Holmes_and_Watson

I'm more of a "sent letters and vouchers to the staff, whose jobs might be under threat from relegation, while giving the players more double sessions and a reminder of how utterly pampered they are" sort of person, I guess.

Sting

Just as well, as it spares us the "New World Order and their Satanic, Reptilian Overlords tried to fry my mind with their 'therapy' to suppress THE TRUTH." years. 🙂

Queen

Seems to be a general disatisfaction with the holders of public offices. There's few standard tropes in there about outside influences. I was looking for the alternative. There is one, and it's to replace the incumbents with better people, who uphold those values. Well, form a party and get on with it, Matt. There have been a number of newish parties getting into power, in other countries. Wall of text...incoming! NOTICE TO PRINCIPAL OR AGENT IS NOTICE TO THE OTHER The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government.” – Universal Declaration on Human Rights “Governments rest on the consent of the governed, and that it is the right of the people to alter or abolish them at will whenever they become destructive of the ends for which they were established.” -Jefferson Davis The Seven Principles of public life. 1. Selflessness: Holders of public office should act solely in terms of the public interest. 2. Integrity: Holders of public office must avoid placing themselves under any obligation to people or organisations that might try inappropriately to influence them in their work. They should not act or take decisions in order to gain financial or other material benefits for themselves, their family, or their friends. They must declare and resolve any interests and relationships. 3. Objectivity: Holders of public office must act and take decisions impartially, fairly and on merit, using the best evidence and without discrimination or bias. 4. Accountability: Holders of public office are accountable to the public for their decisions and actions and must submit themselves to the scrutiny necessary to ensure this. 5. Openness: Holders of public office should act and take decisions in an open and transparent manner. Information should not be withheld from the public unless there are clear and lawful reasons for so doing. 6. Honesty: Holders of public office should be truthful. 7. Leadership: Holders of public office should exhibit these principles in their own behaviour and treat others with respect. They should actively promote and robustly support the principles and challenge poor behaviour wherever it occurs. To you my member of Parliament and also to the sitting Prime Minister, As is my fundamental right, due to your failures to honour your oath of office as a publicly paid servant of the people, I am withdrawing my consent, for you, to govern. You are dismissed from your position, and you should no longer receive a salary from the tax payer. You work for us, we the people pay you - you have clearly forgotten this. You have put your own personal interests before ours, you have failed to uphold the law or respect the human rights of the people, you have blatantly disregarded “The Seven Nolan principles of public life,” you have allowed the wilful destruction of the economy of the United Kingdom, you have allowed unelected outside influence from private corporations including, The World Economic Forum, The World Health Organisation, The United Nations and various corrupted foundations. You have allowed profits before people and have fraudulently and criminally wasted our money. You have ignored my wishes and those of the people who employ and pay you. Many ministers have ignored emails, phone calls, letters, protests, liability orders, cease and desist orders. You have allowed the executive to instil a permanent state of fear onto the public, created an unmanageable and unsustainable cost of living crisis and allowed for the wilful and deliberate destruction of our NHS. You allowed for the well- being of every man, woman and child to be compromised and for the people of the United Kingdom to live with uncertainty and without hope. You have failed, you are no longer fit for purpose, you must resign your position. I do not consent to you receiving anymore public money. You must be replaced with a man or woman whose sole aim is for the betterment of society, to improve the lives of every man, woman and child in the United Kingdom. You along with the rest of government for the United Kingdom have created nothing but poverty, fear, worry, stress, misery, slavery and massive debts for virtually every household. The pandemic was built on fear, lies, coercion and deception. The harm, injury and death caused by the vaccines are catastrophic: you are all aware yet you defend them and they continue to be administered regardless. While we were locked down and separated from our loved ones ministers and civil servants partied many times. We were openly and blatantly mocked and laughed at. One rule for us and another for you. This is completely unacceptable and serious crimes of Misconduct in public office had and continue to be committed. I will not and do not accept the awful living conditions I am faced with because of the poor performance by ministers from all parties, their disgusting overreach and the wilful ignorance of the people’s wishes who employ and pay them. There is no credible opposition and it’s abundantly clear we need independent and local representation. You are hereby being notified that I withdraw my consent, as is my fundamental right, to be governed by any corrupt, compromised, belligerent, criminal Parliament or Government. I will not comply but I will remain lawful and keep the peace. This notice is from a very dissatisfied constituent. I am and I will continue to be an honourable member of the public. Name, Signed, Date, Electoral district or parish, This is wri(en in plain English no legalese.

I do not comply with do not comply's non compliance!

