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Paul Waine

Nick Clegg lost some credibility by going back on some of his pledges when he formed a coalition government. He did what he thought was best at the time. He'll never recover from that, and will always be viewed as a let down by a lot of people. Which is fair enough. And the link provided by the OP ...

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Carefully-crafted PR piece. I have no insight into the "real" Andre Gray. I love the picture in the story though. That's not an accident. Hi Tom B, agree Burnley's PR team have managed this situation. But, you don't but someone up for press interview(s) until you know they are ready to handle it al...

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Burnley’s Andre Gray: ‘I was just relieved I hadn’t been stabbed in the eye’ https://www.theguardian.com/football/2017/jan/13/andre-gray-interview-burnley-premier-league-striker?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Copy_to_clipboard" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Thanks for posting, Rarosdiablo. Ti...

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Thank you so much. Never thought I'd write one book let alone two . . . Although I am now about a third of the way througH REJECTED . . . AGAIN If you read the last 2 pages of my book you'll get a great idea of what to expect!! Thank you. Hope you enjoy if you get it. Hi rejected, not seen the book...

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Contributions depends on their income/wealth, you mean like the UK ,national insurance? Hi joey13, I'm asking the question if anyone knows how France and Germany organise their health services. I don't get the impression it is exactly the same as national insurance - as others have posted, NI is ju...

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France and Germany are both mentioned as having better health systems - better outcomes, more seriously ill people cured etc etc. Both are reported to spend a larger proportion of GDP on the health systems. I understand both countries operate insurance based systems - and patients contribute towards...

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So the original thread was pulled and binned but now he has been made aware of who the 'Powers that Be' really are and he's asked nicely, the thread can continue exactly like the first one! Always a mystery when a thread disappears. I'm pretty sure I also posted on this new thread earlier today, we...

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Rick_Muller wrote:Had a dusting in Cranfield

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So, does this prove "dustification" is real?

Wrap up warm!

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Hi Paul, what you're saying makes absolutely no sense, I think you're congratulating the board for being psychic? Why would I be congratulating the board for Dyche getting us promoted and them not backing him? Hi KRBFC, No - I think the board were being very realistic. Did any of us think that we'd...

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ClaretTony wrote:I assumed the thread title meant it was something to do with Graham Taylor - wasn't expecting that news.

I was the opposite - didn't look twice at "do I not like...." and started a separate post.

As said, Graham Taylor died of a heart attack.

My sincere condolences to his family and friends.

RIP

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nil_desperandum wrote:Nice post and intention, but there's already a long thread on this topic Paul.
"Do I not like that"

Thanks, nil.

I looked for some time - I realise I don't always "get the hang" of these "cryptic" subjects.... I should have guessed.

OK - moving over.

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Graham Taylor is reported to have died today from a heart attack.

Sincerely offering my condolences for his family and friends.

RIP

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Harrow is clear of snow just a very rainy day with some light sleet during late evening. No doubt it will freeze later and be icy in the morning. Stay safe everybody, you don't want to end up in A & E given the well publicised problems with the NHS. I well remember the winter of 1962/63 when the sn...

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Can anyone shed any light on what cash reserves we actually have? That article suggests we made 40m net profit in our last PL season. I imagine with the help of the parachute payments and player outgoings last year we broke even or made a small loss, and then again this year what was the quoted amo...

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Looking back I'm shocked at how fans on here were completely fine with us signing Sordell, Reid, Juke after promotion heading into a PL season. The board got away scot free, no questions asked. It's quite funny now, Marvin Sordell (who was loaned from Bolton to Charlton, both who were fighting rele...

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So Swansea have got a new manager and up to 3 new "first teamers." The season will be over before they've worked out what their "structure" is, their best XI and how to play together as a team.

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14th seemed to be our most frequent position in the late 1960s when I started going on.

I'm sure there is no one (with maybe one or two exceptions) who posts on this board who wouldn't be delighted with 14th at the end of this season.

