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Your opinion and clearly that of the social media followers you have. 90% of people wouldn’t agree, even most Conservatives.

Read Paul’s opening remarks and you’ll change your understanding https://ifs.org.uk/events/general-election-2024-ifs-manifesto-analysis Paul Johnson is our top independent expert on the public finances and the IFS were very critical of the main parties not being honest, and they savaged Reform UK’s manifesto. Personally I’d have reversed Hunt’s uncosted NI cuts rather than put it on the employers but trying to pretend it wasn’t a horrific hand is fantasy.

And certainly not a panacea from the private sector which the Tory right and Farage crippled with a hard, red tape intensive Brexit. They need help to make exporting easier. Frictionless trade my arse.

Not one I voted for but compared to Johnson a fuck sight better. Hell, even Truss was better than Boris, let alone May, Cameron, Brown, Blair, Major and Thatcher. And most of those could keep it in their underpants or at least use a condom. None of the above told blatant lies on the side of a large red bus to swing a generational referendum nor have been sacked by the Times for lying. So yeah, Boris is a shitheap and worse than Truss, she’s a delusional lunatic but not pathologically dishonest per se.

They won’t care if they lose this 4 or 5-0 as long as they beat Cardiff next week.

Leave it to the Snap Dragon

Or called the Physio a cunt in training.

For balance, you and I would have laid into Martin if he’d picked that line up and formation. Dragan needs to get discussions going with Steve Cooper IMO to start in June. Couple of better early performances but back to square pegs in round holes and these square pegs are utter crap even in square holes.

https://blackadderquotes.com/captain-darling

Still stinks of Boris, this government won’t give a fuck what Cummings is up to but Boris and Kemi will.

He’s an out and out number 2 instead 💩

How many pints would Martina be for Duck?

Hmmm, wonder who they got that from? The obese, dishonest, philandering, non-condom wearing, over-annuated ex-PM they pay a fortune to write garbage on a Saturday for them who fell out with Dominic Cummings per chance?

You may be getting confused with the Pompey thread 😉

Yep, York has fantastic culture, Yorvik Museum, Minster, The Shambles (unrelated to SFC..) and some brilliant pubs. As a Walker/hiker, Yorkshire Dales are wonderful. The Malham circuit is one of my favourite walks in the country, everybody talks about Malham Cove but Gordale Scar even better, Janet’s Foss waterfall and the Tarn. Tan Hill Inn highest pub in the country on the Durham/Cumbria border, the roads out have views right into the Lake District. Wensleydale and Swaledale stunning. Kettlewell - could spend a week there doing the walks. Fleet Moss road a must cycle/drive near there to get to Hawes.

He had been crippled with an achilees injury, wasn’t due back until the autumn at best, and out of contract at the end of the season. If he’d kept that ratio up over a whole season….that makes Adam Armstrong or BBD…hardly worth the mind-numbingly stupid decision to pay £8m plus an extra payment after we went up. When Saints signed Lambert for £1m, then very rare in League 1, he was already a prolific scorer at that level over a few seasons with ability to play higher with the right conditioning and lifestyle. But we were a far more sensible club then.

Shamrock Rovers or Cork City

Kraken is right though even if don’t agree with the tone of his post, Armed Forces have plenty of ED&I posts which given some of the racist abuse cases they’ve tried to cover up isn’t a surprise.

Having never worked for the NHS I may have this wrong but if you’re needing to have multiple posts at that levels managing whole teams at the scale of the NHS, doesn’t that indicate that the right/best leaders especially for Trusts in the most diverse and deprived areas aren’t being recruited and selected. Not just the money either, if you’re having to create workarounds some potentially bad leaders to embed ED&I into health prevention and care delivery that must create a fair bit of extra work? I wouldn’t want to see politicians interfering in appointments, we’ve seen what happens then and it’s a disaster, but what about patient groups and community groups having some say in leadership recruitment?

Yep, and that’s where mainly data-driven scouting and transfer activity leads you. You miss out the balancing out across a team/squad of strengths and weaknesses, because you only look at each deal in isolation.

League One here we come.

Fair, and Baz is League one or two at best.

It’s not necessarily disagreeing with what’s there because there is some truth there - albeit the tone is very partisan given the audience - but what’s missing. Brexit and the type of Brexit, what that newspaper demanded - has murdered commercial investment in the UK as an overall trend, and productivity is every bit as much a problem in the private sector as public. Skills development is another banana skin that successive governments have not made progress on consistently and become yet another ideological football. 2011-23 there were 11 growth strategies and Labour are producing yet more now. Our businesses, colleges and universities need more consistency, stability and consensus to stick their necks out and make the major investments in R&D needed than we’ve had since 2016, when at least we had some continuation from Brown-Darling-Osborne-Cable. https://www.economicsobservatory.com/how-can-the-uk-revive-its-ailing-productivity

Rejoin the Single Market if you want to sort out the economy. The hard Brexit pursued by Johnson and Frost, his Sherpa that couldn’t climb Butser Hill, wiped 7% off GDP and a £40bn annual gap in the economy. Neil won’t admit that and until he does, he has no credibility with me. Labour need to stop being timid about this and tell people truth. Neil’s article is null and void then.

Some nice areas around it, Saltaire, Bingley and the Locks, but Bradford itself is a shocker. It has been for a long time as well, the state of the housing stock is unacceptable in the 21st century, and parts of it don’t look that different to the Yorkshire Ripper era. Potentially some fantastic Industrial Revolution architecture to work with but as H&W identified, post-Brexit the City of Culture title isn’t worth spit in terms of regeneration funds. Another area that screwed up by voting for Brexit.