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Withdrawing isn't actually that difficult, if you can accept that there will be a price to pay. The U.K. Government has two major problems though. They have been directly complicit in - and in some cases had directly encouraged - the belief that there will be no price to pay and we will get all the good bits of being in the EU, eg. free movement of goods within the single market and won't have to put up with the "bad" bits, eg free movement of people and that somehow this will all be sorted out because "they sell more to us than we sell to them". I think it's been called "cakeism". The second problem, which is unique to the UK and ROI is the Good Friday Agreement essentially means that the neither country can leave in the way that most Brexiteers see as truly leaving, in some way, shape or form, NI needs remain - to all intents and purposes - in the SM & CU.

Use Sat Nav.

Are they going to wear black and brown uniforms?

In the film Bull Durham, Crash Davies, the character played by Kevin Costner breaks the minor league record for hits but is completely uninterested as all it means is he spent the majority of his career in the minor leagues as he couldn't hack it in the majors - a record no-one should be proud of. Being top goalscorer in the English Championship is the same, you only hold that record by being not good enough to play at a higher level.

Well I'd say that the Navy Blue used for the Scotland home kit is closer in shade to the one in the Union Flag (Pantone 280) as opposed to the Saltire (Pantone 300). Even more so when you look back a historic flags - which would have been in usage in the 19th century when the colours were decided upon - and the shade of blue was even closer to the Scotland kit. It's secret that the SFA has always been an arch-unionist organisation at its core and the Scotland strip is just a manifestation of that.

What a shock, doesn't seem like the sort, aye right. https://www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/cardiff-city-looking-claim-against-15618696

Maybe this should be for the unpopular opinions thread but I'm not sure why everyone is so set on this "traditional" colour scheme given that it's the colours of the Union flag. If anything, we should have a kit that's more like the Italian one if we're to base it on the national flag, Ironic since the Italian kit isn't based on theirs

This year' s Hogmanay show was a great return to form for Only An Excuse.

Saw this kid play 2 1/2 years ago in preseason for Reading U21s in a pre-season game against a Maidenhead team that would go on to win the Conference South that year and thought he was a real standout. Couldn't believe he was only just 17 at the time.

Andy Robertson has been sold for the highest transfer fee and I'd imagine us wages are bigger than any other so I guess he's the most valuable.

I'd be amazed if they haven't gone through the 300 documents with a fine tooth comb, looking for whatever they can find. I suppose part of the problem in this particular case is that you are talking about the former FM and members of his staff, the complainants are presumably senior civil servants themselves, then you need to have other senior civil servants carry out any investigation, you're not going to get Johnny from HR to look into this. That makes it very difficult - if not impossible - to get someone who is completely independent from either party. That's not to say it's impossible to have a fair and transparent process but of course it's not ideal and as you say people will take from that whatever suits their own narrative. A real problem when you have any kind of complaint against the person at the top of any organisation and even more so when it's allegations of sexual misconduct which have to treated with particular sensitivity. For obvious reasons, the SG isn't going to go the UKG but perhaps they could have gone to the Welsh or NI Civil Service for help.

Which, if true, might be a big deal, depending on the context. The article pretty confusing though as Salmond's advocate - or at least how it's presented - first says that because the document's have been redacted then it's not clear whether or not the process was fair or not, then the big you've quoted which suggest that it wasn't. it's all a bit unclear.

A bloke I used to work with who lives reasonably close to Gatwick has pointed out that they have recently announced plans to increase flights by using the emergency runway and that this has gone down very badly - for obvious reasons - with local residents. Could be a motive for the disruption today. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/oct/18/gatwick-plans-using-emergency-runway-to-increase-flight-capacity

Used to go to the Far East with work a lot and always went through Dubai so was on these a few times from London to Dubai when they were first introduced, you're right about how quiet they are, also I was amazed how smooth the landings were as well. The bar upstairs is pretty cool as well. You need to see one parked up next to a 747 to get a feel for how big they are.

TBF, it's not really "headline news" that some documents have been handed over, what will be headline news is when the details of what those documents contain comes into the public domain, which presumably will come out in January in the hearing.

Don't know about that. I went to see him live a few times in the 1990s and early 2000s and on every occasion I was laughing so hard it hurt.

Fantastic planes.

It's an argument on a par with "Alex Salmond is fat" for not voting Yes. As others have pointed out what other things that the majority of people don't understand should we stop. It's an argument for people having a better understanding into how the EU works, good and bad.

I wouldn't even put it as high as that. I'd like to think that I'm fairly politically engaged but my knowledge of the EU and it's institutions is sketchy at best. Out of my immediate group of friends, I think there's only one who doesn't have an even sketchier understanding than I do and he's a politics graduate. A big part of the problem is that for the last forty years politicians of all parties - and eagerly assisted by the media - have been happy to characterise the EU as something that happens *over* there *to* us.

I've got to say that as far as Question Time rockets are concerned, that guy was right up with the mad unionist Highlander.

Too be fair, its all about balance, they've got to include both Tory Parties.

The UK Supreme Court found that with the exception of one clause, the bill *when it passed* was within Holyrood's competence. UK Government lawyers tried to argue that the whole bill was incompetent but this was rejected by the court. As every good schoolboy knows, the devolution model is that all powers are devolved unless they are reserved under the Scotland 1998 Act. What the UK government did was - once the HR Continuity bill was passed, was to wait until the last minute to object and refer it to the Supreme Court, essentially stopping the bill from gaining Royal Assent. They then, late in the day and in the House of Lords, introduced a series of "complex and technical" amendments which had the effect of amending the Scotland Act and making these reserved powers and because that bill passed into law makes the original bill from Holyrood invalid and has the impact of re-reserving powers from Holyrood to Westminster. And that Ladies and Gentlemen is exactly how the power grab works in practice.

They didn't. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979_vote_of_no_confidence_in_the_Callaghan_ministry

Zero chance of that happening, turkeys won't vote for Christmas. They might - and probably will - vote against the Brexit deal but they won't vote against the government in a confidence vote.

Good luck to him, hope he gets the help and support he needs.