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I know you're a natural Tory, Tony, but the government is not a household. It does not borrow money from anywhere. It creates all of the money it spends. It uses products like bonds to create safe investments which help to reduce the potential inflationary pressures from spending. It does not...

It isn't how bonds work it is how public financing works.

we've had worse

Irish XI (assume players were at their peak) GK: Joe Murphy RB: Maurice Setters CB: Gary Breen CB: Phil Babb LB: Jimmy Holmes MF: Kevin Kilbane MF: Gerry Daly MF: Lee Carsley MF: Jay Tabb ST: Robbie Keane ST: Leon Best Subs: Cyrus Christie Clinton Morrison Steve Staunton Michael Doyle Liam...

I am not disputing it I am saying that the borrowing is not an actual dependency for spending. The labelling of selling securities as borrowing misrepresents what it happening as the general public assume it to be like you or I going to the bank to borrow money.

Do you think the grant-in-aid is open ended? https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/high-speed-two-6-monthly-report-to-parliament-october-2022 There is a budget like anything else. Its last published accounts stated that it delivered what it had intended to broadly within the budget for the...

No. They are not. They are selling a financial product. Borrowing the money implies that the spending is dependent on somebody investing in the bond, it is not.

No, the government creates gilts to give institutions like pension funds long term safe investments (bonds), this is a choice it makes which has some merit. It does not need to borrow £ from anybody, it can create a £ at the strike of a key in the Bank of England.

Honestly Steve, what world do you live in?

It's run by the private sector, HS2 Ltd full of all the greatest from the private sector allegedly

I'm of the mind that it just needs to be accepted that major infrastructure will cost a lot of money but that cost is also actually short and long term investment in the economy. If it is partially scrapped it really is pathetic.

Not really, it's government funded and they can pay for anything they want to in £

Because that was never the argument for it, the argument is that it increases capacity on the other lines to allow more local trains

As I said the other day, the key issue in UK is domestic and commercial property price inflation and that's at the root of this.

Everton's next appointment can't be just somebody to keep them up, they need to be realistic that they're likely to get relegated and appoint somebody who they'd like to rebuild either way. I don't believe that's Dyche to be honest.

They didn't coincide at Cov I don't think, O'Brien left Feb 2016, Jones joined a month later

We're closer to the play off spots than the "march to the arch" post Christmas periods under Coleman

Just one take after another, just can't beat the intensity

No, the Italians pull it off well. Schillachi wore one on the Italia 90 documentary that was on recently and looked good in it

It isn't true, scored last season v Cardiff (Nov 2021). The last goal before that was against us!