Whale

Egg

Battery

Just a big season of good intentions and equally disastrous outcomes. Had SR parted ways with Ralph at any point after the Villa game the season before, and definitely after the Chelsea game, I'd have remembered the good times, the times where we were punching above our weight and wished him all the best. I get that there were reasons to keep him. Trying to give him the players (I was going to say tools, but... 🙂 ) and backing to return to that success; loyalty; Ralph's plans matching their recruitment philosophy. But the writing was on the wall once that tactic got done over, and there wasn't the hint of a workable, winning response. By the time Selles got given it, it looked grim. I don't begrudge him taking the job. I look at SR for appointing him. It might not have made any difference, and SR might have been as well keeping pennies they were happy to give Luton for compensation in their pockets. I'd have been giving it a go though.

Mostly, I'd not really care less how Selles gets on, once he left us. As long as any of his teams get roundly thrashed, facing us. But there's a little bit, after last season, that wouldn't mind Selles, Raph and even Nathan doing well in their next posts. At least while the bulk of the failures they tried to coach are still here. In case the penny drops that they were the ones out on the pitch who could have made the difference. Every little bit of help that would help change their mentality, which is what Martin will have to manage. I do get that they were basically turned into drones under RalphBall, and that such long lasting losing streaks are hard to recover from. So even an angry reponse to show the Championship that it wasn't them, would be nice too.

For the record, SoG doesn’t consider it to be anti-semitism *unless* the holocaust is specifically mentioned, with “Can you show me where she denied the Holocaust?” Never mind the many centuries of other forms or discrimination and persecution. They don't count when defending Abbott. Even when Abbott’s long history of racist, discriminatory comments was pointed out, SoG didn’t want to know. Abbott had “deliberately lobbed a hand grenade at Starmer before the council elections” and was bravely “trying to redefine what we think we know racism to be.” When the massive flaws in Abbott’s views were pointed out, SoG considered them to be “semantics.” That's because SoG agreed with Abbott’s view that on the hierarchy of discrimination, and the levels of importance to be given to each rung on it with “If you believe that there is no hierarchy when it comes to bigotry, prejudice and discrimination and that Diane Abbott was wrong…” SoG then focused on why, in his view, it was only the Jewish aspect of Abbott’s comments that were the focus of the response. SoG said ““Interesting that it has now distilled down to just an issue about Jewish people when she grouped together various other types who also face bigotry, discrimination and prejudice” and “…but there doesn’t seem to be such a backlash from the Irish, travellers or redheads.” That is a well worn anti-semitic path to be going down. This was all before SoG was the only person on the planet to see the part of a newspaper cartoon that wasn’t anti-semitic, and defend it. It was also before the inevitable entry onto a thread about Israel, where he clumsily confused Jewish people with Israeli policy. The flaws and implications of the posts have been pointed out numerous times. I know I pointed out that with 3 posts a day, and perhaps a lot to get in/ time constraints, things might not come across as intended. But there comes a point when that can’t apply over numerous posts. I get that we probably all have things we instinctively like to defend, whether through upbringing, or allegiances on other areas, such as general political support. I note “Corbyn”, “Abbott” and the “Guardian” in the above, for example. I’d advise that if those trigger words come up, that a step back is taken and that a response is carefully worded. The best way not to be labelled a toxic anti-semite, is to not post like one, or reinforce earlier posts that are. There’s a wide group of people on this forum waving warning flags, pointing out the obvious, frankly horrific, implications of the thoughts being defended. Hopefully, they’re not all automatically grouped into some gang out to get SoG.

"I never had a career. Only work." - Professor Bernard Quatermass

Selles talks about the size of the squad, leading to the seperate dressing rooms. Also of the cliques that had formed. It led to him shunting several players off to the B-Team. If they did well there, he cites Adam Armstrong's professionalism and that he did well, then they could be brought back in. But he talks about the team cohesion. That there were numerous relationships and people to be handled. From the "star of the show" this meant egos as well. He wanted a team that would play for each other, even if they might not seem on paper to be the most talented out of the group. Which I don't disagree with at all. I'd make grudging exceptions for players so talented they could get us out of relegation. A Le Tiss. But none of that squad comes close to that. It would also give another reason why Ely, AA etc would be given game time over less dependable, less professional, less cliquey players. The other option would have been to play all the moaners, and if they failed, tell them in no uncertain terms why they were all/ or mostly dropped for the next week. But that could be a precious game thrown away. Might have got some heads down and focused, but probably not.

Charge!

He could pick up the passes from Fonte!

Feather

Oh, did the photos show them getting use out of the book? Like wearing it as a hat, propping up wobbly desks or keeping doors open?

Good to see we're not waiting until players leave, to strengthen. I liked Perraud, but if he wanted away, this is a solid replacement. It also remind players who want to leave where the exit is. We've plenty of youngsters who can provide back up to help us and their development. And Djenepo can also play there.

Pussy

Whisky

Loaf

That's an image I wasn't expecting to have in my mind today. 🙂

New album hinted at for this year! https://virginradio.co.uk/music/85324/theres-a-rumour-going-around-about-a-new-kate-bush-album-in-2023 🙂

Flood