Just Browny

Rogers' pieces are always worth reading in full and make for uncomfortable reading for people on both the pro- and anti-EU wings. Put half an hour aside over the weekend.

We do have an odd setup in this country, with a slightly random list of things being free and then others excessively priced or taxed. I don't think we'd lose a single cashed-up tourist if they had to pay £3 for a museum ticket or as a city tax to stay a night in a nice hotel. It would take a bit of pressure off local or national taxpayers.

It seems a fair discussion topic on the Brexit thread though.

We really have entered a parallel universe..

Yes, none of the lazy buggers even appear to be taking part in this year's first round.

It is, but it is not a unicorn-style negotiation where a miraculous solution will appear despite noone coming up with one. The Commission has made a proposal: that UK citizens will get visa-free travel and require the 7€ payment. The Parliament has now agreed to that proposal without amendment. As long as the Council makes no amendments, that's what the rules will be.

I think inflexibility and misunderstanding context is overly generous. She simply doesn't have a human side, which means she simply can't engage people. Even Cameron was very good at getting wins at summits, because he knew how to speak to people; he was just too lazy to do the hard work in the build-up to them to land any serious changes. May is an automaton: a national embarrassment. She will have read out the same script last night as she does in Parliament on a Wednesday.

You seem a bit obsessed with his nationality to be honest.

Yes. I can't wait until we stop talking about rugby players and get back to 80-page league structure threads. He's a big lad, but he has a bit of development to go before he becomes a good prop. Four years at Leeds gives him the time and a top-class environment.

I think the bloke who committed the terrorist atrocity was doing so for his own political purposes. Sadly it wasn't cheap; he murdered a woman in the street.

Obviously not. Some of them are Welsh.

I wonder if Noel Edmonds is free for a Christmas special.

Unlikely she would need more than ten minutes to go through the normal script. We could knock it up for her on here and email it in.

Have you got a fake CV I can put out with the media release?

I'll give him until mid-January before I start with 'what he is doing?' and 'what a waste of money'.