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I agree. I would like to see some kind of Labour/LibDem/Green coalition. It will take a while for the mess of the last decade plus to be overturned but the first thing to do is get this lot out. If it means Johnson staying in power for a while longer in order for more votes to be lost it will be well worth it in the long run. Johnson is clearly an embarrassment and is and has always been a self serving incompetent, but when he goes there are still the likes of Patel, Raab, Rees-Mogg, Hancock, Truss, Gove etc lurking around. Johnson is just one part of the problem

Two pathological liars. Which one to believe ? 🙄 Perhaps we should think about the fact that the man who made the rules probably didn’t need someone to explain them to him. Still, I am sure it amused you Brett.

My brother is a Fulham supporter and was afraid that a Prem club was going to take him last summer. He really rates him.

Not sure what that has to do with it? He was the PM’s main advisor wasn't he, employed by him? Brilliant rant by the way. It’s good to hear someone say on the radio what most normal people are thinking.

I wonder if any of this bunch post here? https://amp.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jan/15/concern-for-uk-security-as-anti-vaxxer-groups-evolve-towards-us-style-militias

Do you ever stop to read what you have written? I used to think you were just a WUM and posted this stuff to amuse yourself, but I am beginning to think you are really serious.

I love the story about using a suitcase to collect the booze in rather than plastic bags as it cuts down on the ‘clinking’. Proper hardcore!

Defender sent off early on. Sound familiar?

Different circumstances. Valery prevented a player going through on goal which is pretty much a nailed on yellow if not a red.

Hi Brett, tell me, what do you think is more valuable to our society? A newspaper publisher that has been fighting for social equality for 201 years or some bloke who constantly gets himself banned from an internet football forum and reappears in another guise, swearing blind that he is not who we all know he is? It’s a shame they don’t give knighthoods to those who serve fry ups to our brave submariners isn’t it or you would have a decent come back. Still, carry on fighting the good fight against Johnny Foreigner and anyone or any thing remotely liberal.

Meaning? Between them I spent 30 years of my working life between The Guardian and the CPS and am immensely proud of having worked for both of these organisations.

I am not a lawyer so no, I didn’t actually, personally prosecute anyone myself “hun”. For most of my time there I managed staff who worked alongside the lawyers on a daily basis. The admin staff and the paralegals. Without them there would be no cases to prosecute as they do all of the legwork for the prosecutors including liaising with the courts, the police, the probation service etc.Not once have I bigged up my role. I was part of a team who prosecuted cases from simple theft up to rape and murder (and yes, that includes DV cases obviously). Yes, papers get file away. They get filled in most businesses, although a lot of it is done electronically now. But if you stopped to think about it for a moment instead of going off on one of your usual self promoting attempts to run another person down, there is a great deal more that goes on in bringing a case to court than just filing papers. When working from Medway Nick for most of the time there I was the most senior CPS manager in the building as the Chief Prosecutor spent her time between offices, so yes, I did a bit more than file papers away and make tea. It takes a large team of people to bring a prosecution to court and everyone of them plays an important role. Given that you have got so much time on your hands to search through very old posts, perhaps you have nothing better to do with your time, not even filing away papers? Or do they pay people for being WUMs on Internet forums nowadays? Enjoy your day “hun”. Perhaps you can find yourself something more worthwhile to do with your time for a change instead of making a mug of yourself on a football forum? edit i didn’t answer one of your points and as you seem to be too busy trying to catch me out to engage your brain - here we go. If you have a team of 16 paralegals (caseworkers) and the work is hived off to form a special unit to cover the Rape and Serious Sexual Cases only, say 4 paralegals, why would you bring in another person to manage them? If you have been so diligently reading my old posts you will know that we constantly had to reduce our staffing levels. Wouldn’t it make sense to leave me as their line manager? (Don’t answer that by the way, it is a rhetorical question and I’m sure that even you can see the logic) 😘

Yes Turkish, I am sure you are right and it is far better just to sit on the sidelines and snipe at those trying to change things. As for being pious and “giving it large about what we should be doing”, if you are aiming this particular jibe at me, I spent 8 years of my life prosecuting people for things like knife crime and hate crime (racism) so I think I have done a bit more than just given my approval on a football forum. What have you done apart from make unhelpful comments on a football forum?

People are talking about it so it seems to me that it has raised awareness - which surely was the point. It’s the same with everything. No matter what people do there is always criticism of the way it is done. At least some people are trying to change things. Maybe we should spend more time supporting good causes than picking apart the way they are carried out? I’m sure you mean well and this isn’t particularly aimed at you, but I am sure you get my point. This isn’t about how well Arsenal organised their awareness raising campaign about knife crime. It is about raising awareness about knife crime and trying to do something about it. Just once it would be great to see someone launch a campaign and for everybody to get behind it without nit-picking or finding a reason to diss it. Everything could be done better. The fact that it is being done is what we should be focussing on.

