24hoursfromtulsehill

I agree with everyone who said he's better than League One. And in development terms, you can't do much more than he's done this season (best keeper in the league by miles for the team offering shooting practice to all comers). I hope he either gets a game for Boro or they do the decent thing and sell him. And I'd even hold a candle for Saint Connor if he went and played for Dirty Leeds.

True. But if he's fourth pick, he'll definitely want to leave. And someone will definitely want him and pay good money for him. We definitely want him. It's the "good money" bit where we're looking a bit shaky.

I reckon someone will pay actual money to Boro to actually buy him...whereas our offer of brass buttons will be acknowledged as quaint and rejected.

Yes, I'm sure Chesterfield's chief feeling is one of relief at getting £500,000 for a shit striker who's part of the reason they're going down. They'll be laughing their little titties off down at the Proact. Penny for the thoughts of Jess Ennis-Hill right now.

Writes itself this one. Piece of piss.

There must be a non-footballing reason for this. Can anyone think what it might be?

Don't get me started on the poverty of the political debate in this country. We used to have Attlee versus Churchill. Now we've got Lynton Crosby versus Seamus Milne.

Which bit of the party? You might have 20-30 true Brexit believers, and 20-30 true Remain believers, with the rest bang in the middle, blowing with the wind. This election is all about killing the influence of the true Brexit believers. She'll have 60 or 70 new MPs who, if they've got any brains (big "if"), will do exactly what she says. I don't reckon she's Jacques Delors. I just reckon there's a logic. She wants a God-fearing, law-abiding country who'll keep voting Tory. She doesn't want a declining country that turns to crime after falling out with the neighbours, with cars rusting on driveways and shop windows caved in.

I was in one of them subidised House of Commons bars last night talking to a couple of Labour researchers...who were drinking to toast the end of the world. Apoplectic is not the word they have for Corbyn, and more especially his band of Trots.

The OASIS candidate is Lib Dem Ben Sims in Leyton and Wanstead. Go Ben!

You shouldn't be allowed to hold any type of public office, elected or otherwise, if you believe homosexuality is a sin. You shouldn't be allowed on the parish fucking council.

This election changes things. For all the time she's been prime minister, she's been talking to the Tory right. She won't have to come June. They won't mean a thing to her. And she owes them one for shoving her about like that. I always ask three contextual questions about politicians. Where do they come from? What do they want? Who are they talking to? The answers for May might be: 1. anti-posho Tory vicar's daughter from the shires 2. a prosperous God-fearing, law-abiding country 3. anyone but the people she's about to screw royally for going against her first two answers.

But is she taking us out? I still reckon there's an outside chance we won't leave two years from now, or even five or 10 years from now. Stranger things have happened. May and Hammond both know how tricky leaving the EU is. The bottom line for them will be however disorganised any opposition looks now, it doesn't half build up a head of steam when people's homes start getting repossessed and their cars no longer run. There are decent reasons for leaving the EU but bringing about a semi-permanent recession and our unmanagegeable decline as a nation aren't among them. If the bookies are even halfway right, May won't have to worry about the Tory headbangers after this election, and they're about all she's been worried about up till this point, hence some of her mad right-wing rhetoric and endless concessions to the Daily Mail. And those headbangers are never truly happy unless they're harbouring a sense of betrayal, which she might be only too happy to oblige after the runaround they've been giving her for the past nine months or so. Just a reverie from someone who who knows absolutely fuck all about politics and always gets it wrong. You can't say she doesn't have a taste for revenge against people who fuck her about. cf George Osborne.

The people getting paid the money to do the organising are an absolute shower of useless shite.

No need for anyone to write anything more on this thread.

Labour 7-1 to get fewer than 100 seats looks decent value. They have no candidates in non-Labour seats and seats where people are stepping down. Zero. Zip. They have no national party organisation, unless you count the one run by Karie Murphy and Katy Clark, famed for the ease with which they take offence and their lack of brains. Corbyn has no chance because he gave bellends like those two £100,000 a year jobs when he became leader rather than someone real.

Totally gone and flipped innit. Funny what the pressure does to people at this stage of the season. I can barely watch JoeP's bid for automatic promotion.

Seriously. This is the Bermondsey by-election 1983 for Labour. I honestly believe that Progress and Momentum candidates alike could get beaten by anyone, anywhere. I can't see Momentum voters turning out for Progress candidates and vice versa. It's that bad. For the past two years, the Labour Party has existed in name only. I can vote for Harriett Harman (if she stands), but I probably wouldn't vote for Angela Rayner or Richard Burgon. I'll have a look at the odds later but <100 seats should be a decent bet.

Yeah I don't think it'll happen for UKIP. UKIP's just a gateway drug for a full swing to the Tories. And your northern cities were never that keen on UKIP...it's your northern towns in the M62 corridor where they might have had a chance once upon a time. I honestly don't know how many seats Labour will end up with. 80-90? Fewer? Anything can happen.

Probably don't look any different to how they've looked for the past two years. What are the odds on Labour going down to 80-90 seats? Probably not as long as anyone would like. The real group getting a shoeing at the general election is the Tory right. Larger majority means they have less power or no power at all, whereas at the moment they have lots. If May wants soft or no Brexit...this is the play.

Just won £100 on politics. Last June, drunk, I bet someone £100 that we wouldn't leave the EU before the next general election. Get the fuck in there. And I get six weeks off.

I just hope JoeP can banish the demons and take it over the line. As for big names...PAH! Self-appointed big names. Harry Bosch having proper second-season syndrome...whereby he failed to appreciate that it's not about the flukes but the grind.

Surely nzlatic parks the bus now? The rise of rosa might reignite the debate about women players in the professional game. I think we'd all be happy if we avoided the subject.

Yeah I failed to observe that as well. I think I know what to make of the trust lads and laydeez. Concerned citizens putting their heads above the parapet so we know what's going on at the club...and not so that you can have a pop when you feel like it. As long as they put the accounts in once every seven years or so, they're alright by me.

Is it a FACT to say we're FUCKED?