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  1. Sky_Blue_Dreamer

    Is it any wonder clubs get shit owners?

    I'm not saying there aren't a lot of fans who live in cloud cuckoo land, expecting owners to just throw money at the club indefinitely. Ashley's running of Newcastle is far preferable to the lunacy of a lot of the vanity projects. I'd even go so far as to say the running of CCFC on a day to day...
  2. Sky_Blue_Dreamer

    Is it any wonder clubs get shit owners?

    Having the powers and using them are different things though. They've made a small start with stuff like FFP, but that has been designed to have loopholes in.
  3. Sky_Blue_Dreamer

    Is it any wonder clubs get shit owners?

    Football needs to 'look at how it treats its owners', says EFL boss So the head of the EFL thinks it's the poor old owners being treated badly? Perhaps the EFL should spend more time making it so the game had a sustainable economic blueprint instead of sitting back as ridiculous transfer fees...
  4. Sky_Blue_Dreamer

    The EU: In, out, shake it all about....

    So, we should only look at individual swings in isolation to get the picture should we? OK, I choose to look at UKIP. Vehemently pro-Brexit, their share of the vote went down by 24.3% and they lost 24 seats (that's almost a third of all available seats). This therefore quite clearly shows that...
  5. Sky_Blue_Dreamer

    The EU: In, out, shake it all about....

    Yep. If this is pro-Brexit vs Pro-Remain that's what you do. UKIP and Brexit saw an overall swing of +7.4%. All the staunchly pro-Remain parties had a swing of +21%. You can go on about how Brexit did so well, but you can't then ignore how badly UKIP did. Most of the Brexit vote came from UKIP...
  6. Sky_Blue_Dreamer

    The EU: In, out, shake it all about....

    In seat numbers, UKIP lost 24 seats which we'll take as all going to Brexit. So that's 5 'new' Brexit seats to get to their total of 29. Remain parties had increases of 19 seats (Lib Dem +15, Green +4) or 20 if you add in SNP. The established parties (who campaigned at the GE for leaving the...
  7. Sky_Blue_Dreamer

    The EU: In, out, shake it all about....

    Well if you take the swing away from UKIP (-24.2%) as totally going to Brexit (who are essentially New UKIP) then that leaves 7.4% of Brexit's vote unaccounted for. Tories (probably the next most ardent leave party) had a swing of -14.8%. So that means only half of the lost Tory vote went to...
  8. Sky_Blue_Dreamer

    The EU: In, out, shake it all about....

    Trump is building an unsustainable boom designed to benefit the corporations and rich. It will implode and the average Joe will be absolutely fucked by it. I understand your stance on immigrants and old people paying in over the long term. I think those figures where immigrants pay in more than...
  9. Sky_Blue_Dreamer

    The EU: In, out, shake it all about....

    But why is the transfer of these millions of jobs the fault of the EU and immigration? They're moving for cheaper workers/production costs. By your own admission immigration brings down wages, so while taking some job you could argue they're helping keeping the manufacturing here by driving down...
  10. Sky_Blue_Dreamer

    The EU: In, out, shake it all about....

    I'm not convinced. I think the fact that they've been around for such a short time helped them last night - it didn't give enough time or get enough press coverage for the lunatics and racists to be revealed. A GE would do that. Plus Leavers want the right to make our own laws - why vote for a...
  11. Sky_Blue_Dreamer

    The EU: In, out, shake it all about....

    As I see it, the results show: - UKIP vote all went to Brexit - Leavers for Tory went Brexit - Remainers for Labour went Lib Dem or Green - I wouldn't read too much into this for a GE. It was a free hit protest vote because these MEP's are probably only going to be there a few months. - Farage...
  12. Sky_Blue_Dreamer

    The EU: In, out, shake it all about....

    As I said above, Parliament will block that. Second, specific, referendum saying "no Deal" or "Remain" is only solution. I have no idea who'd win that and I think it'd be very close again. But part of me wants that to happen so leavers will be made starkly aware of the realities of what they...
  13. Sky_Blue_Dreamer

    The EU: In, out, shake it all about....

    Never going to happen. Too many hard Brexiteers like JRM will only accept no deal. Remainers and soft Brexiteers never going to go for no deal vote in parliament. So Parliament will never reach a consensus. A new PM could try to just push through a deal without parliament, but parliament will...
  14. Sky_Blue_Dreamer

    The EU: In, out, shake it all about....

    Or is it that the leavers rallied around one particular party, Brexit, whereas the Remain vote got split between Lib Dem and Green predominantly? The Leave/Remain thing is as divided as it ever was and pretty much split down the middle.
  15. Sky_Blue_Dreamer

    One law for us and.........

    Fair enough.
  16. Sky_Blue_Dreamer

    One law for us and.........

    I mean that they're normal in terms of it being relatively common as an extreme reaction. If it wasn't 'common' it couldn't be diagnosed as there wouldn't be enough cases to categorise it as such. Depression and anxiety are very common within my family and I've been very lucky in not having them...
  17. Sky_Blue_Dreamer

    One law for us and.........

    But things like panic attacks, depression, anxiety etc are all normal insomuch as that they're common responses to certain situations/circumstances. They're also mental illnesses. I agree to some extent about undergoing the physical changes because it's not truly changing their gender and help...
  18. Sky_Blue_Dreamer

    One law for us and.........

    I'm very sorry that you have panic attacks, but your opinion on this issue is very regressive. Are you suggesting you'd like your illness classified as 'normal'. And thus not get the help you need and deserve to cope with it? Personally I believe that mental illness is actually the norm and far...
  19. Sky_Blue_Dreamer

    One law for us and.........

    Why shouldn't they be open to such discussions? I agree that it shouldn't be 'forced' upon them, but if they ask the question should you ignore it? Is that for their benefit, or yours because you feel awkward? Obviously the answer will have to be sugar-coated to a large degree as it's far too...
  20. Sky_Blue_Dreamer

    One law for us and.........

    A lot of people may agree. It doesn't mean a lot of people are right. I think it kind of depends at what age you consider them learning it. Turning up in reception and being told it - no. By juniors - yes I think they'd definitely be able to cope with it. Very young kids are prone to ask awkward...
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