diable rouge

By my reckoning, 6 out of 8 players got the correct score last night!...

So, the bloke in charge of No.10 communications, and presumably behind the PM's line ''There was no party'' for the past week, turns out to have been at the party handing out awards to the assembled staff. The sheer, utter contempt they have for the truth and the public is off the scale...

This rings a bell - ''Not My Brexit!''...https://chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2021/12/not-my-brexit.html

Are you feeling ok Daily Express?... https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1534017/UK-trade-data-post-Brexit-GDP-EU-evg

This from a year ago, and some of the responses, hold up pretty well I think As does this from two years ago to the day, the crux being if people don't care about being lied to, they'll continue to do it... /forum/read.php?20,2076809,2082607#msg-2082607

Another Double Bubble. Week 15 fixtures... Friday 10th December Brentford v Watford Saturday 11th December Manchester City v Wolverhampton Wanderers Arsenal v Southampton Chelsea v Leeds United Liverpool v Aston Villa Norwich City v Manchester United Sunday 12th December Brighton & Hove Albion v Tottenham Hotspur Burnley v West Ham United Leicester City v Newcastle United Crystal Palace v Everton Tuesday 14th December Brentford v Manchester United Norwich City v Aston Villa Manchester City v Leeds United Wednesday 15th December Brighton & Hove Albion v Wolverhampton Wanderers Burnley v Watford Crystal Palace v Southampton Arsenal v West Ham United Thursday 16th December Leicester City v Tottenham Hotspur Chelsea v Everton Liverpool v Newcastle United

Robbie Shakespeare... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-59588953

The lies just keep on coming... In May the PM told Lord Geidt that he did not know who was behind No11 flat refurb until Feb 2021 Today the Electoral Commission says Boris Johnson Whatsapped Lord Brownlow in November 2020 asking for more cash for the No11 refurb

He?s our very own Trump isn?t he, and he?s not finished yet. Like the GOP the Tory party is wilfully enabling him for its own desperate need to survive. I doubt a sizeable number of Tory voters will buy into the lies to the extent GOP supporters have. The number of Republican voters that still believe the election was stolen is scary. The Tory party will have no qualms about dumping Johnson once he's seen as an electoral liability, and he's getting closer and closer to that point. There were some Tory MPs who wanted him gone not long after the election, having served his purpose to 'Get Brexit done' but knowing he wasn't fit for office long-term...

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

That certainly 'one-up' from the usual office party high-jinks of photocopying one's hairy arse, have you got any more lined up Seabag, and how do I get an invite...

Week 14 fixtures... Saturday 4th December West Ham United v Chelsea Newcastle United v Burnley Southampton v Brighton & Hove Albion Wolverhampton Wanderers v Liverpool Watford v Manchester City Sunday 5th December Leeds United v Brentford Manchester United v Crystal Palace Tottenham Hotspur v Norwich City Aston Villa v Leicester City Monday 6th December Everton v Arsenal

Week 13 points... Week 13 table...

John Bishop on GB News?! Surely some mistake?...

Reminder that there are midweek games tonight, tomorrow and Thurs...

Dogkennelhillbilly Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- Amusingly (not amusingly) it now looks like in the next five years Scotland will retaliate against Brexit by...putting up borders with its closest neighbour and inflicting even greater financial damage than Brexit did! And Indy supporters will just dismiss it as ''teething problems''...

Sephiroth Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Doesn't that leave the UK as a rule taker rather > than a rule-maker as part of the EU tho? Isn't > that one of the big no-nos (and not just for > extreme leavers?) Yep, but in the current circumstances I suspect a majority of people would accept that, especially if it was done in a softly softly catchy monkey kinda way. I'm not an advocate of any kind of Brexit, but unfortunately it's where we are at the moment and that's the best of a bad bunch. What do you think should happen?...

TheCat Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > How very noble of you. Its interesting you pick > that example of the two I liste, given how well > Labour and its supporters are known for their > collective togetherness:) I didn't highlight the second part of that paragraph because I thought it was a false equivalence and not worth commenting on. I don't identify as a Labour voter, more a tactical/swing voter, however in the current climate I'm very likely to vote Labour. Labour has always been a broad church (perhaps its downfall) but safe to say I would reserve a special place in Hell for Lexiters. > Lets hypothesise that Labour win teh next election > in a few years...but they also pledge not to > reverse Brexit as it would be electoral > suicide.....so they will be the one's takign > action for the bettrerment or otherwise of the > country...the same opporuntities and drawbacks > will be open to them as are open to the Tories > now....will we be able to seperate the two then? I doubt Labour would try to reverse Brexit, certainly not without another referendum (by the way, I don't think it would be electoral suicide if there was a pact with the other progressive parties, after all it was the split progressive vote and the Brexit Party standing down that gave the Tories their victory, not an actual majority in favour of Brexit...polls have widened since). Instead, I think (hope) they would try and align us closer to the EU, e.g. work towards a Norway style model. You have to remember that the EU are not going to welcome us back unless there is a clear change of opinion in favour of rejoining, so until that happened I can see a strategy of slowly renewing economic ties with the EU gaining general public approval, hopefully leading to the return of FoM. In other words, a form of Brexit that could've happened before the evangelical cranks took over...

TheCat Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Do all labour voters have exactly the same view on > specifics of every policy they want implemented? If I voted for a Labour Gov and they then proceeded to royally screw up, failed to deliver on promises etc, I would stick my hand up in the air and say I was wrong to vote for them, not look for a convenient Get Out of Jail card because I didn't agree with certain things in their manifesto. It's called collective responsibility...

Agree KK but there still needs to be accountability, especially as we have a Gov that won on the back of Brexit, and I envisage they will try again with a ''Don't ley them undo Brexit'' schtick at the next election...

Dogkennelhillbilly Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > ...cheerleaders tend to pack up once the game is over. Poor choice of word on my part, I was actually referring to the protagonists i.e. Johnson et al. I think we all know that had there been any actual tangible benefits there would've been a lot of tubthumping from this Gov...

My own view...is that the first few years would alwasy be the toughest, and we would see some short term pain before the opening up of longer term opportunity. And if that doesn't materialise we all know what follows. That wasn't my Brexit And so it goes on...