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The Starmer Years - Can The New Broom Sweep Clean?
Gloucester Saint replied to sadoldgit's topic in The Lounge
Meanwhile Jeremy Corbyn starts a new party to tackle the ‘rich and powerful’. Like Len McCluskey, the bloke who put him in post, I presume? https://www.placenorthwest.co.uk/report-lifts-lid-on-liverpool-firms-role-in-unite-corruption-scandal/ -
As long as there’s no collapse we should avoid the follow on and that would be another draw. Safety bit by bit.
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THB had surgery this summer IIRC
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The Starmer Years - Can The New Broom Sweep Clean?
Gloucester Saint replied to sadoldgit's topic in The Lounge
I don’t agree with Starmer at headline level on the available data but life and policy is not as simple as ‘Get Brexit Done’ (we didn’t), or ‘Stop the Boats’ (we haven’t and nobody entirely will, whatever you hear on YouTube). There’s a fair bit of stock that post-Grenfell and as tower blocks, older estates get beyond the point HA’s want to sink in yet more money renovating them, isn’t suitable, or most British families won’t consider. The Red Road Flats in Glasgow are a prime example in the years before they were demolished and housed ASs at scale. It’s not a long-term solution but it buys time to get the cases backlog under Braverman back under control. It needs to be accompanied with faster and more ruthless processing, the AI tools and checks to stop people claiming u18 who aren’t is a start. -
The Starmer Years - Can The New Broom Sweep Clean?
Gloucester Saint replied to sadoldgit's topic in The Lounge
Quite surprising isn’t it? Mind you, whilst it doesn’t feel like it, it is in modern history terms a while ago now. Most British history courses cover the period because you can’t understand today’s Britain without it. As a person, she was quite interesting and family friend worked for her - best boss he ever had. Didn’t agree with 50% of her policies but no denying she had a huge impact and genuinely cared about people on low-mid incomes even if her policies benefited them short-term but harmful in the longer-run. Hard to say many governments of any stripe have since. -
The Starmer Years - Can The New Broom Sweep Clean?
Gloucester Saint replied to sadoldgit's topic in The Lounge
As someone who doesn’t vote Labour or Tory and cutting out the noise, has Starmer done a good job objectively? Internationally - yes, there’s some scraping of barrels online and in the tabloids but he kicks Boris’s arse on that score. They’ve done more more major trade deals, far more, than the Tories did in 10, and most of those bar Truss’s Aussie disaster shafting our farmers were done by Sunak. Rishi was alright actually but his situation was like Rusk last season. Domestically - no, the NI increase had to happen but the lack of exemptions for SMEs under 5 staff, charities, education etc was stupid. Winter fuel allowance wasn’t worth the hassle and the optics around it were a mess. I didn’t agree with the extent of the climb down on welfare either. As @egg said though, anyone who thinks it was anything other than inheriting the worst situation since Churchill or Attlee has got their head stuck up their arse, or is spending too much time on X. Don’t agree with circa 50% of the choices they’ve made but to argue it’s been a disaster is some serious drunkenness. Truss - that’s a properly a disaster Hard Brexit - losing 6% of your economy - that’s a disaster. -
After the bonuses of Sully and Onachu, I can only assume the outgoings that were expected to happen quickly - Bednarek, Aribo - haven’t happened, Dibling situation hasn’t resolved with a departure or new contract, THB injured. Even so, the attacking midfielder hasn’t happened which has a stink of the last minute failed striker trolly dash of 2023. Less profligate than Rasmus but as dynamic as a breeze block so far this summer on needed incomings. Squad is still bloated and can understand there not exactly being a queue of takers.
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Bednarek with more pace and less experience, basically.
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Exhibit three: Millwall home https://www.independent.ie/sport/soccer/gavin-bazunu-under-fresh-scrutiny-as-southampton-boss-blasts-concession-of-crap-rubbish-goals-against-millwall/a457780480.html That’s without mentioning the PL horrors - Lallana’s header, Firpo Leeds away etc
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The Starmer Years - Can The New Broom Sweep Clean?
