WhatAboutTheFinish

They are going to offer him a move to Director of Football.

Sold! Definitely voting for Brexit in a second referendum now!

If the market had dropped 3% would the adjectives plummeted, dived or tanked been ok to use?

Johnson may well be a bell but that doesn’t mean we should try to bend facts to make the case. The tweet implies that the market didn’t react positively to the Lancaster House speech whereas in fact more than 24 hours later the pound was still trading up over 3%. This would suggest that the market saw the speech, even on cool reflection, as largely positive.

Well they kind of do. This idiot has tried to take the prices at the close of business and use them for his comparison. The pound opened at $1.20 on January 17 (before the speech) and closed at $1.24 (after the speech). I think, as a guy who has worked in commodities, that a 4 cent movement in a single day can legitimately be described as ‘soaring’.

Grist to the mill of anyone who has long argued that the EU has an end game... the superstate. Wish they would just be honest enough about it to table the idea and debate it properly. Maybe that could then form the basis for the question on the second referendum?

Is that some kind of euphemism? ?

That’s the problem with Novichok...very moreish!

@bickster @a m ole I refer the honourable gentlemen to my previous answer. ?

Hey I’m not suggesting that people are above criticism but I do feel the way that debate is framed is quite important. Under the two party syestems we have in the UK and US we all know that there are people on both sides of the political spectrum that ne’er the twain shall meet. Elections are ultimately decided by quite a small percentage, maybe 10%, of the population who are willing to change their votes. So, in my eyes, people should consider whether taking to the streets to mock, ridicule and denounce their previous choice is the best method to make these people change or does it entrench them further into their position? Either way, in order for Trump to be removed from office at the next election, the Democrats are going to have to rely on the support of at least some of the f**king moronic facist apologists (as they’ve been labelled over the last few pages) that voted for Trump last time.

If only the Americans could create some sort of environment where these topics could be discussed freely and then devise some sort of system where every person is given the chance to have an equal say in order to reach a consensus on the direction they want the country as a whole to take. Might be a good idea, as a safeguard, to give everybody the opportunity to change that direction,should they so wish, after a set period of time. Every four years might be good.

The semi final excitement seems a long way off now. P7 W3 L3 D1*. Pretty average stats for an average looking side against the quality teams. Far from convinced it’s the beginning of something great. Really enjoyed the run whilst it lasted though so kudos to them for that. (*Im counting the Columbia game as the draw in case anyone was wondering)

In all the examples you’ve given the protesters proposed a change to the system. Today’s protests (anti Trump, anti Brexit etc) do seem to be more about the product of a system as opposed to the changing the system itself...which to some, myself included, does seem somewhat pointless. If people were out on the streets demanding referendums were outlawed as a way determining government policy or proposing an alternative to the electoral college system (although why anyone would want to protest that in the UK I’m not sure) then maybe it would make more sense.

I’m really trying but I still don’t get it. Surely people who are anti Trump can’t argue that their views are not being represented in the U.K. parliament, US congress or in the media. Criticism of him is everywhere you turn. So why would people protesting yesterday or this weekend either feel that their opinion is being discounted or need reassurance they are not alone?

I’m not sure it’s that I don’t see the problem with apathy, I guess I may have a different definition of what ‘engaging’ with politics actually means. As a person who has never attended a protest or made a banner in my life, my wonderment came from what motivates people (and you may be well placed to give me an inkling on this) to attend this type of event? Do they get home and think ‘Wow, I really made a difference to the way global politics is being shaped today’ or is it more ‘Well we went out and did some shouting with loads of people I don’t know about the same thing, good atmosphere, great buzz’ (pretty much like going to the football)?

Stunning because they must realise it will make absolutely zero difference to Trump. Zero difference to US foreign policy, zero difference to US domestic policy and next to zero difference to UK policy. I’m stunned so many people can’t find something better to do with their time!

Looks like he’s been on the sciatica again... must find out where I can get a bottle.

Prepared to give this a shot but not really looking forward to it. I loved Ali G and early Borat but the joke is 20 years old now, how many ways can it be rehashed? Funny and innovative at the time, seems a little smug and self serving now?!

Ref has got no control of this game. Henderson...complete cockwomble!

One of the kids has just asked me if the guy playing in midfield for Saudi, Al-Faraj, was the same guy that ‘did brexit’.

Oh yeah...that self made billionaire, terrible at business ?

Whereas the people who have full access to his financial position instead of just reading stuff in the papers seem to have been prepared to purportedly advance him 50 million quid. Seems at odds.

A Chinese man with an estimated worth of around a billion dollars was meant to have 3/4 of his wealth in cash, in the UK. Let’s just take a step back and consider how likely that is in ANY scenario...regardless of what has been read.