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You say this with zero irony and it’s quite funny. Simple question, would you have let Northern Rock and other banks fail?

What of it? It’s a currency has experienced 8 collapses since the 1950s. The pesos value pre-Milei, collapsed 99% versus the dollar… for context, Syria’s currency dropped 98.5% over the same period. If you really want to go down this route, it makes Argentina’s left wing economic policies look...

Argentina was a genuine basket case, what even is your point in bringing up Milei? 😂 You’ve chosen a terrible example to use here because even poverty of all things is lower now than it was when Milei entered office. The main criticism of Milei’s reforms was the initial spike in poverty and...

PNE’s home record is second only to us! Our games this side of Christmas is a bit gauntlet. If we’re top of the table come 5th Jan, it would take some capitulation to not go up automatically.

All roads lead to Trump… The has got inflation down from 221% to 1.5% and despite “chainsaw” austerity, they’re growing at 5.2%. The turnaround is impressive whichever way you look it. If it’s sustainable, and there’s good reasons to question that in the long term, Argentina could quickly...

Pretty well I’d say. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gw8qpyvqdo.amp Inflation was 211% when Milei entered office, it’s now 1.5%. Their economic growth figures are projected to be 5.2% in 2025. Poverty did peak as but is decreasing significantly over the last year.

Tough fixture, Stoke’s home form has been impressive. 1-1. If we win at the weekend, it feels like we’ll be unstoppable this year.

I could definitely David Lammy coming out with something like this.

Specifically, I’m interested in the breakdown of non-season ticket sales. There’s a lot noise around the concession prices but if it’s a small %, it’s a storm in a teacup.

The FCS guarantee up to 31.7k for people and firms at that time. Which isn’t a lot for small business, but financial system collapses if people can’t do basic transactions or simple things like wages being paid. Bailing out the banks was a lesser of two weevils. To find common ground, people...

Suppose the government should’ve let Northern Rock and NatWest go to pop and with it, people’s savings…

The scenes at Villa Park are interesting… crowds waving Palestinian, Iranian, Syrian, Lebanese flags but of course it was Tel Aviv fans who were going to cause a ruckus…

Tactical voting works both ways and both main parties have hitherto been too hubristic to consider electoral pacts. This was evident in 2019 when pro-remain parties split the vote, whilst the Brexit Party stood aside in Tory seats. The funniest example was a ex-Tory Lib Dem fighting Chelsea and...

Did somebody say Singapore-on-Thames?! A lot of people felt this about Meloni in Italy and so far, it’s gone reasonably well for them.

Absolute scenes to see Tory-Lab on less than 50 seats combined. It’s credible that Labour get decimated across the board, a lot of polls had shown them only hanging in London and few other major metropolitan cities where they are particularly vulnerable to the Greens. The ‘Red Wall’ has always...

Not in my case because the leverage was on my side. It’s a great when you can play suppliers against one another. Likewise, a contract for an existing supplier has remained the same prices since 2021 because the competition in the sector has kept prices down otherwise businesses will change the...

Since we’re exchanging playful barbs… Do you even understand the difference between revenue and profit? 😉

On the macro level, the public sector produces less of it does and is measured on than pre-covid. Considering the technological advancements in the workplace, that tells you something. So we can go around in circles talking about how to measuring what nurses/teachers produce… the bottom line is...

They don’t and you know it deep down. Look at your comments on the NHS, £25bn or whatever has lead to no improvement. All the public sector pay rises and productivity is still behind COVID levels, this is an outlier in Europe. There’s no accountability in the public sector and when something...

So a small % of middle managers? What happens in the public sector if these people don’t deliver? In the private sector, they get sacked. Consider why public sector worker productivity is consistently behind that of the private sector. Without obfuscating about public sector productivity being...