rallyboy

Just to highlight one modest bit of improvement, you imagine what could have been achieved last season had we actually gone after a few last minute goals rather than pottering about in our own half until the final whistle went.

"Younger readers may not be so aware, but Portsmouth used to be somewhat of a Premier League giant" Never before in the history of language has the word somewhat performed this amount of heavy lifting.

Difficult to criticise the Met, their judgement is normally spot on in these situations, especially since they suspended their recruitment drive in the rapist community. Perhaps they had trouble spotting the dozen nutters in every 10,000 peace protesters. Luckily our Home Sec was on hand to highlight any hate crimes, her specialist area.

Me too. It's been established now that you get at least thirteen years leeway to blame the previous government, and if you can distract people by jailing members of the worst-qualified and most corrupt cabinet in British history, that would probably buy some goodwill as well. Other than that, they'll need to hit the ground running and try something new, like appointing ministers who aren't on the take, and perhaps some who have an IQ over 40. Either way, I'm pretty sure all those soppy woke lefties that I too worry about at night, will be screaming just as loud at a new government if it doesn't improve hospitals, the police, education, GPs, the courts, mental health services, support for the disabled, border control, prisons, transport and all the other areas that are currently a total shitshow. In fact, it might be that these leftie demons, the Wokerati, the sandal-wearing, tofu set from Islington who walk among us, aren't lefties at all. They could be just ordinary people who would like a country to be proud of with services that work, and were abandoned in the middle ground when the racists, the corrupt and the lunatics lurched so far up the right wing they're now in Row KK?

So that'll be two pointless conflicts where neither side will let it go and the rest of us can only look on with dismay...

No. Palestine are always in an away game at Old Trafford - different rules apply in their box.

It's been alleged for years that the Israeli government's communications team makes daily calls to dozens of media outlets complaining about coverage of their actions and trying to pressure journalists. This aggressive PR campaign is backed up by the amount of money they also invest in Westminster. It's the equivalent of a struggling football club complaining because they don't like papers publishing the results and the league table.

Any of the many MPs who have been 'lobbied' by Israeli donations for the past decade. It's been a very common theme for years, criticise the actions of the Israel military, await the predictable and lazy accusation.

So would I, fucking right I would - but I'd want action to be taken against the people who did it.

Did he offer any detail on when he will actually make it onto a pitch?

Why are you making up shit? And I think you'll find that peace is normally considered a positive outcome so you might want to rethink the way you slag off strangers, because like a lot of your typing and grammar, that insult didn't really make sense. Anyway, good luck with everything. 🙂👍

While Andrew Neil has lost all credibility as a serious figure in the past decade I would have thought that even he was still capable of grasping the difference between Palestine and Hamas. But in reality he's just reinvented himself as a controversial pundit who can spoonfeed shit to thick people, all for his own personal gain...

No, not you.

If I may offer an alternative theory me old mucker, I think the debate was probably going well until people offering balanced views were labelled as cunts for no reason at all. Normal people switch off at that point, rather than getting dragged into childish spats with shouty dullards, who despite proclaiming themselves as experts in every field of human endeavour, appear to struggle mastering basic tasks like operating a keyboard... Calling everyone cunts just destroys the debate - and eventually, the forum.

I'm not sure why some people come on here all angry and looking for an argument all the time. Well, I do know actually because I'm a smug intellectual, but I'm just being polite and battering them with the shock and awe of kindness and respect. 🙂

As I said, no sensible person would throw their full support behind either side in a conflict where both parties are happy to commit war crimes. To do that you'd have to be attention-seeking, a little bit simple, or wearing blinkers.

The first casualty of war is truth - it's currently about propaganda, both sides claiming to be victims of atrocities so appalling that the most extreme response can be justified. The UK needs to keep out of this.

I suspect some Palestinians were happy to live alongside the state, they just didn't like it when their houses were bulldozed and their kids were killed by the state. But that seems a minor issue compared with how both sides have escalated it now. Support should be with the innocent civilians across the two areas.

If ever there was a subject with no black and white sides, this is it, sensible people probably won't give unconditional support to either side. Anyone who thinks either side is innocent hasn't been concentrating, all the facts are out, as well as a lot of propaganda. It looks from the outside like two terrorist groups committing atrocities, the Israeli army spends decades committing acts of war against a civilian population and a terrorist group responds by murdering innocent people. I see no answer to this one, which may well end with Israel trying to justify mass murder. As a country I think we need to stay the fuck out of this one, it's going to get very messy and there's going to be no winners.

Did we really need to give the ball back when they threw it out to make multiple tactical changes? I understand for injuries, but they used the break in play to change three players and formation. 15 secs later, the ball was in our net.

It was like a Claude Puel tribute act - without the attacking element.

That wasn't a bad performance, but it was probably the worst good one I've ever seen. Toothless.

A sensibly budgeted and professionally-organised HS2 would have been great for the North and Midlands. Neither of those things happened so it's now just a total clusterfuck and the only winners, as is often the case, are the Government-appointed contractors, their share holders and any MPs who secure casual consultancy roles with those companies.

Sunak promised billions to buy votes yesterday in funding for potholes, bypasses and new things that already exist. If he meant any of it he could spend that money now on mental health services, prisons, school buildings, policing, hospitals, green energy, the home office, doctors etc. Improving all those areas would win him the election, and rightly so. But he won't, because he will never spend that money, it was just more fibs for the faithful and the easily-led.

HS2 looks like a badly botched project from day one, all big talk over the despatch box and no actual prep. Casually budgeted by an idiot, followed by big overspend in Tory constituencies that led to favoured companies making hundreds of millions, which was a manifesto promise sold as a key pillar of levelling up - to cancel it now after vandalising the countryside and spending most of the initial budget is surrendering any tight seats in the north, and potentially some safe ones. Add in Sunak's huge unfunded list of promises, his support for a racist mayoral candidate, madly pledging a train every three minutes to Sheffield, billions for everyone, Mordaunt's insane rambling plus Suella's invasion of Poland and they couldn't have got this week much more wrong. Their current media strategy is so ill-judged it's alienating vast swathes of voters, they look totally fucking clueless. And as an inspired finale Rishi shouted, We need change! Oh.