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Generally, the Prem is only interesting if you’re chasing the title, Europe or survival. Anything in between is meh. Despite that, I still want us to get up there.

Why are UK parliamentarians campaigning for airports in another country? It’s utterly ridiculous.

In fairness, the government is planning to legislate against this. The sentencing council is another quango that needs to be heaped onto the pyre. It’s genuinely concerning that an unelected quango had the temerity to ignore a sitting PMs demand.

Agreed that we looked toothless but the suggestion Sheff U should’ve ‘realistically had 5’ is ridiculous. Their xG was 1.64. 2 good chances and they took them plus Hamer’s FK. They’re not a team you want to go 1-0 down against because Sheff U are happy being out of possession. The wider...

I don’t think we did an awful lot wrong last night, we went 1-0 down to a screamer and it’s v difficult to comeback from that. They’re both pretty rubbish goalkeepers. Dovin will probably be back for the next game and after Burnley, we play teams mostly in relegation battle so they are games...

Collins playing was inconsequential to the result of the game, why are you obsessing over this?

I was in Barcelona last night and seen a random local-looking person running in a Cov shirt. We’ve officially gone global.

Then just increase income tax/capital gains, which imo is also a bad idea. With wealth taxes, you’re taxing something intangible because ‘wealth’ is unrealised. For example, how would homeowners cope if they were taxed on their property ? It also does not consider things like stocks and shares...

Wealth taxes are not a new idea and haven’t raised the sums expected wherever they’ve been implemented. Labour were elected in 1970s to introduce a wealth tax and backed out because it’s administratively difficult and politically poisonous. It almost definitely will not raise the oft quoted...

That isn’t how the real world works. The first priority should be keeping inflation in check because that’s the biggest tax on people and businesses. Which often means controlling government spending…

You’re easy to please. Half of those things haven’t been implemented and the public sector unions are already grumbling for pay increases linked to inflation which isn’t sustainable.

Exactly, the welfare state does need reforming but if your policies have caused businesses to rethink hiring new staff, it’s laughably incompetent. Ironically, it was Reform proposed increasing employer’s NI for foreign workers and this was rightly derided as a bonkers and an economically...

‘As such’ is the key admission here because you know full well that the government needs debt issuance and tax receipts to credit the mechanism it uses to create money i.e. the Consolidation Fund. In theory, it could just create debt out of nowhere and make no attempt to balance it out. In...

Productivity in this country is a huge problem, for both the private and public sector. The public sector, as a whole, is getting more money but delivering less. In the long term, this means taxes and spending will grow exponentially until something gives and it won’t be pretty. If you find...

True, although the only one that was sacked was Kwarteng and Javid resigned. The rest changed hands with the PM, who were the hunted species over the last 14 years. The groundwork has been laid for the government to raise ‘working people’s’ tax (NI, income tax or VAT).

Reality has a nasty habit of disappointing left wing voters. We got taxes on ‘non working people’, more public spending on public services and within 6 months, the government has had to do an about turn. They should’ve done what the last successful Labour government did. Follow the Tory...

Whoa. It’s not a budget at all… 😂

You very clearly do not understand how the private sector works.

Do you think Ukraine can win this war? To give a definition here: victory by ejecting the Russian army from the occupied regions (excluding Crimea).

Which assumes that £3bn would move the dial in swinging the war effort Ukraine’s way. It won’t unfortunately.