jimsleftfoot

NATO has an awful lot of EU countries in it.

Spend??? Or would the money go straight back into the pockets in tax cuts to the wealthy. Places like Oldham do benefit from EU grants. We're unlikely to get any such grants from the Tory party. EU is big government, the old Tory boys hate that, it's not so much they don't want to spend money on the EU, they don't want to spend money full stop. As much as Cameron and Osbonre are idiots, they are not as bad as what the party could be without them.

Spamella's first job is to get the accounts submitted!

You sure about that?

Cadbury's banned using the word Easter apparently, apart from on the products they sold with Easter printed on them.

There's perhaps a millennia worth of reasons for that vs just over a hundred years of the Labour Party.

Before that there was 4 successive Tory governments. Since 2011 there was a similar deprivation survey that put Oldham at 37th most deprived town, so it's gone down since. We've had 6 years of Tories (I'm not going to give the Lib Dems any credit), council cuts, bedroom tax etc. Etc. Oldham is better off under a Labour government.

I heard the same from a blade who I work with, though it was a few months back. http://www.skysports.com/football/news/11683/10087126/jose-baxter-disciplined-by-sheffield-united

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TTA didn't seperate it, they just didn't unite it.

OAFC are the leaseholder of the stadium.

Forte - were no answers given then (Swindon game)? What was said?

Good man if your more certain than I am (my guess is the same - ha). Though I assure you the use of such wording was wholly intended because I do not know the details though it's easy to spread doubt in what UKIP have tried to imply by offering other possible scenarios. As 24 has pointed out, there is a difference between assuming and proving certainty.

Interesting story but as a tax specialist myself (VAT), it's a bit like adding 1 + 1 together and getting 4,000,000. My guess is that UKIP don't actually have a clue what is going on and so couldn't say either way. Jim Mc may be a Director of OPP Ltd which is a UK based company, as far as I can see. The Luxembourg company which has an 81% share in OPP, may not have anything to do with the Council and Jim Mc other than the investment in OPP itself. Unless Jim is also a member of the board for the Luxembourg company, I don't think Bickley has much of a point. Jim could just be representing the Councils interests, as I assume they are a minority shareholder. I don't know ultimately but I don't think Bickley knows either.

Or in a better position now to campaign locally as an MP.

If I remember rightly, he was against the stadium move to Failsworth as a councillor for Failsworth but helped to sort out funding for the new stand on the back of the council muck up, after he became council leader. He's campaigned about helping us and the club/Corney backed him a couple of games ago.

He can also campaign locally to much greater effect as an MP than as a Councillor, as the media pay more attention to MP's. Then get his mates at the council to do something about it. As I said earlier, that's exactly what Andrew Gwynne does.

I think Dunn has got a point, but it's the way he shares that point that's the issue. For every fan who grumbles at the match their are four, five or ten no longer bothering to grumble as they are doing something else. Being realistic and excepting your lot isn't sport. If he wants the fans to set higher standards he needs to be clear that 15th isn't good enough.

I get his frustrations, but if he doesn't want the fans to be negative, then he needs to do the same.

Having moved to Tameside, my MP is Andrew Gwynne (who I note is doing loads of campaigning for Jim Mc). He's very much a local lad and formerly a Tameside Councillor, though now he's Shadow Health Minister for Public Health. Despite his national role, he still does loads locally, runs his own local business awards and replies on Twitter when you ask him questions. If Jim is anything like Mr Gwynne, it will be very good for Oldham.

OP assumes that ticket sales are price elastic. I think there is quite a lot of evidence to suggest it isn't, especially in regards to increasing crowds.

Yes quite agree re. public sector pensions. They are a bit like teachers holidays, people complain about how good they are, but you don't often here them say, I wish I was a teacher.

It's a great opportunity if used properly.

I think they should be required to give a long term forecast to show that their investment is not short termist and that they have a plan b. A bond is a barrier to invesent and might be illegal. With any investment their is a degree of risk after all (as is not investing and I'm not sure why owners who don't do that are somehow responsible).

It would change when the expenditure would hit but it would still be 'salary' or renumeration for the player.