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I disagree. The country is ready for a change and are ready for a grown up for PM. The far left might be irrelevant to the country but they will do what they can to derail Starmer’s attempt to get elected and the right wing media will be all over it, just as they were with the Blairites attempt to hamstring Corbyn. Starmer is not stupid. He knows what he needs to do to get elected and is doing it. He can see that he doesn’t need to do too much right now because the Tories are doing his job for him. If they elect Truss, which seems likely at the moment, he job becomes easier. Just be a viable alternative to the current shit show, which really isn’t difficult. He has some difficult waters to navigate with the forthcoming and current strikes. The far left expect to see Labour MPs supporting the strikers and standing in picket lines. Starmer knows that is a vote loser amongst the floating middle England voters and has to tread a fine line between not alienating those fighting for a living wage and those who are being affected by the strikes. So far he has managed it and he is right to say that the government needs to do more to fasciliate negotiations between management and workers. These strikes will only end with both sides talking and reaching agreements. The Tories enjoy unrest by unions as it plays into their hands. Where they are getting it wrong now is that public opinion seems to be turning in favour of those striking as more and more of us are being hit by costblof living rises. Starmer could probably afford to stand by the unions more and not lose the middle England support he needs to get elected. This winter is going to be a nightmare for this country whoever wins the race to become PM. Starmer should be cleaning up next year.

He doesn’t need charisma. The current incumbent of No 10 has plenty of that and look where that has left the country. He needs to have competence, an understanding of the issues and a desire to do something about them and integrity. He has these qualities. His problem isn’t going to be beating Truss or Sunak. His problem is the element of the far left who seem to be happier to see the Tories in power rather than a moderate Labour Party.

I’m not a betting man but I would have put serious money on Batman being the first person to find and post this. If it were ever in any doubt, he spends his days on Mumsnet. Liz Truss, I doff my cap to you.

You seem to have shot yourself in the foot and done an Alanis yourself. Feel free to go and find posts of mine where I have included the stuff that Batman posts.

What I would imagine is exhausting is trawling the internet every day to find pointless rubbish to post on a forum where most people find it, erm, pointless. Perhaps find yourself a job? Do submariners make their own breakfasts nowadays? Is that why you have so much time on your hands?

Another day, another completely pointless post by someone who has nothing better to do with his life. Perhaps we should all just stop what we are doing and scan adverts for things that Batman thinks are racist? Little wonder Liz Truss thinks we are a nation of shirkers if that’s all the Batman’s of this world get up to everyday.

Let’s play ‘Wheel of Internet Twattery.’ Let’s spin the wheel to see who today’s Internet Twat is… Actually let’s not bother because it always lands on Delldays/Batman/AlexLaw76. 😏

Did you ever burn the toast on the sub? I should imagine a fire onboard a submarine is a pretty serious thing and not to be made fun of? Or did you take the rise out of your colleagues during fire drills?

No not here, but I expect that doesn’t make the people who lost their houses or their crops a few weeks ago feel any better. Do you or do you still think it is something to poke fun at? (No need to answer that, we all know the answer). Actually I was wrong, still fires here https://www.kentonline.co.uk/ashford/news/amp/fire-crews-tackle-large-crop-blaze-271896/

Probably no need to worry about things like this if you are in a submarine eh Batman? More so for people living by tinder dry fields.

Of course you can. I am voting against the party who have caused economic hardship for most of the population for over 10 years for starters. We are also tightening our belts and not spending what we used to of our disposable income in places like our local and various cafes. This will, of course, effect many local businesses as their income will fall, but hey ho. That’s capitalism for you. So I have a question for you. What have YOU done about racism and other important issues of the day, other than change your avatar to one poking fun at it?

Perhaps his coaching team advised him to start that way? Leeds ran themselves out and would could have won it at the end thanks to fresh legs and some decent subs. Perhaps Ralph made the final decisions? We don’t know but just to assume that everything Ralph decides is shit is nonsensical.

Was he deemed better? Perhaps as was said it was more about not blooding too many new players at once, especially in a tough away game.

