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I’m enjoying that you’re saying this with no irony whatsoever. If you want to continue believing Reeves is “Thatcherite”, crack on mate. I won’t break that delusion.

I nearly spat out my coffee seeing Rachel Reeves described as “Thatcherite”. Ultimately, this government is in a mess because it’s massively increased spending and borrowing without a plan to pay for it. The tax rises in the last budget was highest tax raids in decades and it’s still not enough...

That isn’t their platform at all. The polling data shared on here shows that they cut through on other issues. Comments like yours show just how disconnected many people on the left are in relation to understanding why people support Reform. Have they? What policies have they implemented that...

Agreed. However, there is one massive exception where immigration is absolutely increasing costs: housing provision. The average cost of a house is 9x the average salary. You’d have to go back to the 19th century to find a time it was less expensive. It’s not all about immigration, but when...

I’m mulling over my options too. I originally planned to do the whole month but financially, that’s not viable. Germany last year was a great jolly being out for the whole month. Equally, what I’d spent there is roughly a 1/3 of what you’d expect for a month in the US. Easily a £8-12k trip...

These are the people that are in competition with low income migrants so they’ve put 2+2 together and made the link between mass immigration and cost of living. Indeed. The Labour Party and indeed wider trade union movement had generally been “right wing” on immigration by today’s standards...

Not at all, far from breaking up the Union, Brexit was implicitly saved it. The nationalists in Scotland and Wales can’t credibly argue that they’ll join the EU because that would mean hard borders with England. Which is just not realistic. NI will probably be lost, with or without Brexit.

Published in 2020, I liked it but Paul Embery was my gateway drug to more conservative thinking. https://amzn.eu/d/d6MuJO9 Labour needs Scottish MPs to form a majority government, it makes total sense for them to ‘save the union’. In the 2010s, Labour got caught in the middle of 2 great big...

The Labour Party is from a bygone era. Back in Blair’s years you had genuinely working class MPs who were generally small ‘c’ conservative socially but economically socialist. The takeover of the Labour Party by the metropolitan elite has its downfall. I strongly doubt the Brexit voting blue...

Have you never heard the saying that ‘all political careers end in failure?’ I never knew that it was Enoch Powell who apparently first coined that phrase.

Ironically, Starmer is the most dishonest of the lot. Who do you trust? Polanski? Davey? Corbyn? The same Ed Davey that served Cameron’s coalition and a party that reneged on its flagship policy in the election. If you trust any politician, irrespective of what colour rosette they way on...

There are some things you see the headline on and know to just not click and view. … Probably a reflex from the rickrolling from my teen years and the more NSFW pranks.

Typical Stoke-on-Trent humour, unintelligible nonsense. I love that we’ve nicked two late wins against Stoke and Robins.

I’ve just come across this on emails and filled it in to suggest the cash back promotions be made permanent. My thinking in sharing this on here is to organise enough ‘consumer feedback’ that the 10% cash back is made permanent (/whatever rate). 10% cashback on 23 away games / 2-3 cup games...

The game is gone. This time we mean it!

There’s one problem with this… the Human Rights Act which enshrines the ECHR and its court’s rulings. Therefore, this would infringe on the ‘right to a family life’. Correct me if I’m wrong, you don’t seem to have had the revelation that we should the ECHR. Right wing economics? Explain. The...

He’s the type of signing you’d make if we got promoted. We’ve got a good defensive record, Wolf and Lati as 3rd and 4th choice… barring something mental happening between now and Jan, there’s no pressing need for another. The pressing needs are wide players where the injury risk increases the...

That isn’t what I said. They said there were those profession on their specific boat. The way this issue is presented, it’s made out that there are doctors and engineers on every small boat. Hence, that’s where the jeer comes from. Before everyone could see small boats coming and going on a...

That seems a bit optimistic at this stage but I remember my own playoff points prediction being quite low and was v accurate. In fairness to you, Sunderland and Sheff U were overperforming their xG last season but were followed by Leeds and Burnley, who also over performed xG. The top 3 teams...

You keep going back to the conventions. They’re not legally binding so if we have to suspend/withdraw from them, that’s what we need to do. In any case, most of the points do not contravene these conventions. What do you have in mind when you made this point? Australia has signed the 1951...