Gloucester Saint replied to sadoldgit's topic in The Lounge
4% of social housing sold off by Right to Buy replaced since 1980. Yep, blaming a policy starting in 1980 is absolutely reasonable https://news.sky.com/story/end-right-to-buy-to-help-save-councils-from-2-2bn-black-hole-government-urged-13209490 As for rubber face, he was as much a part of Vote Leave as Boris as you well know and just as untruthful. And the reason he’s down to 4 MPs is that one of them is a wife beater and the other who took our football club into the abyss he fell out with (a common theme). Classy party. Nigel Pinocchio: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvg6r7vyz4zo https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/nigel-farage-reform-winter-fuel-child-cap-b2757571.html https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2998klx2y0o https://www.gmb.org.uk/news/farage-port-talbot-call-more-lies-from-chancer https://nation.cymru/news/farage-claim-that-police-drove-protesters-to-demo-is-not-true-senior-officer/ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1l47e86r39o https://www.desmog.com/2025/07/17/reform-uk-nigel-farage-zia-yusuf-west-northamptonshire-council-doge/ -
Look at Ipswich away that season - even Martin criticised him after that and said he cost us the game.
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Leading MAGA and Republican figure Candice Owens being sued by the Macrons for nutty conspiracy theories https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8739w8py4jo Clearly slavery, civil rights movement, Martin Luther King and Barack Obama all passed her by or hasn’t read about them in her futile quest to cuddle up to white supremacism. Married to a British Tory - not surprising these days either with how far they’ve gone in the MAGA gutter.
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That’s why last night at Ibrox was so frustrating - not because I’ve got anything against RM, well done on the result - but seeing Gassama do actually what we sorely need. Player we were linked with as well.
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Evens Stevens at stumps. The severity (or not) of Pant’s injury will be a critical factor.
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Hope you’re right. Big risk to find out first game of the season though.
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The Starmer Years - Can The New Broom Sweep Clean?
Gloucester Saint replied to sadoldgit's topic in The Lounge
As did Thatcher over Right to Buy, Blair didn’t help the situation, Cameron made it much worse still, Boris totally screwed the country and us as taxpayers to fund his mates over the hotels deal https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2720n2kkjo So much so, two of the companies have to pay some of the excess profit back it was so gross https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2jw9jg99jo I don’t like Starmer particularly either but he’s no worse or better any of the above, and Farage is worse than all of them. Still not seen that £350m for the NHS or Turkey joining the EU, lying rubber faced shit. We took loads of shit over the tuition fee pledge in the coalition and got our arses handed to us in 2015 and 2019. If you’re a smaller party, you don’t have a whole tabloid and talk news empire behind you like Reform do, manifesto mistakes are fatal for a long time. Well on the way back now though and dicking all over the Tories in the South and South West. -
If you watch some of the clips from his loan spell in Liege you’ll see what we mean.
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The Starmer Years - Can The New Broom Sweep Clean?
Gloucester Saint replied to sadoldgit's topic in The Lounge
There’s an insufficient amount of what would be deemed good quality social housing in key economic regions for UK residents who are tied to jobs/families/schools, but if you’re not tied to those needs/constraints - ASs for example - that’s less of an issue. You might be prepared to put up with poor decoration and/or an iffy housing estate if you’re claiming asylum. I don’t agree actually with Rayner and Starmer that there’s excess, there clearly isn’t because the Right to Buy reciepts were largely squandered, but using the borderline social housing that most British people in waiting lists can’t/don’t want to take up (and unemployment by moving out of area or losing grandparent childcare means they couldn’t pay the rent to be fair to them) is a lot cheaper that what Boris’s chums were charging us for hotels. Less of a focal point for the EDF and Reform’s football banning order brigade to hang around during pre-season although a few skirmishes in Epping at the weekend. -
As suggested, borrow a keeper - there are plenty better than those two - and still invest in the outfield areas you describe. It’s the very least the club can do to start atoning for last year.
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Normally agree with you SS but I can’t on this post. Bazunu was by far statistically the worst keeper in the Chanpionship in 23/24 and we saw the difference when McCarthy came in after Gavin’s injury. There’s no way on this earth Gavin makes the same save to his left Alex did late on from Dan James at Wembley. We could get a loan keeper - someone like Sam Johnstone - don’t have to buy - but we need to move on from either/or AM or GB (probably the latter given he’s looked shocking in anything above League 1).
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The Starmer Years - Can The New Broom Sweep Clean?
Gloucester Saint replied to sadoldgit's topic in The Lounge
Sensible policy here rather than using a more elaborate and untested teeth and bones approach to assess age https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cglzrklp8jyo -
The Starmer Years - Can The New Broom Sweep Clean?
Gloucester Saint replied to sadoldgit's topic in The Lounge
That’s down to Right to Buy. The governments since have some responsibility but that’s where the main sell off and lack of re-investment in social housing stems from. -
You can see exactly why @Chez was keen on Saints signing Gassama from Sheff Weds.
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Mind you, in fairness to Kookaburra, the Dukes have been going soft and out of shape after 20 overs in the Test series as well.
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Alf Ramsay - I’ve definitely met blokes called Ramsey. Not many but definitely have.