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You can’t really compare. However Im guessing being falsely accused of rape or being a pedophile is probably the worst thing you can ever be accused of, especially as in a lot of situations doubt might remain even if you get acquitted. I remember hearing about this story and there’s others...

Agreed. I think/guessing he would’ve been as tough with cuts initially but would’ve then slowed/stopped them and invested more, especially on capital projects, as soon as things had settled globally. We’ll never know for sure though.

It was what was needed initially, the world was on its arse, just saying Brown knew this couldn’t be maintained so significant cuts were coming whoever got into power. People forget or choose to ignore this. I’ve always thought Brown took too much flak for impact of financial crisis and Tories...

Yeah, but as I say, from memory Brown was going to deliver significant cuts as well post 2010. It was a long time ago so I might be wrong but I’d imagine a decent proportion of that growth was driven by the amount of public sector spending at the time which Brown knew he couldn’t maintain

Id probably be a bit more generous and would say some of the initial years will be more related to the financial crisis and commitments made around that time. From memory Brown also committed to significant spending cuts in the 2010 election. It’s fair argument in the later years though

Id said that it’s unlikely that any policy changes alone would’ve affected things that quickly, not unless they dramatically cut spending which they obviously didn’t

Like a millstone round his neck until she goes

I was just saying to shmmeee that it’s probably not wholly accurate to claim that running at a surplus was labours doing as the graph suggests it was heading towards surplus whoever was in government around 98/99/00 There’s no tangible benefit other than it reduces government debt/borrowing...

Yeah, the deal/payment will be to settle the debts at an agreed figure in exchange for the 85%. SISU keeping 15% in hope of getting value on promotion I guess Assuming it happens, I wonder if we ever hear how much SISU got for writing off the debt. As others have mentioned it’s been...

It was only the other day that I heard Walmart sells guns. I mean WTAF ?!

You do wonder if there should’ve been specific limited red lines set out at the start of the conflict such as risk to nuclear plants, attacks on civilians and energy infrastructure (which we know is civilian focussed)* etc and if crossed nato would act to protect/defend those specific areas by...

Yeah, 100%. I was kidding

Second act selling him in the summer 😊

Factually correct about surpluses but you know better than to just look at the base numbers. Look at the trend. I’m not sure much in the way of initial policy would’ve changed the direction of travel. It’s like the deficits around 2010 can’t be laid on Tories door. To be fair to Labour there...

Interesting line to take from Starmer and obviously conflicts with his historical stance on freedom of movement, which doesn’t provide any genuine controls on supply of labour It’s about time a sensible debate took place and maybe Starmer raising it might encourage this but it needs well...

wow

Commentator had to backtrack…’all the tricks in the book’ 😬

What the fuck was the ref doing there

Mental, first group game FFS 😂 Not sure most places were like that yesterday though Nick

Agreed. Also has he even been playing for United ?! I always saw this as game to get him back up to speed a bit/confidence builder. Played well apart from that goal and was very dangerous at set pieces. Hopefully defensively we’ll be more switched on next game Also hope Southgate doesn’t go...