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Easy enough. I stand corrected on the ESA point. Though I would like to say the Tories are mindful of cutting welfare too fast too quickly. A legacy of generous welfare spending by New Labour. Although spending cuts through stealth is how the Tories will remedy that problem. But they still...

I agreed with everything you said until you started talking about mental health. Mental health sufferers is usually a euphemism for life on the dole. I told a former colleague of mine I was renting. He told me I was mad and I should get a council place. I told him it would take 20 years for them...

Niche site? This is the No 1 football forum on the internet ;)

Stevencc has no need to pull his punches. We're all big boys on here. I also don't think he's so dense as to miss the overall point I was making. The keen observer will note he didn't take the opportunity to refute my argument. He couldn't as the points were factually correct. His only recourse...

I feel strongly about air pollution and waste but I don't berate everyone contributing to those problems. I can only do my bit. And my bit is to highlight the need for the US populace to fight back. Providing a little balance to the constant hand wringing and navel gazing on this issue. If I...

We've gone past the point of empty slogans. If the US government won't apprehend these murderous police officers then the people must. And given inequality in power, they must do so by any means necessary.

The US federal system is tyrannous and corrupt. The founding fathers said every so often an armed uprising was necessary to restore liberty when the state, inevitably, abused it's power. It's why Americans are permitted to own guns. It strikes the founding fathers (race aside) would be proud...

A lot of people are buying into this treacherous Gove story. I believe Boris Johnson didn't want to become PM and have to trigger article 50. The safest way to scupper this plan without losing credibility was to have Gove declare himself as a candidate for the leadership. A leadership that'll...

Hodgson took the best team he could find and relied on youth. People talk about Townsend and Barkley and I laugh. Neither are better than what we had on the pitch. There will be a new manager, but the problems will remain.

Even a managerless England should have beaten Iceland. This is entirely on the players. The loss meant Hodgson had to go, but I would've preferred he stayed on. His time has been more or less a successful one. A lot of England supporters forget we haven't always qualified for tournaments or...

Those who voted leave did so without much thought. Saying remainers shouldn't think of leavers as xenophobic or stupid is to ask them, to ignore the obvious. Most of post industrial England haven't seen low unemployment rates for decades. Even prior to mass immigration. For those of you who...

I told a fella at work we could go out to Iceland. A part of me believed it, but a bigger part of myself told myself it wouldn't (couldn't) happen. Yet here we sit. We aren't a bad side and we've become a far better side under Hodgson. But the trouble stems from our inability to create chances...

Blame brexit. Even our players want out of Europe. :)

This is a great post. I hadn't put it together, what the Prime Minister's resignation meant for his successor. Unfortunately I don't follow the news like I once did. Boris has no choice but to start the article 50 process. He has to hope when he does he can negotiate a decent settlement with...

If Scotland vote to stay a part of the EU and England and Wales vote to leave. What choice does FM Sturgeon have other than to raise the prospect of a second referendum? Even if she asked Westiminster to negotiate for favourable terms for Scotland and the union as a whole. What guarantee does...

Brexiters must realise we need to trade with the EU, hence no call for a repeal of the European Communities Act 1972. They must also be aware any trade between the EU and Britain will be under the condition of free movement of EU nationals. Even the sovereignty argument is moot if our elected...

Looking in the mirror will do that to you.

No worse than anyone else in that midfield. I take it Rooney gets a pass

We were poor in the final third. Sturridge was brilliant in the first half but faded badly in the second. Although Kane's contribution was no better than Sturridge's second half performance. I was hoping Rashford would get the nod instead of Kane. Against teams that park the bus you can't pass...

Everyone sleeps on Italy but they will be there or thereabouts.