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Agreed. On any assessment, we have minimal negotiating power alone in comparison to the EU. From the outset, we were weaker.

Yep, although I don't agree re the Judiciary. Recruitment is very difficult - a life at the bar, or solicitor partnership, makes a judicial salary of limited appeal. That means they often attract folk only capable of earning at a lower level, usually crap or young, or those who've done their time, banked a few quid, and want an easier life. Those people are normally less than youthful, and when appointed, will stick around for a while to accrue some pension. Give me experience on the bench every time. Sure, mistakes happen, but thankfully that's usually at a lower level and can be rectifiable.

I think both are true. Brexit has undoubtedly robbed us of trade and caused other issues. I also don't see that the opportunity was there to gain as you imply - what opportunities were lost by poor political decisions? However, it's also the case that we have regressed in many ways for non Brexit related reasons.

Agreed. Disgraceful crime, and an appalling sentence at first instance. On appeal it could have been much higher - those were 15 years ISH offences for adults, more if there was concurrent sentence for the 2 offences - so even with the 2/3 to 1/2 deduction for child perpetrators (ridiculously high imo), 4 years is still too light imo.

Nice to see that those lads who were given a slap on the wrists for those rapes of the two girls have been given custodial sentences on appeal. Horrible little bastards.

I'm not sure what you think we're doing, or what we can do. You (and others) talk as though we've built a sea creating an open path to our door, that we've sent people to northern France, handing out leaflets proclaiming the milk and honey available in the hotels of Hastings and Blackpool, and left dinghies behind so that people can flock here and enjoy all that's on offer. Nobody, I mean nobody, is stopping people wanting to leave certain countries, stopping people making money by popping them in a boat, and sending them into open waters. Like it or not, this will happen. All we can do is make ourselves less attractive a destination, accommodate anyone seeking asylum as cheaply as possible, and process them as quickly as we can. It would be a more productive discussion if the people whining about this issue could offer any thought through thoughts on the solution, rather than the "make the lefties who want them here pay extra" and "it's all Starmer's fault" bollox that people write.

Absolutely. The sad thing is that people read disingenuous nonsense like that and assume that something unusual / wrong has been done. Politics is fecked.

Yep, get the balls in, and Kane will burri-tos his chances.

Nah, Kane will tacos his chances so we'll be fine.

The airport.

That even looked quick in slow motion.

That was a special finish.

And to start of the Rice at RB experiment?

I told you Gordon was the answer, and that Kane should stay on. Or something.

Chalobah, Henderson, Burn.

I've always assumed that she is.

Yep. We looked much better last game with Bellingham in their and playing box to box. If he'd bothered to bring another 10 (Foden, Palmer, Gibbs-White), he would have had that option.

When Gordon is the answer, christ knows what the question is.

Yep. Keeps dropping off. We need a CF who'll stretch their defence and pull their CB's out of shape to create space.

Puncheon would have offered more than this bloke.

Have you seen the state of the crosses?

I hadn't notice that, but if the keeper charges at him, I think he's entitled to leave his leg in. Surely it's for the keeper making the challenge to avoid contact, not for Kane to get out of his way. Academic now anyways.

Yep. And movement. In the first half, only Bellingham, and to an extent Madueke and Spence, looked interested. Sadly only 1 of them offered any quality.

If our performance level increases 50%, we may become shit rather than utterly fucking shit.

I thought foul at first, but there was hands on so a pen for me.