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Where was the policy to scrap the winter fuel allowance in the manifesto? You’re muddling their personal views with how they have governed. This dyed in the wool Thatcherite took Britain’s tax burden to the highest point since WW2. Likewise, Starmer has initiated welfare ‘cuts’ and unleashed...

Pretty much the same phenomenon for Rishi Sunak. He was simultaneously right wing and a ‘socialist’. It hasn’t happened yet, but my gut feeling is that Starmer will swing to the left rapidly if the Greens grow more support - their 9% is significant. In my view, the country needs a new ‘market...

Farage was put out of business in 2017 and 2019 when a) Brexit was settled and b) Boris Johnson promised an Australian points system. There’s an argument that Reform (Brexit Party) loaned that support, particularly in the north and midlands. Ultimately, the massive failures in immigration...

… so do nothing? One thing that fascinates me about the liberal-left is that on immigration, there almost no limit on numbers coming into the country.

If Labour got net migration to sub 100k p/a, tightened entry requirements, ‘stopped the boats’, deported arrivals such as; foreign criminals, people no longer meeting their visa conditions and denied asylum seekers… … Farage and Reform would be out of business. Given Starmer’s background, he...

The electorate has consistently voted for lower migration, does their voice not matter? Even so, the first port of call is addressing the root causes of declining fertility. How can governments make policies that support families should be top of the agenda rather than importing people. The...

It’s interesting, the scale of our migrations means that this element of the plan is unpractical. How would even go about doing this for 900k new arrivals in 2023 or 476k last year… you can’t. There are undoubtedly areas in major cities that have changed beyond recognition hence there is so...

I’ve not read this article fully but I’m familiar with the policies Denmark have put forward successfully. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1mgkd93r4yo.amp

Yes and no because it becomes a Ponzi scheme. Immigrants will get old and need pensions too so you create a vicious cycle of constantly needing more people. Data coming out of the OBR is low skilled migration is a net drain on the exchequer, the welfare bill for foreign born households has...

Not good enough, he needs to be top 99.9 percentile.

No I didn’t, if you look back far enough on this thread, @Grendel and I argued like cat and dog on it. I was very much a Remainer. You recall incorrectly (happens to us all), I’ve never called you or anyone racist on this forum.

Tbh, your attitude demonstrates exactly why Labour will get decimated at the next election. If there was a housing crisis when net migration was 50k per year, how do you expect to keep up when net migration has consistently been 5-6 times that? The 300k house building target is premised on...

This is true to an extent. Building houses is not as simple as ‘just build’. This government is demonstrating that it takes more than good intentions and wishful thinking. Even with Rayner’s plans to build new towns, the sewage infrastructure is holding that back. Public finances are already...

Villa do not even need a 60k seater stadium and all due respect to Birmingham, they have a pretty average fan base for home crowds. Like us, only recently sell out St Andrews with a reduced away support capacity. This project has got ‘boom and bust’ written all over it.

He’s a legend in my book. Absolutely smashed it for me on a FM22 (or FM21) York save. For that reason alone, I’m in.

It’s not artificial demand if there’s a general shortage of housing. The housing deficit was at 1.5m or so and has grown since. Angela Rayner was tied in knots when a Sky journalist pointed out that even if Labour met the 1.5m house building target, if there is 2.5m million arrivals as the...

Freedom of speech doesn’t mean freedom of ridicule… 😂

PNE aren’t that bad a side, we lost more than they did this season. Their issue was their they drew far too many games. The ‘he plays in a crap team’ goes so far because PNE have finished in and around us in most of the seasons Riis has been there. The outliers being this season and 22/23. His...

Strange take, you must be on a wind up. We don’t make the playoffs if Haji doesn’t score that last minute winner v Oxford or a hattrick v Sunderland. So targeting those two games is odd, if you focused on his missed chances, that’s something we can work with as that actually makes sense, all due...

Remember when scoring a hat trick was a good thing for a striker? This new obsession with ‘games scored in’ is odd. Most top end strikers in most leagues will generally struggle much better than a goal every 3 games. Gyokeres “only” scored in 17 games or so in 22/23. Out of 50 games, some could...