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Austerity effectively ended in 2017, after COVID and the energy crisis, government spending has gone up and debt to GDP rising too. Now interest rates are on the up (and kept artificially lower by QE), we’re teetering on a debt crisis if financial markets don’t like whatever the government of...

That and being a fan of FPTP are two of my most consistent beliefs even as far back as my A-levels.

Votes for 16/17 year olds is a stupid policy whoever ‘benefits’. We don’t even trust them to drink, smoke or get a mortgage… 😂

There’s nothing transformative in the Labour manifesto and considering how ‘bad’ the last 14 years have been, you’d think a party of change would have more to say on what they’d change. The reality is that the economic climate is such that a lot of governments will be hemmed in by financial...

How would not voting be cowardly? We’re headed for a low voter turnout for a reason, people are dissatisfied with all the options on offer and will either begrudgingly vote for the ‘least worst’ option or stay at home. I will vote, but not entirely enthusiastic about voting for anyone.

Cynical take. Forest is a better move for him and as a player with UCL experience, I don’t blame him if he hesitated and opted against moving to the Championship. More money, obviously but an agent and player holding out for a better team is normal. Good riddance to him, I want players who...

He had a bad game but let’s not throw the baby out with the bath water. Unchanged team for Denmark and if we secure top spot, play a rotated side against Slovenia to get game time for players like Palmer, Gordon, Watkins/Toney, Shaw and a few others.

I reckon we’ll top our group and end up with a tough team in the round of 16, could see Belgium finishing 3rd in this group. Which would be horrendous!

Italy, Netherlands and Belgium too. As mentioned earlier in the thread, we had a record of 4/31 wins in opening games of major tournaments pre-Southgate. Post-Southgate the record is 4/4 - 100%. In friendlies… Who actually cares about them? I’m interested in how we perform in the KO rounds.

You do realise France and Argentina lost to Tunisia and Saudi Arabia in the group stages in the last World Cup? As long as we top the group, I won’t care how. The real tests will be in the KO rounds.

Perhaps we should appreciate some of these boring 1-0 wins when some of these lower rank teams have took the lead against Italy, Netherlands and Belgium. Just get the job the done!

If you look at Palmer’s heat map for Chelsea, his role is basically a second RW for Chelsea. Again, neither are better than Bellingham. I’d justify playing Bellingham as a CM if we played 3-4-3 but not as one of the pivots in a 4-2-3-1.

That and Bellingham’s form for England makes this a pretty open and shut case. If Foden can’t perform at LW, he should be dropped.

Foden is not overrated at all, but he’s struggling to impose himself on the game around Bellingham and Kane. He had moments to influence the game he misplaced passes against Serbia and Iceland - you can’t blame that on Southgate or his position He’s played AM for England before and hasn’t...

I just don’t see the benefit of playing Bellingham deeper in a two when he’s been our best player in the last two tournaments. Bellingham has played all but 4 games this season at AM whereas Foden has played more games as a LW/RW than AM. Iniesta played out of position in LW in the great...

I don’t disagree, but the idea peddled on social media on here is that Foden would magically become the main man if he played CAM. I’m sorry, he hasn’t done this yet in an England shirt and yesterday he had the freedom to roam, especially in that first 30-40m. Bellingham imposed himself on the...

It’s the most important game in the group stage, we beat Serbia and we’re more or less guaranteed to progress to the KO rounds. With Slovenia and Denmark needing a win, we can expect those games to more open up to exploit those teams. We won, job done. Started really well and it’s up to...

Both under Southgate too.

On Wales, in 2022 Starmer said the Welsh devolved assembly would be a ‘blueprint for what Labour could do across the country’… Wales is a basket case. It trialled things like the universal basic income and the 4 day working week - both scrapped. Has the highest economic inactivity in the UK and...

Is that relating to rising interest rates?