moonraker

I live in the adjacent constituency to JRM, Bath, and you are correct, the LDs and Greens need to leave the field to Labour. Bath is a strong LD seat but across the border Labour have more traction, historically JRMs seat is a mining area, coal and stone but is fast becoming a satellite residential area for young professionals working in Bristol and Bath. The local LD and Labour party’s are having some very interesting informal conversations. The Greens are in a difficult place they want to make an impression but cannot win. The national press focus on Englands northern red wall, but the West Country can really hurt the Tories mainly through the LDs the upcoming by-election will be very interesting.

You may like to frame it as far more nuanced than it was, there is no doubt that the modern version of anti EU rhetoric is from the right. Yes there were historically a few key figures from the left who opposed the EU but this in no way compares to the current self serving cabal from the right who have manipulated the debate. Progress means seeing things in a different light and accepting that previous norms are no longer relevant or valid. Tony Benns son a case in point, a very different perspective to his father. JRM may be an easy target but he shines a very bright light on the backward thinking of one side of the contemporary debate. I do not view Brexit or the EU from a party political perspective but, most Tory MPs in 2016, supported remain, from the prospective of what is best for my/our country, and nothing, absolutely nothing about Brexit makes the UK of GB and NI better. It is about today not the 1970s. You are happy to ID Labour politicians who were eurosceptic but fail to note your hero Thatcher was pro EU.

Stolen from the people, should read stolen from some people, certainly not the majority of UK of GB and NI voters. What was stolen during the Brexit era was a semblance of truth and honour. A right wing coup based on lies and harnessing the unsubstantiated but understandable fears of people long ignored by both major parties when in government, but particularly the Tory policies of austerity and low tax, to court their wealthy and foreign sponsors.

My stepson for one, been a Saints member for a number of seasons and comes to games with me and my two sons.

No seems he has always been a tosser, just wore a different coloured rosette

Only because Russia invaded them.

He was Labour prior to 2017

The level of whataboutary from our right leaning friends is lamentable. I don’t give a tinkers cuss about Starmer he is not the PM, he has not been definitely shown to have lied to parliament, he has not been found guilty by the police, he has (to date) not been fined. The idiot parading as our PM has been, in most peoples minds, shown to have lied to parliament, he has been found guilty and fined, with the real possibility of more fines to follow. Yet there are still those who would defend him, this issue transcends party politics, it is about honour, dignity and trust, none of which Johnson possesses, and that his why he should resign, not because Starmer, Blackfoot or any other opposition politician says it but because his behaviour is indefensible and resigning is the right thing to do.

Incorrect, Bojo has been proven to have breached, to date at least once, Starmer has not yet been so proven. If Starmer is fined then judge him on his response.

Thankfully not the same one as you

I’ve believed it since I learnt to think for myself, so 50 plus years, FPTP is more outdated than Farton Park

How awful Wolves must be losing to Burnley😂

I have ceased to be amazed and surprised by the unconcealed arrogance and entitlement of this vile and corrupt government. The whole parliamentary Conservative party is behaving with total disdain for British values and traditions. No responsibility, no accountability and no compassion.

Sadly ‘western’ countries do not have great track record in their dealings with African nations. I can sort of understand them not toeing the wests line. I think they are playing a dangerous game but they have been shafted so many times over the years by the west.

Exactly, my point was not rubbishing opinions but challenging unfounded claims and statements not simple opinions.

Fair comment, I may have been a bit harsh but sometimes BS irks. It is a serious issue and perhaps demands a little serious thought and understanding.

Its not analysis, its is mainly a case of a little knowledge is dangerous and what ifs based on more what ifs. The same "commentators" are also often brilliant at posting diametrically opposite opinions on the same subject in the space of a few days. On one level it is amusing but on a more serious level leaving their ill informed, uneducated self-important rhetoric to go unchallenged just emboldens them.

The US and it’s allies lost far less soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan combined over a 20 year period than Russia has almost certainly lost in 3 weeks in Ukraine. The west way of waging war, is as I have said before, designed to minimise casualties time is secondary. To try and compare the performance of the 2 as somehow comparable shows a deep lack of understanding of military doctrine and capability.

So do you stand by your statement “Their land forces are extremely formidable”?

Reading through earlier posts the level of awe afforded the Russian military is proving to be somewhat misplaced. This ‘insightful’ piece from one of our resident military experts has certainly not played well.

Hardly incredible finish

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Saints want Salah for Shane Long,

Using the word asset and Trump in the same sentence seems wrong.