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You’re not wrong, but Labour also planned to nationalise more than just the rails (broadband, public services, utilities etc.) and frankly, the electorate didn’t find its proposals credible. The Conservatives have completely outflanked Labour on even the economy. Nationalisation of the rails...

With losing Ostigard and McCallum after their loans, this is the most obvious area of improvement for me. Rose did show signs in his last couple of appearances like he can compete in the Championship. We do need to help in all areas of the pitch though.

No shame if you did get relegated under those circumstances! To get promoted to Premier having a bottom 4-6 budget is a huge achievement and is, frankly, something we'd love to emulate. One of the Barnsley games next season (assuming you don't get promoted), we should organise a SBT delegation...

100% agreed which is why I'd like to see it piloted on a larger scale to assess its impact. There could be untended consequences of this policy such as increased cost of living and/or wage depression because the state guarantees a set income. Even if UBI is a successful policy, the emphasis has...

She is also projected to lose her seat at this rate. A poll conducted either just before or after the council elections projects the Tories would win a 123 seat majority. The SNP would also win all but one seat north of the border too. People like Ed Miliband and Yvette Cooper would lose their...

With UBI, it’s an interesting idea. I’d like to see more trials on a larger scale, but if you could cut all bureaucracy of means tested benefits and replace all other benefits with UBI... Maybe it could be a good and popular policy.

Signing Ostigard for us would be a statement of intent and a real coup for the club. He progressed a lot from the start of this season! The club wants to progress incrementally, but we could be in a really good position to do something similar Barnsley have done.

With Blackburn, we did concede a penalty that resulted in a goal and a red card in the first 10-15 minutes of the game. Blackburn were also in a rich vain of form too!

I think a lot of us fans had an inferiority complex about us going into the season, which is totally understandable. As we’ve seen, there are plenty of clubs living beyond their means and paying average players larger salaries than their worth. In the next 2-3 seasons, providing our...

Signing Liam Walsh is a move that makes sense for both parties. He may attract a higher salary elsewhere, but will he get the game time he will here? Probably not. Lets make this move happen!

Lords reform is needed without a doubt. But, an elected house to rival the authority of Parliament is not the optimal solution. Looking at the USA, having two houses can lead to deadlock which is why the US has struggled getting budgets through the house. The Fixed Term Parliament was...

It might not be the most popular view, but I really like our electoral system (FPTP). It produces disproportionate winners and losers, but it mostly allows for strong governance. You have the odd decade where parliament is weak (1970s and 2010s). To take 2019 as an example, you’ve had the...

Baka didn’t look like scoring even when he got the ball in good positions. It was probably down to his confidence and that doesn’t help when you get very little minutes. That said, we need someone to make that impact and he wasn’t the guy. Biamou, credit to him, did come off the bench to get...

Didn’t someone on this board mention someone spewing nonsense on the CWR phone in saying we should sack Robins and play 4-4-2? Or was that just @Grendel? Low blow, I know!

Madness. There are games when Biamou played ‘better’ in open play than the likes of Godden or Walker. The difference is that the latter two will take the chances they get. Games like Luton away shown exactly why we need to move on and improve the squad. We can’t be missing two 1v1s before going...

The guy must be kidding? Armstrong, McGoldrick, Wilson, Clarke, McNulty, Godden and Walker at least!

It’s a balancing act and always has been for Labour Tory Remainers were more willing to vote for Brexit than there were to vote potentially remaining in the EU under a Labour government led by Corbyn. Simultaneously, Labour Leave voters abandoned the party to vote the Brexit Party or...

Was it? The UKIP vote in 2015 was largely similar to the Brexit Party vote in 2019 in the constituencies they actually stood in. Labour should’ve done one of two things to mitigate the electoral wipeout: 1) Went all in with the 2nd referendum option as the Lib Dem’s did 2) Accepted Brexit and...

With all due respect, this kind of thinking is exactly why Labour finds itself out of touch with the electorate. The party just doesn’t seem capable of confronting its own electoral failures. Generally, its traditional working class base feels like the Labour Party is a party for the cities and...

Not really true, is it? Labour haemorrhaged votes on both sides of the Brexit debate. Lost around 1 million votes to the Lib Dem’s and the Greens and about 800 thousand votes to the Brexit Party and the Tories. The Remainer’s were not happy happy with Labour lack of commitment to a second...