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Thanks for feedback Meds, after I posted I found out about that 'highest priority' reference but couldn't find out how you 'assign priorities'. I've tried to move my subs around the subs bench but they just return to their original position. I've sent a message to their help desk so await what they have to say...

On the Fantasy Football game, if a player, say a defender, doesn't play that week, FF will automatically replace them with one of subs who plays in the same area i.e another defender, or if that's not possible, change the formation and sub in a midfielder or forward if possible. Does anyone know how they choose which player? I'd always assumed they picked the one with the most points, but this week they subbed in someone who only scored 1 point while another player who scored 11 points has been left on the bench. I've been robbed!...

I've got similar sized tubs with all compost, I think the dryness is more to do with the newness of the compost, once you get plants in and roots get established, plus watering regularly (I second tom's tip about a good drenching but careful with your Geraniums) it will feel less powdery. Good practice every year to remove the top 4 inches or so of old compost as the nutrients will have been used up and top up with fresh compost and give it a good forking...

As you're using it in large tubs, you could mix it with some topsoil if you want to stretch it out, say a 50/50 mix up to about two thirds full, then finish off the top third with compost only, but I wouldn't bother doing that for smaller pots/troughs etc. Some grit/old terracotta crocks at the bottom will help with drainage and stop the compost from oozing out of the drainage holes. Also depends on what you're growing, some plants like Fresias need a free-draining gritty mixture, and some plants don't like being grown in peat-based composts. Lavender thrives in poor soil so that could just as easily grow go in normal soil with no compost. I think Rosemary and some other herbs are the same. Veg on the other hand needs lots of nutrients so all compost would be better, maybe even mix in some well-rotted manure with it. What are you planning on growing?...

''It was a work w*nk event...'' ETA: End italics

Gotta love the sheer audacity of Porngate MP Neil Parish. And to then finish off with a little hand wave at the end. That's what your right hand's for, eh Neil :)

Interesting that you should post that Ian, there was once an attempt to usurp the 100 game with a 73 game, and that would've been about 11 years ago. I trust that wasn't a coded attempt to instigate another attempt at a coup...

ianr Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Alan Medic wrote: > ------------------ > > 800......Thanks RD! > > What's the point? Sacrilege!...

Telling that Frost only ever airs his views to Brexit friendly audiences. That way he avoids scrutiny and the resultant accountability...

Week 32 fixtures... Saturday 30th April Newcastle United v Liverpool Aston Villa v Norwich City Southampton v Crystal Palace Watford v Burnley Wolverhampton Wanderers v Brighton & Hove Albion Leeds United v Manchester City Sunday 1st May Everton v Chelsea Tottenham Hotspur v Leicester City West Ham United v Arsenal Monday 2nd May Manchester United v Brentford

Week 31 points... Week 31 table...

It's hilarious watching Johnson having to be 'woke' because there's been a backlash against the Mail on Sunday's awful misogynistic attack on Rayner, something he was probably 'aware of' before publication...

Waseley Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- ''Funny how the term defend the indefensible was used today in parliament. Either politicians are tuning into the forum, or/and they are fans if 5 Live's Fighting talk'' I heard that too on Newsnight last night and also the reporter Nicholas Watt use ''while the cat's away...''. Obviously just a coincidence but there are a number of journos who live in the area who could well tune-in to the forum...

Week 31 fixtures... Saturday 23rd April Arsenal v Manchester United Leicester City v Aston Villa Manchester City v Watford Norwich City v Newcastle United Brentford v Tottenham Hotspur Sunday 24th April Brighton & Hove Albion v Southampton Burnley v Wolverhampton Wanderers Chelsea v West Ham United Liverpool v Everton Monday 25th April Crystal Palace v Leeds United Thursday 28th April Manchester United v Chelsea PredictAddict isn't yet showing the Thurs match, check for subsequent update...

Parky and Meds the MCFC/LFC of the EDF while RD lives off past glories! Week 30 points... Week 30 table...

