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Soggy could make his own variation - BOG Surely we could put Turkish, Hypo, Duck and H&W down for the first few orders once production is in full, Romney Marsh swing?

Saints are certainly terrible.

More than teething troubles this season.

You might get your wish, Wrexham are stumbling slightly although still well in without a shout of the top 2. Brum definitely a danger next season with their financial backing.

Think I need to chew on it

King was a big MLT fan but Villa as a club.

Everybody else’s will who has a spat with him. Popular at the moment in America but sliding already and will implode when tariffs hit everyday items (Americans didn’t learn our cost of living lesson from Brexit), India, and Moscow.

https://www.avfc.co.uk/news/2016/02/08/interview-mervyn-king---why-aston-villa-means-so-much-to-me

100%. And trips further back to Bucharest, Lisbon, Hamburg, Lisbon, Brussels (my parents went to that and stayed in Bruges) and Marseilles. Probably more further back in the Fairs Cup. Hate it when the club is in its complacent/dozing phases. Hopefully there’s a 09-17 or a 76-85 around the corner. Even an 86-91 or 99-04 would do.

Early season that’s ok but want to move on a bit as the pitches dry out. Lords has not been a good batting wicket in domestic cricket recently and he started at Durham, so the average may only be part of the story. His form on proper wickets at Surrey would be a better guide. Remember him defending well for England but the better bowlers tied up him down a bit.

Didn’t Jason Puncheon have issues with an insistent tortoise at the Everton home game and had to leave the pitch temporarily?

That’s rather cruel H&W - surely a man can be permitted some of his own, fine, home made chutney, fresh from the cooking pots of Romney Marsh?

Gaza is a bit more problematic in the Midlands, as people probably gathered from the GE, more along divided lines, whereas very strong support for Ukraine still.

It’ll fuck their economy, there’s very little Youngkin can do https://www.washingtontechnology.com/companies/2025/02/virginia-governor-pressed-support-federal-workers-and-contractors/403116/ at that scale to mitigate the level of lunacy. 27% of businesses in Fairfax County, the most affected region, rely on competing for federal tenders so private sector decimated, and 30% of federal role going held by military veterans. Wasn't quite in the brochure was it? Virginia state elections are in November https://thedispatch.com/article/virginia-governor-doge-spanberger/ With wafer thin majorities in the House and Senate, only takes a couple of rebel GOPs sticking up for their states and deadlock on the national budget, which affects all 50 states.

Seen plenty still around here and in the Midlands, jacket lapels quite common. Can’t speak for other areas. With public opinion strongly against Trump and Vance’s behaviour I suspect more will pop up again.

It’s incredibly haphazard but in Musk’s case he’s well aware of the asset-stripping he and his team of acne-ridden munchkins are doing. It’s vile but the American electorate are going to have to wear it. They’ve not realised how many Trump voters in poor districts rely on Medicaid, which could be an issue when they finally realise because one thing that lot do save money aside/go robbing for is gun ownership. And plenty of them. When those voters refer to socialism and hating it, they’re not referring to themselves and their own historic provisions which will go under DOGE. Combined with inflation from tariffs pushing up their everyday goods it’s going to get ugly quite soon. Main thing we can do is stop that shit spreading here and to Europe.

Whilst there are many decisions this current government has made that I don’t agree with, a lot of the morass is down to short-term economic experiments like hers which cost tens of billions in a few weeks pushing interest rates further, as well as taking a hard Brexit in 2019 which has cut 6% off the whole economy. So yes, I agree, going back into the Single Market is absolutely essential. We simply don’t have enough money to fund the services the overwhelming majority of voters of all parties expect. Truss knew it as well, which is why she wouldn’t balance the books to make the level of tax cuts (even then they weren’t remotely affordable).

On polling, in 1981-2 the SDP were polling over 50% and leaving a very unpopular Conservative government and conflict-ridden opposition with an unelectable leader batting for 2nd in high teens/low 20s. National Front were active on the streets and predicted to win seats. Then check out the 1983 GE result.

Not at CPAC there weren’t, Truss got shunted into a lunchtime fringe slot when most people were eating/hadnt anrrived and only a handful attended. Even they think she’s a headcase with bollocks ideas. What a waste of aviation fuel - and oxygen.

Beverley Turner is a total moron. James Cracknell is well out of that marriage. Nutter. Anyone will say anything for a few quid. What a track record as well https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bev_Turner

You could say exactly the same about other posters on here though. Simple for me - behaviour of the extremists in both movements is wholly unacceptable and unlikely to lead any solutions either of the populations can get behind. Hamas and Zionism are not doing them any favours.

Yeah, can’t see a very senior politician posting wind-up stuff like that. I reckon Gio was formerly of Bournemouth/Glasgow.

Not after 3 years of not playing first team football effectively.

Speaking of Cameron Green, similar stint at Glos to help him get fit for the Ashes in the winter https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/articles/cwyjlmp30klo

Yep, I’ve had my own business as well, and I would’ve reversed the NI employee that we couldn’t afford, rather than put it on employers NI. Worst decision they’ve made. I agree with some of that but I don’t think are especially woke, Starmer has really cracked down on the harder left and kept away from issues like transgender which is a snakepit of an issue that gets a very vocal minority worked up on either side of political extremes. The Democrats by contrast fucked up in the Presidential election by still majoring on that stuff fuelled by the likes of AOC. The culture war is so much bigger over there because of evangelicals. By contrast, listen to Ben Bradshaw and Caroline Noakes here about how often culture war issues ever came up on the doorstep - answer zero