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JohnMcGreal

So if this is true why aren't they celebrating this? Why are they instead giving the low paid tax cuts AND increasing the minimum wage AND bringing in the living wage? You're being paranoid. Utterly paranoid. I'm sure if you asked the right people, they are celebrating it. It's no coincidence that ...

JohnMcGreal

There's a lot of paranoia in your post JohnMcGreal. The Conservative Party are the only mainstream party to have consistently spoken about limiting immigration. They are, in fact, the only mainstream political party to pledge to cut immigration. They have also given tax cuts to the lowest paid work...

JohnMcGreal

1. Mass low-skilled immigration has kept working class wages in this country artificially low 2. Mass immigration to this country has kept house prices artificially hig. Regarding those two key points, if you really believe that to be the case, have you ever questioned the motives of the government...

JohnMcGreal

No, because what I said has nothing to do with Trump being popular - he isn't. Certainly not popular enough to be elected President under 'normal' conditions What I said was that Clinton, and the political establishment with her, was so very unpopular that half the American population thought she w...

JohnMcGreal

Now, if the career politicians take a look at themselves and work out why they have become so very very unpopular, they might get the hang of becoming more popular and being elected again. If, on the other hand, they decide that there's nothing wrong with them and it's the electorate who need to ch...

JohnMcGreal

If you think that instant coffee is as good as freshly ground beans and that people eat Nandos to look posh then you have seriously poor judgement. Freshly ground coffee is nearly always better than instant, unless it's from Starbucks. I've only ever been to Starbucks 3 times in my whole life, and ...

JohnMcGreal

JohnMcGreal "Go away and read all of the disgusting comments made by Richard Spencer over the years, then come back and tell me that he's not a bona fide Nazi." I'm not going away anywhere & have no interest in Richard Spencer one way or the other. I didnt say anything about him, don't know who he ...

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SmudgetheClaret wrote:These days your a 'Nazi' if you just express national pride and usually by paid left wing provocateurs who hide their faces..

they are the real fascist ****...

Do you know who Richard Spencer is? Do you think he's just a bloke who expresses national pride?

JohnMcGreal

"Nazis" has suffered huge definition inflation recently. It now seems to be used to describe anybody who disagrees with "left wing liberal" views. Believe in controlling immigration? then you're a nazi Believe that the culture your forefathers battled to establish shouldn't be thrown away? then you...

JohnMcGreal

All it says about me is that I think the coward that did the punching is a bigger git the guy getting punched. The 'nazi', as far as you know has never hurt anything in his life, all we know is that he has right wing views, whereas the coward that hit him is disposed towards casual violence. If you...

JohnMcGreal

I'm not condoning the attacker, by the way. I don't think violence is the answer to opinions that you find disgusting. He committed a crime and would be dealt with by the law if caught. That said, I find it impossible to reach a place where I think a man who commits common assault (punching someone)...

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BennyD wrote:I think he's a git as well, but not as big a git as the coward that sucker punched him and ran away.

So someone who punches a Nazi and runs off is a 'bigger git' than an actual Nazi, in your opinion. I think that says a lot about you.

JohnMcGreal

SCAREMONGERING! STOP TALKING BRITAIN DOWN!

JohnMcGreal

Tim Farron is being opportunistic, and he's right to be. The Lib Dems have a genuine opportunity to take millions of votes at the next GE by positioning themselves as a pro-EU party (which they have always been) and by speaking up for the 48% who currently have no representation in politics. I know ...

JohnMcGreal

47...SCOUSECLARET you say..'Hampstead, the fact that you feel this article worthy of promoting says far more about you than the article does about her'. First of all, don't tell me what I can 'promote' on here - I will write down whatever I like, when I like..I don't give a toss what you think. - i...

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SmudgetheClaret wrote:This is actually a great result for the Brexit side because the lying Europhiles will now be exposed to their constituents and if they push it too far we call a snap election rid the country of the commies and sack off all the fat money grabbing "Lords" happy days .

WHAT

JohnMcGreal

We're absolutely crying out for a winger with pace, and have been for some time. Although Snodgrass is a decent player, he isn't that.

I'm not sure £10 million on a player who turns 30 this year, and has a history of serious injuries is going to be a great investment for us.

JohnMcGreal

Lancasterclaret wrote:PMQs sums it up for me

May has "alway been in favour of a white paper on Brexit"

Despite spending millions to fight two court cases to stop it.

Thats treating every single one of us as complete spackers.

The age of alternative facts is upon us.

JohnMcGreal

RingoMcCartney wrote:The UK voted to leave the UK.

Did it?

JohnMcGreal

dsr wrote:Parliament should not be sovereign. Parliament, in fact, must not be sovereign.

The next time we have a shambolic referendum, feel free to stamp that on the side of a big bus.

JohnMcGreal

i think the point was less money rather than no money. i'm not massively knowledgeable about such things but i'm not sure any other tax havens have populations of 64 million people. Yep. If we were to become a tax haven, how would we fund millions of people's pensions and also essential public serv...

JohnMcGreal

Come off it Dom, you know as well as i do that a low tariff, low welfare country means less money on public services. And as we are going to have a Tory govt for the foreseeable future, that is where we are heading Tax haven's have even less money to spend on public services. Still, it's all about ...

JohnMcGreal

The case was brought by Remain campaigner, former model and self serving smug, millionairess, trying to preserve her entitlement and privilege in spite of how 17.4 million Britons voted in the biggest expression of democracy Britain as seen. Gina Miller! Brexit was brought by Leave campaigner, form...

