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Despite the seasonal weather and approaching time for reflection and reconciliation, the EDF's pro and anti-LTN/cycling lobbies soon resort to type...

Semi-Final Fixtures... Tuesday 13th December Argentina v Croatia Wednesday 14th December France v Morocco

Well, that was a bit of a damp squib, going to be difficult to catch RC now. Quarter Finals points... Quarter Finals table...

Another 'sob story'. Brexit deregulation v single market access. Only going to be one winner...

When I've sent presents to the EU via Amazon, the duty has been added at purchase, pretty sure the recipients haven't had to pay anything...

Quarter-Final fixtures... Friday 9th December Croatia v Brazil Netherlands v Argentina Saturday 10th December Morocco v Portugal England v France

Round of 16 points... Round of 16 table...

Sorry Cat, but you dismissing ''there will be no downside'' doesn't magically make it go away. As stupid as you think it was to say that, it was oft repeated and millions believed it. Such quotes were said by the people running the Leave campaign, not some random bloke off the EDF and his so-called ''sensible'' Brexit. No one else was listening to you. Rees-Mogg came up with another gem, that food prices would fall 20% after leaving the EU. I could quote something similar that was promised for the fishing and farming communities but hasn't been delivered. The NHS, and so on. Again, millions of people believed all this. All these promises haven't been delivered and plenty of Leave voters are now recognising that. The Brexit that was promised has failed and there won't be a second chance. It's now just a question of how long it will take before the UK forms closer economic ties with the EU again...

According to the Predict Addict 'Rules' section, extra-time, if played, is counted, but not penalties. Round of 16 Fixtures... Saturday 3rd December Netherlands v USA Argentina v Australia Sunday 4th December France v Poland England v Senegal Monday 5th December Japan v Croatia Brazil v South Korea Tuesday 6th December Morocco v Spain Portugal v Switzerland

Group Stage 3 points... Group Stage 3 table...

Re. the ''I'm always asked about my accent'' takes. It is indeed common to ask someone where their accent is from, it's an easy conversation ice-breaker. The difference is, if you're white, there's rarely the follow-up question of ''Yes, but where did you originally come from?''...

All to play for. World Cup Group Fixtures - Round 3... Tuesday 29th November Ecuador v Senegal Netherlands v Qatar Iran v USA Wales v England Wednesday 30th November Australia v Denmark Tunisia v France Poland v Argentina Saudi Arabia v Mexico Thursday 1st December Canada v Morocco Croatia v Belgium Costa Rica v Germany Japan v Spain Friday 2nd December Ghana v Uruguay South Korea v Portugal Cameroon v Brazil Serbia v Switzerland

Group Stage 2 points... Group Stage 2 table...

...because it just seems to wind you up so much.... And there we have it. The circle is complete. You should've made that your last post...

World Cup Group Fixtures - Round 2... Friday 25th November Wales v Iran Qatar v Senegal Netherlands v Ecuador England v USA Saturday 26th November Tunisia v Australia Poland v Saudi Arabia France v Denmark Argentina v Mexico Sunday 27th November Japan v Costa Rica Belgium v Morocco Croatia v Canada Spain v Germany Monday 28th November Cameroon v Serbia South Korea v Ghana Brazil v Switzerland Portugal v Uruguay

Group Stage 1 points & table...

World Cup Group Fixtures - Round 1... Sunday 20th November Qatar v Ecuador Monday 21st November England v Iran Senegal v Netherlands USA v Wales Tuesday 22nd November Argentina v Saudi Arabia Denmark v Tunisia Mexico v Poland France v Australia Wednesday 23rd November Morocco v Croatia Germany v Japan Spain v Costa Rica Belgium v Canada Thursday 24th November Switzerland v Cameroon Uruguay v South Korea Portugal v Ghana Brazil v Serbia

Anyone interested in joining the World Cup game, scroll up to Oct 28th for details...

Week 14 points... Week 14 table...

