Sheaf Saint

Championship playoff places to be decided today. Sheff Utd 2-0 up already and looking good for a place. Would be happy for either of them, Forest or Hudds to win it. Not fussed about Luton or Boro though.

The other big surprise is the Tories losing their majority in West Oxfordshire, which includes David Cameron's constituency of Witney. Rural Oxfordshire is about as Tory as it's possible to get, so losing that is huge.

With 74/200 councils still to declare. I can't wait to see how the Tories are going to try and put a positive spin on this. Should be amusing.

Was just thinking the same. It's 2022 and we're STILL waiting for the mainline through Sheffield to be electrified. And to nobody's surprise, the planned extension of HS2 to Sheffield and Leeds has been scrapped.

No, because in 2001 I was still in my 20s and not paying the slightest bit of attention to politics.

It benefits the Tories because they have got the right wing vote tied up, whereas the centre and left is split between Labour, Lib Dem, SNP and Greens. In the 2019 election, a lot more people voted for those 4 parties combined than voted Conservative. But because of the FPTP system, despite only getting 46% of the popular vote share the Tories got 56% of the seats in Westminster and thus a large majority. It's an outdated system that is no longer fit for purpose (if it ever was) because it results in the majority of the electorate becoming effectively disenfranchised.

What is the actual point you are trying to make here?

Labour take Westminster from the Tories for the first time in over 50 years.

I haven't seen this 'chatter' that's being referred to, but late me take a wild guess here... A few fearless, freedom defending, "do your own research" types (like Le Tiss), who claim to be experts on infectious diseases and vaccines but are actually nothing of the sort, have picked out a few key sentences from the Pfizer documents and twisted them willdly out of context to make it look like they prove it was all a massive conspiracy, but are in fact just innocuous statements that don't mean what these people think they mean. Am I close?

Really? That's the best thing about our PM for you is it? The fact that he's such a useless c*nt, he invokes anger in someone you like to pretend you don't have an online obsession with but quite clearly do?

It takes a special kind of stupid to really stand out among this particular government as being by far and away the dimmest of the lot. The trouble with Dorries is that she isn't just stupid, she's a spiteful cow with a superiority complex as well.

Me too. Won £50 on Saturday because I could see that Palace result coming a mile off. My only regret is that I didn't stake more on it, because that late winner was so inevitable.

And won't get one now 😔

Two equally poor teams out here today.

Redmond looked like he was trying to step into space for a cut back but Broja wasn't on the same wavelength.

At least he was trying to play the ball forward rather than sideways or backwards.

We've just been fucking garbage going forward and haven't created anything of note. At least earlier in the season we were making chances even if we couldn't convert them. We need to get Stu on because we don't win if he doesn't play a part.

Oh balls. Never looked like holding on to this anyway.

Whiney bunch aren't they.

Think he made a meal of it actually. Was more straightforward than he made it look.

Don't know if it's just the positioning of the microphone but I can only hear the Palace fans today. Rubbish showing from our fans so far.

Bollocks. It's always against us that teams break these poor runs isn't it.

What is that song that the Palace fans sing constantly?

Should have scored.

Johnson has received a fine because his actions have been proven to be against the rules at the time, and is still subject to ongoing investigation into other incidents. There is evidence that Johnson himself organised parties and told people to bring their own booze. He was the very man who set the rules and told the country we weren't allowed to do these things. Starmer had a beer with a takeaway during a work meeting. I know you love to be a contrarian, but if you genuinely think there is any moral equivalence here and can't see the DM reporting for what it is - a simple hatchet job attempt ahead of the local elections - then you're an idiot.