Gloucester Saint

The background also looks like an artex-ceiling era boomer bungalow’s living room.

Pointless as Saints last season, because 80-90% of the switchers are Tories and the so-called Labour switchers are mostly disgruntled Boris voters from 2019. Sums up Labour lack of strategy.

We were in Itchen Block 10 parallel to the goal and can’t agree with you there, it only crossed the line with Bridcutt’s fumble.

Starmer was going to be gone as PM by the summer regardless IMHO. Hence Streeting and Burnham recent moves.

A touch of the Ian Holloways (credit to SkintSaint for originally posting this)

Is that a genuine photo or the Wrexham Labour AI one? Much as I loathe the toad-faced grifter, I also loathe AI-generated misinformation wherever it comes from.

She compromised quite rightly because of the narrowness of the referendum result and also realised that a very hard Brexit would lead to no chance of some of the outlandish claims from Leave in 2016 being realised economically has led to mass disillusionment by poorer areas who voted Leave the most and ended up Boris’s biggest supporters in 2019 and switched to Labour in 2024. They just saw a red bus with £350m on it, they don’t understand it was a non-binding campaign. JRM or someone else on the ERG hard right might have pushed it through but no way that the One Nation group would have folded easily and probably large scale defections to the Lib Dem’s when conflict broke out. It was all in vain because Farage carried on anyway and the economy is much weaker than it was before 2016 on a permanent basis.

Chris Mason, who is pretty much kissing Farage’s arse, to be exact.

Or non-Labour/depends on the Tory (Hunt, Heseltine, Willetts, Clarke all good, I don’t even mind Osborne and Sunak was alright as well) I liked the Coalition and voted for it (knowing it was a possibility and open to it). Voted Tory in 2017 as whilst May’s deal had flaws it was way better than anything Boris and Frost would blunder upon (I was 100% correct on that aspect indisputably but sadly we ended up with their fuck up putting the skids under the last few governments). The country ain’t in a very good state and everyone has played their part - Starmer, Reeves, Truss, Boris and Farage, the electorate, Corbyn for not doing the opposition job properly during Brexit, the Remain campaign and ultimately, 52% of the electorate fucking it up with a Spors/Damion Downs moment in 2016. Everyone wants change but within 5 minutes the pitchforks are out whoever wins. We are doing down the American ungovernable road if not careful.

They’re too piecemeal to make decent policies, fly too many kites in public, those OBR budget leaks did my head in. Policies don’t seem to be configured end to end, impacts fully considered and it still feels far too Tory post 2016. Are they worse than the Coalition 2010-15? For me, yes, comfortably and worse than New Labour as well. Those governments had clear sense of purpose and direction which is a difference. But what I will say is that he’s had to deal with Trump 2.0 with no domestic guardrails over there, the economy was left in the worst state WW2 and public services through the floor. And Brexit carving 6% off the economy. They’ve made choices on NI, small business rates, International Student Levy that I’d never have made but they’ve not made enough inroads in clearing up.

Simple - this is the worst error Starmer has made. Far from the only, but the most material and highest profile. The only poster I’ve seen doing what you suggest over the last 18 months is Soggy and even he’s not defending Starmer here. The Lib Dem’s are pro EU and according to the right wing posters Davey is unfit. Farage admits today Reform are nowhere near ready, neither is Badenoch. Therefore as a non-Labour voter I have to hope Streeting launches a leadership challenge.

Don’t hate the Conservatives overall, but I do hate the ERG wing - Brexit is the biggest scandal of the lot. This iteration of Labour are very frustratingly piecemeal, don’t follow decisions through nor take a considered view - £1m limit on farm tax way too low, private school fees which didn’t generate much income despite the noise it created, small business relief. Not my cup of tea in other words. Your opinion about what not particularly objective means but the constant red top noise generated probably engendered something contrary in us, most of it because Coulson and Brooks rightly went to jail as serious criminal offenders should. That’s because of his work at the CPS not Labour per se.

I saw the printed words but didn’t realise he’d actually bellowed like that. A lot of it is theatre with him though, man of the people etc. Did get into pirate mode there pretty much. Shiver me timbers.

It’s very poor judgment and Starmer and McSweeney will go for it, that’s very clear. It’s been their Achilles heel. Biggest for decades? It’s certainly big and not very clever at all. Covid was worse still objectively, though, for anyone coming from a neutral perspective, and Truss was a major economic disaster and that’s what leads to certain and heavy defeat - Major and ERM, 2008 Financial Crisis and Truss. Sunak was holding the wheel but Truss and Boris did the damage. Thatcher had a public friendship with Jimmy Savile when it was pretty obvious he was iffy at the time and she was usually a very shrewd operator. She had another couple of perverts in her inner circle as well - eg Peter Morrison. Liberals messed up about Cyril Smith. But these days, it’s near impossible for these scandals not to come out, as Steve Bannon and Donald Trump are also finding out. Starmer has been a sitting duck for the red tops because of convicting Coulson and Brooks (rightly) but that meant being cautious and that’s what he was elected on. Appointing Mandelson was always a huge risk and it’s blown up in his face. If you are known as the Prince of Darkness in your own party it’s normally a clue.

Someone must have gone one at Newport when we rattled in 8 there? Wasn’t v Sunderland because I was there for that one.

A damaged skate wing is a tricky injury to fully overcome tbf.

Cough Phil Giles cough

John also started a thread in praise of a sexual abuser https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-65531098 Watch him go silent again as the reality of Trump/Bannon/Epstein emerges. None of this excuses Mandelson by the way nor Starmer’s piss poor judgement (again) to be clear, but one eyed, drunken hypocracy deserves exposing.

Only Premier Saints ready for right now is the Southern Premier.

And then combine with Leo to perform a Terrance & Phillip-style fart celebration in front of the Watford fans.

News impacting one of Hants’s D1 opponents and local rivals https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/articles/cy8pzlkx2ygo

Spare a thought for the kebab shops, curry houses, Thai restaurants, Chinese eateries and fish and chip shop owners of Southampton. This is like a relegation for them with a 20% loss in turnover and even more devastating than Nando’s when Luke Shaw joined Man U.

Some suggestions here for goal celebrations

Hopefully he’ll become my third favourite Canadian after Terrence and Philip Legend if he scores and farts in celebration like T&P at the opposition fans. This topic of this second song is better suited to Pompey though https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJ3p8luJmrA

Very happy to pass the Kotchap (to Verona).