JohnMcGreal

The right decision. The great dictator is going to have to learn that we live in a parliamentary democracy, and she can't just do as she pleases while bypassing our sovereign parliament.

JohnMcGreal

The press conference (if you can even call it that) with Sean Spicer over the weekend was absolutely jaw dropping.

JohnMcGreal

Heaton 7 Lowton 7 Keane 8 Mee 7 Ward 7 Boyd 5 Marney 5 Hendrick 6 Defour 6 Barnes 5 Gray 6 Barton 6 Tarkowski 6 Strange game today. Defensively we were excellent and really well organised. In attack I thought our passing was generally poor and we were utterly bereft of any pace. Our tempo with the b...

JohnMcGreal

So you completely made up the bit about rape and incest? Your a really odd individual charlie In fairness, the pro-life lobby, especially in the southern States (which essentially guides the GOP on birth rights policy) is in favour of banning abortion even in the cases of rape. You've got to rememb...

JohnMcGreal

I had to say something to one of our fans at Stoke for racist comments. He kind of edited himself the first time but then just let his mouth go. He got told in no uncertain terms to cut it out but not one other person said anything or backed me up in confronting him. Everyone in the vicinity should...

JohnMcGreal

Trump reaches deal to keep 1,000 jobs at Indiana plant from moving to Mexico. Guardian headline. Depends on which paper you read. Ford later denied they were closing the plant, as they would. This is the same Ford that decided it was finacially better to pay out for the people killed by selling car...

JohnMcGreal

Not the greatest day in world politics, but that's what you get when the 'little people' get hacked off being told what's good for them by the liberal metropolitan political classes. A bit like the Brexit referendum. Yeah, it's great when the 'little people' rebel against the establishment by votin...

JohnMcGreal

Well I for one think he will be good for America. He could well be good for us to post brexit. A modern day equivalent of the bubonic plague would be good for the global population crisis, but that doesn't mean you'd want it to actually happen. The guy is so far out of his depth it's scary. The onl...

JohnMcGreal

Woodleyclaret wrote:Who gives a toss about America and their foolish electorate voting in this pillock

Answer: lots of people.

JohnMcGreal

martin_p wrote:They'll play whatever tune the Russians tell them to (and Trump will have to dance to it).

SAD!

JohnMcGreal

I suppose it's down to management to judge whether individuals are genuinely in need of that time off or if they're abusing the system. It might appear to others that they're taking the ****, but then again they could have genuine problems which you and others don't know about? As for working to you...

JohnMcGreal

True that, not to mention they restricting opportunities for people who are actually hardworking. Have a few where I work, have constant time off for dependents, only willing to work minimum contract, no flexibility what so ever. Basically do everything they can get away with and offer absolute bar...

JohnMcGreal

RingoMcCartney wrote:Thank God the intelligent 17.4 million listened to him and not Operation Lie

Can't tell if this is serious or a parody

JohnMcGreal

Nice to have a rational conversation on this message board for once. The issue with this messageboard is that the majority of the posters have never had girlfriends (or in some cases boyfriends). Those of us who have had relationships understand what breakups are like. First the period of realisati...

JohnMcGreal

Wilsdenclaret wrote:My Danish in laws are laughing their cocks off at us

Choose from the following:

Remoaner
Snowflake
Drama Queen
Doom-monger
STOP TALKING BRITAIN DOWN!

JohnMcGreal

The EU will bend over backwards to keep up us in the single market, the Leave campaigners once claimed. At least May has now accepted what the EU and others have been saying all along; that full access to the single market requires the acceptance of the 4 freedoms of movement. Now, I'd prefer that s...

JohnMcGreal

martin_p wrote:He's not even implying that. He's implying some football fans are racist. It's hardly revelatory.

It's Rowl's tabloid headline-esque interpretation that's the problem.

Agreed. Rowls' sensationalist thread title is just that. There is nothing controversial about Burnley fans in that article.

JohnMcGreal

Rowls wrote:It's happened again.

Metropolitan elite leftie journal the New Statesman is implying that Burnley fans are racist.

Is the author implying that all Burnley fans are racist, or that some Burnley fans are racist?

There is a bit of a difference.

JohnMcGreal

Heaton - 9
Lowton - 8
Keane - 7
Mee - 7
Ward - 8
Boyd - 6
Marney - 5
Hendrick - 7
Defour - 6
Barnes - 5
Gray - 6

JohnMcGreal

Claretto wrote:Won by a bunch of players he inherited

In fairness, the Barcelona side he inherited in 08 was a shambles. He turned them into one of, if not the best club sides of all time, which included young players he promoted from the youth side like Pedro and Busquets.

JohnMcGreal

Testing times for Guardiola. He must surely be having doubts whether his style of football can be successful in England. I think it probably could be, but the personnel at City, in general, are not good enough to execute it well enough. It's early days of course, and City do need a good clear out. T...

JohnMcGreal

William Garbutt: The Father of Italian Football by Paul Edgerton is an excellent read.

JohnMcGreal

Probably not the best thread title, to be honest.

JohnMcGreal

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. Trump on the other hand has never...

JohnMcGreal

claretdom wrote:Was the Trump vote more stupid then the Brexit vote ?

Yes.

JohnMcGreal

Much like the new trend of people calling every vote they don't like 'unfair' It's not every vote, Guich, and it's not because it's unfair. It''s one particular vote that's being discussed here, and it will continue to be discussed for a long time, because an extraordinarily stupid vote has enabled...

JohnMcGreal

Damo wrote:Stop being such a drama queen

Thank you for that valuable contribution, Damo.

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