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On 25% of the wages (even taking the relegation reduction into account) he’ll be earning next season perhaps. Ditto McCarthy.

Dirk Gerkens has a pickle to get out of.

Wait until you try the American beef

As I’ve observed from years of posts that you are more of an economically left of centre poster (like me) with some social views more on the right, I’m genuinely curious about what immigration is the most/least frustrating for you or whether you potentially support some migration in certain scenarios. I’m a Lib Dem voter and focused on reducing asylum cases, but that probably isn’t the case for most Labour/potential Reform. Is it? - Healthcare workers eg nurses, doctors, surgeons, dentists legally? - Social care workers legally where we’ve got ever growing demand with an ageing population and the locals won’t fill the vacancies - Agricultural seasonal workers on temporary permits - Construction workers fully qualified in areas of skills gaps which can’t be filled in the short-medium term - Footballers at different levels of the UK pyramids, plus other sports - Scientists or other academics temporarily in refuge here from a conflict zone working and publishing whilst their homeland’s issues are resolved - Scientists moving to the UK to work and paying visa/health surcharge costs - Students/young people from the EU on exchange trips of 12 months with UK youngsters able to go the other way - Students studying in the UK - Ukrainian families seeking refuge in areas near or in the conflict zones who are working/studying in the UK - Illegal economic migrants from Asia working in UK businesses - Asylum seekers from nations not formally observed as being in conflicts where there may be regional issues or people smuggling eg Turkey, Albania - Asylum seekers coming via France by boats and other means - Asylum seekers from nations or regions with a significant record of terrorism against Western targets/citizens if even if the individuals don’t - Asylum seekers seeking refuge from formally-recognised conflicts

Don’t know about better but Cooper would be a very sensible and practical choice for what is required. So they won’t appoint him then.

There’s some truth here but also a massive unknown in how Reform will behave and perform in positions of responsibility. Because in Thanet and Derbyshire it was an unmitigated implosion beyond even the Tories 2020-24. They already parted company with Lowe and a lot of their new councillors are ex-Tories who were too hot to handle there and very individualist. Unless the mavericks can somehow knit together, they’ll be a bigger and high profile party of protest but that will be it. That’s why despite a breakthrough result last week, I wouldn’t be getting the bunting and open top bus out quite yet. Top of the league in August. Their policies are going to be scrutinised far more now as Corbyn’s were after 2017. They are a feature on the landscape now, definitely, but a long, long way to go before we know if it’s automatics, play-offs, mid-table or bottom half.

🤦‍♂️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cpdzd2pqgvwo?at_campaign=sport_england_top_stories&at_link_origin=sport_homepage_content&at_medium=BBC_Products

What a dreadful mess the Tories left on asylum - their donors profiting to the tune of £383m at our expense whilst Johnson and Braverman stopped processing cases which built up the enormous backlog. Would have been far bigger again if Rwanda farce had proceeded. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2720n2kkjo Not a coincidence that some of the largest concentrations are in areas Reform contested heavily/won last week.

The true state of what the Tories left behind on asylum. Their donors made £383m profit from asylum accommodation whilst Braverman stopped processing cases https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2720n2kkjo And to think the Rwanda cost would have come on top.

Further ballast to what you are saying https://www.facebook.com/PokeHQ/posts/reform-uk-voters-were-furious-at-this-analysis-of-people-who-voted-for-nigel-far/1131488005672114/ Plenty of Reform hate (and bad spelling/grammar) in response.

Swap Bednarek for THB and I fully agree. Jan was the only defender trying to defend at Leicester, THB really couldn’t have given a flying fuck. Jan is leaving in the summer anyway but for me has been one of the very few players making an effort this season. Rest of those players listed I agree have been far worse than absolutely appalling, including that shocking loan in Belgium stinking out their league but top of that list has to be Captain Crap. Hair pulling, referee-swearing and 45 minutes of the worst outfield performance you will ever see in a Saints or any shirt at Leicester. Never has a player been more worthy of a half-time haul off. Still, the club has a ball-watching replacement ready in Nathan Wood. Thats where Jan is better, has some professionalism and pride.

Or maybe not the winner!

Raphinha the ex-Leeds striker scoring what looks like the winner.

And probably changed position twice since. Nixon used to be contrary sometimes to convince Hanoi he was a madman and unpredictable where Trump is unpredictable and certainly a madman.

Good job he never became a teacher in Cornwall. The kids homework wouldn’t have been consistently marked.

Some truth in that but Hampshire is quite a bit more affluent than Kent, the south of Kent quite a bit further from Central London than Winchester or even Eastleigh are. Kent has a history like Essex eg Dagenham has of voting UKIP/BNP as well eg Thanet Council, where UKIP imploded within six months after winning control.

Taylor’s definition of ‘done well’ is very different to ours. I wouldn’t call losing every single match, very heavily in some cases, ‘done well’. Any more than a blue steak in my local pub would ‘well done’.

Agree with that. Reminds of MAGA and the miners voting for Trump because ‘he’s gonna bring back the mines’. All he’s done is slash their Medicaid when a lot of them have lung/COPD-related conditions. Reform truly are MAGA UK, we even had Jenkyns pledging DOGE UK (she has no ability to bring it about fortunately).

Saw him on a clip the other day, Kidderminster Harriers were in the Conference North play-offs. Looked up the result, they lost to Chester.

Or the NI increase for SMEs under 10 staff, charities, GPs, universities etc. Bad error not to increase NI but to have it as such a blunt instrument by Reeves.

They are, but those places want the 1970s economic inequality (as well as social attitudes) back. What Farage, Tice and the Candy Brothers want is more like the stark 1980s gulf in income inequalities and living standards which Reform’s new voting areas were very much on the wrong end of. They blamed the Tories but they’ve turned to something far more economically extreme with the red meat of anti-immigration thrown in.

Lib Dem voters turned out more, not the maximum result we could’ve had but impressive enough. There is clearly lots of apathy towards both the main parties. What’s ironic is that the glorious past Reform refer that they want to go back to had the lowest gap between the wealthiest and poorest and highest rates of direct taxation on the very wealthy (ditto America and the pre-1960s era the GOP harps on about). Social surveys showed the British public at their happiest in the 1970s especially in Reform’s key voting groups today. Funny I’m not hearing anything about that from them or their billionaire, shady, tax-avoiding partners.

Wayne used to get very excited when Nani was in the Man Utd squad.

Torquay United are my second team, but if Saints appointed their analyst, I’d be raising serious eyebrows knowing that level and the fact Dorking also finished in the Conference South play-offs.