Rayvin

You think so? I think Corbyn is more pro-immigration than he is anti-EU. I think they would have come out and said they were going to support single market access and perhaps a second referendum if they weren't walking an electoral tightrope between the working class and the educated middles. If they feel a moment comes when they can swing themselves behind a softer exit (or no exit at all), I think they'll take it. Even under Corbyn.

I think he'll wait for someone to meet the £6m release clause, since even if he goes in the summer, he'd still not be able to work for another year unless someone did. That aside, if we can keep him until January, we might find that enough money is spent to make him think twice. Ashley gave McClaren £80m after all. I'm sure if that sort of money had been wielded over the summer, Rafa would have had no problems with it.

Yeah this is a good bit of analysis. I had hoped that Elizabeth Warren might come to the forefront but she doesn't appear to be positioning herself for it as of yet. Sanders is too old to go again IMO. There is a grassroots movement within the Democrats that is trying to take hold, but it may be a bridge too far them to hold any influence ahead of the next election cycle. They might have to settle for getting certain policies on the agenda, rather than wholesale change. Still though, you'd have to think that by the end of this, hard right politics will have been shown to have failed demonstrably - you'd think they'd be crying out for the back of Trump. Just wish there was a credible left wing alternative in place to swoop in and clear up - but there's not, so back to the centre we'll go.

At first glance I thought that was encouraging, but there are still solid blocks of leave voters seemingly prepared to take the country to ruin in order to get what they want here. Even the second referendum bit is a heavily qualified statement. You could respin that number so that it was effectively saying about 30% want an in/out referendum, the other 70% want to go out, they just have some uncertainty over whether they want a vote on the specifics of going out. While I can still see a scenario where we might get what we want here, it will have to involve the Tory government collapsing, ideally off the back of some incontrovertible bad news on the Brexit front and Labour winning it next time out - then we might get our referendum.

This is true but Trump is doing such a bad job that she might actually win it next time. A depressing thought given that the only benefit to Trump was that the democrats may come up with someone radical.

China has made clear it will only be neutral if NK is the aggressor.

Sounds like they're trying to set the narrative on who started it with a view to making sure China are on their side. Curious that they haven't declared war back though.

Seems to be a lot of public pressure for it but I can't see how it can be without changing the regulations. Unless of course the original ruling was in fact wrong.

I still maintain Labour is waiting to see which way the wind blows

I agree that this does seem like a sensible route, but one assumes Rafa has thought of it and dismissed it for some reason.

I think sport has done a great deal to help people move past racism in this sense, but you might be right. It's an acceptable form of tribalism though.

He looks stupid right now, that's certain. If more teams come out in support of the others, he'll have a polarising issue right down a fault line he won't want. I would think, anyway.

It's been fucking ages since I ranted on about Neoliberalism, cut me some slack.

I've only realised over the weekend that the raid is the Straum quest. I solo'd that so in terms of actual difficulty, I agree I dunno, I think it falls down for the same reasons as the raid - inadequate teammates.

This is the thing. Some people have spent their whole lives playing COD and just can't grasp the slightly more intricate nature of a game that doesn't require you to just barrel in and shoot everything. Still haven't managed it myself - the clan is starting to get a bit frustrated by it but we're basically having the same problem as you. I've not made myself available over the weekend for it but maybe I need to do so in order to help them get over the line...

Will this even play to his base though? You'd have thought making them choose between sport and politics would be a risky move... I think he's an utter cunt playing at being a fucking idiot.

Nope. Back then it was a toxic blend of fascism and communism, built on the back of the wholescale impoverishment of a nation by an external force. So, not Neoliberalism, but the latter effectively provides 'wholescale impoverishment' of certain sectors of society, so we're basically talking about the same thing. Wealth inequality has always been the guiding force for this shit.

Post of the year.

We could just abandon Neoliberalism. That would resolve all current global issues because it's responsible for basically everything. Course we'd have new issues, but nazis, nuclear holocaust and climate breaking probs wouldn't be amongst them.

Google MOTD highlights ffs...

He doesn't believe that for a second you know, these are just things they're telling each other to fend off the darkness.

What about the first 8?

In simple terms it's because we're not that lucky.

If they end up in administration they absolutely will go down. If they don't then I agree, they'll stay up. We're clearly not going to see them in the PL for some years though. Possibly a decade based on what's going on down there...

Aye, but the main joy of that scoreline is that palace still haven't scored or got any points