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"£350m a week will be spent on our NHS" ..... ... ... .. "there will be adequate food" ...... ... .. "corpse piling is going to be run smoothly"

I personally couldn't be against this badger cull more. It's fucking ridiculous how a government can decide which animals die and which live. Badgers are supposed to be protected animals and you or I couldn't go out there randomly killing them now as it would be (rightfully) deemed a criminal offence. Yet the government are ok to kill them? Nevermind culling Crows, Gulls, Badgers, Foxes, Magpies, or whatever else it is they are culling this week. When I look around, it's humans who are massively overpopulated in this country. It's to the point where they are now destroying natural, untouched land(which is usually breaming with wildlife) in order to build (shite as fuck) new houses. This is only just scratching the surface though. They are killing curlews too(which they try and hide) and these are an endangered bird. But because they like to be around near airports, they have culls on them. They kill any type of animal if it suits them.

It's barely even about the EU at this point. For me it's more about realising just how utterly fucked this country is when all that parliament and the media have talked about for three years is Brexit yet 90% of people you pass on the street probably couldn't list three factual statements about Brexit or the EU without one of them including a distorted statistic/lie they've read in a newspaper or on social media from some obsessed cunt on one side or another. I saw two polls from today from the same source. One of them said more people prefer to delay Brexit than leave without a deal on October 31st. Another one said that overall, people would prefer to leave with no deal than remain if a deal can't be struck. Nobody knows what the country fucking wants anymore and until you make every voter in this country take a two month course on the actual benefits and consequences of leaving the European Union they never will, which is why this should never have been put to a referendum in the first place, along with the fact that there are about 600 different possible Brexits, not just one, that all have hugely different implications on people's lives and would change the way some people would vote if you asked them Leave or Remain again. Our problem as a society is reflected in what we're seeing play out in the House of Commons now. We used to be able to sit down and have a conversation with ourselves about these things but social media and this recent phenomenon that politicians have realised they can say what they want regardless of how true or false it is as long as they shout louder than the people pointing out their lies, then they can get away with it. There's not a single major newspaper in this country you can trust, even the BBC are accused of being biased by both sides of the debate. We've lost that ability to have a conversation with ourselves which is why Brexit has become a proverbial shouting match all the way from the pub on a Friday night to Westminster. Anyone who thinks the majority of MPs actually stand for anything is kidding themselves. Brexit has just become the latest game for them. The Conservatives win if they get out at all costs because it will probably win them the next election as long as they call one before anyone has a chance to weigh up the consequences of their actions. Any Conservatives that value their views on Brexit over securing their pay packet for another 5 years have left, unless indeed their values were Hard Brexit in the first place. Labour see Brexit as an opportunity to get into power, something they'd likely never do with Corbyn at the helm under normal circumstances. The Lib Dems might genuinely believe Remain is the best option but mostly see it as an opportunity to become a relevant option again. It's all a disgusting mess. I've barely given a toss about Remain or Leave for years now, because I, like most, accepted the result of the referendum, at least until it emerged that Vote Leave broke electoral law, but then I realised nothing would happen so I was a bit outraged for a while then I got over it again. However, seeing Boris Johnson bumbling around as the leader of this country makes me physically ill under any circumstances, regardless of Brexit, Remain or Leave allegiance. His track record speaks for itself with his inappropriate comments, selfish choices and general lack of fitness for office. If seeing him appointed Prime Minster without an election wasn't an outrage too far, watching him and his puppet master Cummings actively trying to break every convention and bend every law that democracy in this country has been built on for decades, certainly is. Like I said earlier in the thread, this whole thing could just as easily be a referendum over whether brown bread should be banned from Great Britain. My opinion and vote has and still does go with Remain, but it doesn't matter. Politics and democracy in this country has been reduced to a pathetic, social media driven propaganda war where every tool and tactic is fair game, even if it's illegal in some cases, and regardless of what you think of the EU, that's a sad, sad situation for this nation to find itself in. Once a beacon of democracy and fair and proper conduct, we've been reduced to "pick a side and put 'em up" to resolve our disagreements.

Sorry but both us and Everton have better players to fit a team around. Definitely not someone like Lingard.

A very entertaining read so far.

Frustrating series. Personally feel we lost it on Day 1 of the 1st Test. Can't have the Aussies at 122-8 and let them escape like that. You need to be clinical. Go 1-0 up and the momentum changes. Don't even think it was a case the Aussies were that special. Smith was outstanding but bar Labuschagne, no one else really got runs for them. We had Warner, the other dangerman on toast. Yes they have decent bowlers but at the same time, they aren't McGrath, Warne and Lee here. Difference for me was we made them look better by inviting pressure on with poor shot selection. Our mentality was shocking. This isn't one day cricket, you have to be patient and we weren't. Poor choices giving away our wickets, especially at times when the wickets were doing little for the bowlers. Roy, Root, Buttler and Bairstow should know better. I also think we relied too much on Broad and Archer. Woakes didn't deliver, Leach for all his efforts is not a world class spinner, Moeen Ali has completely lost it, and poor Stokesy can't do it all. Losing Anderson was unlucky too. If we had him available for the series then it could have been different but then the Aussies were missing Starc for a three tests too. Not a vintage Aussie team at all and yet they have been all over us. This will hurt but emotionally, I thought it was always going to be hardwork after the World Cup. Mentally, it was just too much to ask.

If the EU still exists in its present form by then. It really has some serious problems, and the effect of the single currency eliminating the ability of various poorer countries to return to prosperity in the manner typical (improving their economic competitiveness by a dropping currency) will continue to foster inequality throughout the EU economies and resentment towards Brussels and Germany from many quarters. The rise of the hard right has a lot more to do with people feeling left behind than is given credit in many quarters and it will continue to be an issue imo. Dismissing right wing positions as purely racially motivated is choosing to live in a fools paradise.

United are close to finalising the appointment of their former Netherlands goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar as director of football. (Sunday Mirror)

Another win for Khabib. Poirier comes across as a good guy and was hoping he could show more than he did but Khabib gives fighters very little to work with. Dominant performance overall.

We joined the club then Top six sides @CPFC have beaten away from home in last 9 Months: ManCity Etihad Stadium Arsenal Emirates Stadium ManUtd Old Trafford Giant Killers. https://twitter.com/Sporf/status/1165594851225886722