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I’m sure Ipswich fans were backing their prices to Southampton - £43. You’ll see other clubs following suit in the next 2-3 seasons, at least the ones with high demand. There is a cost of living crisis and people also need to account that the costs for businesses to operate has gone up a lot...

It’s the double whammy to employers who have responded by cutting jobs and hours to absorb the costs. The point was that employers could probably absorb one of the costs, but not both and it’s showing in the decline of job vacancies.

The reason for that is that the changes never came into force… whereas the utility bill support actually did immediately.

I don’t think Reeves planned to raise income tax in the end, she has just botched her budgets. Spending has increased more than planned and raising minimum wage in addition to increasing employer’s NI has predictably hit low income workers the most. Borrowing has gone up, gilt yields have...

The same MPs that revolted over £5bn (or whatever it was) in benefits cuts? With the Greens waiting in the wings, it’s a v dangerous time for the Labour Party.

For the future? Look at Healy’s tenure as Chancellor 1974-79 under Wilson/Callaghan. The parallels are there to see.

Unless some unforeseeable circumstances, this Labour government is going the exact same way as the 1970s. It’s pushed up public spending, followed it up with tax rises and at some point will be forced into cutting spending and very much doubt Labour MPs would support that. This government...

Reckon he regrets not coming us?

Bump, Labour appear to planning their manifesto pledge on income tax… Reform’s prediction of a 2027 GE doesn’t look so far fetched now.

Thankfully, Blues, WBA and co can’t discriminate against us without jacking the prices for their own fans.

This is a mantra that gets repeated and is somewhat true. Going to the football is a habit, and once you break the habit, it can v difficult to get back into it. There's a few lads I went to games with now who had STs when we were mediocre who no longer go and a similar amount of people who...

A lot of those clubs charge £35-38 for an away supporter so the moral grandstanding over £7-10 is cringeworthy. Frankly, King has broken a taboo in football because lots of clubs (particularly teams who have high fill %) will follow suit and bump up concession prices.

There's no such thing as bad PR. People fixate on the Cat A+ prices but that makes up 3-5 games + final home games. As you rightly point out, most the games are Cat B which are in and around WBA's 'reasonable' and 'family friendly' prices. Our ST prices are cheaper than most teams in the league...

That’s a pretty reasonable argument. If 6-8k tickets sold at £35-45 help subsidise cheaper season tickets, the incentives are correct.

Keiffer Moore would be a 3rd top scorer with his current tally but on the double the wages. 40k p/w or whatever for a 2nd choice striker is crazy. Frankly, he’s a player that always been overhyped on here. Moore and Wrexham is a good fit, fair play to them.

With respect, Brexit has changed surprisingly little and if you think everything would be fine and dandy, perhaps look at what is actually going on in continental Europe. Think Reform is bad? Look at Le Pen’s party, the AfD and who’s polling well in the Netherlands, Spain, Italy, Austria and so on.

Who said that? 😂 No, I don’t think it is and to make a generic statement that goes beyond the immigration debate… the civic culture of the UK as a whole needs rejuvenating. In the context of 20-30 years of mass migration, unifying symbols and stories of the nation are much more important...

Keir Starmer does in official announcements and his performative patriotism fools no one. His MPs paint a different picture and they are the ones that will be knocking on doors for votes come the next election. A Google search gets specific examples, but this gives a decent summary of the...

Grendel's point was that people hoist flags in public spaces aren't of the UK/home nations. Are they engaging in 'divisive' or 'intimidating' behaviour, if not, why? That's a curious double standard. The whole business of erecting the Union Jack was in part a response to councils taking down...

No, because its unilateral. The liberal-left is committing electoral suicide by adapting the idea that our national flags are somehow 'divisive' and 'intimidating'. To flip this argument on its head @Sky Blue Pete, are British people allowed to feel 'intimidated' or 'divided' if they went to an...