mikeroyboy

Very sad news indeed. Gordon has been a massive presence behind the scenes at BP for over 30yrs. A gentleman and a fan. Heartfelt condolences to his family.

If the Chron asked him a question he's unlikely to drum business down. I agree that the vast majority of STs will already have been sold. And with a couple decent signings are unlikely to increase sales by more than 2 or 3 hundred. But a successful start to the campaign will boost match day revenue at full price. They will already have survived the zero match day ticket revenue of summer. Fingers crossed.

With 48 hours barely reading anything but stewing plenty on the debacle - here goes. Isn't it time our strong and stable suicide pilot and our mildly spoken giveaway host banged their heads together for the sake of our United Kingdom. Scotland have told Queen Nicola they have no stomach for another Independence Referendum. The UDP seem open to helping our, now, one armed leader. Pretty much the rest of the UK by a majority consensus are in favour of Brexit. Now is the time to be facing up to the smug and intransigent EU as a proud and focused unit not a fractured melee. All we hear from our self interested leaders is pontificating about their own ideology. When are they going to realise we didn't vote for the (another vote) Liberal Democrats. We voted for a different route for our nation and the first road on the map is Europe.

I currently have a hot bean bag on my feet before taking my chances with my beloved - it could go badly.

Anyone still up is nuts.

There's more excitement tonight than Boundary Park over the last 4 years - with the exception of Peterborough of course.

While a long way from being done and dusted the early signs are May has made a terminal error. After over 90 results and strong Labour performance it seems inconceivable the Tory's will increase their majority. That's at very best. Scotland could amazingly help her out. You can never second guess voters alone in a polling booth with a stubby black pencil, or take them for granted.

Would that be under European law?

Any apathy is perhaps understandable. We are only in this position because of Brexit. And in my opinion Brexit only happened because of shear brass neck, pig headed stubbornness and a crippling inability to change tack/mind on anything important by Brussels hierarchy From the outset it was never understood/considered how complex increasing the Union with different cultures, mentality and wealth (to state just 3) was going to be. In particular, the UK citizens signed up for a Common Market. When were we ever asked about an unelected Federal Commission, and Federal Court? Never. Germany rules the roost within the Eurozone, quite understandably. They have the largest financial responsibility when the frequent financial crisis's occur. Many of the others have now found to their cost there is no way out. We are going to have problems but we are not in the Eurozone, we have a strong economy and we are, by majority, independently minded. If were independent at the moment who amongst us would vote to join the Union? There is rising unrest in Europe and has been for some time. While we were grovelling for change the Commission were stubbornly intransigent and over confident that the referendum would go their way. The centre right of Europe are closing in and the Eurocrats are beginning to realise that. For the time being they will be eager to show the other members, leaving is not an option. Why would that be you should ask.

Perhaps we should both be prepared learn something.

Never heard of them. We could pore over Stephen Hawking, Warren Buffett or John Maynard Keynes. I know a bit about them. Or how many of my generation are being taken to the cleaners with interest rates on their savings through banks and governments incompetence.

It was not meant as a argument. It was a comparison of how cheap live is when it suits. The nuclear option hasn't been used again because of the shocking devastation it caused. But millions have still blown up by more 'civilized' munitions in the last 70 odd years. Ashes or bits - is there an acceptable difference?

USA developed the atomic bomb. Hiroshima was the only time one has been used in anger and it ended a war with devastating effect. So it was never going to be accepted by other nations only one country having such a weapon was a good idea. U.S.S.R. followed suit a few years later with its own. Is it a deterrent or not? It would be hard to argue its only use has probably saved many more lives than it cost. Meanwhile, global road traffic deaths are running at circa 1.3 million a year, with injuries and disabilities 20-50 million. We don't see many ban the car protests.

Is there any publication or anybody unbiased in this election? Apart from the few million uninterested.

65yrs ago I had one pair of pants (darned), two pair of socks (darned) 2 jumpers (darned), 2 shirts, one jacket (darned) one all-weather coat (not waterproof), one pair of shoes and a bloody cap. Every year something was replaced at Whitsuntide, us kids made a few bob and were always smart for best. The only things in the house electrical were the lights, the radio and an iron. The evening meal was varied though. Egg and chips, sausage and chips/mash, baked beans and chips/mash, home made cheese and onion pie, tata hash and an odd chop. Anything cheap on a butty was lunch, apart from jam a sauce butty was one of my favorites. And my father was working. You, may be joking or exaggerating with the last sentence - but I'm not. Too many people today are swinging the lead and quite comfortable.

