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A large chunk of that was friendly fire from North Korean solders apparently. Couldn’t make it up.

A couple of things. You’ve been hyped up on a pledge dating back to 2022 where Labour said that if they were in government they’d have fixed the rate for the upcoming winter period into 2023 at an average of £1970.00. They didn’t make that pledge in their election manifesto so no one lied to...

You should read your own article. He lost £100m. The £8.3b relates to gold prices 8 years after the sale. From the point when it was decided to sell and sale finalised he lost £100m due to the decision to sell it in several lots. By the end of selling the lots he would have made more had he done...

I see Russia has already rejected Trump’s proposals for peace with Ukraine out of hand.

They are putting the investment in. You’ve obviously missed it but they’re putting an extra £2.3 billion into education announced in the budget for schools and SANDS. This returns investment in education back to 2010 levels in real terms. It’s going to be invested in employing more teachers...

It was you who said think of the kids, I wasn’t reading your mind I was quoting you directly. I have empathy for the 10 million, something that you’re clearly lacking as your focus is on a possibly single digit percentage of 460k. Plenty can be done about what the Tories did, it’s just going to...

Malc, 10 million kids got screwed over by the Tories. Labour has come up with a policy that is popular to help deal with a problem they’ve inherited. Do the basic maths. 1% of possibly 460k children may have to be lowered temporarily to a standard 10 million kids live day in day out while the...

Well that’s just nonsense. Labour actually have a very bold plan for education. I’ll take just one aspect of that plan as an example. Free breakfast clubs for all primary school pupils. The cost to education system from children arriving hungry is massive. An hour per pupil in time alone. Again...

This whole “it’s about the kids” line doesn’t add up. The money raised from the VAT on private education has been pledged to go directly into state education. There’s just over 10 million children in state education, there’s about 500k in private (around 6 percent of who are foreign). If it’s...

What about the territory Ukraine now occupies in Russia? There’s going to have to be a reason to hand that back so an exchange of territory to some degree is more likely. The other interesting thing Trumps envoy was apparently saying was that there would have to be a premium on Russian oil to...

Saw a report the other day that Trumps Russia/Ukraines envoy has suggested that Trump’s roadmap to peace requires an immediate ceasefire, a continuation of arming Ukraine, never ending negotiations on occupied territories and Ukraine being allowed to join NATO in ten years. It sounds like Trump...

I don’t think you can overstate what a great performance that was of the back of such a poor defeat. Only disappointment was not scoring second half but we kept a clean sheet so you can’t have everything. Roll on Sunday.

I heard similar over the weekend. Something like Labour have returned more and to more countries since getting into power than the Tories did in the previous 12 months and the most since 2018. The main reason seems to be the backlog in claims being processed at a faster rate than the Tories did...

The debt grew under the Tories as both a total figure (acceptable and expected to a degree) but crucially as a percentage of GDP. Yes it started under Brown largely due to the banking crisis and bailing banks out but that hit was taken prior to the Tories. The Tory strategy pretty undisputedly...

You can’t. One is £50bn of capital investments that the country desperately needs. One was a £30bn give away in tax breaks to people who didn’t need it and for the most part didn’t want it. You really can’t be this stupid that you don’t understand the difference between investment and a give...

Sorry but this is just nonsense. The UK through the City of London and our overseas territories is the world’s biggest facilitator of tax avoidance and for that matter money laundering. We’re taking a small percentage by choice through deliberate design.

For balance Didn’t Truss add £30bn in a couple of days from her mini budget with the real cost being much larger in reality due to it increasing the cost of borrowing for the government. IIRC the cost of government borrowing was still 1.1% higher 5 months later than it would have been without...

They fucked up from day one. Austerity stifled growth and directly grew the debt by every measure as a consequence. Then there’s the cost on everything else. Education, NHS, policing, etc etc. basically every institution in the country broke down effecting each and every one of us individually...

It doesn’t matter Pete. The trends were set before Covid and ultimately Covid barely moved the needle on the trends. Brexit is a bigger issue and a continuing issue that continues to be a millstone around our necks.

I said when Robins was sacked if we were replacing him with Lampard then what was the point of sacking Robins in the first place. But he’s here now so he’s got to be given time and a transfer window. So at least Easter. If it’s too late by Easter let’s face it, it’s already too late. Let’s...