Osvaldorama

Excellent article in the Wall Street Journal on Britain's unsustainable welfare spending: — 7 million people (over 10% of the UK population) now claim at least one or more sickness or disability benefit. This is up 60% in the past 6 years. — The UK will spend over £100 billion pound this year on sickness and disability benefits. This is projected to increase to £130 billion a year by 2030. — No other Western country has seen such a rise in disability claims. In the US, 10.6 million people claim some form of federal disability payment, despite the population being 5x larger. — 1 in 7 new cars sold in the UK are under the Motability scheme; however, only 10% of cars are modified for a disability. In one dealership, 25 out of 26 cars they sold in August were all under the Motability scheme. — Charities, consultants, YouTubers and TikTokers have all sprung up, telling people how to maximise benefit access. Some of these videos receive hundreds of thousands of views. Over 1,000 people a day are signing on for PIP. — According to a Government survey from 2024, 25% of the UK's working age population could theoretically be classed as disabled under the current criteria and access these benefits. — A minimum wage worker who works 40 hours per week would take home around £1,880 per month after tax; however, if you are classed as too sick to work and claim PIP, you can take home £2,000 tax free per month. https://www.wsj.com/world/uk/united-kingdom-welfare-disability-payouts-737d77a0

People are being a bit harsh on Bragg imo. It was a bad one, but he’s young and the occasion got to him. Plus look on the bright side. We got to beat them with ten men. They won’t live that one down for a while.

Lol he’s been fucking brilliant

Jander klaxon Great to have him back

How’s that not a yellow?!???

Really frustrating as we were comfortable before the red. Now we are under the cosh.

Great tackle Azaz

So Erling Haaland is English and should have been made to play for England?

So your high IQ argument is that ethnicity exists, to everyone except the English, because English people are cunts?

Im not answering because your questions are fucking daft. You’re pretending not to know what an English person is, like a school child would do

If ethnicity doesn’t exist, what was the Holocaust?

On what planet am I losing this argument 😂 You guys have raised nothing except insults and pretending not to know what ‘English’ means

you’re doing it again Go and look in a dictionary. English and Ethnicity are very very clearly defined words.

So you’re racist? Nice

The English are an ethnic group and nation native to England, defined historically by a shared ancestry originating from Anglo-Saxon and Celtic roots, as well as a common language, culture, and history Funny how it’s always the ones that virtue signal the hardest about protecting other cultures, that are the first to denigrate their own

Being “English” is not up for debate. Im not sure why you’re lying. English is an ethnicity and has been for 1000 years. There is no debate about it.

Stupid genocidal, Marxist propaganda. The English are an ethnic group and have been for 1000 years

Not fucking Brexit again 😂😂 ffs

If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything. A lack of national pride is why Britain is deteriorating into a shit hole in my opinion.

Do you deny the existence of the Māori, Afrikaners, Japanese, Chinese, etc etc Or is it just the English that aren’t entitled to an ethnicity?

Your point is kind of stupid and irrelevant, considering many other ethnic groups in the UK are more than willing to divide themselves into tribes: Debating the minutiae of the Anglo-Saxon ethnic group seems pointless when other ethnic groups have proven they are willing to segregate and promote themselves over the rest. But even more than that, as I said previously, the idea that a group that has been defined since the 9th or 10th century, over 1000 years, is somehow “a tiny span” is completely preposterous. 927AD is not a short time ago. LOL.

Of course. Every society (and person) does things that are both good and shameful. But in my opinion the good of the British empire FAR exceeds the negatives. Yet we are told to focus almost exclusively on the negatives. I reject that completely. Also… Your first paragraph is extremely dismissive of the weight of history. Countless people have fought and died for our society to be great. It’s not just a ‘random collection of people in a geographical area’

Funny how even when you’re joking you recognise that Angles/saxons/Normans/Romans existed as distinct ethnic groups. Yet suddenly the English are being told that they have none of their own.