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''He caused chaos in this country with his put down of everything British and his many dismal words about the effects of Brexit on this country.'' What utter tosh. Carney had to mitigate the effects of Brexit caused by plastic patriots like Farage. For example, immediately after the 2016 Brexit vote the BoE had to intervene fiscally by dropping interest rates and increasing QE in order to prevent the economy from taking a big hit. They were unable to prevent the £ from crashing at the time, and it has since been worked out that the effect of that alone caused a circa £900/year hit to each UK household, which equates to the UK @ £450m/week. There's reams of data out there that shows the economic damage Brexit has caused to the UK. Here's one looking at business investment, admittedly not very sexy but kinda important if you want to achieve economic growth. It's clear to see that prior to 2016 we had reached parity with some of our main rivals, but since then we've flatlined. All that Brexit has achieved is to win the race to the bottom. There's a reason why Farage never brought up Brexit at the last election, he knows himself it hasn't delivered on any of the promises, quite the reverse in fact. Labour, stupidly, by saying they can make Brexit work have in effect given Farage a Get Out of Jail Free card...

Friday night game. Week 32 fixtures... Friday 2nd May Manchester City v Wolverhampton Wanderers Saturday 3rd May Aston Villa v Fulham Everton v Ipswich Town Leicester City v Southampton Arsenal v AFC Bournemouth Sunday 4th May Brentford v Manchester United Brighton & Hove Albion v Newcastle United West Ham United v Tottenham Hotspur Chelsea v Liverpool Monday 5th May Crystal Palace v Nottingham Forest

Week 31 points... Week 31 table...

Week 31 fixtures... Saturday 26th April Chelsea v Everton Brighton & Hove Albion v West Ham United Newcastle United v Ipswich Town Southampton v Fulham Wolverhampton Wanderers v Leicester City Sunday 27th April AFC Bournemouth v Manchester United Liverpool v Tottenham Hotspur Thursday 1st May Nottingham Forest v Brentford

Week 30 points... Week 30 table...

I can vouch for a Berberis being a good thorny deterrent, and colorful too... https://www.jacksonsnurseries.co.uk/hedging-plants/thorny-prickly-intruder-proof-hedging-plants/ Gooseberry bushes have thorns plus the added bonus of the fruit... https://www.jacksonsnurseries.co.uk/?subcats=Y&pcode_from_q=Y&pshort=Y&pfull=Y&pname=Y&pkeywords=Y&search_performed=Y&q=gooseberry&dispatch=products.search&security_hash=66c20a8bb7c61038d2180d03a4660735

Week 30 fixtures... Saturday 19th April Brentford v Brighton & Hove Albion Crystal Palace v AFC Bournemouth Everton v Manchester City West Ham United v Southampton Aston Villa v Newcastle United Sunday 20th April Fulham v Chelsea Ipswich Town v Arsenal Manchester United v Wolverhampton Wanderers Leicester City v Liverpool Monday 21st April Tottenham Hotspur v Nottingham Forest Tuesday 22nd April Manchester City v Aston Villa Wednesday 23rd April Arsenal v Crystal Palace

Week 29 points... Week 29 table...

Week 29 fixtures... Saturday 12th April Manchester City v Crystal Palace Brighton & Hove Albion v Leicester City Nottingham Forest v Everton Southampton v Aston Villa Arsenal v Brentford Sunday 13th April Chelsea v Ipswich Town Liverpool v West Ham United Wolverhampton Wanderers v Tottenham Hotspur Newcastle United v Manchester United Monday 14th April AFC Bournemouth v Fulham Wednesday 16th April Newcastle United v Crystal Palace

Thanks, my first high score of the season, with 7 matches to go it's doable (just over +2pts each week) but history is in LadyG's favour, hopefully she's feeling giddy over Arsenal's win last night and that will put her off!...

Week 28 points... Week 28 table...

