogs, all are binary - e.g. 1001 Dalmations

You’re welcome Mike.

If you’re saying what I wrote won’t happen then I beg to differ. Chances are I’ll be wrong, because my run of luck in working out what will happen can’t last.

There’s 2 angles to this. Firstly, you’re right, the UK red lines, set by May’s personal preferences and nothing more, effectively limit the scope of what could be offered for negotiation. There’s no motivation whatsoever for the EU to change that stance. But the other aspect is that a deal is better than no deal, for both sides. The current (thrice rejected) deal is not acceptable to the UK parliament, even though the then UK PM signed off on it. So right now there’s no deal. A deal is needed by both sides. The May deal won’t be changed IMO, as per angle 1, above. So the wording around what comes next, how the two sides arrange things after we have left, which can be changed, will have to satisfy both parties. Trouble is, it’s not legally binding....But it’s the easiest thing by far to alter and allow both sides to settle down. This whole 3 year period is the easy bit. The harder, by far, part is the detail of the future relationship between the EU and UK. There’s another decade of all this to come. We’ll be 4 governments in before it’s remotely sorted.

I've a range of other opportunities

Good mountain technique needed.

As excellent as she is, my perception is there's absolutely no chance for all kinds of reasons, some of which are already covered/implied in what you and @HanoiVillan have written. Whether Labour or Tory, MPs would be as reluctant (completely averse) to giving the Green party a boost by having a Green lead parliament and the country. They, for partisan reasons, will never do that. So IMO it's a complete non starter, sadly. I also agree that a GONU is highly unlikely. There are not enough MPs who would put country first, or would even believe that such a thing would put country first. If we go back to the turn of the year, Jan, Feb etc. it was blatantly obvious that the (then) March default deadline of "we crash out" was going to shift, that we weren't going to crash out and there would be an extension. Many but not all of the reasons that applied then, still apply. The country and the Government are still not remotely ready for such an event to happen at end October, nor will they be by that time. The necessary legislation is not and won't be in place. Laws for dealing with the changed aspects of our trade and civil operation etc. will still not be in place. Back in February we had a PM who was saying all kinds of crap about "no deal is better than a bad deal" while obviously not remotely believing it. Parliament also didn't believe it. The "choice" then was between a bad deal and (theoretically at least, but not in reality) no deal. Because broadly, everyone knew no deal was not a genuione option, they could reject the bad deal May had negotiated. So they did, despite all the party loyalty and political games. The EU could decline to negotiate further, because they knew that "no deal" wasn't a genuine option. It was also clear that May was going to be toast. So what's changed? Not nearly as much as is being sort of told as a story. The laws still aren't ready. The EU and the UK are more aware of how bad no deal would be, the reality is clearer even than it was. The May deal is still comatose/dead. The EU still say they won't change it, the UK say, still, it's not acceptable. The UK government is making much more noise about being "prepared" to go for no deal, but on the other hand it has an even smaller majority, though, and this may drop further to no majority at all by October. The EU has various new MEPs leaders and so on, and the EU national governments, or some of them will be less inclined to indulge the UK. The chances of the EU therefore effectively washing their hands of it all and being willing to let no deal happen have gone up from basically zero, to a small, but significant chance. The UK Government says they're willing to let no deal happen, but they don't have the maths for that to be the choice of parliament, yet they also know as absolute fact that it would be a disaster (yes there are a few who hold a different view, but they're a small minority). So what we're seeing now is a re-run of what was happening in Jan/Feb/March, but with the only changes being the willingness of both sides to have another extension being reduced, and the consequences of no deal being more starkly apparent. Leave and remain MPs are making more noise about forcing their will, one way or another, but neither side looks likely to be able to actually achieve their claimed aims. From the entrenched postions, the ways out, without losing face for the two sides are for the EU to change the political statement that goes with the negotiated agreement, and for the UK, which has talked itself into a corner over the deadline it's either to also have changed wording to the Political statement, or to have themselves "forced" by nasty others to break their promise - via an election, or a VONC or whatever. An election would be a massive gamble for all the MPs, apart from the SNP, a VONC - I just don't see the bottle there for it when it comes to the crunch. Most likely outcome therefore, some fettling of the political statement/agreement around the Irish border and then a vote and then it (the agreement already made) getting passed and the UK leaves by the end of the year, or thereabouts.

When the government takes in tax and then when the government pays benefits that is an example of redistribution of taxing and spending. taxation does not “enhance” the spending power of any group Unless revenue is shared with another group. income tax rates affect the amount of money people receive relative to each other, which can be called redistribution, yet the proceeds, and they are there, whether you think they’re medieval or not, are then passed back by government to workers, businesses, services and so on. Or redistributed, or spent. You can see from charts of tax and spending, for example https://www.ukpublicrevenue.co.uk that the Gov'ts have chosen, somehow, to spend and tax at levels which in the big scheme of things rather match(ish). Revenue has been redistributed (spent).

Sorry to hear that. Can I have your telly when you die?