Journalists and even some electorate running rings round politicians are usually supported by hindsight on decisions/policies backfiring. Perhaps they should be running the country. Someone never making a wrong decision doesn't exist. Someone who refuses to ever change tack or execute a u-turn is a liability - especially a politician. It's getting policy wrong that stuffs every government eventually. Off course history tells us it is usual to have a credible alternative to step into the breach. That's only one of the things the silent majority will be considering on polling day.

Sorry but I’m on holiday and events have overtaken me. I haven’t placed your stance on criminality within the NHS. After a fair assessment of the role and challenges of todays NHS you end with the teasingly toxic use of the words ‘criminal’ and ‘literally in all likelihood’, without a sniff of an example or what you mean. Merely highlighting the multitude of people the NHS employs. The NHS pays out millions for medical mistakes but how many are criminal? Management is poor in my view, but criminal? The vast majority in an in-patient survey were reasonably satisfied with their experience. 84% from a circa 83,000 response rated their overall experience between 7 and10. The other 14% is worrying and needs addressing but the NHS deals with over 1million patients every 36 hours. It is open 24/7 and never knows (to some extent) whether there will be 10 people coming through the door or 20 at any given time. Some of the NHS mistakes are tragically appalling but in general the service is good. The stats are not taken from the Daily Mail, Guardian or the BBC.

Ah yes, squeaky bum time. The silent majority who take the trouble to get off their backsides, alone in a polling booth with a stubby black pencil. Who are they, what are they thinking, what will they do?

Worlds top 4 employers: (1) USA State Department of Defence 3.2 million (2) Peoples Liberation Army of China, 2.3 million (3) Walmart, 2.3 million (4) McDonalds 1.9 million No wonder you're a little shy of answering my question. I'll chance my arm at 3 more: who are you really comparing our NHS with? Are the top four above clear of criminals? Would anyone expect an organisation with 1.7 million employees to be totally free of criminal acts? I would love to debate your stance.

There have always, in modern times, been millions of people content to go with the flow.

Would the 4 largest employers be profit making with a definitive product to sell? NHS budget at its inception in 1948, £437 Millions. NHS budget 2015/16 £116 Billions. The NHS is indeed massive and taken for granted by us all. It is also probably unmanageable by any form of political party. We should all live in hope.

Are you saying where they apply they are affordable? And a national political generalisation on a football forum is down the Daily Mail? I read far more unbiased and accurate assessments of profitability, both company and governmentally than a political biased tabloid. Nor have I mentioned any bias in my recent posts.

Remember it and just watched it again, very funny. While hilariously exaggerated many of my post-war peers will easily remember pulling ourselves out of working class poverty without any form of expectation of getting a leg up from anyone, least of all our parents.

Agreed. There was no plan but aspiration in shed loads. Aspiration to do your best at school, get a job (often any job you could get your hands on) and move up from there. And untold millions did just that. My wife and I did something exceptional, even for the mid-60's. We removed ourselves from the swinging 60's and saved every penny we could for a year. I was an apprentice, she a factory worker. 12 months later we bought a two bedded, flagged floored, outside tipple toilet, coal fired, terraced house for £600 cash, over a third of our combined income for the year. Both our families had nout and at the age of 20 and 18 we paid for the wedding as well. The morning of December 18th 1965 we were scraping ice off the inside of our bedroom window, not in Barbados or Florida - totally skint. It felt entirely normal and we really didn't realise what we had achieved until many years later. We were back in work Monday, with our two mouths to feed and a bag of coal to fund life went on and it never occurred to us anyone should help us.

Final salary pensions (common in local government for none producing workers) have always been manifestly unaffordable as well as heavily subsidised by rate payers. It is only in resent years the chickens have come home to roost. The care and medical evolution of procedures - just to make life more comfortable or bearable for millions is also unaffordable for any government. The chickens are on there way. And yet we demand more. The NHS remit is unrecognisable from its inception in 1947. It is being abused by health tourists, medical suppliers, medical agencies and payoffs and re employment of senior management. To sort these anomalies is a mammoth task for any government and a few £ billion here and there off the rich is not going to cut the mustard. The world I live in today bears no resemblance to the world I was born into, a two bedroom flea pit and an outdoor loo. The majority of young people today have no sense of the future and how it's going to be paid for. Phones, gadgets, clubs, holidays, cars... is at the forefront of thier thoughts. And yet we demand more and more from our government for less and less. My view is the standard of politicians has never been so poor and simply follows the declining standard of any thought by the electorate of how utopia is going to be paid for.