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That's not going to tackle the inequality though. The rich will continue to get richer, possibly at a slower rate but the absolute difference will increase all the time. There are a whole host of studies showing it but you only have to look at the current cabinet to see what advantages coming from ...

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I like football, it doesn't fall under 'work' to me. Might not be rational or fair but there's a difference and it would be acknowledged. If we were forcing football clubs into this you could end up separating the playing staff from the retail side of the club. Law is riddled with exemptions. Hi lu...

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The level of wealth inequality in the UK has been a problem for some time, and it's been getting worse over this decade. I applaud any political leader who identifies this as an actual problem and tries to do something to tackle it. I don't agree with a maximum wage cap, like Corbyn has suggested, ...

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Paul Waine - my point about capping wealth in this country is that it would make life better for all of us. Yes there would be questions to be resolved around foreign ownership (the Hinduja brothers are British nationals, by the way) - not least about foreigners who have invested more than the cap ...

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We'd had an FA cup trip to Arsenal and league cup trip to Chelsea so we'd also had some big games to travel to. In actual fact distance is much less from Hull to Manchester than Burnley to London. Got to admit, I live in London. The "capital punishment" games were not to far for me to travel. But, ...

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By the age of 20. If you are not a socialist, you have no heart. By the age 40. If you are not conservative, you have no brain. I studied Marxism when I was 20. I also studied Soviet Economics. I never got what Marx was "on about" - but, equally, Soviet Economics had nothing to do with Marx. The ol...

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In response to Paul Waine - see the link below regarding the wealth of the richest thousand people in the UK: http://www.luxuo.com/super-rich/top-1000-richest-in-britain-2016.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; They are all residents of the UK, though I'm sure they don't spend all t...

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LS7 wrote:Ps I was at Chelsea and spurs in that 09 cup run - fantastic memories - esp Chelsea

Me too, plus my son - got him "hooked as a Claret."

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But there is a wider point too. 20 years ago the top bosses of the FTSE 100 companies earned just under 50 times their average worker, today that figure is now 130 times. Last year alone, the top bosses got a 10 per cent pay rise, far higher than those doing the work in the shops, in the call centr...

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Not for the first time I find myself in disagreement with Corbyn. I entirely agree that inequality is out of control, and something has to be done about it. However I don't think his (or more accurately, the Labour Party's) proposal goes far enough. To really tackle the problem we need to put a cap...

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How did Steven Defour perform at Sunderland? It was his first full 90 mins for the club in a competitive game. Has Sean now got the option to start Defour - and no longer needs to keep one of the subs ready to replace our classiest player when he "runs out of energy" mid-way through the second half?...

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I bought a new car last summer. Good advice in the posts above. carwow provided some good quotes from garages that wanted to shift stock. The best deals are if you are very flexible on model/spec/engine size/colour etc. But, the garages can be spread over wide distances. My personal recommendation -...

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Difference between now and pre-1789 is we have an elected government, including elected EU members of parliament and commissioners. They make laws on our behalf. Most people think Europe is "ready for it" (hence the EU's existence). Your argument here is analogous to stating that Lancashire or York...

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I haven't got time to research the detail of this either, but it's a long time since you needed a work permit to work in the EU, unless you were from outside the EU, and added to this there have been many "funded" opportunities for young people to work in the EU, or be involved in research and tech...

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Where did i say they weren't? Why do you keep criticising me for things i haven't said? Are we talking about the same generation that benefited from all kinds of government assistance and programs from free higher education and healthcare to cheap, nationalised utilities and transport? Are we talki...

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One thing with regards to the older generation is that historically they are less favourable towards multiculturalism than younger people are. Perhaps that's one reason why they voted to leave the EU. Hi Spijed, I'm going to suggest that the larger part of the generation you are referring to has al...

