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Not right away, my personal view is that at some point, BTA will drop out. As things stand, he’s 100% played himself into the starting 11. It’s a shootout between him and Haji atm.

Our charity bet has seemingly coincided with a goal glut from the pair! I'm all here for it!

It was continuing a trend of the New Labour years where every institution needed an ‘independent’ quango. Of course, the independence of these institutions is in name only because all of their assumptions are premised on v narrow parameters. Politically, the Tories pushed on with it to doom...

Absolute steal that we offloaded his wages and picked up 750k for the privilege last season.

Agreed and particularly on energy costs. One of the fundamental problems with the OBR is that is inherently biased against any tax cuts. Removing 5% VAT from energy bills would technically mean less revenue, but there's a multiplier effect when people will spend cash elsewhere, probably on 20%...

To add onto this, our energy policies are disastrous and some of the most expensive in the developed world. To generalise, we’re almost voluntarily deindustrialising. Energy prices and economic growth are closely linked.

At this point, I’d rather a government lowers/abolishes the personal allowance rather than increase income tax. It’s been a de facto tax rise for years no, practiced by both Tory and Labour. This is exactly the thing that this Labour government would, completely slippery people. The electorate...

In fairness to Streeting, No. 10 has kicked off the briefings war and has been hostile to many cabinet ministers.

Houses are being built, just at a slower rate than net migration. Likewise, more arrivals require more hospitals, roads, schools and so on. That’s a v basic principle that the electorate understands. Far from being a myth, it’s a reality that resonates with the majority of voters. The failure to...

If you build 200k houses a year and net migration is 350k and above… where are these new arrivals being housed? Again, all housebuilding targets are premised on net migration being 300k and simultaneously, not meeting housing targets and net migration significantly higher than 300k per annum...

It really isn’t. The public have been voting for lower immigration, they got consistently got the opposite. Labour and Tories made promises and didn’t keep them. The polling @chiefdave shows you exactly where their support is coming from; disaffected Tories, ‘small c’ conservative working class...

Class! Lampard’s record here speaks for itself and he’s had 40+ games and averaging around 2 points per game. This despite a relatively slow start and poor away form towards the end of the season. The hype is real and we’ll know exactly where we are in a few games time.

To answer my own question, they haven’t anything specifically. These are policies introduced by Sunak’s government. On polling: https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/trackers/do-brits-think-that-immigration-has-been-too-high-or-low-in-the-last-10-years?period=6m Would you support or oppose a...

I’m enjoying that you’re saying this with no irony whatsoever. If you want to continue believing Reeves is “Thatcherite”, crack on mate. I won’t break that delusion.

I nearly spat out my coffee seeing Rachel Reeves described as “Thatcherite”. Ultimately, this government is in a mess because it’s massively increased spending and borrowing without a plan to pay for it. The tax rises in the last budget was highest tax raids in decades and it’s still not enough...

That isn’t their platform at all. The polling data shared on here shows that they cut through on other issues. Comments like yours show just how disconnected many people on the left are in relation to understanding why people support Reform. Have they? What policies have they implemented that...

Agreed. However, there is one massive exception where immigration is absolutely increasing costs: housing provision. The average cost of a house is 9x the average salary. You’d have to go back to the 19th century to find a time it was less expensive. It’s not all about immigration, but when...

I’m mulling over my options too. I originally planned to do the whole month but financially, that’s not viable. Germany last year was a great jolly being out for the whole month. Equally, what I’d spent there is roughly a 1/3 of what you’d expect for a month in the US. Easily a £8-12k trip...

These are the people that are in competition with low income migrants so they’ve put 2+2 together and made the link between mass immigration and cost of living. Indeed. The Labour Party and indeed wider trade union movement had generally been “right wing” on immigration by today’s standards...