SotonianWill

2 hours ago, Greenridge said:

Who’s behind SaintsExtra? 

Sammy Saint

46 minutes ago, hypochondriac said:

Why? I could see a load of youngsters going for these guys over someone like the greens. Corbyn still has a bit of cult of personality and recognition to the average person on the street. No one has ever heard of any of the green party personalities beyond Caroline lucas who is long gone. 

Polanski, running to be Green leader, is seen by lots of young lefties as charismatic (calling for eco populism). Anyone right of their deluded position is likely to see him as he is: a dull man who just says what his small base want. 
 

It’s the same for Corbyn. He has the charisma of a damp dishcloth yet because he says freebies for all he’s “charismatic.” 

6 hours ago, SaintNewForest said:

4. 4 wins out of 4. Why not 🤣

This is the only correct answer - we won’t lose a game all season. 

4 hours ago, revolution saint said:

The ability to deflect people from wandering into my way.  

The opposite is the super power to make anyone you want dance with you (if face on) 

15 hours ago, Saint Scott said:

An odd choice if KWP goes to Turkey, he should be aiming higher.

I cannot recall an English player heading there working out in recent history. Dele, AOC, Redmond and Zaha

Wayne Rooney? (Hair)

1 hour ago, benjii said:

It's not just Trump and Netanyahu saying they are trying to build a bomb. It's independent agencies like IAEA.

Frankly, no serious person doubted it.

You're making yourself look silly.

Um, that’s not what the IAEA said. They said they don’t know as they don’t have enough credible knowledge of such a program. They said the enrichment is a worry but not once have they said Iran is trying to build a bomb. 

Why talk of being serious while writing about reports you clearly haven’t read?

5 hours ago, east-stand-nic said:

I am stating very very clearly on the Reform thread that it is MADNESS to continue to vote for labour or Tory as neither of them cares a shit about the average person, and serve only their rich masters. If it is thick to vote for change in the face of two others who have a totally 100% proven track record of not giving a shit, then it is also utter madness to carry on with Lab and Con and expect anything different. We must have REAL change or things will remain as they are and I expect, get much worse. 

The problem with this theory is that the people involved in politics are always the same. There’s the left wing activists and right wing activists. They seldom change, they simply move party to whichever is most popular. It’s consistently the same pool of people.

Therefore the majority of those standing or involved with Reform are just Tories under a new banner. It’s why the local Tory branches are dying and Reform is controlled by ex members of CCHQ - they’ve just moved over. They’ll be just as incompetent. 

What’s needed isn’t a new party but new people (away from longstanding grifters who’ve been in politics for the past 20-30 years). There must be talent out there, the challenge is to find them. The Tory party in this case could be just as effective as Reform with new people willing to stand. Likewise for leftist disenchanted with Labour.

People make the party / parliament. The party doesn’t always make the people. It’s why most parliaments are so unpredictable. That’s just my opinion anyways.

1 hour ago, Gloucester Saint said:

Plenty of evidence of the chaos they’ve caused in local government already. Would you want IT people in their teens and early 20s accessing your personal information as they seemingly will be in Kent for Reform’s ‘DOGE’ programme?

 

So a few dodgy tweets and an ageist assumption on competence from a fully grown man making videos to sub 1k people in his basement. Fair play to them for going into public service. 

On 12/06/2025 at 21:09, Gloucester Saint said:

 

I don’t know about this. Reform are much broader than migration if people bother to look - their economics, for instance, which is unfunded balls. But it is a policy structure. It’s one of the main reasons amongst the people which drives me away. It’s their voters who only talk about immigration not the party officials IMO. 

The second gentleman saying they’ve gone into councils and it’s shown them up and they don’t know what to do; it’s been all of five minutes. To judge a council’s performance so critically in such a short amount of time screams pre-judged bias. 

15 hours ago, egg said:

Too many awful things for me - industry, her stance re the ANC, s.28, mines/steel, social housing sell off,  gas/water privatisation, poll tax etc, etc. 

