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And so England will head home from the World Cup after the first round for the first time since 1958. The result may be disappointing for England fans even if the standard of play – bar a few lapses – was generally better than expected. Lapses, however, count dearly at this level. How the results are seen in other parts of the UK is another matter. In large parts of Wales and Northern Ireland…
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Will he try to do a Kinnock next weekend in an OTT rally to his troops? Of course the Cyber Nats will try to stress the inclusive nature of this battle, the English, and Welsh were there too.
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Something in the air, Midsummer Madness. Good day to bury Ed?
I think they are optimistic. Miliband isn't IDS: he's Hague.
Luis Suarez's extraordinary and somewhat ungracious anti-English rant following his two goals in Uraguay's victory on Thursday, appears deliberately designed to engineer an early departure from these shores during the summer transfer window.
Providing the price is right, i.e. somewhere between £60 - £80 million, it would be difficult and perhaps foolish of Liverpool to stand in his way.
I therefore expect him to leave and have wagered accordingly at odds of 6/4 with SkyBet.
As ever, DYOR.
Historical analogies basically don't work in modern politics - the sample pool is too small and everyone is sui generis.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2664139/Ugly-truth-tartan-trolls-They-spit-bile-like-JK-Rowling-dare-question-Scottish-independence-Now-special-report-reveals-dirty-tricks.html
They've been following a strategy of trying to piece together an anti-Coalition vote rather than to present a distinctive vision; they've not recanted for any of their errors of the past (in any meaningful way) or showed signs of learning from them.
I'm not a political professional, but I suspect (hope?) that the electorate will see through that when they really start to think through the issue.
Hague made some silly mistakes as leader, but the basic problem was the country didn't want a Tory government and were broadly satisfied with Blair. IDS was a dead-end. I think Miliband is more the former than the latter.
On thread, I have to confess that here in North Britain there is a great deal of delight at England exiting from the World Cup at the earliest possible moment. However David you are wrong to suggest it will be forgotten by September. Your London media are still reminding us on an almost daily basis of the football match your national team won in 1966.
Tomorrow sees the kick-off of the Bannockburn 700 commemorations with a 2 hour special on SKY. The 3 now 2 day bunfight to commemorate the event next weekend is a fiasco with the majority of the overpriced tickets unsold and a great many of us who should be there (i.e. descendants of Bruce and the other Scots nobles) boycotting it because it has been hijacked by the YESNP to peddle their independence message. The re-enactments will be great theatre but the audiences will be a poor reflection on the original spin and hype. Then again VisitScotland wouldn't know anything about tourism if it bounced up and hit them on the chin.
It will be interesting to see how both sides try to maintain interest in their campaigns as the main Scottish summer holidays start with schools finishing next weekend.
The Scottish referendum will probably see many people cast a vote for the first time; the sort of people who abstain at general elections never mind local or European ones. They are a highly unpolitical part of the population and their votes may be swayed by all sorts of reasons.
You are doing an excellent job of correcting the false impression that cybernats are bitter foul mouthed losers. Keep up the good work!
With regards to your second point , I am replying in kind as I always do , to polite intelligent posters I respond the same , if you care to look at the trash the cretin wrote earlier you will see why I replied in the same vein. There are some very nasty Scottish hating posters on here and I will answer them as they post.
But too late for action methinks. The election campaignwill be led by Ed, but there is a real risk that he will be in Downing street this time next year, with his owl.
I do not use anything to support my case , I support YES because I want to , not because of what anyone else says. I will repeat if you use the Mail as your guide you are not very intelligent, their character assassination of people who are commenting politely on what they believe in is pathetic. Britnats seem to want to close down opinions , not happy with controlling all the media they now do not want people to be able to express their opinion on the internet , unless of course it is the Britnat establishment opinion. Have a thought before you post about people being nasty trash, look in the mirror now and again.
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Mr. Jim, huzzah for Hannibal!
P3 starts at 10am. Will endeavour to have the pre-qualifying piece up shortly after it finishes at 11am.
http://www.libdemvoice.org/yes-scotland-is-a-bit-late-to-realise-that-wings-over-scotland-is-bad-news-41025.html
http://www1.skysports.com/f1/report/12475/9356020/red-bull-considering-manufacturing-their-own-engines-after-2015
I think that's really rather harsh on Renault. No team, engine supplier or what have you will always be dominant, and it's generally acknowledged Mercedes has done a stunning job with both engine and chassis.
