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Who would win in a game of one goal Wembley? What is it with you continually valuing random metrics for politicians over actually winning elections?

Starmer beats every other leader including Farage in a head to head who would be best PM poll. But don’t let facts get in the way or anything.

Yeah until the end of my career I worked exclusively in challenging schools. They need money and nice kids and adding both money and nice kids into the system won’t be a burden. It is the same as being in a nice area to an extent, but no one is hiring you later in life purely because you went...

I like Binks. Wonder what the fee was.

Right. So you would also want more kids in your daughters class who are hard working with engaged parents? One of the many social goods that comes from universal education. There’s huge problems to solve at the lower end of the socioeconomic scale for education. But let’s be honest those people...

Countries that under perform us also have more private involvement in healthcare. There might be a reason for this…

Find me one teacher who thinks adding upper middle class kids with parents committed to education to their school is a burden.

Not sure you could pass it off as a business expense.

Always seen him more as a RM who can play RB and is two footed. I think he’ll suffer from us going to a back four TBH.

I think you’re stretching very doable here. And I’m sorry but again we don’t need to guess or rely on anecdotes, we have the data on who goes to private school and it’s almost exclusively the very rich. I’m sure there are one or two who live in squalor in one bed flats, and send their kid to...

I really hope so. We’re just two or three players of Simms/Wright/MvE quality away from a decent team IMO. Don’t think frees and loans would cut it.

Unless we’ve had a tasty offer for MvE of course

£2m on an MvE backup is a claim!

So you want local councils and metro mayors and an English parliament and the two existing UK Houses of Parliament and the King? It just seems a little politician heavy. I don’t really see England Scotland and Wales as countries so much as one big region and two normal sized regions TBH...

TBF it’s not going to matter. We are the States a few years later now and you just need to look to Biden to know the likes of BSB will be complaining about Starmer in five years regardless of what he does.

The nations aren’t really and there’s a sort of hodge podge of devolved responsibilities. You could add an English government in but it seems a bit pointless. The metro mayors have a sort of piecemeal devolution but then you’ve got random places with no metro mayor and places like Liverpool and...

Don’t see the point in a second chamber of party appointees and one of local MPs. Maybe better to reform the metro mayor stuff and have PR regional govt with proper tax raising, crime and transport powers that levelised English regions and Scotland, NI and Wales. Then Id have a slimmed down...

There are absolutely not “a lot of normal people” there’s a few outliers but we have the data and the vast vast majority are very rich. And most people have two or more kids. Which instantly blows your calculations apart. Maybe a double income family with an only child living somewhere cheap...

Why do you think that? Johnson and the Tories weren’t particularly popular. Starmer is around the same level now.

21k a year disposable income makes you rich mate. The average household income after tax and benefits is £38k. So an average household sending one kid to private would have to spend almost two third on that alone leaving £17k for three people including housing. Mortgage is £680!! Where they...