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Yes, I think that too. She will have to effectively step aside from backing it. SHe doesn't want no deal either. SO in a choice between no deal and a ref, she'll go with ref (or something else - Norway, whatever). Because for all that she's putting party first, no deal will utterly screw the tories for decades (and Labour too). Every cloud, I suppose...

It's the default if no one does anything. But... I believe that there is a majority in parliament for "No Brexit deal" disaster being prevented. So at some point, as I said, once May's version is voted down, the complete clusterpork scenario, which nobody (bar the nutters) wants to happen will be prevented, and then it's (as I said) No deal is so bad, that people will act once the tory loyalty to May (perhaps after she resigns, or acceeds to demands to allow parliament to have a genuine say) is put aside.,

The logic works, of course. The thing missing from his thought process is the alternatives (I haven't looked at the big article). May's deal is a non starter. No deal is a non-starter. So at some point before the 90 odd days left run out, there has to be something else. There has to be a cataclysm of some sort which renders the current assumptions and understandings obsolete. The least unobvious of those possibilities is enough Labour, Tory, SNP & other MPs having enough voting power to create a new option - either a ref, or some other off the shelf version of Brexit (e.g Norway), probably after a hauling back of the A50 expiry process. Basically "normal" MPs hold the key here. The likes of Corbyn and May are completely gaga and incompetent that they aren't able to lead or resolve, or rectify.

You're welcome. I'm sure you'll get me back in due course.

So no control at all then, if someone else's rules are "not allowing" us to....

I set a out of office message. The last one said

My favourite Instrumental (probably). Ambulance Ltd.

Late 70s Talking Heads. Great Live Album, Performance, Psycho Killer

I’ve got a very lazy golden retriever I want to sell, but I doubt if it’ll fetch much.

Oh, right. Wrong end of the stick. Sorry. I should have scrolled back more posts.

Exactly what I was (trying to) say in terms of the comparisons. It’s a ton of money compared to normal folk, it’s a very well paid job. It’s way less than a footballer or CEO, though he has not got the talent to be either. A politician talking to his voters is insensitive to call 70 grand a year a pittance. He’s no genius, nothing above “us”. He’s got a very well paid job and I assume works hard for his money. Well done him. Pittance, no. Never in a million years. It was dumb.

There are two contexts, aren't there. There' the one of "relative to what I could be earning if I was doing something other than being an MP and voting the way I'm told to by the whips and just keeping my head down" and there's "relative to what millions of other people earn". Perhaps he could be earning more, though I have my doubts, but either way, it's fairly insensitive. On the plus side, he appears to have (through personal experience) been enlightened as to the folly of something he voted for when he had no understanding of how unfair what he voted for was. So though there's some schadenfreude, there's also at least a partial awareness that actually he is and was a lot better off than many others faced with the court case issue. Which is what makes his "relative" statement a bit out of place. The awareness of his (good) fortune is less than comprehensive.

I was immediately persuaded.....it was one of my rasher decisions.

Ahem! Who is the England Men's team manager - the one with the waistcoat and all round good-egg aura?

Not massively into Idles, but this is up my street

It's (apparently) Cow burps that are the bigger deal. Right critter, wrong end. Also, obviously carnivorism has been hugely beneficial for Cow-kind. If the humans didn't eat the cow beast, then there would be far fewer of their bovine kin living on the planet, 'cus the humans wouldn't farm them in their special cow factories that they have. And the flip side is that more vegetablists would mean that the cow factory land could be turned int carbon monoxide eating turnip factories (and carrot and pea and etc. factories). That doesn't apply to fishes, which is why I'll eat them. Yours in virtutarianism.

There's quite a lot of complexity for what is being treated by the Gov't and media as a black and white thing. There's 100s of thousands of refugee/migrants come to Europe from Syria, Iraq etc. The vast vast majority have gone to germany, sweden, france, Italy, Greece...etc. But of all those refugees/migrants, some, a small number will have family and relatives in the UK. People who would likely look after them, give them a roof, a friendly face, a welcome and warmth. Next, having already trekked across much more dangerous waters and across europe and north africa, how many actually think they are risking their lives being sailed across 20 miles of the channel? It's easy to say once they get to [wherever they entered Europe] they're safe. so why move on? but people want and need to get away from overcrowded, desperate conditions and try and find somewhere less dangerous/uncomfortable etc.

We, a long time ago, threw away a 2 goal lead at home to Leeds when Saunders was manager, (edit, it was Boxing Day 1978. That season we also did it against spurs) and throwing away 2 goal leads under him wasn’t that rare. But anyway, as many of us have repeatedly said all season, that clown Bruce left us going into the season with one left back and one centre half and a skittish keeper. The gaping holes in our defence are entirely the cause of our underlying vulnerability. Add in a few injuries and we’re always at risk. Grealish is a huge loss because of the way he retains the ball and the oppo have to protect themselves when he’s in the side.

This is both very astute and very wrong ( no offence intended). First comment, from my view which was from the side of the pitch, in the posh seats today, was that yes, you’re right. Both teams were frankly knackered to an extent with injuries etc and fatigue, so no fire, but also that a weakness as you say is apparent in terms of our defence. That’s the nature of the competition. So PNE tried to exploit our flaws and did so, but equally we did the same to them. There was no lack of fire or fight, that’s just wrong. We missed and lacked the spark of Grealish, but they still did ok, but no more. Basically the number of games means everyone is stretched. All clubs can take advantage of each other’s stresses. Today was ok.

Slightly corrected for you, but it's a belter for sure.

Or for weeks. metatarsal.

Humans are human. I think if an NHS Dr. was asked to stay late by a boss they didn’t rate, they might say “stuff that, if you can’t organise a roster properly that’s your fault ” or whatever. Everyone has their lines. People will do more, try harder for those they respect/like/admire. Managers “losing the dressing room” is a thing because people are people.

You’re right that additional laws probably might not have deterred the numpties, the more serious failing is the lack of effective measures to stop the things.

I think this is unlikely, personally. While it's true that the clock is ticking, ultimately almost no one in parliament or the country wants that to happen. The recent idiot actions of May and Corbyn make it less unlikely, but I still see it as pretty unlikely.