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The Tories crying now that it would take 6 months administratively to put in place the 16/17 year old vote amendment. This is the party that wanted to get the entire withdrawal agreement bill through the house in 3 days.

Cannabis asked his account to be deleted for some reason so you can all just gang up on me now. @SirBalon is active again now but spends all of his time posting Remain propaganda in the Brexit thread if you need to find him.

Being a sporting director in Brazil is IMO a bit different to being sporting director at a European club - when Brazilian clubs sign Brazilians/other South Americans they're not necessarily looking for the same qualities as what European clubs, particularly those the size of Arsenal, are looking for when they sign players from Brazil/elsewhere. The sporting directors in Brazil are more like hunters (I guess miners is the better example) looking for rough stones they can cut up to make gemstones. A sporting director at a club like Arsenal's job is to look at the various gemstones and determine which ones he can bring in for a fair price that'll either be precious gemstones (those obviously class players) or... that will glisten the right way under the floodlights of the stadium (those players that fit in with the system that the sporting director/manager have built). Honestly looking at your transfers over the last two seasons, it's hard to tell how good of a job Edu has done in his role. There's been some good signings, some good signings on paper that haven't quite panned out, and some bad signings. It's really hard to tell though when you've got a manager that's struggled - because it'll make everyone, even the good players, look worse.

What i want to know is who let all these women out the kitchen

I like that Captain Buzz Woodward the cartoon prick.

These comparisons between the two players are ridiculous. They're completely different players. Shall we start comparing McTominay with De Bruyne?

Wan Bissaka is a far superior ‘defender’ though. He would of been a world beater under Prime Mourinho

Which player in the league has the most key passes this season? I wouldn't blame anyone for thinking "KdB" at City... but they'd be wrong. It's a young defender who's had 2 full seasons where he's reached the CL final.

UEFA just don’t care about dealing with the problem quite clearly

“I think this year has been… it’s a real challenge to go up against a driver that’s been spoken so highly of by so many people and built up onto a pedestal." Ah Lewis taking digs at Max again

Whooooaaa if the UK ends up with anywhere near same shite system of healthcare as the US, that's not good news for anyone. American drug prices are an absolute fucking scam and the American pharmaceutical industry is so incredibly predatory. You couple that with private health insurance and the entire healthcare industry looks like an awful awful scam here. Here I get my health insurance through work, but I still have to pay a fraction of it out of my wages - I think I pay about 4% of my paycheck into my insurance. I have good coverage, but it still feels like a ripoff. And in the U.S., I think most people don't have their employers pay for their insurance (I think it's 51% have their own insurance) - for them the costs are higher because they're paying 100% of that bill. Right now even drug companies in the U.S. give preferential rates to Medicaid - their state run health system. For everyone else in the country, the rates are significantly higher for drug prices because they've negotiated with individual health insurance companies what the values of each drug costs. So @Stan is absolutely right, if the rate NHS pays for drugs is on the negotiating table, it is CRITICAL that the information about the pricing is made public. If drug prices in the UK get anywhere near what they are in the U.S. - the NHS is absolutely fucked. The austerity goons will point to how expensive it is to maintain the NHS after these new drug prices come into effect, and then all of a sudden there will be a huge push for the dismantling of the NHS and selling facilities to private caregivers. This is after a bus was driven around the city saying the money we pay to the EU will go towards the NHS - so this is a pretty big betrayal to Brexit voters who may have believed that load of shite, and surely by now must have come to terms with the fact that NHS would in fact probably be working with a smaller budget after Brexit than what as promised (although those people were fucking true). If we move to the U.S. model of healthcare, it's not going to be good for the working class - just like it's not for the working class in the United States (source: https://www.apexedi.com/medical-bills-the-leading-cause-of-bankruptcy-in-the-united-states/). It's also not good for business generally - there's lots of evidence that shows having a well working public health system (like NHS) means that employers don't need to provide expensive health insurance for their workers (because in a business perspective, a healthy workforce is a productive workforce - if you've got people that are constantly ill, that's people that you either need to replace, which costs money, or those workers are less productive because they're constantly ill, which costs money). And it's particularly bad for smaller businesses, as health insurance can be very costly - so that's a big chunk of capital that smaller businesses would be otherwise using to grow their businesses. So really two opposite ends that feel the biggest brunt of that... assuming that these pharmaceuticals are interested in having UK prices be closer to what they are in the US. And even if it doesn't come close to US prices and is just a minor increase, any price increase means a higher cost to maintain the NHS at it's current standards. As said above, the NHS should not and should never be a part of a trade deal with any nation. Especially not the one developed country with the predatory form of healthcare.

You're wasting your time with facts and or evidence. This is anathema to conspiracy theorists, further proof that you are part of the Kool Aid supping masses taken in by the 'hoax'. Most conspiracy theorists are feeble minded, and insecure. They are intellectually incapable of establishing themselves in a world of rigorous intelligent debate and therefore retreat to a world where everything is true if you want it to be; make truth your enemy and then how can you lose? In normal times these sorts of people would be a fringe group of misfits and weirdos, they will always be there. However, we're seeing a new era of crass, idiot politics and it encourages the stupid and vain to join in. After all, if the most powerful can get away with blind idiocy then why not you or I? It's a terrible state of affairs but one we are all guilty of helping create. We have rewarded and admired stupid people, gazed at superficial beauty as some sort of achievement and worshipped at the altar of stupefying wealth for too long. Expect more of this in our mainstream, as we burn down our life source, deny our history and lie about our future, all you can do is laugh and enjoy how brazenly thick humanity is.