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I’ve not had the cashback yet, but my transaction for the Hull tickets were debited by ‘CCFC’ so should be within scope.

If you click expand the data markers (see attached), it gives you GDP expenditure, even the link you supplied had Japan on 41.66% rather than 57% as you posted - which I assumed was a typo because it was same as Germany’s.

How sustainable do you think the post-WW2 settlement is in the UK, Japan, Germany, France, Canada and Italy? All low growth economies with worsening public services. My answer is consistent across the board: no. All 6 of those countries have population time bombs and have identical issues with...

No, I said the civil service increased its headcount by 20% from 400-ish thousand to 550-ish and productivity hasn’t increased so clearly there is some wastage there. So the number I’m referencing is closer to 110-120k and nowhere near the 1.3m you reference. Hypothetically, if that many roles...

The drive in the evening is pleasant, lots of nice views if I recall correctly. Last season, it took over an hour to get out of the car park, I missed a junction that added 20-30m to my journey and had to stop off on the side of the road to have a sleep because of the tiredness. Horrible...

Agreed. I know a few lads who were well up for Hull away before it got moved to midweek. I won’t be driving for this one, it’s far too dangerous driving 3+ hours after a night game and had a v bad experience of it last season to be honest.

It probably needs to drop to around 35-39% which is closer to Japan and The USA than someone like Germany or France. What is the purpose of this question exactly? As a sovereign currency issuer, if your borrowing panics markets, our currency gets devalued by them. So we can’t get away with...

Is this more important to front line public services to you? You keep parroting that we’ve had austerity and ‘deep cuts’. The reality is that government spending steadily increased during this supposed era of austerity. The share of GDP that is government spending has gone up to 45% and this is...

Labour has identified 10k jobs at NHS England that can be scrapped. The civil service has increased by 21% and productivity has flatlined which probably means there’s either a lot of duplication of work or the roles just aren't productive. OFGEM, for example, has increased its headcount 163%...

Sometimes, you need the shock therapy. We’re arguably already in a death spiral of raising taxes continually to fund a public sector that is no longer delivering basic services to a good standard. The tax burden is being shifted onto the productive sectors of the economy (private sector & wealth...

Agreed to an extent. Yet, this seems like more of a moral panic over the ‘incels’, ‘the manosphere’ and ‘that Andrew Tate shite’ because it’s an easy target. What’s more uncomfortable for people to deal with, in the context of ‘online radicalisation’, is Islamist propaganda. Especially since...

Is this supposed to be an insult? If the state was the best vehicle to achieve ‘redistribution of wealth’ or prosperity, the Cold War would’ve been the Soviet Union. At what point is government spending too much? 45% of the economy? 50-60%?

That’s not the important issue. 45% of our economy is government spending and this isn’t a pathway to prosperity. The state is just too overstretched and needs to fundamentally be cut down to size. We just cannot afford to keep raising taxes to pay for a public sector that delivers less and less.

The civil service has a lot to answer for. Headcount has swelled by 21% since COVID, median salary has also increased by 27% in the same period (2019-2024) and to top it off, productivity is still below pre-pandemic levels. So why should taxpayers tolerate an expanding bureaucracy that delivers...

Well, when we played them after Robins got sacked it was a game we could’ve won so that perception still lingers. They’re over performing based on the ‘underlying data’ but they have that star quality to win games. Finally, their home form hasn’t been amazing in 2025 (currently 11th in home...

I hoped that there was going to be a twist or something so was disappointed. The acting was brilliant for the scenes with the psychologist but the last episode was a bit drab imo.

When you need cash to fund your spending plans and you’ve ruled out raising income tax, VAT and NI… you box yourself in and that’s exactly what this Labour government did. The way they needed to spin this as ‘not a tax on workers’, of course it was. If businesses need to cut back on bonuses...

Rachel Reeves has been a disaster chancellor, she’s done. She’ll be asked to make more difficult decisions that would break a manifesto pledge, such as increasing VAT, income tax and/or NI and then get the sack down the line. She undermined confidence in the economy before the budget by talking...

Yes for the same reason we don’t play Liverpool, Man City, Crawley or Maidenhead FC. The Nations League is organised into leagues based on promotion and relegation and has been leveraged to allow lower ranked teams to have playoff spots with the top teams. The Nations League could genuinely...

It’s got nothing to do with convenience. The international game is no longer the pinnacle of football and a large part of this is because there’s too many dead rubber games. There’s also the wider issue of player welfare over the amount of games they play. So it makes sense for a shorter...