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Abundantly clear from his pitiful rant at the UN what’s wrong with America, world and human race. We are fucked.

Desperate for the human race to be in this position. People on here can say ‘oh, you shouldn’t call people who vote for him thick or denigrate them’ but what else can you do? Anyone who agrees with his speech or thinks it’s acceptable needs mental health assistance, and that’s without his and RFK’s lunatic comments about Tylenol and autism yesterday.

Sad but he looked very unwell at the Headingley Test. Mind you, told my two friends to fuck off very early 1990s when they asked for autograph.

Western democracies have to become a lot more nimble though to head off populism - ending the unanimous EU votes to cut Hungary and Slovakia out to hit Russia hard. Asylum policy might have to change monthly to defeat the lawyers and activists as well.

He’s a nutcase - and the reason Europe is still buying oil from Russia, his fig leaf for not sanctioning the crap of his puppet master, is because of two Putin and Trump satellite states, Hungary and Slovakia who have consciously and politically made themselves reliant on Russian supplies. Personally I’d change the voting rules if I were the EU to make votes not need 100% which they do on so-called sensitive topics. I’d take this one out of the sensitive category and get around the two loons.

Birmingham and Leicester are already categorised as superdiverse and part of W Yorks and E Lancs probably aren’t off. That’s with probably 99% UK born as well. I agree on asylum cases being too high, but culturally it’s better to spend time in what we enjoy which reflects our heritage - say cask ale, industrial heritage, or enjoying the countryside around our cities with others. The world has changed far more than just migration, Clinton allowing China to join the WTO probably did more harm to our traditional manufacturing industries than the trade unions, management, non doms and the EU combined. But we have to find new ways to innovate as we’ve always done, and we don’t want to choke off demand when there’s a promising pipeline as Trump just recklessly did to big tech in the States with their HB-1 visa huge cost hike. Re the NHS, it has been a mess but remember how many lives it saved 5 years ago. Compare it to the differential in survival rates between Blue and Red state health systems in America where the health systems and politicians in blue states saved hundreds of thousands more lives allied to more negative vaccine attitudes (something we are seeing with both GOP and Reform). https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10684792/ Streeting is doing the right thing by merging NHS England and DHSC even though there are very high job losses as a result, but there’s a long way to go. Happy to look at continental health models but Farage has made previous comments are a serious red flag although he does flip flop on the issue with devolved nations https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/11/13/ukp-nigel-farage-nhs_n_6150688.html and https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c39z71kmexdo

The fact that Reform gets so much coverage has rather more to do with the following: - Tim Davie is actively encouraging BBC to cover them positively (former Tory donor) - Mail, Express, Sun and Telegraph openly espouse their policies. As you say Duck, for party with only 4 MPs it is rather disproportionate - Reform also spends x2.5 more, and growing rapidly, more than any other party on Facebook and other SM advertising, 99% of which is about immigration.

Very good grounds for not believing anything Farage says https://www.politics.co.uk/comment-analysis/2019/11/08/when-he-supported-norway-the-brexit-policy-farage-would-rather-forget/ https://www.facebook.com/leedsforeurope/videos/farage-makes-the-case-for-joining-the-eu-single-marketnorway/1540023163214849/ https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-09/farage-predicts-norwegian-style-deal-for-britain-post-brexit Instead, he went around in 2019 saying that anything other than a WTO Brexit wasn’t really Brexit. You’d be a very simple individual to believe anything Farage says.

Bar the second goal Saturday, he’s been far from our worst performer, which there is huge competition for. THB, Mads (surprisingly), Flynn, Downs and Baz (2nd worst Champ keeper on stats, one better than 23/24) all stinking the place out.

Given that they seem hell bent on doubling down on their horrific mistake with Bazunu and the copious other horrors they’ve made, fair to say that humility and writing off their mistakes is not in the make up of their boardroom.

This is a bit better from Sir Ed. More like this please. And as for Reform members applauding Trump cancelling vaccines research, Jesus wept https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c98en3pdxljo

If the polls don’t move much by say this time in 2027 and 2028, I will probably agree. Plenty of time for Reform to implode by then and Farage has history for it.

Ironically he’s been our best defender this season so far although that’s not saying much and he was at fault nearly as much as the hapless THB for the second on Saturday. THB is so dreadful he will keep Jack in the team.

We’d also see crazy self-harming policies like Trump did last week jacking up hugely the H-1B to $100k (£74k) which US big tech relies on. Much nearer a GE, they’ll have to show a credible wider a range of policies than ‘get the foreigners out’. Yesterday’s announcement about not only stopping settled status for arrivals after 5 years but extending to anyone who has been here decades and has it was vile. They’ll go too far, Reform, and even people on the ERG-type right politically will start saying ‘er, hang on’ plus the hypocrisy of Farage’s own domestic life.

He’s about as reliable as Harry Redknapp. People want to vote for a posh Harry Redknapp ‘I didn’t get that lot down the road relegated. QPR weren’t my fault either, I had a dodgy hip’.

Farage by his own admission ‘makes stuff up’! And as for him representing working people, he makes the most second job money of any MP in any party by a country mile! https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/nigel-farage-reform-winter-fuel-child-cap-b2757571.html https://www.facebook.com/ledbydonkeys/videos/new-christmas-lights-just-went-up-in-clactonfarage-is-still-the-mp-who-makes-mos/938723008196987/

If SR renew Baz, that will be the final straw for me into exile for a few years until they sell up. I won’t support anyone else per se, might watch a few other clubs’ games as a neutral in that time if I can be bothered.

People thought the Wall St crash was old history until the 2008 financial crisis proved them wrong. I don’t like Labour either but I hate Reform and Farage, and Farage fucking lied in 2016 and plenty of us will hold him to account for losing 6% of our economy and the lies about Turkey joining the EU. If tactical voting keeps him out I’m all up for it, even if I had to hold my nose and vote Tory if it really came to it. Anyone but Reform. I’m not tolerating a Trump tribute act ruining our country. Look at what’s happening in the US, apparently Trump and RFK reckon Tynenol causes autism. Do you really want poundshop versions of morons like that running our great institutions and societies we are globally renowned for?

Lack of free at the point of entry of healthcare will effect even more people, hope you’ve been saving up for the American system Farage will introduce. Oh, and those pesky legal immigrants who’ve been propping up our social care system as well as the health services, hope you don’t have any elderly relatives needing looking after or need looking after yourself one day. Because we are an ageing population https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/the-uks-changing-population/

There’s the root of the problem, not Jones, not Selles, not even Martin and not Still. @L1Minus10 is right, SR spent around £20m, a lot of money at this level, on three kids from German division 2. Maybe sign the best of the three and put some Championship experience and quality around them. I like Tom Fellows but AA plays there and does have track-record. The recruitment feels like a clutch of individual transactions yet again without any thought about how they knit together on a Saturday.

Spot on @L1Minus10 as ever. The recruitment has been too random again and not read the division we are in, yet again. And if McCarthy is not playing v Boro then frankly it has to be that Still is being dictated to by the SR board in which case he shouldn’t ever be in a first team management role, or that Macca is injured. Even then, shudder, I’d probably play George Long. There’s a sentence I never thought I’d be writing.

The tragic reality.

I hope he goes along Striding Edge and if that doesn’t get little Yaxley-Lennon, that he falls off the chimney on the way onto Helvellyn.

They’re posh boys as well.