This week he himself said he isn’t quite fit enough to play 90 minutes yet. Apologies, was reading from back to front and hadn’t seen the other post.

It gives them a transfer value and means they are not likely to go for nothing and are still on the books if we need them as back up. Seems sensible to me.

It’s staggering how little reaction we are currently seeing on social media or out in society in general regarding fuel poverty. Take a knee against racism and it kicks off, people with brown skins rape white girls and it kicks off, loose several football matches on the trot and it all kicks off, make a “woke” observation and it kicks off, talk about trans issues and it kicks off, mention the heatwave and it kicks off…you get the drift. Yet we are staring at an absolute disaster for many homes come winter and anyone would think that it is just a fantasy and as soon as we have a new PM it will just go away. One of the usual suspects on here once said “socialism is dangerous” (I am sure we all agree that the NHS and the Welfare State has done nothing but harm to our society). Now we have energy companies making billions of $ of profit for doing nothing and not a mention about capitalism being remotely “dangerous” from those of a right wing disposition. The only person making any kind of sense and showing any kind of concern in politics is Gordon Brown. Our present PM has totally washed his hands of it all. No daily COBRA meetings about what to do so that we are ready to deal with the situation once the summer is over. The two incompetents fighting it out to lead us into the biggest winter of discontent in my lifetime look clueless and are just throwing out red meat in exchange for votes. Maybe no one wants to think about the effects of hypothermia when we are in the middle of a heat wave, but in a few short months time the shit is going to hit the fan big time. If, by some miracle, Corbyn had actually been elected PM you can imagine the kicking the right wing media would be giving him at the moment. Yet here we are, a few months away from people who never thought they would be in a situation like this, having to decide between heating and eating. We are going to struggle this winter. We have already made significant changes to our budgets. My wife recently had a small pay rise which has already been completely wiped out by cost of living rises before it hit her bank balance. Why aren’t the masses kicking off? People can find the energy to boo footballers from taking a stand against racism but don’t seem to give a shit about the millions of people who will struggle through the next winter and whose bank accounts will be emptied. They can’t all be shareholders in energy companies surely? Perhaps it really is just a bad dream?

As you know I was referring to the resident WUM who apparently cares so little about it he is still going on about it a year later.

So some strange people still have an issue with others making a stand against racism. Perhaps we should just ignore and hope it goes away all by itself?

Valery didn’t look too bad in the friendlies, especially now he has bulked up, but it just goes to show the difference between a friendly and an EPL game. Perhaps it wouldn’t be so bad if we didn’t leave our last line so exposed but certainly those three are really not good enough together at this level.

It also made sense to give him another contract on the basis of that if we decided against using him as back up at least he then still has a reasonable resale value rather than walking on a free.

Perhaps Che hasn’t been putting the effort in training because he wants out? Who knows? It did seem odd that he didn’t get on the pitch on Saturday though under the circumstances so perhaps there is something about him being on the market.

Stephens is no way good enough for the EPL. We brought on two players at half time yesterday who made the team worse. If I was a striker I would love to see Stephens name on the team sheet. He may have the various qualities you mention but he really isn’t a very good footballer at this level and for. CB is very poor in the air.

There is a difference to being fit enough to come off the bench and fit enough to start. From what Ralph had been saying he is still building up to match fitness. As for Djnepo, he made our only goal and I didn’t think he played too badly. Spurs are a decent side. We are an average side. I don’t think anyone expected us to get a result today and hopefully, once we have concluded our transfer dealings, I think we will have enough to stay up. Not many pluses today but Lavia looks ok and Aribo will be a good player for us.

I Vow To Thee My Country gets my vote.

Friendly or no friendly, it was a cracking bit of skill and a brilliantly taken goal. We seem to live in a very strange world now where something can’t be appreciated properly just for what it is. Even if he never scores again, those who saw it will remember it along with Boufal’s wonder goal and MLT’s more sublime efforts. For those who say yeah but it was only a friendly, those who play and watch football do so for moments like this. Just enjoy it FFS.