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It’s a deflection tactic when @Brighton Sky Blue is proven wrong on something. Regular habit in the off topic threads. I to some extent agree with @Brighton Sky Blue on Parkinson in the sense that I don’t think PP is good enough to get Wrexham up. They’ve spent a lot of money and they’re not...

Charlton is a game we really ought to win easily if we’re to go automatically. We can ‘afford’ to lose to Ipswich away. If we get suspensions, it is what it is. We’re just not going to get 5 yellows to all the players who’re on 4 yellows. Maybe 1-2 but this is a game we should expect to...

Her legacy on that front certainly has a lot to answer for. That does not absolve the Blair and Cameron years.

Give it a couple of weeks and the Gendarmes will strike. The French often talk a good game only to not deliver. Hopefully it makes a difference, but still believe we should put the Royal Navy in channel and turn back boats.

A lot of the ills we face today stem from New Labour and compounded by the Cameron years. Both parties deserve to be consigned to the dustbin of history.

The unemployment rate doesn’t include people of sickness benefits so taking the unemployment rate at face value is deeply flawed. Bearing in mind that includes people with mild anxiety or depression, that’s a lot of people being under the radar. In reality, unemployment is more like 15%. It’s a...

That’s for people who have to look to work. Just under half of UC do not need to look for work? Therefore, their entitlement does get cut. IMO, this raise is disturbing, do you agree? Your priorities are lopsided because if we got these people into work, they’d get all the support they need...

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.