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Not to people like you Batman, that is why I told you to avert your eyes. As for thousands and thousands of people pouring into the country daily, you really do spout some nonsense. Perhaps if you didn’t spend so much of your day reading crap on Twitter you might make the occasional post that is worth reading. You might also stop sounding like a poor man’s Nigel Farage.

Come now Batman, we all know that you spend your days trawling the internet trying to find material that shows that racism doesn’t exist or tries to undermine anything that opposes it . If you are glued to anything it is to your keyboard and to Twitter. Someone who has spent years knocking Johnny Foreigner on a football foreign doesn’t turn into a “snowflake” overnight. Anyway, whilst I usually avoid anything by Owen Jones like the plague, he addresses the idea of civil unrest over the energy prices and cost of living hike here. You might want to avert your eyes Batman. Brits took to the streets over the Poll tax… https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/aug/23/cost-of-living-french-popular-resistance-living-standards-uk

The truth is usually mundane and boring Duckie. Your infatuation with Margaret Thatcher, Farage, your defence of Brexit and your constant fight against lefties and Pinkos will always be a lot more entertaining, I give you that. I look forward to a lot more of your posts in defence of politics and a party who are taking this country into the sewers, literally. Sleep tight, don’t let the Snap Dragon bite.

I live 6 miles away from Ashford International Stn and one junction away from Folkestone. EuroStar and EuroTunnel employ people in both towns. Not surprisingly some of those people live near Ashford as I do. A married couple who each work for one of the company’s above live four doors away from us. Not surprisingly in a small village everybody knows everybody else and knows everybody else’s business. We saw them the other week walking their dog and the subject of the strike came up, unsurprisingly, as he was on strike at the time. I mentioned it on a thread on a football forum dealing with current strikes because it was pertinent to a point I had made and been challenged on. That’s the way these things work Duckie. If he had worked for the fire brigade and wasn’t on strike, guess what, I wouldn’t have mentioned it. 1. Without wishing to get into a tit for tat argument, I only patronised you because you patronised me. 2. I was talking about attitudes towards strikers on the railways in particular at the moment who, I don’t believe have been offered 9%. There will have been many more strikes within many different organisations by the end of the year. It will be interesting to see where the public’s sympathies lie then, but I have a feeling it will be more with the strikers than the Tory government or their supporters.

You seem to have lurched from questioning my point that more people now have sympathy for strikers. Not sure what that has to do with the economy as that wasn’t what I was talking about. I understand that even if you didn’t personally 😉. Thanks for the patronisation and yes, of course I understand that higher wages will fuel higher inflation but again, that is not the point. After 10 years of austerity and now rapidly rising inflation and below inflation pay rises more people now have sympathy for strikers was the point. You, personally, took issue with that point. Are we on the same page now?

I recall Semmens saying something that led me to believe that the manager after Ralph had been identified and assumed he would come in as part of the new coaching team to bed in and would step up once Ralph goes. Whether that is Selles I have no idea but it makes perfect sense. Why some people feel the need to get their knickers in a twist over a possible, very reasonable, succession plan, god only knows.

I have seen plenty of support for the strikers in the media. A neighbour works for the railways, is a striker and says that he has received plenty of support. More and more people have had no pay rises for years and are now getting below inflation increases. Throw in fuel poverty and food price hikes and I think there are a lot more people struggling and have sympathy for those in the same boat, even if you don’t personally.

What about squad management? With 5 subs now more than ever before it is how you use your bench. Gone are the days where you start with your strongest eleven.

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.