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Things started to go awry after Sam’s Town but there is the occasional gem to be found on Flowers’ solo albums. Well worth seeing live though. Hopefully it will be the full original band this time.

Some 20 years ago I meet a few posters from another forum a few times some of whom also eventually migrated here I think. They were all very pleasant.

The quality of MPs on both sides of the House is generally appalling. If they reflect our society it doesn’t say much for us does it?

Yay! Another racial slur.

Good for you! I was talking about a change in approach and a government that cares about the whole of society rather than a select few. If you are happy living in a country with food banks, fair enough. I have seen at first hand what your party has done to the NHS and the Criminal Justice System. I have sat with my wife as she has tried to navigate the Universal Credit system, without success. It is time for a change. Your lot have failed miserably. Maybe Labour will also fail, but if they manage to overturn half the damage the Tory have done in the last 9 years, some of us will see that as a massive success.

Why would they be if the NHS employed more staff? We have had this conversation already. My local hospital is open at weekends and my local surgery is open on Sunday mornings. Also no one has said that the NHS will work a 4 day week. They have said people should be entitled to work a 4 day week and they will look into how that will work.

I think the days of managers going to scout opposition players on their days off are long gone. I expect he will tell them what type of player he is looking for in certain positions and they will go through their black box stuff and come up with a list for him to look at. His job is to coach the team and get the best out of them. Good luck with that Ralph.

No, your party had a choice and chose austerity. I can’t believe that some Tories are still trying to wriggle out of taking responsibility for the state of the country after 9 years of Tory policies. The world has moved on massively since the days of Wilson, but at least we used to make things then. Now, to paraphrase Bonaparte, we have become a nation of baristas.

So you think that all hospitals and surgeries will close one day a week? You sound more like a Sun editorial every day.

You would think it was obvious wouldn’t you?

Although it may seem like it at the moment under the Johnson/Cummings alliance, we do not live in a dictatorship. There is absolutely no chance of us becoming a Marxist country under Corbyn or anyone else. As for a lurch to the left, after 9 years of austerity and little expenditure on public services and the infrastructure, the country is probably ready for a bit of radical socialism. You should believe all you read in the Mail, Express, Sun, Telegraph and Times.

Back in the 90s on the steam driven version of TSW ( the Saintslist) I remember a protracted argument about DOFs. They just started to become a thing and the general feeling was that the football manager should be totally in charge of player recruitment and that DOF’s were surplus to requirement. How times have changed!

So what. We are no more likely to become a Marxist country under Corbyn than we are likely to all become serial adulterers under Johnson. Just the usual right wing demonisation of Labour in this country. Deal with the policies. Do you honestly believe that we are suddenly going to be working a 4 day week if Labour win power? They have said themselves it is an aspiration and that it would need to be looked at in more detail. Back in the 80s we were told that shorter working weeks were coming and the opposite happened. All parties are throwing kitchen sinks at us in order to get our votes. Truth is we don’t know what a Labour government would bring in teal terms, but we do know what a Tory government has done to this country for the last 9 years and it is hardly something to be proud of. All you do is name call and deflect and that is because of the appalling legacy of the Tory government for the best part of the last decade.

By the Marxist? Do you think that you achieve anything with your constant petty name calling? If staff numbers increase why would waiting times get worse? Instead of throwing around Sun type insults, perhaps you should address the selling off of the NHS and myriad of other problems the Tories have caused over the best part of the last decade. You can deflect all you like, but we are where we are because of your party, nobody else. Not even The Marxist.

I am assuming you aren’t doing the same job?

Merit based? So men have more merit than women? Surely it doesn’t come down to anything other than two people doing the same job should get the same money?

Hospital waiting lists at their worst ever level. Boris and the Tories still playing a blinder?

Only it isn’t. How would you feel if you were a “bird” and you were paid less than a bloke for doing the same job?

Our resident ITK poster says the person will be revealed just before the first game after the international break. So next week.

You think that the gender pay gap is ok? Surely it is basic discrimination?

You would hope that a professional footballer would have too much pride in their own performance to do something like that deliberately...but who knows?

The employment figures in the UK falling at the quickest rate in 4 years. Boris still playing a blinder?

Quite old and quite a few. I am not sure what your point is? I was talking about the switch taking place the day before the election. I also wasn’t being entirely serious because it clearly would not happen would it? I think you are just looking for a row as usual. Just to recap, the whole point of my original post was the pretty much every potential Labour PM gets slaughtered in the press here. So jokingly I posited this cunning plan to thwart the Murdochs of this world. It was just a bit of fun. Do you remember fun? Why are we even having this exchange?

You are talking about illegal immigrants. What have the (Tory) Home Office been doing about it?

Who has been in control of immigration for the last decade John?