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But that's where Cavani comes in.

He's not a false 9 at all! He's played on the wing for years. If Hernandez is staying, United don't need a pure striker at all. Neither do Arsenal. Cavani would be ideal for either because he can play out wide.

I don't think you can take anything from it in isolation. The two most established names are ahead, the insurgent is third and all four are separated by little over 10%. Not much of a story.

Ah, lovely and inconclusive. Altrincham and Sale West endorsed Cooper and Eagle tonight. The latter may have been partly down to the fact that she came to speak.

They need a versatile forward who can stand in for Rooney or play with him and Depay in a front 3. So that means Pedro, Cavani or Muller.

I still wouldn't rule out Gideon crashing the economy some time before 2020, in which case I'd rather we were actually in a position to take advantage.

Also, if you're of the opinion that not going against the bill makes us more electable (I'm not, I think it's inane) then it's a no brainer. No single bill the Tories pass is comparable to a potential Labour government.

It's the eternal debate at the top of the party as to whether disagreeing with the government will reinforce the image of Labour as scrounger apologists. The leadership is terrified of another five years topping the polls being undone at the last minute because the public still don't trust us on the economy. Of course the logical thing to do would be to explain why the reforms fail on economic terms, but the right of the party isn't interested in doing that and the left think economics is a dirty word. I despair.

I'm swaying the same way, so not too many arguments here.

For the watch. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/jerem...d-10399272.html

It'll be interesting to see how Gove goes up against Keir Starmer, who will presumably be Shadow Justice (god that sounds cool) in a couple of months.

The 21k threshold makes far more sense than the old 16k did as it means a lot of graduates aren't immediately paying it back on a lot of (often unstable) graduate jobs. My issue with the post-2012 system is twofold: 1) The new threshold would be all well and good if it weren't for the fact that the total amount payable went through the roof 2) Very few students or prospective students were aware of any difference other than the headline figure that they'd pay three times more to go to university than their older siblings. You would expect the sheer burden of that figure to put off a lot of prospective students from going, and I'm incredibly suspicious of any stat that shows more people from lower income families are going to university than ever before.

Oh I'm sorry, did I just imagine the £27k (minimum) debt my friends will have when they leave? If you want free education this is a very funny way of going about it.

That is hilarious. I really hope we get Gervinho.

I think people will begin to give them a little more respect for that, but I'm not sure it will translate into votes anywhere other than their old SW heartlands where they came a solid second this time. It'll take another generation before they can recover fully, if at all.

Ha, better fairer version. You do make me laugh.

He seems himself as the Corbyn to Corbyn's Benn.

Do you really think Yvette will be defined in 2020 by the leadership campaign she runs now? The Tories were parroting on about "Red Ed" for five years and it didn't do them as much good as the SNP scare did in five weeks. Who would have predicted that? My issue with Kendall isn't that she's a centrist - it's that she's not a very good one. Short of convincing Boris to defect I would do literally anything for us to win in 2020 but I don't see how she can inspire confidence unless Osborne does it for her by tanking the economy with another recession. Both the "continuity" candidates have set their stall out in manner very different to Ed with a pitch which will help win over people we need to win (Burnham with his whole community schtick for the UKIP-floppers, Cooper with her talk about jobs for the future and garden cities for the Nuneaton crowd) and I'm not sure Kendall has the capacity to do that. Incidentally, the name-calling is really getting on my tits as well. It remains the rank irony of the worst bits of the Labour left that they're willing to ignore a lifetime of hard work on social equality because of a couple of misjudgements on economic issues. Then again, bits of the moderate wing are prone to doing the opposite.

How so? People baulk at "Continuity Miliband" as if this were a disaster on the scale of 1983 or (in a different way) 1992. I'm absolutely certain that the party has serious structural and organisational issues which need dealing with but the reality is that we got closer to returning to government after one term than anyone has since Thatcher with a leader who no one liked after completely misjudging the majority of big political events during the course of the parliament. The manifesto itself wasn't the problem (this time, at least. Like I said, we've got major issues which is why I'm more pro-Creasy than I am with any of the leadership candidates) - it was delivered badly by the wrong person.

Wouldn't the Accelerationist approach just be admitting that we're doomed in 2020? Because there's no way in hell that we could win if we'd had to ditch a radical left leader halfway through the parliament.

Steve Cram would be very high up there now.

Finding it strange that Britain's main liberal party will soon be led by a man who doesn't support equal marriage. And the other one by a man who doesn't support equal adoption :basil:

That'll save money! Cutting down on repeats by producing more shows!

Exactly. It'd be dangerous to make an argument for staying in the EU around the fact that it allows Brits to work in all sorts of places with better weather. It'd be insanity to try and appeal to the benevolence of the British people by trying to point out that their fellow Europeans often can have a far better quality of life here than at home.

The case is growing and the left are stuck with the issue that some of the best things about the EU (free movement of labour, for one) are those that most people hate. It's therefore a tricky argument to make for staying in at the moment.