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You know what, fair play for your damascene conversion on Lampard. I’m hoping we don’t get periodic ‘Taxi for Lampard’ threads whenever we lose the odd game.

Robins does seem to have gone back to 22/23 tactics at Stoke. They are v solid, have a good keeper and will be difficult to beat this season. My view right now is that they won’t finish in the top 4 but will end up in the playoffs.

What’s ’logical’ here? I’d rather accept an aging population than importing hundreds of thousands or even millions of low income, low net worth individuals who will be a net-drain. So too would the electorate, no one voted for 900k immigration per year. 27-37% of non-EU migrants are on UC and...

This. Millwall away we had 31% and Boro we had 40% possession yet we had more shots on target despite having less of the ball. WBA (H) we had 67% of possession and dominated all the other areas. Last season, we were more ball dominant, particularly away from home, and at times it felt like we...

Without a doubt there’s saltiness, but that doesn’t discount that point. It’s something King effectively said by questioning the ‘support’ Robins had in Boateng and Carr. Robins himself said on many occasions that AV would plan the training sessions and so on.

Waghorn’s admission that Viveash “ran the show” does go some way explaining why it went so pear shaped under Robins after AV left. He got the appointments of Carr and Boateng completely wrong.

It sounds like we’ve done a lot of work on fitness to be honest. Before Lampard was hired, King talked up the work Dr Roberts was doing with regards to S&C and so on… Lampard comes in and says he’s disappointed with the fitness levels last season and mentioned we’d work on it this summer. In...

We’ll see but smacks of ‘Rwanda Plan’ again where the policies will be frustrated in the courts. If it fails, it’s untenable to argue we shouldn’t leave the ECHR. Likewise, we’re still handing out 850k visas a year and a v small % of those are to high wage individuals. 44% of net migration is...

Immigration hasn’t gone down… the number of people that have emigrated has gone up. Most EU and young Britons, around 2/3rds being 18-34 years old. Successful net-contributors are leaving and meanwhile, we’re importing low income, low skill people.

Immigration and welfare reform will be two of the defining issues going into the next election. On the current trajectory, Labour will be pounded on both topics. Reform and Conservatives now occupy 1-2 in the polls, the Greens have surpassed Labour and it’s possible even LD overtake Labour. I...

You draw a lot of references to Scandi countries, and is a source of inspiration from people like Torsten Bell. Our taxation system is more 'progressive' than the Scandanavian countries because our tax burden is placed heavily on high earners. The PAYE thresholds means that your average worker...

Show me a society without billionaires and businesses...

@shmmeee who’s wife is it? 😂

Do you not what doesn’t make energy bills cheaper? https://www.rsmuk.com/news/uk-oil-and-gas-revenues-slide-as-north-sea-operators-withdraw Your line about profit has got to be wumming, you cannot be serious… 😂

The only time anyone in Middlesborough sounds happy is when you ask them about chicken Parmos.

Interesting thread. What he says is technically true on the point that we can’t go bankrupt… If we get to a point where we’re printing money (because that’s how government “creates money out of nothing”) though and inflation gets out of hand, it’s a catastrophe waiting to happen. Hence the...

We’re on the same page here, just not much else 😂

My advice: don’t trust tax and spend political parties. It’s never enough.

Returning the welfare bill to pre-COVID levels saves £47bn alone. Any serious government wanting to get the public finances on a good footing needs to start here. This impacts any left or right leaning government. Forget increasing sums on public services or cutting taxes if you’re continually...

If you need to add various schemes/reliefs/exemptions to a tax, it clearly isn’t a good policy. Business owners are calling this out for what it is.