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Guess which newspaper GM just cut and pasted from?

Hilarious that John cites the IEA when their handpicked candidate for PM lasted what 49 days in global infamy and laughter. And he’s getting so upset by all of the responses correcting all of his old shit 🥹🥲😂

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/institute-of-economic-affairs-liz-truss-2022-accounts/ That’s ok GM, just cut back on the booze. It’s really the community in Lowford who deserve your apology

Productivity wasn’t the main issue, it was lack of trained drivers which the previous government took a positive step on by lowering the driver qualification age, otherwise it was all underpinned by overtime working to deliver a core service. Which would have cost far more. No love for either ASLEF or RMT btw whatsoever.

Have Arsenal as his freebie but fade the others away would be my advice to him. He will be held to a different standard to a Tory leader, unreasonable though it is.

I’d need to look into the figures more but as a country we urgently need to though for productivity because the congestion in towns and cities, which was never good, has become intolerable. If we didn’t have a portion of the workforce on a hybrid working model we’d be really stuffed. The built up places immediately near me - Cheltenham especially doesn’t move 7.30-9, and Gloucester little better. Slightly further afield Birmingham and Bristol are giant car parks at peak time and not much better on the weekends. Even towns on key routes are bad eg Stowe on the Wold around here. Whereas to Bristol and Birmingham via a short drive and park up at the station, it’s less than an hour door to door. Half what it is in the car and then you’ve got find parking etc. And you can work on the train, when the first don’t cut the services because of a lack of drivers and make the next service like a sardine can. Remember as a youngster sitting in hideous traffic in Southampton because Northam Bridge was closed or Itchen Bridge, or horrendous post-match congestion. No point in getting people fit for work via the NHS and not being able to get them to their workplace.

Or certainly bankrupted, I bet some loony billionaire bails him out though.

Quite possibly, I must admit that with family illnesses, renovating a house and busy period of work I’ve not followed the story as closely as I might normally. I share yours and Kraken’s concerns about the levels they are reaching, the optics are not great, and whoever is in his inner circle needs to get this across quite directly. Private Eye, which I get every fortnight, has been keeping a running tally on the football tickets which I thought was getting inappropriate/disproportionate as I’m sure many others did.

Broadly I agree and Reeves is high up there as well. Private Eye has been warning for a while about the amount of just free football tickets and now he’s PM he will need to be more circumspect. As an incoming PM everyone wants to get your ear but now it’s a bit different, especially when you’ve replaced a government widely acknowledged to be almost owned by Tufton St in particular at one point (this reduced somewhat post-Truss disaster). If you promise you be different you have to broadly keep to that. The other aspect is that at least he is declaring it all. I seem to recall this was a real issue with Boris around decelerations and following procedures.

Private Eye has been reporting on this for a while so it’s not new. I think Starmer needs to be a bit more careful around the football freebies but generally a leader of the opposition will be a major focus for donations and interest - Blair was and Cameron was - but it’s whether those donations translate in concrete shifts in policy advantaging donors. Also, the figures aren’t so meaningful without some kind of breakdown of where they are from. Also, unless it carries on and escalates over time on government, I don’t think it will present too many problems.

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Fair to say Nic is an aficionado of the Loose Change films https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loose_Change Whilst slickly presented, the WTC segments have some significant flaws in terms of the knowledge of how the towers were constructed in the late 60s/early 70s, and how steel behaves when exposed to those temperatures, plus the issues with fireproofing it to modern standards (as the spray on asbestos was knocked off on impact and it only went up 40 floors and was in the process of being replaced) https://www.tms.org/pubs/journals/JOM/0112/Eagar/Eagar-0112.html

I’ve heard they can be quite restricting.

One of my university friends from a very elite public school worked in Sainsburys for beer money. On that basis he’s working class too.

Fair enough, as long as he takes Guided Missile aka John Misselbrook with him.

Now crawl back under your rock https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-23355531 PS - Trump was found to be a sexual abuser. And you support him fervently https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2024/01/29/donald-trump-rape-e-jean-carroll/72295009007/

Wait until Paul Marshall completes his purchase of the Telegraph. This being the ‘brains’ behind GB News. The Telegraph is barely keeping the lights on now and full of deliberate misinformation, overpaid has beens like Nick Timothy, only a broadsheet by the type of format it’s been printed on. Marshall will ensure formal relegation to tabloid status in competition with the Mail. And the Mail will kill it stone dead.

Quite, never gotten over his ousting at the BDCA seemingly. As popular as Harry Redknapp is at SMS in his own backyard in Bursledon https://www.change.org/p/bursledon-district-community-association-the-residence-of-bursledon-parish-request-that-the-chairman-of-the-bdca-stand-down https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/14489935.eastleigh-council-chiefs-at-centre-of-row-over-bursledon-parish-councils-lowford-centre/ https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-search?p_p_id=uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet&p_p_lifecycle=2&p_p_state=maximized&p_p_mode=view&p_p_resource_id=%2Faccounts-resource&p_p_cacheability=cacheLevelPage&_uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet_objectiveId=A8878101&_uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet_priv_r_p_mvcRenderCommandName=%2Ffull-print&_uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet_priv_r_p_organisationNumber=5032178

Nice to enjoy a rare win up there, did we win on penalties there under Ralph as well? Some positives there - Bree played well, Stewart minutes and decent penalty, Lallana good cameo, Lesley played well. BBD looked dangerous when he actually got into central positions. Good goal for THB although both defences were ropey overall.

Agreed, but should have been a yellow for Dixon too.

Saints will give you the nightmares, don’t worry about the cheese

He’s quick, pace isn’t the issue, it’s the first touch and the ability to bounce off challenges and nudges.

77% possession first half but little to show for it. Our goal came from a set piece.

Soggy’s post today was appalling and he really should edit it, acknowledge having thought better of it and apologise. No excuses. This one isn’t hitting those depths certainly, but it’s a regurgitation of the populist crap Farage came out with in Parliament. Inciting extreme violence against other races and nationalities has been a near-automatic imprisonable offence for many, many years, and not least in the context it occurred. Deservedly so. Nothing two-tier about that. Those sentenced for that offence in the summer deserve every minute of their sentences. What if some of the Holiday Inn staff had been killed by one of those fires set? No if, no buts, no whataboutery. Edwards is vile but that’s no excuse to downplay violent, highly dangerous and extremist behaviour. Looking at the Edwards case in its own context, as it legally should be, FWIW I listened to what William Hague said on Times Radio, about the sentence being reasonable, and he makes some good points, but I still think Edwards is very fortunate to avoid a custodial sentence. He is still nationally disgraced though and the rest of his days will be totally overshadowed by what he did.