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Just got home from a day out. Saw it was 0-2 at HT and Rasmus’s/THB’s preferred formation so didn’t seem much point in following it further. How bad has it been? Guessing the fans have been good boys and girls for Tonda, Rasmus and Dragan.

Their army needs to take him and Vance out to save their constitution if that happens. Arrest the Project 2025 authors and Bannon to boot. Martial law with pending full and free elections in both Houses and Presidential.

What a prize prick, said that at a meeting about rural healthcare with his administration having removed cover for so many of his own citizens who he couldn’t give a toss about. Russian and Chinese activity is a problem there but fucking the Danish and other NATO members over isn’t the way to do business. He’s really tanking domestically and the vast majority of the US public polled about Greenland of all perspectives are very opposed to it.

Newcastle put Shearer in goal when looking at him from the reports for Wallsend Boys. Jack Hixton, Lawrie’s man in the North East knew better. Kevin Phillips was a full back in our youth team and by his own admission a very middling one. Took an injury crisis at Watford to become an emergency forward.

The ball-striking in the Jupiler League is ace as well, they call it the Jupiter League in that regard as some of the shots the keepers have to face are simply out of this world.

2024 GE result aside, I’d certainly like to see him making more inroads and holding Labour’s feet to the fire on closer working with the EU to give the economy the tonic needed. Solutions need to be a mix of practical and different, with the rider that they work in our national culture, which is where the half-arsed DOGE imports from America some Reform councils are using fall flat on their faces. Policy formation is crap from all of the parties, Blair and Blunkett just ripped Starmer’s national renewal plan a new arsehole, Badenoch like Starmer wins one-off battles (Grok, Jenryck) and pulled Farage’s pants down yesterday but isn’t presenting a clear or novel way forward. Farage’s policy is based on the David Walliams character at the Border Desk. Then we have the boob man and the discredited SNP.

We hope so anyway…

Even shit teams win the odd game - 2-1 Saints with a scrappy winner off THB’s left bollock from a corner or something similar.

Nearly there, would need Stoke to buy Baz and for him to be prime Banks to complete the set.

Perhaps they should be a shirt sponsor for West Ham in the Championship next season? After all in their near title season in 1985-6 with McAvennie banging them in (and banging plenty of other things allegedly) they had AVCO loans.

Which party advocated Yogic Flying? Was it Natural Law Party?

I actually didn’t know what they were so had to look it up. Didn’t realise it was Ben Habib’s little gang. Advance UK sounds like something you’d pick up at Lloyd’s Pharmacy to relieve your head or backache.

I’d dispute whether it’s pretty at all. Liverpool did it in the 1980s during the last 10 minutes of games before the backpass rule to the keeper (one of the reasons it was introduced) to kill off narrow wins frequently.

Plus it’s as dreadful to watch as Branfoot’s ‘the full backs hit diagonals in the channels looking for the big lump’ style. Both are anti-football.

Good for him, fingers crossed he stays fit and has a reasonable career.

When the thread was bumped I assumed either: - Another chronic injury - His real birth certificate was found and confirmed that SR bought a 14 year old in 2022. The fact it was neither is a positive.

Would he come though?

On the other hand, the Tories own private polling shows that 25% of their members would vote Labour in a seat where the Tories can’t win but Reform is the main competitor to Labour and even more so the Lib Dem’s. Agree that there’s plenty of ex-Tories wanting an even hotter right wing curry loaded with Habaneros and Reform will get 100 seats+ there’s also a large ‘stop Farage at any costs’ tactical vote bloc building which has plenty of other current and ex-Tories in it. None of the polls despite the hyperbole have really convinced me that Reform gets over 326 seats on their own. It won’t help Labour’s own tally as people will also switch Lib Dem and Green but between the parties there’s enough to keep Farage out. They’ll still get around 200 though maybe more if the economic upturn can sustain and no way Starmer is leader by the next GE. Lib-Lab coalition or Lib-Con vote by vote minority.

I’d much rather listen to a seasoned football manager like Stevie Cotterill at my local club than idiots like him, Tonda, Martin, Maresca and the other bullshitters.

And the one after that and after that.

MAGA is nothing without Trump, Vance would struggle to win a handful of states. Like the Soviets did with Brezhnev and Chernenko, they’ll pump him full of drugs and wheel him out to front things to keep the movement alive. Their domestic performance and economic problems are chronic though, even though the Democrats are pathetic they’ll still cane the GOP at the mid-terms and he’ll be a lame duck anyway.

Anderson was a councillor in the East Mids not an MP. A Labour MP going straight to Reform would be a real long shot, not as long as Lib Dem to Reform or vice versa but close to it. David Owen nearly joined the Tories but would have gone Labour Minister-SDP-Alliance-Liberal-Tory to do it, and still couldn’t quite do it despite his growing Brexit views. That’s why all of the national level defections are from the Conservatives pretty much. Badenoch must have been enjoying something strong and smiling - she had a great week not just with today but Zahawi was another trap she laid with the peerage begging which Farage fell straight into. Surprised Tice didn’t veto it but shows it’s a one man party. Bob has an ego as big as Nigel’s - I give it 12 months maximum.

Telegraph has a clip privately recorded of Bob at the Tory Conference breakouts saying that Reform couldn’t run a football 5-a-side outfit. Expect more from the papers still loyal to the Conservatives who haven’t gone all in with Farage yet to leak out over the next few weeks. Badenoch has done Bob and Nigel up like a (U)kipper today.

Corbyn and Johnson would certainly have abused it.

This was pitiful https://www.facebook.com/Channel4News/videos/nigel-farage-refuses-to-directly-apologise-to-rishi-sunak-over-racist-comments-b/837094701249910/ https://nen.press/letters-farages-racist-glasgow-remarks-betray-the-true-welcoming-spirit-of-scotland/ Defending multiple racist comments https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c78z4eyvnx1o https://news.sky.com/story/farage-defends-ukip-candidates-chinese-slur-10378308 and https://www.facebook.com/100063703086121/posts/nigel-farage-sparks-fury-over-chinky-slur-row-️nigelfarage-has-ignited-a-storm-o/1419439373522819/ and https://www.facebook.com/northants.et/photos/reform-uk-will-not-be-taking-any-further-action-over-wellingborough-councillors-/1499534681889275/ and https://www.thenewworld.co.uk/rats-in-a-sack-the-reform-councillor-and-the-white-supremacist-dating-site/ I don’t agree with what Soggy said to you earlier though. That was wrong.