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Thanks - confirms what I guessed.

Middle aged men ‘getting back together’ with their boy ‘band’ mates and dressing/acting/dancing like they’re still 18. Twats. Any group of vocalists getting together and calling themselves a ‘band’. You’re not a band - you’re a fucking vocal troupe. Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, The Police, Soundgarden etc. etc. - they’re bands. Pissheads who leave their seats at a footie match 15 minutes before half-time to get another beer down their fat necks. Lefty twats that vehemently support illegal migrants, but not in their own backyard. Rachel Reeves voice. The way certain politicians (e.g. Starmer) use an upturned fist to emphasise when trying to make point. Twats. Blimey, that felt good! 😉😂

It’s an interesting graph, but it’s not complete unless its context is known. For example, when was the data sampled or are the figures an average over the year (difficult as 2025 has not finished)? That’s important because both France and Spain unemployment is affected by seasonal (tourism/farming) fluctuations (Italy also to a lesser extent). It would be interesting to know why Sweden is so high comparatively…perhaps due to unusually high immigration and/or swinging high taxes?

Just catching up here. Traitors is a great show but I was not sure the celebrity version would work. Have to say, I’m an Alan Carr convert now (never really got him) and Charlotte has aged very, very well indeed. PS: another good series with Carr is Amanda and Alan - where they renovate a place in Spain.

Where’s Vierra in the betting odds now? With the past connections to Eckert etc., I would have thought that would be one of the favourite options. SR not up to that level I suppose.

You do know when employer pensions were made mandatory right? Phased in from October 2012 to 2018. So it is an unfortunate fact that there are people who only have a state pension (or have a private pension that is so small it’s not enough alone to live on). That’s not the point - the triple lock was designed to ensure the state pension kept up with the basic cost of living and there’s no good humane reason for removing it before first removing other waste from public spending.

What kind of privileged blinkered world do you live in? Just because some had enough disposable salary to invest in a private pension, doesn’t mean everyone did. Are you so fucking heartless that you’d be happy seeing people, who had paid into the system all their working lives, live in poverty at the expense of dogmatic bat shit crazy left-wing policies? That’s really wonderful that your privileged parents and in-laws are able to give away their state pension which I suspect they considered a ‘pittance’ - I’m sure that makes you feel warm inside. For many that’s ALL they get to live on. Yes, there’s greed in society - let’s start means testing private bankers, utility company bosses, private landlords…the list goes on and on. To blanket crucify pensioners by eroding all pensions with the removal of triple lock is morally repugnant.

You’re talking as though a pension is a benefit - it’s not…it’s a right for those who have paid NI all their lives. Those who rely on their state pension to live are not likely to be worrying about others as such…they just need to eat and keep themselves warm - basic needs which the corrupt political elite seem to think is a luxury. Unless you’re an illegal migrant - then you get 3 square meals and a nice heated 4 star hotel room, a mobile phone, cinema tickets...etc. The waste and dogmatic skewed priorities need to be eradicated before putting even more pensioners into poverty.

In the light of state pensions not providing the equivalent of even the national minimum living wage, how would suggest pension levels are maintained?

There are billions of £’s being spent or indeed wasted that are not for the benefit of UK citizens and yet here we are…

Of all the policies that Reform could introduce to lose a large % of the electorate that might vote for them, removing the Triple Lock would be a massive own goal.

Spors down in the dugout as the team comes off???

Well done to our new Manager - you can only beat what’s put in front of you.

Robinson is not that great, but I’m wondering whether he’s just trying to be a Dibling when he doesn’t need to be.

Williams is looking pretty useful.

My God - why the fuck did Baz dive there?!?!

Good old Baz - really running out of ideas how to fuck us over.

Crowd singing for Oriol already!

Looked like a pen there - dangerous play

Where has this team been? 😳

Get in AA!!!

Downes off - Barnaby on??? SR need to get a January sale.

Late to the party / away and couldn’t get a stream working. Have I missed much? 🤣

I think proportional taxation is fair. Of course I believe in the triple lock while state pensions fall well below the minimum living wage. Taxing any one individual 40% + of their salary is wrong and unjust. The top 1% wealthiest in the UK hold their wealth not necessarily in money/cash but in investments, so a tax on removal any of this wealth from the UK is fair. As I’ve already replied, there are decreasing options for voters now…there is no one party that I can honestly say I agree with. This country was abandoned by the political elite decades ago.

Undecided.