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Probably best to direct your question to someone who you think has criticised you. I'll stick to the actual subject.

I didn't get personal. I criticized the article, gullible people, and lazy posting. If you put yourself in the gullible camp, then yep, you got flak, but I didn't put you there.

I didn't get personal. Show me where. As farmer said, people are entitled to assume that something you link to may represent your view unless you say what your view is. That shouldn't be a controversial or surprising opinion.

Yep, and as I suspect we see sometimes, an opportunity to row backwards when flak is received. It makes discussion pointless.

Would you be happier if he just said he'd slap taxes up? Call me old fashioned, but I'd rather sit back and see what he does elsewhere to find the money. Removing the triple lock should cover it.

That's a different issue. You did what he did, and got criticised for - lazily posting a link without comment/question/opinion. If you don't want it being suggested that a shit article doesn't represent your opinion, don't lazily link to it without any comment etc.

SoG used to get mullered for posting links to articles without comment, question, or opinion...it's usually best to spark debate with comment, question or opinion imo, otherwise, as has happened here, people reasonably assume that what you're linking to is your opinion. Your posting approach invited the response you received.

Nope, I think the bloke made that up. However, social care is needed and must be funded, so I think a tax / levy is inevitable. We'll see a nibbling of the welfare budget, triple lock will go, but there's no other significant room for manoeuvre unless vat goes up or something daft like that. I'd like to see all state benefits means tested as a starter. I know people earning good money getting DLA for their kids and just chuck it in a junior ISA, and adults who earn a fortune but get PIP and lob the cash in a SIPP. We need to sift the greedy from the genuinely needy.

I'm not sure where this flirting is taking the discussion.

That's an odd interpretation. What we have is people keen to enter the EU, and Spain clinging onto their colonial past thus giving people a potential entry point.

Sure, there's a difference and I oversimplified it, but it doesn't alter that your article gave the impression that these people were coming into mainland Spain, not an enclave on a different continent. Regardless, the reporting was still daft, and Spain having outposts in Africa even dafter.

Any cherries and strawberries going spare please?

Spain "proper" is Spain. Hth. Describing Ceuta as Spain is akin to describing Gibraltar as Britain. Reporting that Spain has allowed an "amnesty" against newly arriving illegal immigrants, when it hasn't, is poor journalism. The gullible soak up this shit reporting because it feeds their narrative. A sign of times, sadly.

That is such a ridiculous article - is that written by some Trump fan boy? It gives the impression it's Spain proper and that Spain has changed it's law to invite illegal immigrants. In truth it's Ceuta, not Spain proper, and the legal change is just not to to turn back people intercepted at sea. Everyone else, ie all this lot, can and will be turned back like they were in 2021. Unaccompanied kids only will need to be provided for by Spain, the rest will get turned back. This highlights 3 things. Stupid reporting People's feeds soaking up stupid reporting, and not reading below the surface Why the feck do Spain still have 2 northern outposts in Africa. Mental.

Yep, the punishment against Saints has been done. Tonda isn't Saints. Separate entities. Separate punishment.

They did, but the average over that period is 8-12. Regardless, matching the time period not games would be nuts.

Tan

Reference to the club punishment is irrelevant. Tonda will be punished for what Tonda has done. Re the rest, what Lighthouse said.

The Canada ban was 12 months, and the average matches played by a female international team in 12 months is 8-12 games. Your 10 is bang in the middle of that.

And it's no surprise. Parts of Syria and Lebanon are also occupied, and will remain so. The West Bank will be increasingly settled. Iran are being neutered, Turkey will be next, Saudi will be coerced into being their mates. Israel will take more of what it wants. The oil fields off the Lebanon and Gaza coasts will be exploited. It's all very sad, but utterly predictable.

Err, ok mate. Odd response.

Wanting a leader to fail before they've got started properly should never be on anyone's wish list.

Yep. I like that he's had cross party involvement on this as well.

Trees

Also, I think leniency for Tonda because of the EFL sanction of the club is very unlikely. They're two distinct issues. My best guess is an 8 or so game ban to give some kind of parity with the Canada penalty. Anything more would be ott and down the other side.