The Kraken

I did neither of those two things 😎

I keep hearing this but, aside from his distribution skills which are very good, I’m yet to see much in his glovesmanship which would elevate him above a mid level Championship level keeper. Young keepers will make mistakes but the really good ones (I.e. Premier League quality) consistently make saves where you think “how has he saved that?”. Those types of saves just haven’t happened with any sort of accumulation for Baz, either in the Premier League or the Championship. I’ve rarely thought “what a shame Baz made that mistake because he was having a top notch game up to then”.

This has been dreadful but to be fair the Venga Boat has rescued it somewhat.

Poor piano dude stuck out there getting drenched just wearing his chiffon shirt, someone stand there with an umbrella for him ffs.

This is pitifully shit.

You’re the Davey Moyes of m-boards.

Yep. A good keeper could be the difference between staying up and not. Dont want to think about a prem season where AMC is considered the best we’ve got.

Tom Tugendhat’s campaign off to a rip roaring start as he didn’t realised his campaign literature originally spelt TURD, so he’s had to change it.

I feel bad now. Sounds like he’s really upset about it ☹️

Sorry if I hurt you by laughing at your hero Donny, fella. I didn’t realise you were quite that much of a snowflake. Lesson learned.

Yes I know exactly what it is, I’ve watched quite a few of them. It doesn’t stop me finding it funny

Kind of funny how Donny gives it so much macho hard-man bluster but there he is on video openly admitting he is playing off the ladies’ tees all the way round. Cant deny mind that at 78 he’s obviously still in reasonable nick around a course, even if his scores are probably as reliable as Kim Jung il’s..

Yep. It’s always everyone else who is at fault. Never him, no way, couldn’t be. When it’s actually explained why what he said is genuinely offensive he responds with “So what? You are just trying to make something out of nothing. Back to the real world.” A hideous individual.

I feel like you might be wasting your time. Time and again this person has been “careless” with terminologies but when the ignorance is pointed out he plain couldn’t care less. ‘Offended by it? Well that’s your problem not mine’.

For now anyway.

Pretty sure Suella is a Tory.

Well I guess we can discount "no walking" already. https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/joe-biden-public-kamala-harris-president-b2584641.html

I don't have a problem with the vote per se, it's an important issue and should be on the agenda for discussion Also no problem to Labour's approach to it, it was made abundantly clear in their manifesto that they wouldn't be scrapping the cap yet but may look to do so further down the line. Plenty of Labour MPs were capable of making their personal points on it but still toeing the party's published line. No surprise of the composition of the 7 that didn't.

Child benefit is a maximum of £25 per week per child. If anybody is having kids so that they can soak in all of that lovely child benefit funding then they've probably got their priorities wrong.

I think it's item 2. This item doesn't poll particularly well but neither does it poll badly, and I think it can very easily be spun as a positive thing in terms of making positive steps to arrest child poverty. Starmer would have looked spineless had he gone against all of his manifesto promises where he and the party stated that they wanted to remove the cap but it's not a number one priority and they can only look to address it further down the line. I think they bought time with their MPs by promising at least a comprehensive review of it, I personally expect the 2025 budget to scrap the cap (autumn budget is likely too soon).

Shes already 2 points up in the first national poll by Reuters and Ipsos. Tbf Slow Joe was only 2 points down. Long way for this one to go now now the Dems have sorted their shit out and gotten behind Harris very quickly.

Thought there’d be more Labour rebels than that. No surprise to see McDonnell and Wrong-Daily among them. I reckon Starmer has promised he’ll revisit the cap in the next budget.

Not really a fan personally, but as it’s a concept it obviously won’t look anything like that (and will probably be much worse).

Report from 13 June. So while the Tories were still doing their thing. https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-system-statistics-year-ending-march-2024/how-many-people-do-we-grant-protection-to#:~:text=Sixty-two per cent of,or alternative forms of leave. As a result of the high grant rate over the last year and the increase in decisions, the number of people granted asylum (68,564) is the highest in a 12-month period since records began in 1984.

Bob60 going for an absolute record level of smilies in the CoT thread. He might even beat Always at this rate! Good to have you on board Bob 👍