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The real bellwether about whether Brexit has been good or not is how much, or in this case, how little it's proponents 'big it up'. Where are all the Brexit cheerleaders telling us how good it's been? Their relative silence speaks volumes...

The bottom-line is, if you make it harder for people to travel for what was previously a very user-friendly experience, they'll seek alternatives... Eurovoyages, a French company that sent 11,000 students to the UK in 2019, said less than 100 students would go to UK in 2021. Verdie Open Class, another French operator, that had 800 school groups in 2019 (36,000 students) has 34 scheduled for 2022. None are confirmed. Full article here...https://www.ft.com/content/3a903e3f-228e-4ea0-9f26-012af4582196?shareType=nongift

Anyone who believed such nonsense truly is misguided. You're getting rather good at managing to answer your own questions...

What's juvenile is mocking the idea that it takes years for an economy to adjust to such a seismic change Except it was never sold as that... There will be no downside to Brexit, only a considerable upside.

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Double Bubble. Week 13 fixtures... Saturday 27th November Arsenal v Newcastle United Crystal Palace v Aston Villa Liverpool v Southampton Norwich City v Wolverhampton Wanderers Brighton & Hove Albion v Leeds United Sunday 28th November Brentford v Everton Burnley v Tottenham Hotspur Leicester City v Watford Manchester City v West Ham United Chelsea v Manchester United Tuesday 30th November Newcastle United v Norwich City Leeds United v Crystal Palace Wednesday 1st December Southampton v Leicester City Watford v Chelsea West Ham United v Brighton & Hove Albion Wolverhampton Wanderers v Burnley Aston Villa v Manchester City Everton v Liverpool Thursday 2nd December Tottenham Hotspur v Brentford Manchester United v Arsenal

Week 12 points... Week 12 table...

I was late to BBC4's Paris Police 1900 series in their regular Sat night foreign series slot, so have been playing catch-up on iPlayer, imagine the offspring of Spiral and Peaky Blinders. They're currently showing Stieg Larsson's Millennium series (Girl with the dragon tattoo etc), also worth watching...

It works for a non-gender-specific character such as Doctor Who, but I'm not convinced simply swapping a well known male character like James Bond for a female is that forward thinking, far better to come up with an original female character rather than tagging onto an existing male one...

Week 12 fixtures... Saturday 20th November Leicester City v Chelsea Aston Villa v Brighton & Hove Albion Burnley v Crystal Palace Newcastle United v Brentford Norwich City v Southampton Watford v Manchester United Wolverhampton Wanderers v West Ham United Liverpool v Arsenal Sunday 21st November Manchester City v Everton Tottenham Hotspur v Leeds United

I think it's safe to say the novelty definitely wore off for one person... Two months after leaving it, Andrew Neil is still wringing his hands about his time at GB News. Speaking to Sky News, the veteran broadcaster said his time there was a ?mistake? that caused ?pain and aggravation? and that the channel ? founded to cater to a range of views ? is basically a ?UKIP tribute band?.

I recently had a Windows 10 update, just went to a webpage that I know I hadn't signed out of, and it asked me to sign back in with the password. I also got the cookie settings blurb about what I consented to, something I'd done previously...

Again, he hasn?t taken his country down a uniquely awful path, damaging it reputationaly... Well, there were those 'away days' in the 80's to be taken into consideration, Sergio Tacchini has a lot to answer for...

There's that reasoned thinking again...

Cat likes to paint himself as a reasoned thinker, that before the referendum he was open minded as to which way to vote, so went away and looked into both sides' arguments in great detail. Then concluded that it would indeed be tough leaving the EU but at least it enabled 'policy change'. Then proceeded to bet the house on nothing more than the presumption that a competent Gov would come along and save the day, and yes, he cited a 10-year plan. Not forgetting his subsequent support for No Deal. Reasoned thinker my arse...

I knew someone who only bought the Express for the horse racing coverage :) Regardless of whether you support it's views or not, the direction it's 'journalism' has gone in over recent years is just plain bonkers. It's become nothing more than a Soviet style truth-twisting propaganda sheet...

A lot of credit has to go to WH's owners, they were always first in the firing line when things weren't going well, and they took a massive risk taking on Moyes 2.0, lots of grumbling from fans at the time...

Week 11 points... Week 11 table...

RIP Astro...

Interesting that with the Owen Paterson scandal, there finally appears to be some universal 'cut-through' displeasure with the way this Gov and PM goes about its business, even the Middle Englanders at the Daily Mail are up in arms over it. IMO just as bad has happened under this Gov such as the unlawful proroguing of parliament, but that was conveniently ignored, or worse, clapped and cheered along by its Brexit base as a means to an end. Expect the Gov to crank up the Brexit rhetoric over the coming weeks...