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Anyone else slightly disappointed for Macclesfield? Beats Palace in the 3rd round and their reward is a home tie against Brentford. Would've been happy for them to have drawn a Man U, Liverpool, Arsenal and so on.

Yep, I've heard this many times from the likes of Owen Jones. The point remains: it's an exception to the rule and just derails the direction of the conversation. Ultimately, who's holding these departments to account? You've got records of middle managers and those on 5-figure salaries being...

The scramble was pre-Brexit... The 'and related workers' part is important because this includes the private sector. You're presenting the 50k as if it is part of the 120k growth, it's not. A few examples of department increases post-Brexit: - Ofgem, 165% increase in headcount (1.4k) - Office...

Was that the right policy decision though? I'm not 100% sure it was. It was a Labour government that intervened in the economy back then, probably the right thing to do given the bigger picture. It's kinda hard to have a reasonable conversation if you're going to continually reach for...

That's a feeling most of the workforce in the place that I currently work at (not for long). However, the fundamental difference is that those businesses fail, they'll cut headcount and they can't just go cap in hand to central government. All roads lead to Rome, I mean Brexit. Brexit did...

Legitimate concerns, no different from Labour it would seem.

The taxes being levied to pay for these jobs are causing employers to cut jobs in the private sector. The only job market expanding atm is the public sector. Undoubtedly, there will be short term pain for many people. Equally, businesses and individuals are feeling the pain of propping up an...

How can I give you an accurate number? It’s a completely pointless question. We do know the public sector has expanded and productivity has flatlined. So something isn’t adding up and this is something you can’t blame austerity on. The civil service has swelled by 30% over the last 10 years...

If my taxes are being raised over and over, then employee contributions are being cut to pay for a bloated public sector… It makes perfect sense.

Find productive work elsewhere? If someone is unproductive, then we definitely do not want them being on the government payroll. You were obviously being sarcastic in the first instance but co’mon, if someone is unproductive in any role (private or public), it’s best that they go elsewhere in...

He’s outperforming last season by quite a margin. Sakamoto pretty much got all his goal contributions in an 8 game stretch. A consistent performer, but it’s fair to say he’s just ‘above average’ to ‘good’.

We’ve dropped 7 points out of 36. That’s pretty impressive. The only teams Lampard has lost to at home: Leeds Burnley Ipswich Sunderland

Zahawi was popular with Tory members iirc. The problem Reform has, is that needs talented people to join its ranks rather than party appointees. The big question mark many voters have about Reform are: 1. Can Farage work with other people effectively 2. Does it have the expertise to run...

It’s a coup for Reform to be fair. Although it’s quite funny people unearthing a tweet where Farage hammers Sunak for not sacking, you guessed it… Nadhim Zahawi. It’s going to look pretty ridiculous people calling Reform ‘fascist’ an ‘far right’ when they will probably have most Muslims in...

Rudoni looked sharp v Stoke, he was back to his to dribbling through the middle and was involved throughout. I’ll be the first to state that Rudoni and Haji’s form is a headache for Lampard, but both players were in and around the action v Stoke. Rudoni starts v Leicester for me*, Haji on the...

There’s always a surprise or two when a team goes up. I certainly didn’t have Ballard surviving in the Sunderland team to be honest. I’ve got a feeling Simms & Wright would do well for us in the Prem. We can probably utilise their physical abilities in the Prem slightly better if we’re playing...

Dion Sanderson was raved about that year. Which goes to show yet again that us fans have no idea what we’re talking about in relation to recruitment and talent ID’ing. I’m not exempt, outside of Cov and England, I’ll watch whatever is on TV so mostly Prem and UCL. The posters on here who can...

I know you’re taking the piss, but I’m positively sure a lot of people were saying this seriously back in 23/24 when they got relegated! 😂

Unfortunately for Haji, being on a 14 goal drought since October is hardly screaming ‘Premier League player’ to potential suitors domestically and abroad.