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They were concerned because a lot of Labour voters (at the time) were pro-independence and the party was worried about losing votes to the SNP. Yet, it tried to appease both sides, yet offering nothing to either. Leaving a vacuum for the Tories to fill in Labours place. Hindsight is 2020...

Labour is also being pushed in Wales too. Frankly, the outlook is bleak and the next election probably make or break for the party. It’s dominance looks to have evaporated for good, but there’s no reason the party cannot work back up to 15-30 Scottish seats. If it gets its act together. At the...

For future politics students, the 2010s will be regarded as a failure for the Labour Party to come to grips with the 2 pertinent referendum issues of the decade. It’s no coincidence that the ambiguity on Scottish independence followed a wipe out in Scotland. It’s no coincidence that Labour’s...

Paul Mason estismated Labour lost about 1.1m votes to ‘Remain’ parties and about 900k votes to ‘Leave’ parties. The nature of our electoral system was going to disproportionately impact Labour in these Brexit seats, which leads me onto my next point. In polls ran by Sir John Curtice, to...

Exactly, and in the eyes of the electorate, Corbyn failed just about every leadership test. I was getting fed up with his dithering on Brexit, but it was disheartening when ‘we’ seemingly kept scoring own goals every other week.

I don’t really see how keeping RLB fits this well? Brexit was a pertinent issue, but the Red Wall is generally socially conservative too. In the minds of voters, RLB represents a continuation of Corbyn. The Red Wall very decisively rejected that offering. There are a lot of factors contributing...

I don’t really see how this relates to ‘winning back’ the ‘Red Wall’. Corbyn’s perceived inability to address the issue of antisemitism damaged his credibility beyond Jewish voters. A ComRes poll showed that 55% of those polled felt that it showed his inability to address antisemitism showed he...

Power is a game, and it was a very good power move. Sends a strong message on Labour dealing with anti-semifinals, and ‘disgraces’ a potential contender to his role down the line. As a few people have alluded, appearances matter in politics. Something Corbyn never quite grasped (best case) or...

I was in France during the Euros, and that song is still perhaps my fondest football song that is non-CCFC related. Also have great affinity for Mo Salah ‘Egyptian King’...

Did this happen on your football manager save, too?

£4m on Will Grigg too... *winces*

That would be the most convoluted way of getting a Primark handbag to date...

I agree with you, some of those decisions were shambolic and that it wasn’t necessary inevitable we going to relegated. After all, we were relegated 4 years after they took over. I’m not going to indulge in an alternate timeline, but my point remains clear: before SISU, it was a shit show and...

I'm not going to go into semantics, but you've missed the point. If you believe we would've been 10 points better off that year without Coleman (and signings like Dann and Fox), with a transfer embargo too. Power to you. Without the takeover in the 2007/08 season, the likelihood is that we...

According to Barry Fry (P'boro Director of Football), they rejected a bid of £500k from Pompey for Godden. So £400k + add-ons doesn't seem plausible at all. Don't get me wrong, it wouldn't surprise me if we structured the £750k in multiple instalments.

Chaplin - £500k Gooden - £750k

Biggest priority is a return to the RICOH. That will boost the resources we can operate with in the transfer market. I think we will sign about 10-12 players. Not all of which being for the 1st team. Key priorities for this transfer market: - 1 CB - 1 LWB - 1 CM - 1 CAM - 1 ST 5 players we...

You talk as if the club wasn’t going downhill before SISU arrived. Bear this in mind: the season SISU took over, we survived on GD alone. Had they not took over, we would have went into admin, leading to a points deduction and invariably, relegation to L1. There’s a reason investors (Alki David...

Would love for us to sign him for a good fee one day, and get 10-20% of the transfer back as the sell-on fee they owe us...

While we're at it, let's sign Carl Baker!