Red-Robbo

Worth pointing out that Rochdale are second and Mansfield 10th

What a clash that would be: South Gloucestershire Rovers against north Gloucestershire Rovers. My money's on FGR.

Why not? An improving Northampton side need just take one more win than them from the last few games and it's Hello Alfreton Town for the Blue Few.

Aha. the real Wade Elliott has turned up

Torquay with 58% possession, according to PA.

... and Northampton score to keep the Gas two points from the drop. Come on Torquay!

Samuel Baldock you star!

Kelly would provide that break-up play in front of the defence we sound like we're missing....

Fast catching up the BBC, you mean H.

Get yourself down to The Fish Plaice on the Square. You'll get a Cod connection there, although reception might be a bit bass heavy...

Ironically, the rescheduling helps me with my Saturday arrangements. Still, I do feel sympathy for those that have had things mucked up by it. Far too late. Good letter, Hotwellsred BTW.

And on that point, my friend, I completely agree with you!

So you accept my point that it was well before the bank bailout and entirely unconnected. Your man Gideon certainly knows a thing about bad decisions - he takes them constantly - but nothing can perhaps match the bad decision to sell off 100% of Britain's utilities and railways between 1982 and 1996.

I'm glad you're not Chancellor, Screech!

As I pointed out, the gold stocks were halved in 1999, nine years before any bank needed to be bailed out. There is a lot you can criticise Brown for, but I'm not sure the bail outs are one. What would you do as Chancellor? Let the country's financial institutions collapse like dominos because some banks had put large amounts into hopelessly overstretched US mortgage providers. I need hardly point out that the decision to intervene was supported by G.G. Osborne and the Tory front bench. However I don't think you can call bankers "Labour's chums". Look at where there money goes: http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2011/feb/08/tory-funds-half-city-banks-financial-sector

It was recommended by the Bank. This is all minuted and on record. Gold reserves are a bit of a hangover to when currencies were pegged on them. Lots of countries have none or virtually none - China, Canada and Australia to name but three. We still hold enough to put us in the World top 10. Of course, what the propagandists didn't tell you was as gold was sold the BoE was boosting its foreign currency reserves. These had been depleted ruinously during the Thatcher recession. The reserves were - of course - sold over three years, not in one lump sum - and many years before any bank bailouts. The two events are not connected in any way.

I suspect they'll not be able to fill their troughs as much as Gideon's mate: http://politicalscrapbook.net/2014/04/osborne-best-mans-hedge-fund-made-36m-profit-on-royal-mail/

It might even be found that various ministers have shares in Goldman Sachs and the other advisor companies. Whatever next!

Few too many pies, judging by that picture!

I understand Nige's love of beer is all done for the benefit of the cameras. An agreeable claret is his usual tipple in the Reform - his London "gentleman's club". It's a well-worn "man of the people" schtick that worked well for Ken Clarke in the past. Not that I'm sayting anyone should judge the man on what he drinks. It's the policies that matter, not the presentation.

You can be from the authoritarian right, or indeed, the countercultural left. Hitler was an extreme version of the former. It's worth noting the Nazis purged the "Strasserite" more socialist elements of the party in 1933. This is what Joseph Bendersky says about them: The Nazis claimed that communism was dangerous to the well-being of nations because of its intention to dissolve private property, its support of class war, its aggression against the middle class, its hostility towards small businessmen, and its atheism. Nazism rejected class-based socialism and economic egalatarianism, instead favouring a stratified economy with social classes based on merit and talent, retaining private property and the creation of national solidarity that transcends class distinctions.

Curse that al-Qaeda stooge, Lord Hall of Birkenhead. Can't trust they grammar school kids, eh RG?