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I don't have Sky so I don't know the situation with the red button - is that Championship fixtures only? Shambles all round if we're only getting £30k as mentioned earlier. Pity as well as Blackpool are one I'd have down for bringing a good sized (lucrative) following on a Saturday 3pm. Either way, feeling slightly confident that this is the game where it clicks. Undoubtedly shitty weather, on telly and stacked against the odds - shades of Villa a couple of seasons ago?

😆 true.

Can't disagree with that. Brexit was the ultimate protest vote by a disillusioned populace. It's just unfortunate that, as it stands, it looks to have been far from a wholly positive decision. I may be wrong, but it hasn't been the most comfortable three years for, well, anyone. Oh, and Moonboy, your implication of electoral fraud in Bolton is exactly the kind of unfounded nonsense that inspired the Leave vote. Perhaps you should move into political PR?

Probably the most sensible admission I've seen from any poster on here, on any side of the debate. Nobody knew for sure what they were voting for, no matter what they voted. Anyone who says otherwise is either lying to suit their agenda, or very delusional. ('In my opinion', of course, because the likes of Dave Bloggs the shelf-stacker from Radcliffe is infinitely well versed in macroeconomics and knew the exact implications of a Leave vote in 2016.) I voted to remain because I was happy enough with the stability of the status quo, and couldn't figure out a tangible benefit of leaving that wasn't blatant bullshit isolationist Cummings propaganda lying about waves of scary Turks coming over to squat in your attic.

The UK exported £289bn tariff-free to the EU in 2018 (46% of our global exports, or 7x the divorce bill, or £5.5bn a week). We don't exactly have the best bargaining position, even if Boris somehow wriggles out of paying that often-quoted £39bn - a payment which pales into insignificance compared to the value of free European trade. Never mind, think positive - we've got continuity arrangements for trading with the likes of Malawi, Belize and Kiribati!

Always thought it odd that BL2 still has three Conny clubs within spitting distance from each other along Bury Road... in a seat that has been Labour since we left Burnden. Not a Labour club in sight (to my knowledge) - Tonge Ward shut down ages ago.

Not often I agree with Morgan, but that is spot on. Embarrassing, distasteful, pathetic.

Are you still harping on about who you think I am? 😂 Before last week, you and I had never spoken. Either accept that, or change your meds.

I'll take it that you missed the key words 'I agree'. Never mind, you carry on in your own world. Most of the other Leavers I have spoken to on this forum are quite happy to engage with rational, fair, and reasonable discussion. Why is it always you acting the tit?

Depends on how easily the populace are going to fall for using a General Election to vote in one-policy MPs from the Brexit Party. Unless the Tories somehow scored a runaway majority, there's how you'd form a government in that scenario; a coalition with one sole purpose. How the government would function after that is anyone's guess. But that doesn't matter because Brexit means Brexit 👍

Read what I wrote, darling. I agreed that Labour are NOT strong enough to call an election. Resorting to name calling (twice) is a little mean, isn't it, chuck? x x

BBC? Bah, MSM lies fella, can't trust it 🤐 I agree though, I don't think Labour are in a strong enough position to table a vote of no confidence. We're stuck with what we've got, a feeble mish-mash of arselickers who would stab their nan if it meant promotion within the Tory party.

Baseless guesswork that has come from your own bubble of friends and associates. British politics is currently a shambles with so many rival factions bickering on a spectrum of issues. That you think ANY party will walk the General Election without any evidence other than what Dave down the pub says is... interesting. Or maybe you moonlight as Mystic Meg. Can I have next week's lottery numbers please?

How amusing that a relationship with a chancer reality TV star president could be the one to finally bring down the leader of the free wo... I mean, ultimate chancer reality TV star president. "Sad!" But then, when you have millions of followers who choose to believe everything they're told by Fox News and dismiss rational discourse as 'fake nooos', it's quite likely that the Teflon President will wriggle out of this once again.

While I agree with everything you've put there, with a long term view of someone like the Lib Dems getting in (a massive massive long shot), digressing slightly, does every political movement then not simply become part of the bigger Brexit picture? 'We are forced into Decision X because of the social impact of Brexit on modern democracy'. 'We have to pass Motion Y because of the economic challenge of Brexit'. How can we hope to progress as a country when future (medium term) governments are hamstrung, one way or another, by the lingering residue of this whole poisonous mess? The political implications of ANYTHING relating to Brexit are massive, and the country will still be feeling the effects of this after we're long dead. Hurray! #projectfear 🤫

Amazing insight.

Perhaps it would be better to respond to you in the same vein as a typical militant Leaver: 11-0, that's democracy, suck it up snowflake 🇬🇧 Irritating, isn't it?

You might say it is a bit difficult for MPs to act on anything when we're in an age where the Prime Minister is happy to illegally silence parliamentary debate to achieve his own political ambition?

That reads suspiciously like 'something has happened which doesn't meet my world-view, therefore it must be a conspiracy'. However, I agree that we need an election. Out of interest, how do you think it would go? Personally, I couldn't see anything other than a hung parliament... and we're back to square one.

I might be wrong, but I seem to remember the figure of £40,000 profit from the summer concerts being in one of the documents that was shared on the takeover thread. That would pay the salary of our current back four for about a month. While a nice bonus, I don't believe summer concerts will be central to FV's financial plan, especially in comparison to the league the club is playing in.

Still can't get over how exciting that game was. We definitely rode our luck at times (thought there was a stonewall pen earlier on in the second half, and their strikers would have buried a couple on another day) but to be honest, we've had none of that for yonks. Really, really encouraging all round. I agree with the general sentiment that staying up with the points deduction (and no doubt more to come) will be nigh on impossible, but isn't it just nice to have a bit of optimism and belief around the club again?

Couldn't quite believe that result - really does add to the case for cautious optimism for this season. Sure, Lincoln have just lost the Cowleys, but really, on their Tuesday showing, Oxford are nothing special.

Come, now. Surely you must know that if you shout your belief loudly enough without any semblance of evidence, it counts as proof. Isn't that how discourse works in 2019?

Can't argue with that. It really does feel like the shitstorm BWFC went through recently. Everyone, with any opinion, just hoping for it to be over one way or another so we can get back to more important matters like yelling 'Bollocks' at a referee for 90 minutes a week. Can't help but think that these 'other things' we need to get on with as a country will always have Brexit somewhere involved in the discussion. Sadly, this isn't going to go away, and conversations are going to be as bipartisan as they have for the past three years. Hurray... 😒

Jesus wept.