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If anyone wants a listen. Just joined Basingstoke Town.

The Eritrean AS who was trying to retrospectively claim he was a victim of modern slavery, having passed through several countries he could have claimed refuge in, is on a flight first thing tomorrow morning now. 👋

And pay on the day. Just under 3 hours for me driving.

Even given the difficulties faced by Hull, I’d still rip your arm off for that.

Dreadful from Sheldon. Bottled it. So obvious he had to go and he was being manipulated but couldn’t help himself. If he gets plenty of stick in public now then limited sympathy. Simple to do his job on this case and failed. Probably best that he steps down and lets another justice who can cope with lobbyist manipulation step up to the plate.

It’s as subtle as a fart in Winchester Cathedral yet Clive Sheldon fell for it https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1dqe2443l1o UK’s finest legal mind my arse. The double glazing firms and charity chuggers need to get round to his house pronto so he can give his life savings away.

It’s why the Home Office allowed a large cohort of Albanian women to stay in 2022 who were allegedly victims of trafficking - because they probably had no option. Whilst it’s not pleasant, the processes probably do need to be rolled up.

I think they have to though. And then keep tweaking the law again and again to counter the activists tactics. Having a punch up with the courts might actually politically take some heat off as well.

The courts are subverting democratically-elected governments and will carry on doing so, hence the answer is to play anti-Queensbury rules and hit the charities incomes by instant deportation the moment a rejection happens under the already proposed shortened appeals system. I don’t want us to follow America with politically-appointed judges, you end up with losing Roe Vs Wade and the Evangelicals spread their odious tentacles here.

It happened to the Tories regularly and would happen to Reform, even if we pulled out of the ECHR. Grieve explained how they’d just use Common Law to be a nuisance (the judges). Best way is to undermine them without actually breaking the law and break the activists finances. It won’t be overnight as they are well funded but it will kick in after a few months of funding return travel and logistics to bring each case back.

They need to bring the revised appeals process straight away using panels and if still a rejection then straight out of the country. If the activists and Refugee Council want to bring them back to string it out they can pay for it themselves and do battle with the Border Force. That will empty the activists coffers rather quickly over a growing sample size of rejections and deportations.

And Will Smallbone at DMC had just as much to do with the porous back line that day. Charles on the bench so no excuse for Martin that game.

Got too much stick on their forum posing as @Notnowjimmie

370-7 - started well with the ball but yes, pitch dried out and short boundaries at Taunton. Aldridge’s farewell present before joining Durham. Should have at least got them all out today before the rain all day tomorrow to maximise bowling points. But Worcs have held firm at Durham - 311/5. Will check the forecast to see if it’s still better there.

WGS and Lawrie slow starters. Pellegrino reasonable start and then became the worst Saints manager I’ve ever seen. Reed and Kruger must have on the lash most of that season to not sack him until March.

Under Cameron I can see it - right wing economics/austerity combined with social liberalism. But May was socially more conservative, Boris who knows? Thatcher was the sea change but it’s compromise with the electorate after that and even she had to compromise eg NHS Safe with Us campaign.

They won’t vote Lib Dem anyway and we don’t tend to do so well in those areas. Farage wouldn’t like all of his lies and the flop of Brexit exposed. The reason Sir Ed has avoided it is he saw how it destroyed Swinson, but different circumstances now.

Kruger saying the current Tory party is too left wing is like eating one of these, and saying it tastes like a Korma https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phall

Not much prospect of play other than tomorrow https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/2636177 Better forecast in Durham at the moment, today a goner, half day Weds so 2.5 days to force a win v Worcestershire, possibly three if the outfield isn’t too wet on Weds to start on time https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/2653224

Might as well as have done that yesterday for all the entertainment the derby game provided.

Yeah, that fence looks none too stable.

Hmmm, Middle Eastern appearance, maybe Turkish even?

Which one are you Hypo? The light blue football shirt in Reform colours is surely Duck? Can’t see WSS in a pork pie hat so I’ll guess that’s Holmes & Watson…

Good one liner but I have seen an under pressure fellow senior leader in one workplace do something like that to garner empathy….

There probably is a club stupid enough - SR if they hadn’t already experienced him. Highly talented young manager? Should have gone to Specsavers Dragan…