It's hard to judge exactly where we sit in terms of other typical town centres. Ours has felt as though it has been declining for the past 20-30+ years, I guess in line with the emergence of retail parks.
Certainly the ones I have visited seem to have the same run down and neglected vibes. Rugby doesn't feel great and visited Coventry recently which was a dive.
I love the more vibrant feeling places like Leeds (appreciate that is a big student city) and not sure how you come back with somewhere like Northampton.
I just can't imagine it as a 'destination' again, unless someone wants to visit somewhere like Nando's or Primark, or risk getting stabbed with some weekend drinking.

Mkt Harborough is not bad, well looked after and clean, parking is OK, some good pubs.

That's a load of tosh. Brexit was as stupid an idea as anyone could have ever dreamt up. It could never work, it will never work, as soon as it can be consigned to the bin, the better. As for "Brexit hasn't been the total disaster that some make it out to be", well that's like saying, the house burned down but we saved the shed so it could have been worse. As for "fault", well nobody could have made it work, it's like a bicycle with square wheels. Eventually we'll return because that's the only sensible thing to do, there is already a massive majority in favour and that will get bigger as each racist dies to be replaced by a younger more tolerant citizen. Every day we are one day closer to ending this insanity. It's about time people realised we're all human beings and where we happen to be born is irrelevant.

And if the exit negotiations were handled better you could have had a single European market. I couldn't believe it when I saw the result, I didn't think the people were that stupid to believe the blatant lies that were spouted by the Brexiteers, of which I think the best one was Johnson claiming there would be extra millions a month to plough into the NHS. The fisherman who gave full support to it got absolutely nothing of what they were promised to protect their lively hoods, farmers the same(subsidies have actually reduced instead of increasing).
As for the vote for a return, I can't see it happening in the 5 years, surely Farage and his mates would mount a legal challenge to it.
We can hope that the next generation is more tolerant, but unfortunately there are those not just in the UK, but across Europe who constantly fan the flames and they will always find willing sheep to follow them.

[have the some of the highest charges for energy in Europe]

…..was it a wonderful decision to open the door to selling all our public utilities to overseas companies that now fill our rivers with s***, have the some of the highest charges for energy in Europe together with a piss poor rail service charging up to 10 fold the price per kilometre compared with Germany - but she was right with her slogan of free enterprise works - it certainly did, but sadly not for the UK.

These will only rise when Hinkley Point C comes on line and the French and Chinese owners will want to recoup their investment.

The service in Germany is not that great either and the reason the prices are so low is because of heavy government subsidies. There is at the moment pretty much a freeze on infrastructure development with a lot of unelectrified lines still single track and passing loops trying to service major cities.

Thatcher would be turning in her grave seeing what has happened to her party. she was also the one who who signed the Single European Act, which created the single European market.

A single European market is really a no-brainer, the issue for those that voted to leave I think was the BS that came from the EU.
Brexit hasn't been the total disaster that some make it out to be, but it could have been so much better. The fault of that clearly lies with the Tory remainers and civil servants who sabotaged any semblance of a properly negotiated exit and trade agreement.

Oh dear, seems like you’re still firmly entrenched in your own alimentary canal.

When I see his name I just keep scrolling.

I’m not buying this one mate, they’re completely outgunned using conventional forces, so it seems a lot of messing around just to end up pushing a button.

It's all MSM búllshít to enable governments to raise taxes and increase the amount of money they give to their mates in the armaments business.

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it’s all very well working it out it DOING it that takes some doing with 1969 technologies, it’s just not feasible. It’s you who are delusional if you think tat actually happened.

You are aware that in 1969 there were fully functioning computers and that computers to calculate intersecting vectors were used during WW2 to aim anti-aircraft guns and plot firing solutions on submarines. So now you know that the technology was readily available to launch the lunar landing module to rendezvous with the orbiting command module.
As I have said before, moon landing deniers always fail to come up with credible evidence that it never happened.

