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Those figures were from GB News via an FoI request. I wouldn’t dismiss them out of hand because of that but would also take with a certain amount of salt as I doubt proper statisticians were used to analyse the data. The government has stated that official migrant crime rates will be published before Xmas in a move which has thrown the Tories who always promised it and never actually did it. I’m not that fussed on it myself from a Lib Dem perspective but it’s red meat for the red wall isn’t it? https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-labour-is-finally-publishing-migrant-crime-league-tables/ I wouldn’t be surprised if some of the nations are similar in the official data assimilated properly though - Albania we know has a chronic people smuggling problem and a lot of those nations listed have legal and policing systems very different to the West not to mention very different cultures. What will be interesting is if Germany, France and Scandinavian nations follow suit for comparative data and whether the patterns follow. Because it’s a pan-European problem whether the populists like that or not. Brexit hasn’t helped the borders but a joined up approach is more likely to.

And regardless tainted with ammonia. SR have done many stupid things but even they can read about how Redknapp panned out, and what a hard time Crouch had initially.

Spors said as much quite openly as well. https://www.tribalfootball.com/article/soccer-premier-league-southampton-plan-major-sell-off-as-spors-makes-window-promise-to-fans-205e8789-8a27-4172-95db-901821403e3e

Leopards don’t change their spots https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz798wrd81jo The leaflet that came through our door from them was little better and full of anti-EDI. Thankfully people here are generally open-minded and independent so the Lib Dem’s will increase their majorities. In Devon, where some of my family live, Reform have colonised some of the NextDoor apps, openly campaigning on them and very hostile and aggressive to any questioning. Constant threads about immigration, dislike of foreign visitors, and hatred of other political parties (Tories but increasingly Lib Dem’s who they see as a threat) drowning out the normal posts about missing pets and community events. If it was a London borough, Midlands or NW - understandable but those areas are 98% white!

£12-15m which unlike for outfield players was still a significant outlay for a keeper at the time. Has never looked a natural goalkeeper in his positioning and presence around the box.

And part of the reason Galtieri felt able initially was the defence cuts of 1981 even though there were FCO warnings that Argentina might try its luck.

We were better off getting him bumped off as an inside job, which I think would have happened if Trump hadn’t have kissed Putin’s arse. Very hard to win that war in the battlefield even with the aid Ukraine were getting but Trump has totally misread Russia and made a twat of himself with all the pronouncements around ending the war in a day or a week. New leader could be just as bad but you could get a Gorbachev.

I couldn’t understand what the dirty marks were down the side of Canberra (rust of course) watching on Weston Shore. I was coming up for 5 so we must be a similar age. 43 years ago in July but one of my earliest and most vivid memories (along with Bryan Robson’s WC goals v France the previous month lol).

Whilst not a long war thankfully, the human loss shouldn’t be overlooked with the Falklands as Francis mentions with the Exocet hit and losing 14 of his shipmates. I’ve worked with one ex-serviceman on community projects who has PTSD from having packed away the bodies of Argentinian troops in crates. I asked him how young, expecting him to say 18/19 and he said ‘no, younger, taking their O Levels or younger’.

Feebly asking a Russian dictator and lunatic to stop bombing another country like he’s a cat scratching furniture is not going to work. Bombing Moscow’s power plants and shutting their capital city into darkness, that might.

He is, cartilage, although that’s not the feared injury it was in the 1970s and early 1980s thankfully with advances in sports and clinical science. He’s still conceded 2 goals per game there and not a glowing report card from people watching the games overall. Not terrible either but nowhere near a Southampton shirt next season even given how bad we’ve been. Subsidised loan to lower Champ or more likely League 1 where he’s had some success before is the way to go. He’s looked very skittish in Belgium and keeping every other week in a stadium which doesn’t hold happy memories won’t help him. Fresh start.

If Martin does join Norwich, and wants Gavin on loan initially, then I’d have thought Saints would have to subsidise some of his wages anyway as their parachute payments run out.

Although extending McCarthy for 2 years wasn’t bright either. Agree that we’d never have won the playoffs with Gavin in goal though. Subsidised loan probably the best route to a lower Champ, League 1 club, no loan fee and pay 50% of wages to give him a full season of men’s football. Alternative is Martin gets the Norwich job and Gunn leaving in the summer on a free and no senior keepers….

Canberra’s return to Southampton July 1982 for anyone too young to have been there or seen it

https://www.hants.gov.uk/transport/roadsafety/cyclingtraining

When the Trump regime does things beneficial to public wellbeing, I will praise and give them credit https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/crld4egrkrxo

In terms of your memory of Southern Seas deployment, I’m currently reading - and enjoying - this book at the moment about how Canberra was borrowed, and adapted, for the Falklands War. I remember being on Weston Shore in 1982 with my parents when she came back, a vivid early memory. The human aspects in terms of how civilian and naval personnel got along is really interesting, and 99% of the Cunard crew wanted to stay on. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Very-Strange-Way-War-Falklands/dp/1845137450

Fair point, and the Highway Code says to treat them as another car in terms of space which I do. Cyclists who also hold a driving licence I suspect tend to be safer cyclists.

There does need to be a deterrent. They want to see chaos but it not effect them. NBC poll still finding that only 2% regret their vote, although his approval ratings are very low by Presidential standards.

As was another vile racist shitbag coming on tour to spread hatred https://www.algemeiner.com/2021/10/04/polish-foreign-ministry-furious-after-uk-denies-entry-to-far-right-writer-who-spoke-of-holocaust-myth/ Look, there’s another one https://www.haaretz.com/2011-08-11/ty-article/britain-denies-entry-to-israeli-rabbi-who-advocated-killing-of-non-jews/0000017f-dbc2-d3a5-af7f-fbeef4ab0000 People who post frustrations with policies of Starmer, Sunak, Truss, Johnson, May, Cameron etc = not having any problems generally entering the UK. Ditto most of the EU, Canada, Aus, NZ etc. French scientist who criticised specific aspects DOGE relating to cutting indirect cost rates for labs, which is a MAGA POLICY = denied entry.

I had a cyclist shoot in front of our bonnet at the crossroads in St Denys opposite the car dealership, when the lights had turned green our side and had long since turned red the cyclist’s side coming down the hill towards Riverside. She had to have blatantly shot through a red light.🚦 As cyclists can’t have points applied as a car driver would, they should receive a higher fine to balance it if caught on camera or by traffic cops.

Here’s a ‘showing my age’ one and related to the overtaking posts, except this was horses rather than cars (and it was not the horses that were the issue whatsoever). Just slowly overtook in the car two horses out riding to go to one of the local pubs my wife likes, no issues there at all. We are passing and one of the young female riders late teens/early 20s is vaping whilst riding the horse! Poor horse having to breathe in candy floss flavour vape or whatever it was!

We should never bash the Bishop.

Do you think RVN would walk if he is wealthy enough?

Great post EKS, quite possible to take pride in our forces, coming from a forces family myself, but also recognise that Brexit had made it a damn sight harder to fund our forces and that the ‘black holes’ Hammond, Hunt and Reeves have had to contend are caused by losing 6% of the economy to a very hard Brexit. By contrast, Trump’s tariffs are damaging but at 0.8% of GDP. Glad Francis enjoyed his day, and our sailors are going to get a really good grounding over the next few months for long careers where powers like China and Russia are a real threat. I could do without the domestic politics dragged in on the first paragraph. If you voted for Brexit then be honest and own up to the damage it has caused.