I'm trying to forget about that until monday morning. But if we lose sunday, and RD decides we don't need Bowyer, it'll be the footballing hangover from hell.
Thanks for this message Mystic Shabbs. No offence intended, honest. I know I go overboard sometimes, and indeed most of the time when it comes to Brexit. Sometimes it seems we never take the big decisions anymore in this country. Once upon a time we built a pioneering canal network, a pioneering rail network, engineering projects that changed the world. Now we debate for decades over a runway, or a single rail line or a few more motorway lanes, and the decision gets kicked into the long grass again and again and again and again. I just wish (having decided to do it in the referendum) that we could take bold action just for once, rather than falling prey to our fears and allowing naysayers to make us too timid to do anything.
Be prepared for a long wait FHB (something us 'leave' voters have got used to) I don't think the news broadcasters can say anything about the Euro Elections until after 10pm on Sunday, which is when the last polls close somewhere. I don't even know if they are allowed to talk about exit polls or anything.
A pleasure to listen to the major interview on R4 today. Ken Clarke is probably the only politician who answers every question honestly, and in detail with good humour to boot. Not a slogan or soundbite to be seen. Would that there were more like him.
I've hardly ever agreed with anything Ken Clarke has ever said, but his style and the way he argues his point has always been admirable. I entirely agree with your thoughts on him FHB.
Yes, he answers the question he is asked, not the one he wants to be asked. Makes the interviewer's job nice and easy.
I’m one of the 124,000 who now gets to choose the next Prime Minister - and the BBC is straight into the hatchet job this morning in Radio 4. “Not representative” and “elderly” were two of the kinder words used by the left wing mouthpiece. Nope - born & grew up on a council estate in my case, first person in my family to ever go to University. Family had fvck all for the first years of my life. By “traditional” they mean opposed to same sex marriage, unilateral nuclear disarmament and a run on the pound every month. And protecting the British way of life from mass immigration. I plead guilty in every case. I’ll be voting for Boris, and I have already told him.
Stupid to try and predict how politics will go these days, but here goes. Boris becomes PM, flies off to Brussels, comes back with zilch, the right wing press dutifully rage against an intransigent EU. He calls a general election, gets a majority which enables him to push through a WTO rules Brexit. Huge celebrations by hard brexiteers. Roland still at Charlton.
Sorry, I couldn't resist it. And of course it hasn't happened yet and may never happen. Among other things, what Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson have in common is that each is his own worst enemy. Boris even more than Nigel I think. Boris is larger than life, a buffoon who can charm and entertain and bluster with the best of them. He is also not as much of a fool as he seems to be, or he would never have enjoyed the career he has had so far. But he can commit the most appalling blunders through sheer carelessness. One of these recently dropped that poor woman being held in Iran far deeper in the soup than she already was. I must admit I would rather have Boris than Corbyn running the country but neither is an ideal candidate by a long way, for different reasons.
I can't find anything in his track record to suggest he would be a competent PM. Maybe I've missed something. Corbyn's leadership has been terrible for democracy, which depends onhaving a viable opposition. Even when he goes, Momentum are still in charge of the Labour NEC. Momentum even tweeted that Jeremy has seen off two Tory leaders now, they are so deluded. There are a lot of good people in the local Labour party, but at National level there is a vacuum at the top.
Cut knife crime by 50% as London Mayor, built more affordable homes than Khan has, didn’t tax the bollox off Londoners like Khan has with his ridiculous green charges.
Boris cut knife crime? how? and what do you call affordable? Wasted £43m on the Garden Bridge vanity project.
