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Can they? Their pricing has been announced already. I feel sorry for the away fans because they don’t get a choice in what we charge. In relation to Cov, our ST prices and pricing is generally reasonable so it’s only a small % of Cov fans impacted for this, Blues and so on. At some point, the...

Reuters did a fact check and its caveat is that 2/3rds of the 47% have UK passports. Which you can qualify for after 5 years (3 if married to UK citizen). The reason there’s a conversation to reform indefinite leave to remain because this is the point you get full access to the welfare state...

The welfare state isn’t the economy… The impact of mass migration has, in fact, had an impact on the welfare state. Right now, 1 in 6 people on welfare is foreign born and in relation to social housing, in major cities foreign born people are massively over represented (47% in London alone)...

Gendered language there BSB, v unexpected. Try the following: The example given was 9 dependents (on average).

Is it collapsing now that restrictions are in place? No. On the social care visa route, there’s widespread fraud (fake companies and fake job offers) and many people who gain entry using this route do not go into the social care sector. The amount visas granted far exceeds the vacancies which...

I’ve used this example before, but when the social care visa was introduced, there was an average of 9 dependents per Zimbabwean applicant. Bearing in mind each successful applicant will be in low paid work and therefore, a net drain on the treasury… 9 dependents increases the cost of admitting...

Why? Johnson wanted migration to increase. That’s the accusation Dominic Cummings has levelled and imo, it’s credible. There are reports picked up that the ‘Boriswave’ was allowed to crush inflationary wage increases. The points system introduced by Johnson’s government is actually the basis...

In my view, it’s become the most important issue facing the country atm. There’s a reason Reform is leading in the polls. It’s probably the easiest issue to fix because all it entails is introducing and enforcing controls. Restricting dependents alone is credited with reducing net migration by...

If we beat PNE away and break the Deepdale curse, it’s written in the stars.

Norway doesn’t have mass migration. Their peak was 28k net migration. High for that population, yes but that country has immediately rowed back on this. As for Canada, there’s similarities with the UK and public opinion is turning sharply against immigration. What you omit is that Canada has a...

It’s quite funny that @SBT doesn’t seem to see that the spending averages out for the period.

Canada’s healthcare system is an insurance based system, ironically. We’ll skirt over that fact.

What a silly thing to say when your graph shows the funding wasn’t cut at all and spending increases slowed down. Important context here was there was a global recession too. The country will have a wider conversation about it funds the NHS in our lifetime because its funding model isn’t...

Canada’s wages are stagnating, hasn’t recovered to pre-pandemic levels. Coincidentally, at the same point net migration has reached its highest point. Sweden has turned its on immigration and has introduced several measures to make entering and settling in Sweden more difficult. It’s reducing...

You say this with a straight face despite the fact that the coalition never cut NHS spending. ‘Real term’ cuts aren’t cuts, you can’t run a business (or a healthcare system) like that. Besides, this government has increased the NHS budget above ‘real terms’ and we’ll see how they get stuck...

Can you find me a country that has high wages, high levels of low skill migration and a comprehensive welfare state? You can’t because the priorities are contradictory. I’m genuinely interested in your view on this next question too. What’s more important to you; The welfare state or mass...

Did this not happen then? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2kjdjylnqyo.amp

If you’re into history, ‘The Rest is History’ is a great a podcast with two world class historians. They cover all sorts of historical topics so anything that takes your fancy. On to books specifically, Tom Holland’s trilogy of books on Rome are all v good.

‘The system was about to collapse’ doesn’t ring particularly true the way they fast tracked rioters and people who posted mean tweets. Rioters, more than happy to clamp down because no one wants civil disorder. Again, the back drop is that the government made it it priority to bring these...

There’s game state. Watford ‘dominated’ the 2nd half but from our POV, the game was all but over and you rightly point that out. Had the game been 2-0, you’d expect us to attack the second half more aggressively to kill it off. As it happened, we did the hard work in the 1st half. Looking at...