Week 28 fixtures... Saturday 5th April Everton v Arsenal Crystal Palace v Brighton & Hove Albion Ipswich Town v Wolverhampton Wanderers West Ham United v AFC Bournemouth Aston Villa v Nottingham Forest Sunday 6th April Brentford v Chelsea Fulham v Liverpool Tottenham Hotspur v Southampton Manchester United v Manchester City Monday 7th April Leicester City v Newcastle United

Week 27 points... Week 27 table...

MIDWEEK GAMES ALERT! Week 27 fixtures.. Tuesday 1st April Arsenal v Fulham Wolverhampton Wanderers v West Ham United Nottingham Forest v Manchester United Wednesday 2nd April AFC Bournemouth v Ipswich Town Brighton & Hove Albion v Aston Villa Manchester City v Leicester City Newcastle United v Brentford Southampton v Crystal Palace Liverpool v Everton Thursday 3rd April Chelsea v Tottenham Hotspur

Week 26 points... Week 26 table...

Woohoo ! Thanks, yes, I also thought maxxi would win it as the final matches looked like comfortable wins for Ireland, England and France, so any chance of winning would come down to the lottery of closest to the actual points difference. Thank goodness for maxxi and his leftfield predictions 🙃 I once enjoyed a Feb long weekend in Rome with work colleagues, a good time to go as there are less tourists around so minimal queuing to see all the sights. On the Saturday we found out that Roma were playing at home, so we took a bus to see if we could get in, and we could. Half-time refreshments were...mini pizzas !... overpriced and undercooked so felt right at home... 😁

Week 26 fixtures... Saturday 15th March Everton v West Ham United Ipswich Town v Nottingham Forest Manchester City v Brighton & Hove Albion Southampton v Wolverhampton Wanderers AFC Bournemouth v Brentford Sunday 16th March Arsenal v Chelsea Fulham v Tottenham Hotspur Leicester City v Manchester United

Week 25 points... Week 25 table...

Promised Land is such a great track, in a similar and much sampled vein is this other classic...

This is an interesting You Gov poll from Nov '23 about what people think Single Market membership entails... https://yougov.co.uk/politics/articles/48259-what-do-britons-think-single-market-membership-entails

Yep, the EU would definitely want cast-iron certainties that there was no chance of Brexit 2.0 before allowing the UK to rejoin. Best we can hope for in the short to medium term is the UK rejoins the single market. That would at least make Brexit work *better* than it currently does. But we live in a very volatile world and a lot can happen quickly, who'd thought we be rationally talking about the possibility of a European Army outside the context of Brexit and its associated hysterics...

Latest news from the sunlit uplands, on the same day the UK economy 'unexpectedly' shrank 0.1%... As an aside, the cognitive dissonance shown by large parts of the UK electorate over Brexit is quite a thing to behold. I don't think it's controversial to say that Brexit is now considered by a large % of the population to have failed, with the % who see it as a success in single figures. Yet, initial polling for the upcoming Runcorn by-election shows Reform winning what is a relatively safe Labour seat. Now I get protest votes and all that, but Reform were literally the Brexit Party before the rebrand. If there's such a large consensus that Brexit failed, why would so many even consider voting for a party that actively helped deliver Brexit and all the known economic damage it would cause? And that's before you even get to the fantasy economics it presented at the last General Election. Labour haven't helped themselves either, by pursuing a nonsensical 'We can make Brexit work' approach, they have in effect made themselves impotent when it comes to attacking Reform and what they stand for...

Place your on-screen cursor over the name of the sender, the sender's actual email address should appear, often with scammers it comes up with a very unbusinesslike address. Failing that, you should be able to speak to Virgin and ask if legit, Microsoft on the other hand I wouldn't bother trying to contact...

Can LadyG be caught? Week 25 fixtures... Saturday 8th March Nottingham Forest v Manchester City Brighton & Hove Albion v Fulham Crystal Palace v Ipswich Town Liverpool v Southampton Brentford v Aston Villa Wolverhampton Wanderers v Everton Sunday 9th March Chelsea v Leicester City Tottenham Hotspur v AFC Bournemouth Manchester United v Arsenal Monday 10th March West Ham United v Newcastle United

Week 24 points... Week 24 table...