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That simply isn’t the reality. Generally speaking, if you make it to the UK mainland, legally or illegally, you will remain. In practice, the system is so broken, around 70-80% of people asylum applicants are granted. In the 2000s, this was around 5%. At this point, the 5 year timer for...

Well, the ever increasing costs associated with housing these people. In the longer term, the increased welfare bill that comes as soon as indefinite leave to remain is granted. Particularly given the government scrambles around save £5bn by scrapping winter fuel allowances.

Which has nothing to do with anything this government has done since they won power. It’s Tory policy that’s a driver for this decrease. It’s not really a cause for celebration, a net migration the size of Coventry year on year is scarcely sustainable.

Yet refuses to set a target of when to meet the 3% defence spending… does anyone take anything he says seriously?

This is by far Sakamoto’s best attribute. If they can coach EMC to do similar things and bring in someone who has a similar work rate with more ‘magic’ in the final third… we’ll be laughing. Haji Wright will leave if we got a bid that we couldn’t refuse, that’s the same as any player. At a...

I don’t think caps of this nature are ever a good idea. The root cause of the ‘housing crisis’ is not because of landlords. It’s a supply and demand issue and we have systematically been unable to keep up with the increased demand for more houses that comes with a rapidly expanding population...

As you describe it there, I agree. Iirc, a dimension of paying their money to recipients was to give them more responsibility handling their money. Similarly, why they paid UC monthly as opposed to weekly. Seems a trivial reason to be honest. On the flip side, whether people like it or not, if...

My memory is pretty fuzzy because I was a young boy at the time. All I remember was that I wearing my kit (navy blue away strip) in the kitchen watching the game on TV - it was a rare treat. Remembered thinking how rubbish Watford’s crest was too, and Birmingham’s for that matter. I remember...

Watford as well? I remember watching that one on TV, if memory serves me right we lost 1-0 (probably not).

No and you just don’t get it.

Spot on. That critique applies equally to the Tories which is why the idea they’re the ‘omni-party’ or ‘two cheeks on the sam arse’ prevails. Conservative minded voters felt the Tories in power were a ‘Blairite’ continuation and not at all right wing and currently have the exact same phenomenon...

Just another example of a long list of Labour being totally detached from its traditional roots. They deserve everything coming to them in next few years.

Yes. It’s a legacy issue which is why I said, because the adults pricing have been harmonised, it should be a ‘non-issue’ this season. Previously, at £250 for an adults ST and a child’s ST at £50 is still 75% of the price for a standard adults ticket. So it’s easy to see where the system was...

It’s a deliberate policy. The club wants to crack down on adults going into the FZ without the 1-2 kids on their ST. For all the honest people who would have genuine illnesses, there’s people gaming the system. I’m not sure how proactively the stewards check ST at the turnstile. Personally, I...

You can move to unreserved seats. There just aren’t many available. Last season I had to ring up the ticket office to move my seat and they were helpful to be fair. There’s also STHs who need to move out of the FZ because they have turned 18.

There is a need for a waiting list because there are no ‘available ST’ right now. The retention rate for current STHs will probably be 85-95% which means there will only be 2000-4000 STHs available after the 19th June at the most. So yeah, if you want a ST that badly, it makes sense to pay to...

Nike’s kits have gone massively downhill in recent years. Bespoke Adidas kits are generally the best imo. Any sponsor that isn’t castors and does bespoke designs for us is a win. Umbro could do a decent job given they’re a heritage sponsor.

If you throw a young player into the mix too soon it can destroy their confidence and hinder their development. If he’s good enough, he’ll have made the mark at Motherwell and probably get another loan to prove himself. When it comes to our academy, we’re probably years off producing another...

Something to do with the club World Cup… it’s a waste of time but I suppose it evens the playing field because there those teams participating had a ‘mini’ transfer window to register players for the tournament. In practice, almost definitely makes no difference.

I cottoned on to that as soon as the post was sent! 😂 There was a lot of people calling for him for to start/play more. Bearing in mind Sheaf had spent a lot of time on the sidelines, we had 3 operational CMs; Eccles, Torp and Allen. Here are a few takes extracted from the forum on this...