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Assuming you’re right, how does that make him different from Starmer or Badenoch? Politicians by their nature are ‘in it’ for themselves. Talk to working class people up and down the country, they identify with Farage because he speaks their language and is the strongest on the issues they...

Yes. Even this government promised to end the small boats scandal by ‘smashing the gangs’. This issue has actually got worse since Labour has come in.

The real snake oil selling charlatans is the neoliberal political class post-Tony Blair. The electorate has been voting consistently for lower immigration and government after government has failed to deliver. Gut instinct tells me it’s too late to head off a Reform surge, Labour and the...

The Tories had been government for 14-15 years back then, likewise in 2016, it was 18 months into a second parliament so nearly 7 years. Looking at the elections in 1997 and even 2017 (the tories lost their majority), this example shows these swings do matter and are dismissed at your peril...

Wealth taxes are not a new idea. Back in the 1970s, the then Labour government drew up plans for one and decided it was an administrative and political nightmare to implement.

This is detached from reality. Have any of the so-called non-racist parties ever been close to electing an ethnic minority leader? On misogyny, has Labour ever had a a female leader? I’m sure that the Tories have had more female leaders than the ‘progressive’ parties combined.

These polls happen towards the end of a parliament, not 9 months in. Sir John Curtice called out Bridget Phillipson on the BBC when she tried to trot out the same tired cliches. Labour were elected because the electorate were fed with the Tories and they’re getting fed up with Labour now. In...

The first line is ridiculous. Success in the polls for Reform will literally be made or break. Instead of sniping from the sidelines at both Labour and Conservatives, they actually have run local governments and have a record to defend going into future elections.

Labour were expected to win and they’ve lost a v safe seat. It is bad and doesn’t bode well in the seats where Reform’s vote share was much stronger. This government, despite the huge majority, was elected on a historically low vote share % so any moderate swings away from them could mean they...

4D chess. Some of the interpretations on here require a high level of skill in political spin or delusion… Runcorn was Labour’s 49th safest seat where Reform had roughly 5% of the vote share in 2024. It doesn’t paint a good picture for the majority of the 90 or so seats where Reform came...

Not necessarily. They see both goalkeepers in training and Wilson may not be performing well on the training pitch. We don’t know what’s going on behind the scenes, perhaps Wilson is 100% physically ready but mentally not there yet. There must be a reason he isn’t playing if Collins starts...

Lampard will have a say over signings and contracts. I’m certain Robins would have let Bidwell go on a free and Lampard has chosen to keep him because he was playing well for us then. As for Wilson, my assumption was that he was favoured over Collins and extending his contract made some sense...

Wasn’t he one of the best last season? It’s all irrelevant because we’re not going to sign Angus Gunn. If anything, we’ll probably end up signing a keeper from abroad who is expected to deputise Dovin but capable enough to be trusted because we’ll need him for half a season minimum.

Call them and rearrange it?

This is true - and this makes the situation all the more baffling. I still cannot fathom why we gave Wilson a new contract. Is there a potential buyer for either Collins/Wilson?! It’s a real shame Collins made the mistake against Luton because he put in a MOTM performance up until that moment...

The telegraph has reported that he’s not 100%. There was a discussion on CWR where it was noted Wilson doesn’t take part in the warm ups. This suggests he’s not quite right to play… Then you have the ITKs who say he is fit and ready to play and even that he himself expected to play. It’s all...

Sunderland are due a result against anyone at this rate…

The Luton example was used because it was a forced tactical change and a good defensive performance by and large. It demonstrated to me that if we adjusted things tactically, we can defend capably in the formation which this discussion is actually about. I’d like to see us drop deeper away from...

You still haven’t addressed the points about the personnel being different when we played 5-3-2 because this is just as important as the tactical plan. We both watched the game v Sheff U, we created a ‘threat’ before the goal so it cuts both ways. Overall, we were arguably the better team in...

It’s not downplaying that run by pointing out that there moments during this spell where we rode our luck. It was those away games that Dovin put his hat in the ring for POTS. Co’mon, you’ve definitely been advocating 5 ATB for a while now. My critique has been tactical rather than formation...