The thing with Google word searches is that they throw up anything and everything with whatever words are used, in this case you typed ''Brexit disaster''. So, as well as articles claiming something along the lines of ''Brexit is a disaster'' there will also be articles claiming something along the lines of ''Brexit isn't a disaster''. Similarly, there will be articles that contain those words yet they're not writing about either. So with all that in mind, I'll pass on your generous offer and instead file it under ''It's Friday, I'm off to the pub''. There's nothing wrong with 'pivoting' if it's still relevant/pertinent to the case in point. SME's and how well or not they are performing all contribute to the bigger national picture (by the way, SME's aren't limited to 'individual traders'). Interest rates are also entwined with what's happening nationally. Brexit is omnipresent, it's tentacles are everywhere, you can't distill them to suit your 'position'. As for the last bit, please, not the ''everybody hates me'' martyr card, it's Friday, go to the pub and cry your Brexit tears into a beer. To show you there's no hard feelings, I'll volunteer to drive you to the airport when you leave, just to make sure you get on that fecking plane...

Last round of matches before the World Cup break. Week 14 fixtures... Saturday 12th November Manchester City v Brentford AFC Bournemouth v Everton Liverpool v Southampton Nottingham Forest v Crystal Palace Tottenham Hotspur v Leeds United West Ham United v Leicester City Newcastle United v Chelsea Wolverhampton Wanderers v Arsenal Sunday 13th November Brighton & Hove Albion v Aston Villa Fulham v Manchester United

Not at all, I'm sure it's been said but I'm equally sure that unless you cite the context it was said i.e. it could have been said in relation to when discussing No Deal, then it's nothing more than throwing words around. Again, for some people Brexit has been ''really, really bad'', and who's to say that whoever's used that term on here hasn't themselves had a really bad experience with Brexit? Not everyone wants to wash their dirty laundry on the EDF. And if you want some data, I'll send you my latest mortgage statement courtesy of the Brexity free trade loons at B4B and their mucky paw prints all over Trussonomics and the catastrofuck that turned out to be. Remind me, how are B4B showing the £50b fiscal black hole in their 'data'? And Seph makes an important point, it's not just economics that Brexit has affected, it's had an extremely adverse effect politically, and I'll add socially too...

Cat, do yourself a favour and stop referencing B4B. David Henig, an independent trade expert, referenced them recently in a comment about The Guardian's Larry Elliot's piece entitled ''Brexit isn't to blame for our current problems''... Whether from left or right, there is no part of economics that Brexit fundamentalists will not undermine if it doesn't produce their 'right' answer. Heck, a Guardian Brexiteer will even reference the joke that is Briefings for Brexit. (I read this as a quip rather than a typo) Once more for the partisans, if Brexit has no cost then there is no case for free trade. Fortunately, that doesn't appear to be the case. Should on the other hand, trade barriers just be one facet of growth, then we'd expect UK performance to slightly lag competitors, as it is there never was going to be a UK economic fall off a cliff. Some sectors are doing ok, Brexit isn't obviously affecting Scotch Whisky, the Premier League, or universities. But in other sectors, greater barriers, lower competition, economic cost. It's telling that Cat's attack line is now reduced to 'Brexit's not been great but it's not been a disaster either', as if that is some kind of 'win'. That's not what Brexit promised, quite the opposite in fact. Once again, this isn't about what Cat thinks, his type of Brexit, but how the millions of people up and down the country who voted for Brexit, perceive whether Brexit has delivered on those promises or not. Politically, when you have differences of opinion on the direction a county should take, the onus is always on the winner to deliver, usually via a GE. It's irrelevant what the losing side said/promised. Their ideas are not being implemented, the winner's are. Corbyn's promise of free broadband for everyone is immaterial because he didn't win. So. unless Brexit delivers on what it promised, people will rightly conclude that it's failed. And polls suggest that this is already cutting through, even I was taken aback that one recent poll had Rejoin at close to 60%. That's Rejoin, i.e. completely undoing Brexit. I'd always envisaged that we would first of all stay Brexited but join the Single Market and maybe the Customs Union as a half-way house, something we should've done initially. I'm also not sure what this fascination with the word 'disaster' is, I presume someone on here has said it and it's buried itself in Cat's head. Perhaps Cat's the only one who can use throw away lines. Besides, what makes something a 'disaster' or not is wholly subjective. Henig doesn't think Brexit has been a disaster to the economy as a whole, but to the SME who's gone out of business because they can no longer afford to export their goods to the EU, they will rightly claim it has indeed been a disaster...

This is why we should've had a 2nd Ref on the final deal, instead of May kowtowing to the ERG Brextremists. As with the GOP and Trump, until the Tories are rid of them they will never be a democratic functioning party fit to govern...

Cheers Jah, no idea how Week 5 made a guest appearance...