hypochondriac

You are correct that we need to take a punt on potential sometimes and that's what we sort of did with Edozie last time. The problem for me is that our main striker signing needs to be a bit more of a solid one than good potential. I'd personally spend big on the striker area and get the best we can afford and keep the potential signings for other areas of the squad that are maybe less key.

Agree with that. Currently trying to be all things to all people means they are unpopular with everyone. At least if they went left it would be clear and they would have sort of an appeal with some people at least.

Sort of highlights why the chant was a bloody stupid thing to do.

What about those young kids who serve as part of their public service? Some of whom repelled Hamas on October 7th and saved many lives. Should they die too?

Interesting tweet from Andrew Neil. Presumably these would be popular policies on here at least. I wonder if they would increase Labour's popularity.

Maybe so. The done well bit is the bit I highly doubt.

Yeah I can support that!

We are all in agreement that you should be free to act like a bellend and say twatty things on TV and not be jailed for it. If you want to discuss specifics of Israel there's a thread for that...

Who are in the IDF?

100% but also if you're a Jew going to Glastonbury you've got to expect some middle class twats with luxury beliefs such as jew hate surely?

Wasn't he about 7 million?

I really don't think Lucy connolly should have been jailed and certainly not for the amount of time she has been but the flip side of that is that she pleaded guilty so she kind of left it up to the system to decide. In most cases I wouldn't be jailing anyone for speech as its pathetic and certainly something that has changed for the worst in my lifetime. Chanting death to the IDF on TV is pathetic but treating the viewing public like toddlers because some people found those words a bit offensive is mad.

As much as that bloke is a bellend, he really shouldn't be charged with anything. I'm fed up of the police taking an authoritarian stance on ridiculous things.

He wanted digital ID with biometric integration linked to facial recognition and fingerprints, he wanted to use it for banking, health, education and employment and to track health. Giving government easy access to banking, or health is in my view a terrible idea and ripe for misuse even if this data is already theoretically accessible by a bad actor it won't be as simple or as tempting for the government to access. I could see potential in an AI system with some sort of blind protection that can solely inform an employer of an individuals right to work although arguably that already exists. I fail to see how digital ID will prevent people going off grid and working for cash in hand jobs like they do already. Even if you went cashless there would be work around (and that sort of thing has its own problems.)

Did you not read my posts where I outlined clearly what sort of information I was worried about and the sort of info that Blair was proposing last time this came up? I'm not making a song or dance (can we leave off the emotive language?) I'm simply outlining the difference between someone choosing to share their data and being mandated to provide it by the government. They are two separate things.