Big Vince

Well we know the John Bond inspired brand of football doesn't work at the highest level so if Attanasio is clever he will revert to the Ron Saunders attritional model and not give a monkeys about what numpty supporters think. Financially it would make much more sense to be in the EPL with an empty stadium than in the Championship with a full house.

This is a truly great morning for Vinnie. What with the election result in Holland, Hunt's Hotline to Vinnie and the net migration figures, it just confirms the abject failure of mainstream political parties to get a grip on any of the major issues.

Hunt's Hotline to Vinnie. You've just got to hand it to Vinnie, let's be honest.

In congratulating the new Dutch leader this morning, the next French President stated that the result: "confirms the growing attachment to the defence of national identities". Straight from the horse's mouth. End of. BTW the Wehrmacht was in Paris because the German state was left intact after WW1, except for the demilitarisation of the Rhineland. After WW2 it was partitioned and occupied by Allied forces so presented no threat to anyone and the FDR adopted a pacifist constitution in any case. The international tensions you refer to were between the West and the Soviet bloc during the Cold War and had nothing to do with France and Germany. That was a political red herring.

Brexit was supposed to stop more people coming in, but we learn this morning that net migration is still over 700,000 per year.

Agreed.

Continuing along the path of managed decline is not an option, unless you want an apocalyptic future for the generations to come. When treasuries run out of money they will come for everything you own.

The present National Insurance deductions from your pay would compulsorily be diverted into a private pension pot instead of going to HM Treasury. So net pay wouldn't be affected.

The US and UK are joined at the hip across multiple sectors, including regulatory alignment.

So who is playing Fred the Shred and Gordon Brown? This was not just a few rogue traders. It involved political and financial elites who set the rules of the game.

People should be working all their life and putting money into a private pension. This is a core principle of self reliance. People should not be looking to the state. Both National Insurance and the state pension should be phased out. Only the most needy should be supported in old age. People with occupational pensions and those who derive income from property and other asset classes do not need the state pension as well. It is ridiculous that Alan Sugar is entitled to a state pension and winter fuel payment just by virtue of being old.

That is the myth that apologists like to peddle - that it was global. The truth is that it was very much homemade here in the UK by a combination of people such as Fred the Shred, whose company was very heavily involved in the sub-prime market in the US, and Gordon Brown, whose party, ironically for socialists, opted to pursue a policy of soft touch regulation on bankers.

The last Labour govt was running a deficit above £160bn per annum. No economist would consider this remotely sustainable. The big mistake the Tories have made is failing to introduce sweeping health and welfare reforms to bring expenditure in line with tax receipts. The principle of free at the point of delivery should have been abolished for the NHS and state pensions should have been means tested. It is ironic that posters on here who advocate Norwich City being run debt free don't hold the UK state to the same principle.

Well, people have kowtowed to Delia & Wynnie these past 27 years in the same way they do to the political establishment. The English don't have the same revolutionary zeal as the French.

Your grasp of modern European history is tenuous at best. After 1945, there was zero chance of Germany and France going to war again. Germany was divided up between the Allies with the eastern half controlled by the Soviets and the western half controlled predominantly by the Americans. Stalin had 300 divisions in eastern Europe and the Americans had 1.9 million troops in western Europe. Any German re-emergence was impossible. In any case, the FDR adopted a completely pacifist posture. Germany instead became the frontier for the new Cold War between America and its allies and the Warsaw Pact, the Soviets and their satellites. At the height of this war in 1962, the Americans still had 400,000 troops in western Europe with hundreds of military bases. The old rivalries in continental Europe had been consigned to history.

The British are not motivated by quality. They are motivated by price. You can never compare the British and French. It is like chalk and cheese.

France is highly protectionist of its agricultural economy and way of life. France was the main architect of what is now the European Union and people have said that one of the main drivers of this was to protect French farmers even to the detriment of other parts of the European economy. Not that the French will admit it of course.

This is nonsense. Of course rights cost money. A lot of money. That is why Britain secured an opt out from the social chapter of the Maastricht Treaty in 1992. Tellingly, when the socialists got back in in 1997, they opted back in through the Treaty of Amsterdam. It is a contributory factor in years of negligible economic growth.

I can confirm no one ever comes running to my defence because what then happens is the tide comes in and there is no way back.

Britain was no longer able to compete as a manufacturing nation because there were emerging economies able to manufacture much more cheaply due to being unburdened by the costs of workers' rights in the workplace. The same thing happened in the US where it became too expensive to do business there because of employment legislation. These winds of change were blowing irrespective of Thatcher or Reagan. Economic power was shifting east. What Thatcher did was to grasp the nettle to transform the economy instead of continuing with the path of decline chosen by her predecessors.

Not with Delia in the stand.

The rich are paying plenty of tax. Far more than they should given that they create jobs for people who also then pay tax. What do people on here actually want? No jobs and less money to fund public services that are already awful by unanimous agreement? Dysons do what Dysons do because in a socialist hegemony even the slightest wealth is frowned upon. Now Singapore has a completely different mindset to both wealth and drug dealers. The former is encouraged and the latter are hanged at dawn.

When did I ever say that the Tories were not just as socialist as Labour? They are. We live in a socialist hegemony that is both red and blue.

The late 60s and early 70s was no golden age. It was characterized by high inflation, high unemployment, unions running the country, a three day working week, no electricity, rubbish in the streets and vast inefficiencies in state owned enterprises that were losing money hand over fist. Britain was correctly regarded as the sick man of Europe. It took the balls of Thatcher to sort out this mess and put the Great back into Britain. The electorate agreed with her analysis of the problems and the methods in rectifying them because she was voted in three times.

Ah, but I am not wrong about football and also not wrong about politics because what I have said has not been proven to be empirically untrue. I have expressed opinions, which has nothing to do with right and wrong. It just so happens that you fail to agree with those opinions.