What are you fcuking wittering on about now?Of course there was mathematical theory in 1969, applying it 240,000 miles from earth 55 years ago is a bit of a challenge.
Watch the video.

The depth of your delusion astounds me. Do you think that they couldn't calculate the launch time required to intercept the orbiting capsule?

The ISS isn’t a hoax, it is the furthest away from earth humans have been though.
Intersecting vectors, in 1969?

So you think there was no such thing as intersecting vectors in 1969. Oh dear you really are making a clown of yourself. You do realise that mathematicians have been working on the field of vectors since 1636.
As usual a moon landing denier has no rational argument to back up his case.

[not to mention they finished walking on the moon and then blasted off 63 miles up and docked with the command module that was orbiting the moon and travelling at Mach 4.]

My favourite part of the BS is when the astronaut is asked how they kept cool in their space suits, it’s 200 degrees plus on the surface, he replies they were air conditioned and powered by batteries,in 1969, seriously, the whole thing is just too silly for words, not to mention they finished walking on the moon and then blasted off  63 miles up and docked with the command module that was orbiting the moon and travelling at Mach 4.

So based on your theory how do we dock with ISS which is at an altitude of 262 miles orbiting at Mach 22? Are you saying that the ISS is a hoax? Do you understand the concept of intersecting vectors? An easy example is clay pigeon shooting.

I have no problem with the hundred as such but why can't it be normal 20/20 with normal overs etc

I thought this when it was first on the scene, but the subtle rule changes and the faster format make it far more watchable for the youngsters(bearing in mind they have very short attention spans) who it seems to be primarily aimed at.
It has been a huge marketing success and is bringing much need attention and revenue into the game, especially for the women's teams and players.

Bairstow again starts swinging the bat like it's an ODI instead of following Root's example.

Another cracking game today, I hope that the Hundred is going to be as exciting as this.

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We've been poor this series against a very good team.  However anyone complaining about Bazzball has clearly forgotten just how bad things were prior.

I'm all for Bazzball to liven things up a bit, when the time is right. When you are five down for bugger all it is time to play a proper test match innings.

OK. I do wonder why the all the hundreds and hundreds of folk involved in the project, not one of them has ever come forward to tell the story of how they were faked. They would make a fortune. And yet, nothing.

Thousands of people including contractors etc. However the biggest tell of all is the USSR. Its 1969, the height of the Cold War and you can be sure that the KGB had assets within NASA and if they could have found the tiniest piece of evidence that it was staged Brezhnev would have been shouting it from the top of the Kremlin and the Socialist Worker would have had it as a headline.

[- Is it fair that the likes of Amazon and Starbucks pay very little tax in this country compared to the amount of our income they pocket?]

There is no easy answer but how do you determine what is 'fair' when deciding tax?

- Is it fair that a Prem footballer pays 45% income tax on most of his income?
- Is it fair that someone on £15k a year pays around £500 of income tax a year?
- Is it fair that someone who gets a promotion from £50k to £55k will lose £2,000 of it to income tax?
- Is it fair that the likes of Amazon and Starbucks pay very little tax in this country compared to the amount of our income they pocket?
- I won't mention child benefit and was having that argument 6 years ago.

What is indisputable is that the 5 year freeze on bands is generating billions and billions more than any token reductions at the other end.
Personally I am at the right age and in the position to maximise the 'tax haven' of a pension (clearly not a true tax haven!) but there must be millions of people battling with 'diminishing returns' from a career/earnings progression perspective.

As for pensioners...you've had your triple lock.  

This for me is the biggest area of tax evasion that needs correcting. The country looses billions in tax revenue. These companies need taxing on all revenue garnered in this country, not their cooked books calculations on profit.

I like it.

Dismal again. I just can't understand Bairstow's mindset. He comes in at number five with the team obviously in trouble and he plays like it's an ODI.