There's been plenty of U-turns under Johnson's Gov, but the one today on whether Tory MPs could have a free vote on an investigation into whether Johnson misled parliament, rather than whipped to vote to block it, does feel significant. Could be a sign that Johnson has lost control of his backbenchers, despite having such a huge majority. While the cat's away the mice will play...

northernmonkey Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- ''Interestingly no comment from local Conservative candidates though- like they?re trying to distance themselves from the party they?ve chosen to stand for and are thus endorsing.'' Some London Tory groups have gone further...https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/london-local-elections-2022-conservative-candidates-partygate-b995491.html

I've only been canvassed (twice) by the Labour Party. Already put my postal vote in, allowed to vote for 3 candidates so gave one vote each to Lab, LibDems, and Greens. Anyone but the Tories...

Bring back commas!...

Bit of research, the poll was carried out before the Rwanda deal was announced. Here's a graph showing the steady decline of immigration being a concern for voters...

The Rwanda deal hasn't kicked in yet so I'm not sure it's had any impact on people's thoughts about immigration. I think immigration has actually gone up since the EU ref, with EU immigration being replaced by Non-EU immigration, but that never makes the front pages of the right-wing papers, when previously it did because it was a convenient stick with which to hit the EU with. A lot of the channel crossings are asylum seekers not immigrants, and they only make up about 6% of all immigration. It's just that they are far more visible and as Cat rightly says, the Gov wants to be seen to be doing something. The Gov is basically the school bully picking on the weakest in the class. The Gov could've of course create safe legal routes with processing centres here in the UK, or even in France as they have offered to do so, but that would be far too sensible and wouldn't make the headlines...

''But....it may be successful in two other areas....1) winning votes from anti-immigration voters, with headlines showing the govt is 'doing something' '' A Mail on Sunday poll put immigration in 11th place as to what were voters main concerns...

hammerman Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Angelina Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Didn?t Australia put something like this in > place, > > which dramatically reduced the number of > > immigrants attempting to enter Australia > > Yes they did and now the UK are doing the same. The UK isn't doing the same as Australia. Australia has an 'offshore-processing' system, and if asylum seekers are granted asylum I presume they can return to Australia legally. The UK is deporting asylum seekers to Rwanda. That's it. Nothing else is happening. There's no processing system in Rwanda to see if they can apply for asylum in the UK. All they can do is claim asylum in Rwanda, or more likely, make their way back to Europe. I read somewhere over the weekend that as part of this deal with Rwanda the UK will be receiving a limited number of other asylum seekers that Rwanda doesn't want. So, here we are, a supposed modern liberal democracy that now trades in 'human cargo'. It's like a form of modern-day slavery where humans are treated as commodities to be exchanged and bartered with. Utterly shameful...

Sun's out, beers in the cooler, time to chill...

At the last election I knew a few established Tory voters who didn't want to vote for Johnson but equally couldn't vote for Corbyn. Has that now changed with Starmer? Interesting thoughts on Starmer from ex-Tory MP Nick Boles... First, the bleeding obvious, he?s not exactly charismatic or exciting. But he was dealt the worst hand imaginable - the Labour Party after Jeremy Corbyn, Brexit and the meltdown in Scotland - and he has played it remarkably well. He has broken the grip of the far left on the party machine and policy process. He has repudiated the anti-semites in the Labour movement and won the cautious respect of the Jewish community for doing so. He has steered a fine line between broad support for the government during an unprecedented crisis (Covid) and forensic opposition of the worst examples of incompetence, waste and delay. He exposed the PM?s hypocrisy and duplicity over the Downing St parties but shrewdly waited until the police had issued the PM and the Chancellor with fixed penalty notices before calling for their resignation. He has been forthright in his support for Ukraine?s resistance against Putin?s aggression and used it to reaffirm traditional Labour values of patriotism and and the just use of military force in the defence of democracy and freedom. He has manoeuvred his most impressive MPs into the most important jobs and, after a bumpy start, found a way to harness the prodigious political talents of his deputy. Finally he has engineered a clever accommodation with the Liberal Democrats which should ensure that both parties can enjoy some of the benefits of an electoral pact while avoiding its undoubted risks and costs. I?d call that a pretty impressive scorecard. He?s not a political wizard. Not an Obama, a Clinton or a Blair. But I reckon he?ll be Prime Minister after the next election and deserve to be.