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  1. Lord Bracknell

    Watford investigated by Football League over 'forged bank letter' claims

    The allegation seems to me to be more than an allegation of irregularity. Is it not an allegation of criminality and fraud? If so, it's not a matter for either the Premier League or the Football League, but Her Majesty's Boys in Blue.
  2. Lord Bracknell

    R.I.P. The Jungle

    I'm glad that both you and I have no time for the bigot who was featured on the BBC news.
  3. Lord Bracknell

    R.I.P. The Jungle

    Sussex survived much larger numbers of Ugandan Asian refugees and Vietnamese boat people being housed in Maresfield and Tangmere back in the 1970s. I can't see the numbers that are arriving now causing any great problems.
  4. Lord Bracknell

    Heading.....for the door

    As the great Eddie Waring once said, apropos a head injury to a rugby league player: "It's a good job it was his head, it might have done him some damage otherwise".
  5. Lord Bracknell

    R.I.P. The Jungle

    Getting on a ferry, as a regular customer, is going to be a lot more complicated than it ever used to be. This is not going to be great for business. Will it put ferry operators out of business?
  6. Lord Bracknell

    R.I.P. The Jungle

    Most of the people living in the Jungle haven't even registered with the French authorities. It's the reason the Jungle exists ... the French government doesn't want to acknowledge who these people are or where they have come from. They have simply been permitted to set up camp and squat there...
  7. Lord Bracknell

    R.I.P. The Jungle

    Indeed. It is not a criminal act to escape death in your homeland. Unless, of course, you take the view that IS is a legitimate government.
  8. Lord Bracknell

    R.I.P. The Jungle

    Once the Jungle is flattened, and Brexit is implemented, what is the logic of retaining a UK border in France? Surely we will have to accept that full border controls will have to be established at the UK channel ports and that people we don't wish to admit will have to be dealt with in places...
  9. Lord Bracknell

    BBC 1 Tulisa: The Price of Fame

    In last night's programme, she came across as a very bright individual. Not having any interest in the X Factor, I too was unaware of her or her fame, but it is very clear that she was treated disgracefully by the Murdoch press. She fought through and won, against odds that a lesser...
  10. Lord Bracknell

    childrens football teams

    Didn't Wayne Rooney manage to start his career without having the benefit of ANY education?
  11. Lord Bracknell

    O/T Welcome to Newhaven Upon Ouse!

    Newhaven Upon Ouse Is nowhere near poncie enough. I would go for Newhaven Super Mare.
  12. Lord Bracknell

    Quiz: How Sussex are you?

    OK. Try this. Name one recording that reached number 17 in the official UK charts, but only achieved that success thanks to North Stand Chat.
  13. Lord Bracknell

    [Politics] Brexit

    And it's no different from the UK government saying that Brexit is the ONLY option, even if the UK electorate decide that they don't like the final negotiated settlement.
  14. Lord Bracknell

    [Politics] Brexit

    It's not about the EU. It's about Belgium, who have agreed that the wishes of the majority of Belgians can be over-ruled by the wishes of the Walloon minority.
  15. Lord Bracknell

    Poor old Preston - regarding fixtures.

    And how gash were we today?
  16. Lord Bracknell

    Wigan Athletic vs Brighton & Hove Albion *** Official Match Thread ***

    Huddersfield score a 94th minute winner.
  17. Lord Bracknell

    Russian warships passing through English Channel will we be able to see them ?

    People always forget about the other Royal Navy battleship that remains in commission. HMS Victory.
  18. Lord Bracknell

    Ridiculous things that you can (but can't really) attribute to Brexit

    Fruit farmers in Kent demanding that the government come up with a relaxation of the rules restricting non-EU immigration to compensate for the inevitable decline in the number of Eastern Europeans willing to move to Kent to pick fruit. Ridiculous? But true.
  19. Lord Bracknell

    Aberfan Disaster: 50th Anniversary to Be Marked With Silence

    I have friends who come from Merthyr Tydfil. I remember, about ten years after the Aberfan tragedy, being with them in a Brighton pub and they were talking about people they knew from back home. One of them suddenly said to her sister "You know, xxxx from Aberfan ..." It was a startling thing...

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