O'Kelly Isley III

Tom Watson claims today that this is not the time for Labour to be 'sitting on the fence'. Funny, I was sure someone on here was recently posting the exact opposite.

And so it turned out less frantic than we had long feared, so well done to everyone concerned at DFC. To be honest though, huge individual plaudits must go to Craig Barr and Dom Thomas for their contributions in helping us retain our Division One status. Time soon to pause and draw breath before considering the challenges that lie ahead, but meantime we raise a glass to our club.

Exactly what locus does the Scottish Government have in this other than a blatant attempt at shit stirring by yourself ?

After the first paragraph I don't understand what you're saying here. In spite of the evidence of Ashcroft and others, Labour has allowed itself to become utterly spooked by fear of traditional Labour voters who voted for Brexit and as result has failed to do the right thing by the country by opposing Brexit, aided and abetted by a vacillating Europhobe as leader. You talk of appeasement; sure thing if you mean running scared of electors in Hartlepool and Doncaster. As for Corbyn, he has played an absolute blinder in undermining himself. The dirty propaganda is just that but he has repeatedly given the air of a timid, insecure man who just wants it all to go away rather than going on the front foot and fimly rebutting it. Never mind, fence-sitting is just what the country needs right now.

I think this will be influenced by whether the man himself still seeks a full-time position in management, if he does then we can't oblige on that one. Also, as I've already posted, managing DFC is a difficult job right now as we essentially have local Directors trying to square a circle of not having enough money to run the club the way we would all want it, both on and off the pitch, with owners in the background who appear to have absolutely no interest or appetite for helping them do it. As long as that situation drags on it may not matter too greatly who is in the dugout.

I'm sure you recently informed us that the majority of Labour voters backed Remain, so surely better to cement that group in the European Elections, especially when all available evidence is pointing to the UK swinging firmly behind Remain. Trying to be all things to all people is a waste of time.

I get your point but I doubt many of the people who currently vote or voted UKIP in the past will look very far beyong that acronym to scrutinise personnel or policies. A sad indictment of a section of the UK electorate I know, but I'm afraid it was ever thus, as decades of Scots voting for monkeys in red rosettes demonstrated.

Season 1999/2000 then...so Dutch Borderer would be correct.

Yep, and nothing demonstrates this more than the BBC shows ,'Homes Under The Hammer' and 'Escape To The Country' where investment becomes a metaphor for naked greed. I'm old enough to remember the horrors of Rachman in the 1960's and Westminster has propelled us right back to that. Add in the growing fungus of Air B'N B, builders banking tracts of land and demand outstripping supply and it becomes pretty obvious that the UK housing market requires urgent intervention.

You are missing my point a bit here...I'm just fascinated that in parts of Scotland the anti-SNP vote can transfer easily between Labour and Tory, and even more astonished that it swings from the SNP to the Tories. However, I reckon the latter can be explained by considering folk who were always Nationalists with a small 'n' and who default to tugging the forelock when the Indy issue gets serious. What are they so frightened of ?

Here's hoping she takes Aly Bain and Phil Cunningham with her - these guys have been draining the fun from New Year for decades.

I get the feeling that Jim Duffy himself will decide whether he wishes to continue in his role. There's a lot more to management than just the ninety minutes per week, and until DFC prises itself away from Brabco's icy grip these aspects will remain a problem.

Yep, but I reckon Dame Margaret is now entering the Witch Who Cried Wolf far too often, there is a limit to how much the electorate will be genuinely swayed by the stream of anti-Semitic accusations. Labour for their part should be screaming from the rooftops about the child poverty issue.

Aye, well. A creditable draw at Forfar but such is this crazy division we're still running to stand still. I think we should park all chatter about POTY and concentrate on the job in hand. Is anyone up for a Survival Vigil outside the ground from 8pm this Friday until kick-off time on Saturday ?

For the most part, gullible fools. But to be honest, you could have stopped at you 'genuinely don't understand'.

Utter pish I'm afraid; there was no inherent public campaign to exit the EU, it was manufactured by those on the political right with their own agenda and reflected a deep and long-running schism within the Tory Party. Cameron's folly was to needlessly poke a stick into this festering hornet's nest and the rest is history. Every time folk like yourself attempt to rewrite the script you can expect to be called out.

For such a beautiful part of Scotland, you seem to have such disturbing levels of self-loathing in the North-East. 'Dyed-in-the-wool' Labour types voting Tory to keep out the SNP - really ? Mass voting for Tory incompetents rather than even countenance the I-word - fucking pathetic. It used to be us in the central belt who lamented the monkeys with red rosettes; it seems they have all turned blue and migrated to the bens and glens. Still, what chance have we got of anyone getting off their knees with DC Thomson, the P & J, Balmoral Castle , the Braemar Gathering and the Peterhead fishing fleet up there ? And probably still the influence of the pulpit too.

This solves nothing. There's no longer any imperative for Labour to continue with the 'constructive' talks and May will simply dig in until someone drives a political stake thro her heart.

Kate Hoey on Newsnight just now confirming why I will never vote Labour again. How she ever came to be an MP should be a cause for an internal inquiry.

Wee Stevie valued one quality in his players above all others - patience, it was key.

Why are we even dignifying this story by discussing it ?

I need to be honest here and say that whilst I have a strong distaste for the DUP and what they stand for, they have maintained their position, something which I'm sure has surprised and disappointed some proponents of Brexit. By their own lights however, to the DUP Brexit represents a clear and present threat to their raison d'etre, the union, which I think a lot of folk on the mainland overlooked.

I've always described Brexit like the Ealing film comedy 'Passport To Pimlico'. We are now at the scene where everyone, or in this case the Brexiteers, realise that the game is a bogey, closely followed by The End.

Hutton fanboys incoming.......

Yip, but we buy Andrex in the Central Belt.