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Hi Paul. The two groups you mention account for a huge number of people. A crash in house prices would be very good news for those first time buyers trying to get on the property ladder. But it wouldn't go down well with the millions of people who've currently got big mortgages on houses that are s...

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Bamford ill?? Are we really going to keep him for the season? Waste of a squad place, though not much he can do about it himself. Bamford's illness is "cuptiedavoidance" I'm guessing. Aren't the papers saying that Bamford will be recalled by Chelsea then moved to Boro? If so, we have space for a ne...

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Sidney1st wrote:£3million would be the first of half a dozen bids from us, resulting in our final bid of £3.5million.

Haven't West Ham followed this approach with their bids for Defoe?

Sean will sort it.

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Time for this old guy to go to the gym. Got to do my "warm up - plus an hour's "vigourous exercise" to get ready for 3pm kick-off.

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You could argue that everyone's house is 20% over-valued. Will everyone be happy if house prices suddenly came down to 'normal' levels? Hi John, as an older generation guy, with children who aren't all on the housing ladder, 100% yes. House prices are too high, especially in London. I would happily...

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Well I guess you'll have to hope that they thank you for it. I'd be the exact opposite in your position - I would want to give my children/grandchildren opportunities, not take them away. Being able to study, live and work in any EU country is a great opportunity (which I know from experience). And...

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Sure there are some similarities, but I think they were very different situations - the Americans wanted to escape high taxes without representation. Their goal was self government, so I suppose in many Brexiters' minds that's what they were looking for (even though they already had it!). However, ...

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Imploding Turtle wrote:An economist is what you become is you like both science and mathematics but aren't very good at either.

Yes, had to "like" it brought a smile to my face - and I studied economics (but, notice I'm not claiming to be an economist).

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Their headlines did. But i found the claim by typing "£4300" into google and selecting "4 300 worse off" from the suggested results. The top result points out in its headline that Osborne was referring to 15 years from now. HI IT, what's your top result? Google has "FullFact" top on my list. They s...

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RingoMcCartney wrote:"It’s a fair cop to say that the profession is to some degree in crisis
Andrew Haldane, chief economist at Bank of England

Haldane is the guy who admits to not understanding pensions. I guess not much of an economist....

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It wasn't a perfect refutation of an argument, nor was it intended to be because it wasn't responding to an argument at all. Moffitt make a dismissive post about Osborne saying that the average UK household would be £4,300 worse off in 15 years because of Brexit and i showed how by one measure we'r...

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"Compared to the dollar", "relative to the dollar". I honestly don't know how i could have made it any more clear that I was talking in relative terms about the Pound and Dollar. Yes, but do you see that the dollar has got nothing to do with the pound, if I get paid in pounds and all my expenditure...

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When people tell me they're prepared to be financially worse off as long as we leave the European Union, I don't think they're brave. I think they're reckless and a bit daft. Hi John, do you ever think what motivated the revolutionaries in France in 1789? and in Boston/US in 1765? I'm pretty sure n...

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I'll accept that point RLC, providing you equally acknowledge the point made by Greenmile (above) - that these predictions were based on the assumption that Cameron would make good his promise to trigger Article 50 the day after the referendum. Instead, he resigned, and Mark Carney (BofE) intervene...

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The average household income last year was estimated to be £26,400. Since the day before the referendum the pound has dropped 17% ($1.47 then versus $1.22 today) in value against the dollar. Compared to the dollar we are already £4,488 worse off. Relative to the dollar £26,400 the day before the vo...

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I really do not know what all the "they got it wrong" is all about. We are better off at the moment economically because the £ has lost value boosting manufacturing AND we are full members of the EU and will be for some time to come. Any down turn if there will be will not take place until there is...

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Calm down BOT internet detective, just because he was interacting with the posts doesn't put him in the same bracket, fairly obvious from a normal thread like this he's just a genuine supporter, strange how you question him but not threads about people'a boilers or Lilly Allen? Hi Tuddy, I'm waitin...

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