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Matt, admittedly an area I am not familiar with, but why would EU nationals get preference? Switzerland are not in the EU.

I see Lord Sumption, previously a member of the Supreme Court has stated 'What has happened is that in the face of a particularly disgraceful constitutional abuse the courts have now moved the boundaries.' There is a growing concern in Legal circles about the judgement of the Supreme Court. One QC stating that the judgement has the appearance of reasoning backwards from a desired outcome. Another QC states 'If Lord Sumption is right, the implications are disturbing. The Supreme Court would, in reality, have changed the law with retrospective effect - having 'moved the boundaries'. I think this will run and run.

This. Of the (only) five teams below us in the league, two have a better goal difference. Last season for example, if we were one of 5 teams on, say, 28 points we would always be bottom of that group due to our poor goals difference. Looks to be going the same way this season.

And my point was that people are capable, as we see on almost a daily basis, of saying one thing and doing another. Even lawyers.

Mike, don't see what relevance that has? Parliament voted overwhelmingly to invoke Article 50 - how did that go?

Well they would say that, wouldn't they. After the first day of the Supreme Court hearing, I watched the video of the proceedings. Gina Miller's legal team made an absolute mess of presenting their evidence to the Court. The big fat binders they presented to the eleven members were different to all the others in terms of section numbers, page numbers etc., When the lead lawyer started his presentation no one could find the information he was referring to. It was a total embarrassment. Instead of adjourning proceedings and telling them to go away and sort themselves out, the President, Lady Hale, smiled and gave them all the (considerable) time to sort things out. That same evening, I posted on another website that the Government would lose.

The Attorney General has stated that no prorogation in the last 50 to 100 years (and there have been several) would have survived the ruling of the Supreme Court. Moved the goalposts?

In a democracy, the only body to hold a government to account is the electorate. An unelected judiciary is only one position short of an army in terms of unsuitability. As for your idea of democracy Mike, the country is now run by an unelected judiciary (of eleven remainers), an unopposed Speaker, an unelected EU Commission and a load of MP's who ignore the manifesto's they were elected on.

So, a member of the public, with absolutely no authority or mandate but with deep pockets, hires a bunch of lawyers to overturn a decision of the government of the day. Remainer guys on here - I know it suits your agenda but do you not realise the implications of this? Mike, 'a fantastic day for democracy'? I honestly don't believe you posted that. Remind me which of the lawyers you voted for.

The problem with that Palfy is that those guarantees were given prior to the last referendum. The fact that they may be enshrined in law only means that if Leave won again, Gina Miller and her ilk would spend millions proving the law was invalid.

Good call, should keep the score down to 5.

We are going to need a bigger bus.

oops! sorry the BBC does have adverts now. At the end of every programme and before the start of the next, we have to sit through several minutes of 'trailers' of forthcoming BBC programmes. Which for some reason, I find worse than the ITV ads.

Thanks for those kind words Mike, those sentiments are reciprocated. What I do find rather odd (and I don't have an answer but suspect there are multiple reasons) is that the support for Farage and Johnson is in the Midlands and the North. This support is Brexit related and I see most of the electorate returning to Party loyalties once the Brexit issue is resolved - except if Brexit is thwarted when all hell will break loose and we will be in uncharted territory.

England must have broken the record for the number of knock-on's. Will need to keep hold of the ball better against better sides.

Richarlison missed an open goal header today. Edge of 6 yard box, no pressure, free header, and he tamely headed it so that the keeper gathered it easily.

BBC live text gave an interesting stat. Everton have never come from behind and won under Silva. That stat actually says a lot. No heart, no fight and there have been plenty examples of that recently.

At least we've got the Rugby World Cup to take our minds of it.

The Blades haven't had a single shot on goal - and are winning 1 - 0.

Mike, it may, or it may not. My point is, to give all the credit to the EU is nonsense. The easiest activity on this planet is to spend other peoples hard earned money.

The regeneration money cycle is: UK taxpayers - UK government - EU - chunk returned to UK. ie its our own money returned.

There are multiple strains of flu and the flu-jab doesn't cover them all, just most. Getting the jab increases the odds.

Its already started to explode in Bettel's face. A number of EU member states highly critical. Maybe the EU will book him on a diplomacy course.

Had a bit of ear trouble (never had it before) on Sunday. Had a busy Monday so went to the Doc's today. Asked for the duty Doctor (urgent appointments) and expected something tomorrow. It was 10.30 when I got there and they gave me an 11.00 appointment. The Doc even gave me my flu jab while I was there. Result!

Our non-decent spinner got 4 for 49. He's not bad with the bat either.