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Quite ironic you invoke Rome when you definitely haven’t looked into the reasons why Rome collapsed.

This is a bad cliche BSB, you’re better than this. In principle, no one has a problem with the welfare state being a temporary safety net for people who fall on tough times. People have a problem when it becomes a subsidy for people who never work. Right now, with the UC rises, an unemployed...

Long term unemployment, absolutely. Birthrates collapsing isn’t a right wing cliche 😂 What good would that do? The average rent is higher than my mortgage…

If only her boss had a propensity for telling the truth himself… It’ll be exactly the same in the next budgets, this government whether it’s led by Starmer or someone else will find the next package of tax rises.

I don’t fancy being punished for being productive and paying more tax to pay for more welfare claimants. Why do you and @SBT just not interact with the data? The number of people claiming benefits has increased at an unsustainable rate. Your base assumption that no one is choosing this...

Hungary exempts women from an income tax after a few children. The tax code, as a very basic principle should be used to incentivise or disincentivise certain behaviours. The state shouldn’t subsidise families, but incentivise it. I have no qualms with people claiming for a short period of...

Not for unemployed imo. Creating generational dependency on welfare does not lift people out of poverty. I believe in tax breaks for families, an increasing personal allowance or tax break for households based on children have. Civilisations collapse with birth rates over time so this is...

Which ones specifically Pete? Non-EU migration is by and large, a net-tax drain to the economy and this uncomfortable truth is something that most of our left-leaning contributors on here and politicians just do not want to confront.

@chiefdave quoting last years statistics alone is incredibly misleading. Immigration numbers have been well above historical norms since the Boriswave. 900k immigration is still massive and I feel like you also know this but don’t want to confront it or that non-EU migration is largely damaging...

Polling is an art form rather than a science tbf. You can get the answer you want depending on how you frame the question. The governments approval rating as well as Starmer and Reeves personal ratings speak for themselves and it’s v bleak.

The pack is unbelievably tight, worst case scenario, they could drop to 12th if they lose at the weekend. The gap from 2nd to 15th is 6 points, and only a 3 point gap from 15th the playoffs. Compared to last season, the gap from 6th to 15th was 7 points and 15 points from automatics after 17...

The housing market won’t correct itself whilst net migration outpaces house building, this is a very basic numbers game that many people chose not to grasp. I’ve had conversations with people who will genuinely look you in the eye and say ‘the government should just build more’ in relation to...

I don’t think we’ll Cardiff it up. I’ll be v shocked if we bottle automatic promotion and probably wouldn’t ever recover from those scars.

You know what, fair play for your damascene conversion on Lampard. I’m hoping we don’t get periodic ‘Taxi for Lampard’ threads whenever we lose the odd game.

Robins does seem to have gone back to 22/23 tactics at Stoke. They are v solid, have a good keeper and will be difficult to beat this season. My view right now is that they won’t finish in the top 4 but will end up in the playoffs.

What’s ’logical’ here? I’d rather accept an aging population than importing hundreds of thousands or even millions of low income, low net worth individuals who will be a net-drain. So too would the electorate, no one voted for 900k immigration per year. 27-37% of non-EU migrants are on UC and...

This. Millwall away we had 31% and Boro we had 40% possession yet we had more shots on target despite having less of the ball. WBA (H) we had 67% of possession and dominated all the other areas. Last season, we were more ball dominant, particularly away from home, and at times it felt like we...

Without a doubt there’s saltiness, but that doesn’t discount that point. It’s something King effectively said by questioning the ‘support’ Robins had in Boateng and Carr. Robins himself said on many occasions that AV would plan the training sessions and so on.

Waghorn’s admission that Viveash “ran the show” does go some way explaining why it went so pear shaped under Robins after AV left. He got the appointments of Carr and Boateng completely wrong.

It sounds like we’ve done a lot of work on fitness to be honest. Before Lampard was hired, King talked up the work Dr Roberts was doing with regards to S&C and so on… Lampard comes in and says he’s disappointed with the fitness levels last season and mentioned we’d work on it this summer. In...