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What about people rinsing the club by buying and using concession tickets when they weren’t entitled to such? I regularly doled out my brother’s season ticket to friends and my partner in 23/24 and years prior. The club rightfully has clamped down on that. That’s why we have a large family...

We’re on course to break our attendance record this season, so this doesn’t make a lot of sense. The big thing the club has got right is the season ticket prices so I’m not going to lose sleep over selling a few thousand tickets at steep rates. People are not ready for £700 season tickets (or...

We’ll more or less guarantee a top 6 finish this side Xmas at this rate. Sunderland barely won a game after February last season. The goal now has to be automatics. Imagine the party if we get promoted v Wrexham in April?

On the beers, it’s a big push to get fans through the doors pre and post-game… the club will corner the market then increase prices gradually. Not too sure how the buses work on match day but imagine it’s to do with improving customer service and it supports getting fans to the stadium and...

True, but how you actually go about fixing that is complex.

Exactly! This is a traditional trade unionist position. I’m uncomfortable that the political left (Labour, Greens and Lib Dem) have ceded ground to the Tories and Reform. The reason for this is because it’s an issue that risks ending up being a political football and any changes Reform/Tory...

The worry is that if they introduce a price cap, it could end up being more expensive for fans than before. Let’s say the cap is £35, for arguments sake, you could see all the clubs charging that because it’s a new norm. Or for clubs who sell out home allocations, home tickets increases to...

Can they? Their pricing has been announced already. I feel sorry for the away fans because they don’t get a choice in what we charge. In relation to Cov, our ST prices and pricing is generally reasonable so it’s only a small % of Cov fans impacted for this, Blues and so on. At some point, the...

Reuters did a fact check and its caveat is that 2/3rds of the 47% have UK passports. Which you can qualify for after 5 years (3 if married to UK citizen). The reason there’s a conversation to reform indefinite leave to remain because this is the point you get full access to the welfare state...

The welfare state isn’t the economy… The impact of mass migration has, in fact, had an impact on the welfare state. Right now, 1 in 6 people on welfare is foreign born and in relation to social housing, in major cities foreign born people are massively over represented (47% in London alone)...

Gendered language there BSB, v unexpected. Try the following: The example given was 9 dependents (on average).

Is it collapsing now that restrictions are in place? No. On the social care visa route, there’s widespread fraud (fake companies and fake job offers) and many people who gain entry using this route do not go into the social care sector. The amount visas granted far exceeds the vacancies which...

I’ve used this example before, but when the social care visa was introduced, there was an average of 9 dependents per Zimbabwean applicant. Bearing in mind each successful applicant will be in low paid work and therefore, a net drain on the treasury… 9 dependents increases the cost of admitting...

Why? Johnson wanted migration to increase. That’s the accusation Dominic Cummings has levelled and imo, it’s credible. There are reports picked up that the ‘Boriswave’ was allowed to crush inflationary wage increases. The points system introduced by Johnson’s government is actually the basis...

In my view, it’s become the most important issue facing the country atm. There’s a reason Reform is leading in the polls. It’s probably the easiest issue to fix because all it entails is introducing and enforcing controls. Restricting dependents alone is credited with reducing net migration by...

If we beat PNE away and break the Deepdale curse, it’s written in the stars.

Norway doesn’t have mass migration. Their peak was 28k net migration. High for that population, yes but that country has immediately rowed back on this. As for Canada, there’s similarities with the UK and public opinion is turning sharply against immigration. What you omit is that Canada has a...

It’s quite funny that @SBT doesn’t seem to see that the spending averages out for the period.

Canada’s healthcare system is an insurance based system, ironically. We’ll skirt over that fact.

What a silly thing to say when your graph shows the funding wasn’t cut at all and spending increases slowed down. Important context here was there was a global recession too. The country will have a wider conversation about it funds the NHS in our lifetime because its funding model isn’t...