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Fair enough, I’ll preface my post with the belief that the Tories deserve to be kicked out. That said, a lot of left leaning people in my friends and family seem to be primarily voting against the tories rather than their optimism for Starmer and the Labour Party policy programme. Call it a...

A microcosm of why wealth transfers rarely work out is lottery winners. You can give people money but if they don’t know how to use it, it’s useless and they’ll end up going back to square one or worst. Likewise, many people are ‘trapped’ in benefits because of how UC works. For lower paid...

I only tuned into 2nd half as was out for dinner. Didn’t really get the love in from the pundit team and felt that had England put in a similar performance tomorrow, the mood wouldn’t be quite so cheery. Before the tournament, I felt Italy would win their group and felt that Spain looked quite...

There’s the not so minor difference that the UK is an island and does not share a customs border with any of its neighbours. So comparison with EU countries is flawed from the get go. The railway infrastructure is a mess though. Outsourcing rather than out and out privatising/nationalising the...

It’s not strange at all, Sakamoto was ‘announced’ because fans pictured him in gear before it went on socials. I’m sure it’s done and they’ll announce the formalities when they’re ready.

I can see Scotland pulling this back… 👀😂

I don’t see Germany winning it to be honest, they’ve got some good players but as you say, lack a top striker. Their midfield doesn’t hold up against the top teams either, imo.

To be honest, one of the candidates for best football shirts full stop!

It was the instance of playing 4-4-2 that hampered us too. Hindsight is 20:20 but a 4-3-3 or 5-3-2/3-4-3 could’ve suited that England team well.

Wednesday for me!

We That’s not even remotely true. Increasing the tax-free allowance helps the poorest first.

You’re parroting a slogans now. How is the first £20k being tax-free helping out earners above £100k? It helps out everyone at all income brackets being squeezed. 40% was the top rate of tax under the last Labour government. Now something like 8,000,000 people are in this tax band and most of...

Disagree, everyone is at 12k and increased that band in line with inflation would take that close to 20k. Immediately helping low earners. The issue also relates to welfare system because, with the tax-free limit so low, in some cases it costs people more to work longer hours. Some people...

So why continue with fiscal drag? Any new prospective government can quickly provide relief to a lot of people by raising the tax bands In line with inflation or at least a plan to lift tax bands up.

The Big Short is a great movie, great recommendation! On QE, I do think it’s time we call an end to it, or at least start to ween the economy off it. Brought in to prevent the scenarios you outlined, correct but as a short term measure rather than a 10+ year policy. My concern is that it’s...

Astonishing. The Sven team had: Neville Campbell Ferdinand Terry Ashley Cole Beckham Scholes Lampard Gerrard Owen Rooney There’s been other good players in and out the team in those years. There is no excuse for not getting past the quarter final with that cohort of players. That is failure...

Croatia had a better team than us in 2018, particularly in midfield which is where they won that game. Prime Modric and Rakitic against Lingard, Alli and Hendo… Nations League, it’s a glorified friendly so I don’t put too much on that. Italy is a 50:50 in my view, they were the in-form team and...

We weren’t tactically bad against France and didn’t lose to Italy, so it’s not as black and white as you make out.

Was the case throughout 1990-2018 too? Overturning failure for so many years isn’t an easy task, evidence by countless leading coaches failing as our national team coach.

It’s funny that there’s all these asterisks to justify your feelings toward Southgate. Just look at our previous results with the ‘golden generation’. 2010 we can second in the group with USA, Algeria and Slovenia and got battered to Germany. Tournament football is all about outcomes and 2020...