May well just be a kick up the arse to Renault, but after supplying title-winning engines for four years to be immediately threatened with abandonment speaks ill of Red Bull.
It is more interesting that he seemingly feels driven out by the clique in control of the Labour party. Ed is a ruthless tactitian in his purges.
I think that's why some are less warm towards the team now, whereas others, even without success, enjoy a better reputation (Williams, for example).
I can abstain, for the first time, in peace.
A more recent example would be Brown wiping out his rivals whilst the idiot Blair did nothing, leaving Labour with a far worse pool of candidates for Brown's eventual successor.
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/alex-salmond-gives-go-ahead-calculate-3735312
I have never understood this sentiment myself and was cheering on England against Uruguay. But then I consider myself British first. The thread has cause and effect the wrong way around.
At processional circuits like Monaco and Singapore, it can be boring (although there are sometimes crashes to liven it up). At proper circuits like Silverstone, Spa, Suzuka, Texas, Interlagos, Canada, etc it's fantastic.
Another thought on engines: this might be Red Bull's way of trying to get around homologation rules which, I believe, significantly curtail development of an existing engine. It might just be a Renault with a Red Bull label on to get around the limitation on development.
Tick rock, soon be over loser.
All that just because they got their butts kicked there regularly as well.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/scotland/10823322/Yes-Scotland-almost-entirely-bankrolled-by-lottery-winners.html
Desperate lying smearing Britnats down to quoting Daily Heil , Daily Retard and Liberal Voice, LOL, how the mighty have fallen.
They never even qualified in 74 and 78 when there was hardly any foreign players in the
first division and their club teams were winning European cups.
It will not make a difference.
The only factor which could make a difference is the thought for many Scots especially
Labour voters, is more Conservative rule from Westminster.
I had a vote living in Scotland , I would vote yes, then you make your own choice and don`t have to worry ever again of the possibility of the conservative party from England ruling over you.
Speaking of celebrations, the annual migration of hippies, pagans, druids and drop-outs has descended once more upon Stonehenge. The sun rise this morning will have been spectacular, as Salisbury, under a clear blue sky is bathed in sunshine and the rain and mud of previous years but a distant memory – Normality resumes, thank God, as the daily commute so often blighted by a procession of hairies on tandems, rickshaws or those on Shanks's pony nears at an end .
The UKIP solution is neatest. Withdraw from the EU, get rid of Bosman, make it one overseas player per team maximum. Job done. Who knew Farage would be the saviour of English kickball?
Perhaps the BT folks can celebrate the anniversaries of Flodden (9th Sep) and Homildon Hill (14th Sep) , just to make the whole experience even more ill-tempered and petty.
Make it so.
Then he can sod off back to Liverpool and be miserable about spazzing up the premiership and the World Cup in one glorious season.
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Meanwhile .... Mrs JackW and I are heading for the smoke for some upmarket nosh and retail therapy for she who must be obeyed.
Wish my wallet well ....
That said the electoral research is showing that NickexMP is heading to victory against Soubry - just look at Ashcroft's marginal report from April. What NickexMP needs to work out is what is he actually going to do when elected to clean up his party and also to bring sound Govt finances to it? Or is he back to the "eat his own feet" label?
Also if unfortunately the Yes campaign does fall short, the SNP in 2015 will oust a lot of SLAB at GE15.
http://newstonoone.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/the-labour-battleground-in-june-2014.html
I'll forgive the Scots their Schadenfreude.
I well remember us being urged to support the Jocks in 1978. The difference is that the Scots went out with high expectations, even though they had the same wall to wall advertising opportunities.
Their first match was against Peru and their thirty eight year old centre forward, Cubillas. I remember it fondly; he scored twice in an easy 3-1 victory. After the match, I walked out into the back garden and glanced over at my next door neighbour who'd just come out too.
We both collapsed in almost hysterical laughter. Thanks for that glorious memory, Scotland.
Will England respond in the same manner by giving an Archie Gemmill-like performance in the last match against Costa Rica? Somehow I doubt it. The Scots did have a good team and were hurt by all the insults they had endured back home. The English public, by comparison, almost expected it.
Costa Rica 2 England 1 has a nice symmetry.