The Kraken

Anyone who says the best kit of the century is anything other than the 2010/11 sash kit is a complete wrongun.

Terrible kit that one, not least because the logo was a horrific stick on affair. Such a cheap and terrible kit. The best kit of the century fuck me.

You’ve got to hand it to Rishi, he’s done an amazing job. A huge bulk of the country hate him because of the damage he’s done to the country. Conservatives hate him because of the damage he’s done to the party. Well done sir.

Sounds like the ITV interview that Sunak flew back early for went horrendously, so it’ll likely be another Disaster-Day on Wednesday. Also King Chuck is furious with Sunak, and so is Cameron. Times article link but free to view this weekend. https://www.thetimes.com/article/66bdd856-cdc5-434b-a092-97379e9c73f4?shareToken=3167b211358c194b0c48225357dbe127

https://x.com/CentralBylines/status/1799375613092081841 🤣

Statistics aren’t real IIRC.

Seems to be quite a few Corbynites jumping ship from Labour and toxifying the Greens instead. Weird bunch, the far left, and pretty unpleasant.

Yep this. She scrubs up nicely but her best quality is that she mainly keeps herself under the radar. When she’s out front and centre we get the stand up and fight side of her, I reckon she’s a bit if a loony underneath it all. I do reckon she’ll be next leader though, either her or Bad Enoch. This England game is about as dreadful as I expected.

True, if you continue to use problematic language akin to the specifics I quoted then yes, I’ll likely call it out.

I give up

Good point.

A genuine comedy moment 🤣

Dan Hodges is a Tory lickspittle but even he’s getting fully stuck in and raises an actual good point. There are only two explanations. The itinerary was set before the election date was known. In which case Sunak literally couldn’t be bothered to stay and just wanted to come home early. Or the itinerary was set afterwards. In which case he chose to put politics above the veterans by coming home for the interview.

Oh please, you’re like a stuck record of “you can’t say nuffink these days without being called an antisemite”. Criticism of the Israeli government and support for the Palestinian people are perfectly fair game in themselves and you know this. Specifically, the words that you wrote and how you phrased them crossed the line and it’s telling you refuse to retract and choose to obfuscate instead. With Corbyn, yes good idea, I’ll believe what I want.

I won’t be watching, the leaders debate was bad enough. But I’ll definitely be interested to read the feedback on the approach Penny will take. Let’s face it, she’s not all that bright (looks good holding a sword) but she’s certainly got designs on the leadership. Will she defend Sunak? I don’t think she’ll go out of her way. I don’t think she’ll throw him under a bus, probably something like “it was wrong that he left early and it was right that he apologised”. But in general I wouldn’t mind betting that Penny will be looking after herself rather than the party tonight.

Yeah, Jeremy Corbyn had a go at that too, it didn’t end well for him as people chose to see through his rhetoric of “I’m not antisemitic, I only support the Palestinian cause” while completely enabling antisemitism within his own party.

Would he? It seemed to be at Arsenal he played more at right back than at centre back, they had Saliba and Gabriel at CB who started almost every game together. RB seems to be a lock with Walker there, TAA also an option plus Trippier if Shaw gets fit. I admit we’re very light at CB, especially if Stones gets crocked, but I don’t see Ben White as the answer there and I don’t think he’d get in at RB either.

At this point I reckon he’d just be best off holing himself up in Downing Street and waiting it out until the election. He’s the inverse Midas, everything he touches turns to shit. I reckon there’s every chance there’s legs in this theory about him contemplating not attending D Day at all, Sam Coates questioning him about it seemed to be basing it off of something. If there’s any sort of paper trail and he’s lied again then he’s fucked it completely.

Those words as written are literally a specified definition of antisemitism as stated by the IHRA, definitions which have been wholesale adopted by the UK Government and by the Labour Party. ‘Holding Jews collectively responsible for actions of the state of Israel.’

An example of real antisemitism (literally as defined by the IHRA). given the way that Jewish people have been discriminated against through the ages their treatment of the Palestinians does them no credit. You don’t get a free pass to crush someone or displace them just because it has happened to you in the past.

It’s going really well for the guy who thinks we should bring back national service. Cos everyone should do their bit, yeah?

I bet your curry nights are an absolute fucking doozy these days.

I don’t necessarily disagree but 6 goals in 14 PL games for an utterly shit team is a very good haul. Broja got that over a whole season for us and he’s still well thought of in many quarters.