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You are giving Cameron far too much credit there, I'd bet he really doesn't want to have the referendum at all. He only put the promise of a referendum in the Tory manifesto as a bolster to UKIP. I suspect that he never expected to win a majority and the EU referendum would have been traded away as part of a coalition with the Lib Dems or if he was going to run a minority government would never have had support across the house to pass it.

Are there any parties in Scotland supporting Leave other than UKIP? Even the Scottish Tories seem broadly in favour of staying. i know stranger things have happened but you'd have to have serious mental problems to switch from the SNP to UKIP.

I believe it's available in the House of Commons.

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Unlike you it seems, I'm fully aware of the difference between England and the U.K.

However, you are more likely to see an Anas Sarwar led Scottish Labour opposition come 2021.

Don't know why you need to go ninja, its the right answer.

So is just Scots in London who want to see an independent Scotland that you think are hypocritical or does that extend to other parts of England, Europe or elsewhere in the world? By that same token, I'm sure that you think that anyone who feels that the UK should leave the EU of being hypocritical - or at least those who live in the EU - as they are similarly benefiting from the EU while railing against its injustice. You would actually have a point with your first sentence if you were advocating no countries or international borders, complete freedom of movement throughout the world and a single world currency, but I don't think you are.

If should be, is the new board more better or less worse? Yes or No.

Do you find the idea of an Italian reading Corriere Della Salla or a German reading Berliner Zeitung in London amusing?

Not The National then? Rarely buy a print version of a paper these days, if I do it's the Guardian or the Observer. I have an iPad that I tend to take everywhere - I'm writing this on it on a train at the moment, just coming into lovely Slough station - so anything I read tends to be online. You make a fair point about the BBC website, I personally think this is an area where they've exceeded their charter remit and where they have an unfair advantage. I'm not so concerned about them competing with other global news organisations but I think their is definitely a case that they are impacting on local newspapers.

Okay, this was 23 years ago, but for the game there in 1993, you could get service buses easy enough up to the ground but the problem was after the game. We'd arranged a minibus to pick us up which most people seemed to have done. There was nothing at the ground at all and I don't think that's changed. I'll be making sure I've transport to and from the match arranged in advance.

I don't think that newspapers will cease to exist as organisations, although I suspect some may fall by the wayside but that it's print as a medium that will disappear. The print edition of the Independent runs at a loss but the website runs at a profit. The Daily Mail is one of the biggest "news" websites in the world, I was in Chicago a couple of years ago and saw a billboard ad for the Daily Mail. Similarly the Guardian is focussing more on online than print. The Sun has recently stopped its paywall. It will only take one or two papers to go fully online before the rest will follow. The Independent is one, who will be the second?

First of many, I doubt that in 5 years time there will be any daily newspapers available in print.

IT was Chelsea where he was assistant manager. Ken Bates basically thought that Rix had been set up and the girl and her father were only after money from Rix. I'm not sure I agree with that but one thing about Bates is he didn't really care much what anyone else thought.

Fenwick is like Dunlop but with a motorway instead of a station. The Valley only starts to look appealing in comparison with Auchinleck*,Cumnock and Catrine. *Curries Red Kola is the DBs though.

Not bothered about that, just so long as we know what to expect in September and are prepared for that.

I thought about Vardy when I wrote that post. The guy is having an exceptional season no doubt about it, he may well be an exception. One thing I'll be interested to see is how well he fits into an England team that isn't set up to play to his strengths. Not sure if you are old enough to remember but under Clough, there were lots of players who were really good for Forest but didn't look much when they went to other clubs. Clough's talent w to put a team together that used the strengths of his players and get players playing above their natural level. i think there's a bit of that going on with Leicester at the moment.

It's not that more people die at the weekend, it's that more people who are *admitted* at the weekend die within 30 days. That's something different altogether and lots of reasons why this is the case. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-34598335

Opening sentence and Farage lies and the Tory repeats the lie. There aren't more people dying on at the weekend than any other day.

Nonsense. Colin Hendry was not a late developer. He had been playing for Man City in the old first division for about three years, and Blackburn in the second division before getting his international debut. I don't think there was a huge difference in Colin Hendry Between the ages of 23 and 27, other than that he was playing in a better team. The reason why it took him so long to get a cap was simply because there were much better centre halves a available at the time. In the late 80s/early 90s, defence and in particular central defence was a real strength for us. We had the likes of Alex McLeish and Richard Gough both of whom you could make a case for being among the very best to have played in that position for Scotland. Craig Levein and Alan McLaren were exceptional talents whose careers were brought to a premature end through injury, McLaren in particular could have come close to 100 caps if he'd stayed fit. Then you had the likes of likes of Dave McPherson, Gary Gillespie and Roy Aitken as well. David Weir I grant you was a late developer but that was down to his unorthodox approach of going through the US college system, so I don't think you can use him as an example. If he had started as a pro earlier he would have most likely been capped earlier - it might also be one of the reasons he was able to play into his 40s. I'm not saying players don't get better as they get older, of course they do, but it's very rare that you get players kicking around the lower leagues at the age of 25 who turn into international quality players. There are always exceptions but for every one that comes through I could give you 100 examples of players who were talked up and ultimately never amounted to anything.

The guy is 25 this year, can we please stop talking about players in their mid-20s as having potential. If he's not international quality by that age, he never will be. I accept the point that it might be that this is all we have to look forward to as a centre back but lets not pretend we're unearthing hidden gems.

I think you should look at someone who is captain of their club. In the current squad that would give us Scott Brown, Russell Martin, Darren Fletcher and Grant Hanley. For me out of that lot - assuming he is going to play, which is a big assumption - Darren Fletcher is head and shoulders above the rest when it comes to all aspects of being a captain. If Fletcher isn't going to play, I would look at Martin in the first instance although I expect that Hanley will eventually be captain.

I take it you mean the multi-award winning Chip Box - although for a generation of Stewartonians it will always be Joe's - and not Piolis. I know what you mean about people from Dunlop, never understood that myself, I've had occasion to upbraid Graham Spiers on Twitter for anti-Stewarton comments. Mind you, we look down on people from Kilmaurs. If you think the facilities, roads and transport are bad now, you should have seen it in the 1980s.

Îts getting beyond parody with that guy. He's got another two years on his contract at Chelsea and based on his recent experiences I doubt he'll play any football for anyone in that period. I only hope for his sake he's been saving his money but I wouldn't bet on it. "Where it all went wrong" piece in the Daily Record in five years time?