Yesterday you said that you weren't in the know...then you went on to say you knew people in the media and their views and that you knew 'the feeling within'. Then you have a quote for me from 'within'. today..but you're not claiming to be ITX.
You're claiming all the sources and I'm the one who's pompous. Excellent.
Mate...our definitions of being ITK clearly differ HUGELY then I guess. 'Claiming all the sources'. Whaaaaat? What is it with the being deliberately antagonistic ALL the time mush? Evidently you're sourced/read/bright - so the need to wind, well, it's a bit odd really. Unless confrontation is your 'ting', in which case you must go through about 6 kitchen rolls a day...
So, to clarify, I once worked 'within' an industry, I still have friends 'within' that industry. They, by definition, WOULD be in the know, I, by definition of NOT being any more, am not. What's hard to understand? They, as I once did, mainly cover West London football clubs, as consequence they have other friends who cover North West footy clubs, ya dig?
It's like a big, happy dysfunctional family in many ways, think the FRITZEL's with a casey & a hip-flask, a Daisy Chain without the furious, empty tugging if you will....
Anyway, the nature of maintaining distance friendships - (them, yes?) - is that we chat about stuff, common threads, etc...what we like, Football/ The Dooleys/Derek Nimmo (last two used as eg only) that sort of thing. Prob exactly like you do at the WI coffee mornings, similar anyway I imagine...and by doing this, and as naturally as bum-noise or clouds, I pick things up. Sometimes I even ask. WOWSER, especially when I'm concerned about something. Sometimes though, genuinely, I REALLY wish I hadn't because I'd rather not know...
I'm sorry if you felt I was perhaps trying to gain some sort of 'status' by using the ITK moniker, perhaps I've even mislead you. I didn't mean to. As said, in a sense I was maybe even trying to back you up and suggest you're right that he'll stay. Either way, I seem to have confused you a tad. And I would NEVER wish to do that...
Anyway, hope we're all fishing from the same basket now.
Fancy going halves on a greyhound? We could call it Jimmy Frizzel...Jimmy Frizzel the Greyhound. Waddya say?
*Now THERE was a manager, eh?*
Best regards etc...