1. Mucca Mad Boys

    Do you want to discuss boring politics?

    The electorate has consistently voted for lower migration, does their voice not matter? Even so, the first port of call is addressing the root causes of declining fertility. How can governments make policies that support families should be top of the agenda rather than importing people. The...
  2. Mucca Mad Boys

    Do you want to discuss boring politics?

    It’s interesting, the scale of our migrations means that this element of the plan is unpractical. How would even go about doing this for 900k new arrivals in 2023 or 476k last year… you can’t. There are undoubtedly areas in major cities that have changed beyond recognition hence there is so...
  3. Mucca Mad Boys

    Do you want to discuss boring politics?

    I’ve not read this article fully but I’m familiar with the policies Denmark have put forward successfully. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1mgkd93r4yo.amp
  4. Mucca Mad Boys

    Do you want to discuss boring politics?

    Yes and no because it becomes a Ponzi scheme. Immigrants will get old and need pensions too so you create a vicious cycle of constantly needing more people. Data coming out of the OBR is low skilled migration is a net drain on the exchequer, the welfare bill for foreign born households has...
  5. Mucca Mad Boys

    Transfer Rumour 25/26 Summer Transfer Window

    Not good enough, he needs to be top 99.9 percentile.
  6. Mucca Mad Boys

    Do you want to discuss boring politics?

    No I didn’t, if you look back far enough on this thread, @Grendel and I argued like cat and dog on it. I was very much a Remainer. You recall incorrectly (happens to us all), I’ve never called you or anyone racist on this forum.
  7. Mucca Mad Boys

    Do you want to discuss boring politics?

    Tbh, your attitude demonstrates exactly why Labour will get decimated at the next election. If there was a housing crisis when net migration was 50k per year, how do you expect to keep up when net migration has consistently been 5-6 times that? The 300k house building target is premised on...
  8. Mucca Mad Boys

    Do you want to discuss boring politics?

    This is true to an extent. Building houses is not as simple as ‘just build’. This government is demonstrating that it takes more than good intentions and wishful thinking. Even with Rayner’s plans to build new towns, the sewage infrastructure is holding that back. Public finances are already...
  9. Mucca Mad Boys

    Birmingham Sports Quarter

    Villa do not even need a 60k seater stadium and all due respect to Birmingham, they have a pretty average fan base for home crowds. Like us, only recently sell out St Andrews with a reduced away support capacity. This project has got ‘boom and bust’ written all over it.
  10. Mucca Mad Boys

    Transfer Rumour 25/26 Summer Transfer Window

    He’s a legend in my book. Absolutely smashed it for me on a FM22 (or FM21) York save. For that reason alone, I’m in.
  11. Mucca Mad Boys

    Do you want to discuss boring politics?

    It’s not artificial demand if there’s a general shortage of housing. The housing deficit was at 1.5m or so and has grown since. Angela Rayner was tied in knots when a Sky journalist pointed out that even if Labour met the 1.5m house building target, if there is 2.5m million arrivals as the...
  12. Mucca Mad Boys

    Transfer Rumour 25/26 Summer Transfer Window

    Freedom of speech doesn’t mean freedom of ridicule… 😂
  13. Mucca Mad Boys

    Transfer Rumour Emil Riis

    PNE aren’t that bad a side, we lost more than they did this season. Their issue was their they drew far too many games. The ‘he plays in a crap team’ goes so far because PNE have finished in and around us in most of the seasons Riis has been there. The outliers being this season and 22/23. His...
  14. Mucca Mad Boys

    Transfer Rumour 25/26 Summer Transfer Window

    Strange take, you must be on a wind up. We don’t make the playoffs if Haji doesn’t score that last minute winner v Oxford or a hattrick v Sunderland. So targeting those two games is odd, if you focused on his missed chances, that’s something we can work with as that actually makes sense, all due...
  15. Mucca Mad Boys

    Transfer Rumour 25/26 Summer Transfer Window

    Remember when scoring a hat trick was a good thing for a striker? This new obsession with ‘games scored in’ is odd. Most top end strikers in most leagues will generally struggle much better than a goal every 3 games. Gyokeres “only” scored in 17 games or so in 22/23. Out of 50 games, some could...
  16. Mucca Mad Boys

    Carrick gone from Middlesborough

    Appointing Mowbray would be a blunder. Carrick was going to get the sack if they didn’t make the playoffs because they’ve had a lot of investment and have been going backwards from his fantastic start.
  17. Mucca Mad Boys

    Transfer Rumour Emil Riis

    Haji sees himself as a striker and so does Lampard. EMC’s numbers suggest he’s more than capable of hitting a ‘double-double’ in goals and assists over an injury free campaign. In all likelihood, Haji does not play striker next season for us, is if we sell him imo.
  18. Mucca Mad Boys

    Transfer Rumour Emil Riis

    I’m certainly not fuming about it, he’s got something about him in the numbers. Definitely better than BTA and Bassette right now. Free signing too which we have to utilise this off season.
  19. Mucca Mad Boys

    Transfer Rumour Emil Riis

    Disagree, every time Lampard has had the chance, he’s played Sakamoto, Wright and EMC. That’s what Lampard thinks is his best team right now.
  20. Mucca Mad Boys

    Transfer Rumour Emil Riis

    They’ll at least get a place on the bench then because neither are better than Haji.