We're all paying the price for a lot of that now. 

Whether we’re paying the price is up and down.

Most of these would be good points if only there hadn’t been governments between 1990 and today. To say Thatcher is why this country is in the sh1t is lazy. Council housing, as one of example: why did the Labour govt of Blair build less stock per year than even Thatcher? They kept the right to buy policy intact, despite being less generous with grants. 

Regarding the ANC and S. 28, I don’t see the relevance today. More mines were shut under Wilson, at least double that of Thatcher, with many, similar to the 80s, not given redeployment. 

British steel has always been uncompetitive. I support nationalisation with a view to a sunset clause but see it through security - but generally, how is continually proving up failing subsidised business a great thing in your eyes? 

Water privatisation we’re feeling the force of now. Once again govts since Thatcher should’ve done more. The poll tax is the big one, which, amongst other factors, has certainly made the union weaker. But devolution to a certain extent isn’t a bad thing. 

To blame Thatcher solely for all troubles is lazy oversimplification and a wool over the eyes treatment to the previous 40 years. 

The Reform-Hokey-Pokey continues. Yusuf returns to the cult. Having still been a Tory until recently - even when platforming Reform - he’s used to being a bit confused. He would be converted many times on the way to Damascus. 

1 hour ago, skintsaint said:

https://fb.watch/A1bgapFYhI/

Bit of a cheap setup... 😅

Sat down with a buttoned up suit-jacket. 101 reason to hate. 

Does anyone remember that game we lost?

Win, or else. 

3 hours ago, miserableoldgit said:

I am still concerned by Pilchards "Twist?" post and his lack of response....🙃

At least it wasn't the Nathan Jones burner account who posted it. 

Last professional team to lose at Goodison Park

3 minutes ago, rooney said:

Because she was his women.

PE teacher?

Andrew Tate’s masculinity is the result of the liberal world where sleeping with anyone who breathes is socially okay, whilst making money from pornographic content is seen as empowering, and where materialist possessions are everything. Ah, the liberal world we live in. 

He is the ultra liberal. He just doesn’t realise it - no different from the soy-sippers he jokes about. The product of full emancipation from social responsibility. 

On 13/05/2025 at 06:55, benjii said:

Alpha chads do not do questionnaires. Questionnaires are effete. 

So I'm out.

I just completed the questionnaire #beta

5 hours ago, CB Fry said:

Just take the Spitfire for our badge and Eastleigh can get fucked.

In all fairness, we have more claim to it than they do. Even their airfield (now airport) is in our name; Woolston being the true home of the Supermarine factory, now flats, like all things these days.

Titanic is a no go as it’s a tragic moment in our great city’s history with over a third of those perishing being locals - not that anyone on this thread needs reminding. 

Other options - Queen Mary?

What time do the exits open at football grounds? And athletics grounds.

14 hours ago, Stripey McStripe Shirt said:

Agreed, with the solid spine and having signed Archer, I'm confident in a good season.

9/10 window? 

My sister gifted me a copy of The Picture of Dorian Gray for my birthday last Tuesday. It’s my second read of the novel, having done so a few years before - it’s only short. Must say it’s as criminally marvellous as it was before. 

2 minutes ago, Turkish said:

On a seperate note why does Andrew Tate get so much air time? The blokes a cock but I’ve just seen him on the main news on ITV again ahead of George Foreman’s death. If he wasn’t all over the news no one would know who is was 

I like the fact the news makes it out like people my sort of age think his views are sacred and that’s why people are bad today. Literally everyone I know think he’s an arse and he’s a memed figure 😂

7 hours ago, tdmickey3 said:

You are welcome 😉

LooNic just wants to make friends (bless) and sees you as one, mainly because of your exchanges with SOG

I value @east-stand-nic’s contributions. Most interesting and provides a polarised opinion, which is why I also enjoy SOG and co. from other sides. 

Nic does sound like a few I hear from on the Ugly Inside, I wonder if you have an account Nic (?). I’m not a member on here so can’t PM you to ask.