I was thinking the same. It was strange enough to read pages of posts from people who say they aren’t racist complaining about other non racists highlighting the issue of racism, but who on earth could have an issue about raising awareness of knife crime? We hear a lot about how football has sold its soul and that players are just a load of pampered wusses, but when the likes of Rashford tries to do some good for underprivileged kids, or players make a gesture in support of anti racism or a club does something to raise awareness about the problems of knife crime, some find the need to take issue with it. What goes on in some people’s minds that makes what people try and do about things like hungry children, racism or teenagers sticking knives in each other more of an issue then the issues themselves? No doubt I will get stick from some quarters for posting this (which kind of proves my point).

It sounds like an injury he picked up in the last game from a kick on the knee. He had cartilage damage and some fluid on the knee which is now showing a tear in the cartilage which will either repair itself or need surgery. From what Ralph is saying it sounds like he fears that surgery might be needed.

Makes you wonder why the club bother employing highly trained medical staff when all they need to do is to come on here for advice 😉

There was absolutely no need for him to make any kind of contact and give the player a chance to go down. As soon as it happened in real time it was obvious he was off. Like Salisu the game before, after the first yellow you just knew there would be a sending off. Just use your brain. Even if he hadn’t had a heavy touch and was through on goal, it is always better to leave it to the keeper to deal with and if they score we still have 11 men on the pitch. Very unprofessional and probably shows why his career keeps stalling.

Sex appeal? Wow. Most Tory women are less appealing than the men. Still, a number found Thatcher appealing so that tells you all you need to know about Tory boys. Perhaps it is all that private education that causes them to grow up with a dominatrix fetish?

I agree but trying to be impartial 24/7 every day of the year must be taxing! Fair play to them, they parodied themselves brilliantly in W1A. No matter what they do they are going to piss off somebody. As for the number of quiz shows, I agree but they do have an audience and the BBC need to cater for that. I suppose that is why they broadcast Mrs Brown’s Boys too 😩. There has been a general dumbing down in all of the media for the last 20 to 30 years and the BBC hasn’t been immune to that. But they have to reflect the times in which we live and as we know from the likes of Brexit and the way that Covid has been handled, large sections of the public have very different views about these things. The BBC have an impossible job to do in trying to keep everybody happy but I think we are fortunate that at least we have a corporation that are trying to do do something more for the general public rather than just make money for shareholders or push an agenda for someone with far too much money and their own interests at heart.

The BBC will never be able to please all of the people all of the time, but to be fair to them, they do try to cover as many spectrums as they can nowadays. As for bias, I have been watching the BBC all my life and have never found it inherently so. They ask difficult questions of those in power, which is their job, no matter what Party is in power. I don’t recall any PM or cabinet minister given an easy ride by the BBC reporters. As for being left wing, the BBC clearly has a social conscience, and you would expect that from a public funded broadcasting company. Over the years the BBC have covered social issues constantly, consistently and probably better than any other channels. They challenge not just politicians, but Royalty, businesses, crooks, the police, local councils and general wrongdoing. They don’t always get it right, but at least they do it and they do it on our behalf. If people want clear bias and self interest, there are plenty of media brands out there for their needs. For all of its faults, the BBC is still unique in its broad range of broadcasting and its efforts to speak to a very diverse country. We are lucky to have it. It’s is just a shame that we don’t have more public owned print media.

I was responding to another posters post which is what people do on internet chat forums. If you don’t like political discussions I suggest that you avoid political threads (although you might struggle here as many of them end up going down that path anyway 😉). As for “normal people”, good luck with that.

I don’t know what you have been looking at but most people would probably come to the conclusion that the majority of media companies in this country lean to the right. As for the BBC, I have seen plenty of people arguing that it leans towards the Tory party, their political editor gets plenty of stick for that reason. Depending where you look you will find people from both sides of the political divide accusing the BBC of bias, which probably means they have got things about right. We have one daily newspaper which is Left and that is the Mirror. The Guardian is liberal and was no friend of Corbyn. Most of our newspaper are owned by very rich people who want to stay that way, so they support right wing, capitalist politics. That self interest sometimes throws up some interesting curve balls like when Murdoch threw his clout behind Blair. To say that the state runs the press is nonsense. What is happening is that selfish, self serving businessmen will always back the horse that is better for their own interests. Not surprisingly that does not involve spending lots of money on social policies and supporting the underprivileged.

Neither. Any other options?

Perhaps it’s our diversity quota?