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Chris Philp moans on about asylum seekers and hotels - let’s see how he and Yvonne Cooper compare: - September 2023, 56042 ASs housed in hotels when Philp was Home Office Minister - June 2025 (most recent data) ASs housed in hotel 32059. (source Private Eye)

Those type of people also spent an entire flight from Rio to Heathrow racially abusing John Barnes after his wonder goal in the Maracana. And for West Ham, Leeds and Chelsea on club duty throwing bananas at Danny Wallace from the Archer cage. They also kept signing ‘No Surrender to the IRA’ long after the Good Friday Agreement was signed. I won’t be putting any store in the ‘views’ of the England members travel club any more than I would Mark Collett from Patriotic Alternative (Nick Griffin’s former deputy). They also spent most of Euro 2016 in the bars of Germany singing about Brexit - look how that’s turned out for them. This is typical of them https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c51y7p8rnggo and same Neanderthals who sent the racist abuse to the lads who missed penalties in the final of Euro 2021. Same type of knuckledraggers have also vandalised local roundabouts. My England international sport is hence watched at cricket test/ODI venues and Twickenham where people can behave and respect a range of views.

His agent can smell Saudi money. And they’ve just seen Brownhill to Al Shabab for £100k p/wk plus. But the risk is if that doesn’t come off he’s a fringe Championship player in a WC year.

He’d got into the Championship team of the year at Swansea and Leeds also wanted him, was linked with PL clubs. It was assumed that he’d probably follow Martin (and did) but very underwhelming first season, slightly better last year but this season going forward is what we had expected in terms of set pieces and assists.

She has previous form as with many of Reform’s Tory B String cast offs

Robert Bloom resigned from North Northamptonshire Council last month after being recorded using the N-Word at a neighbour where he also said that he would set the EDL on her and stated that there would be black body bags. Note no criticism in the Reform press release of his behaviour. https://www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/news/people/corby-reform-councillor-resigns-over-serious-racism-allegations-5289085 Furthermore, Bloom’s inevitable resignation triggers a by-election costing the taxpayers of Northamptonshire £25k. Slashing wasteful spending my fucking arse,

According to Reform Rayner built up a Mount Everest hypocrisy of a property portfolio whilst lamenting a housing shortage. Some truth in that but do as I say, not say as I do it appears. Farage has at least FIVE properties.

I do know some jokes about that topic if you want to hear some 😉 Although might save them for the Skates match thread nearer next Sunday

And along with Mad Nads, found the keys to Toad Face’s alcohol cupboard. Which does exist despite him claiming the UK is like North Korea. He’s forgetting that Maggie cracked down on football casual violence just as hard as the current government and law courts.

Doing his BWP and Nathan Dyer impression at 🐅 🐅?

I suppose it’s an upgrade from biting from Luis Dracula, but spitting at a football coach at the age of nearly 40, deary me https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c20eme1rm73o

Decent analysis ahead of Reform UK’s conference in Birmingham on their economic plans. Summary: they’ve not improved significantly and would lead to significant increases in public borrowing. The thing that is apparently really bad https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyx4v44438o

Evening Major!

Ah yes, Red Len.

Quite likely yes, I don’t think he will have the same scope as Rayner did with her being a key figure on their left.

DPM is quite a strategic role and I don’t think Lammy will have the same scope Rayner did as that was a ticket to get the Labour left to buy-in. Agree on Cooper as safe pair of hands, same way Hunt was for the Tories. Edit - @whelk is right on the Vance link, he’ll probably be more focused on that and Cooper more on linking in with defence and NATO. How tidy Cooper has been at the Home Office given the shit that goes on there is creditable. Remember Howard and Blunkett comparing war stories on a panel about what a nightmare HO is. Chewed up a lot of solid experienced campaigners as well as some junk (Braverman).

At a fans forum as well.

Foul isn’t it? Bloke trying to earn an honest living with different colour skin being abused by trash. Reminds me of the moron in the 10/11 season calling Lee Peltier a ‘black c*nt’ ignoring the fact Guly was tussling with him for the ball and clearly heard it too. Round up all of the racist chavs onto Portsea Island, and destroy the motorway link.

Darren Jones will be replacing Reeves at some stage I reckon as well. Agree on Streeting, best orator for years.

Yep, agree on that. But by electorates/publics, not the kangaroo selection mechanisms Momentum and the ERG were using in their parties to cleanse whole wings.

Thing is, if we want more Andy Streets and Andy Burnhams (maybe just more Andy’s?) with the right background, they won’t all do it out of public duty like those two. Street was a very good Mayor, reached out to other parties, I’ve met him, top guy and proper One Nation Tory. We have to pay what the best leaders earn in all sectors where you find them (and it is a mix having worked across sectors). Then people moan at the salaries yet an HR Director at say IBM or in the NHS earns more than the PM.

I now have in my mind the club hosting a dating agency with former elite footballer’s fathers and different mothers being introduced and mating….like a footballer/zoo programme

Just like the rest of us then. I shake my head at the state of politics and politicians whether it’s here or overseas.

Hopefully this window made a departure from that constant trawl for the next Livramento/Lavia - but the proof of the pudding will be in the eating @hypochondriac - did I get the saying right?

Define ‘Loony Lefties’ - is that Labour, Corbyn’s party, SNP, Lib Dem (who I vote for), Tories who were pretty keen to give tens of billions to their mates of our money through PPE and the VIP. Or Reform, as this is the Reform thread, who have been appointing £600k political advisors to the UK poorest local authorities. Politicians of all rosettes spend/waste public money regardless of left wing, populist, right of centre, hard left, far right - 5 minutes on Google will tell you that. I’ll even post from Private Eye the fortnightly segment they do on Reform corruption in local government and they were elected in May 2025! Try some reading https://www.amazon.co.uk/Blunders-Our-Governments-Anthony-King/dp/1780742665