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Very good Ron ! That may have been the last time we scored 3 goals in a game, and none of them counted.

 

I thought it was 2-0 to you at the time but my memory could be failing me

 

3-1 at the time, abandoned with 20 mins to go because of a little shower !

 

Ah well, close. I dread to think how much we had to pay that Health & Safety manager

 

Along with some traditional Bristol folk songs. Merely a shower !!

 

Annoying wasn't it. Just as we were getting on top

 

Where Monnet went wrong was that he thought France was so wonderful that the rest of Europe should be converted to the same model. The problem is that back in 1940 the French accepted that they could not beat the Germans so they never tried. Now they have created a Superstate that is pretty much run by the economic might of the Germans to the detriment of many others and France has become an irrelevance.

Many of the members who were formerly behind the Iron Curtain rushed to join the EU for just two distinct reasons: their shattered economic status from years of Communism meant that they would be subsidised by the rich member states; and the people were quite happy to have outsiders (Brussels technocrats) handing out laws to them because their countries were run by malevolent oligarchs.

The European Union is a political project and its continuing failure in so many other aspects is being clearly demonstrated by the plague pandemic. Even great fans of the Superstate like former Belgian PM Guy Verhofstadt can be found criticising the incompetence of the unaccountable, unelected European Commission, led by a woman the Germans were happy to see leave their domestic politics. Brexiteers must be scratching their heads as they queue up for their jabs. Without the EU we were supposedly doomed.

 

I am sure that this was discussed a couple of years ago (on a different, now defunct, thread) when the original story broke so the programme this time was really just Princess Latifa broadcasts from the smallest room of the house where she is imprisoned.

She is not the only one of his children that Sheikh Mohammed has had repatriated. Here in the liberal West we frown upon such controlling practises but it has always been the way with the Arabs.

Sheikh Mohammed had six wives and the youngest of them, Princess Haya of Jordan, had an affair with her bodyguard, fled to London and was divorced by him. She got custody of her children when the High Court Family Division gave a protection order in her favour in a case that he tried to have dropped uncontested to prevent details being made public.

The British racing authorities will continue to turn a blind eye to what goes on in the not-so-private lives of its Arabian benefactors, be they from the United Arab Emirates, Qatar or Saudi Arabia. As the Godolphin operation is spread across several of the world’s major racing nations any action would have to be at an international level. I am sure there are plenty of other owners with less than salubrious private lives but with international oil billionaires, money talks.

 

Starmer: Labour must work with business to create fairer society

The clueless loser shows that Labour still knows nothing about economics as he fights to save his job from the hard Left membership that still want Corbynomics, even though that lifetime loser was rejected at the ballot box.

The Labour Party is not a very successful moral crusade. It did not have a working majority until its third attempt at government. It has only been in government once in the last 40 years and the hard Left despise their most electorally successful leader because they had been kicked out of the Party at that time and he was a Champagne Socialist.

Clearly Starmer lives in some fantasy world where savers are going to put money into a “British Recovery Bond” created by an economically incompetent Labour government. Most of the people with savings are middle class, not Labour voters. I own no gilts (British government bonds) because the interest rates are below inflation, so they are an easy way to lose money. Only those with two or fewer brain cells would see any Labour idea as a credible investment. Why take on the risk element of a recovery bond when there is no benefit other than being able to claim some sort of smug altruism?

When Socialist Sunak stands up to announce his spending plans on 3rd March, doubtless Anneliese Dodds will oppose them because he will not be printing enough money, having already thrown away billions in 2020 on pointless gestures like ‘Eat Out To Help Out’.

 

£1 is nudging up close to $1.40 today. Not that long ago Goldman Sachs told us that Brexit meant the £ was heading for parity with $. Many other financial heads nodded in agreement.

 

I've been holding out for the darkest days of this pandemic to spring this on everyone - but here goes -

http://ourpoetryarchive.blogspot.com/2016/09/andrew-evzona.html

Now that makes us all feel a lot better doesn't it?


WE KNOW WHO WE ARE
WHEREVER WE MAY BE
WE’RE BORN,WE LIVE,WE DIE
NO MATTER WHO ARE WE

 

Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom,
Boom, Boom, Boom,
Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom,
Boom, Boom, Boom

 

I think there may be a copyright on that one mal

 

Calling an Owls fan a 'twat', whatever next? Modern poetry is mostly a load of '****e', for sure.

 

the £ will be what the £ will be, and that's as it should be.

Did notice that a very vociferous poster on here said the same about a total collapse of Sterling a few months ago.

 

Do you think he has an ego problem?

 

It’s quite a good search if you google his name.

 

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