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I think that both Starmer and Farage will be delighted if the current favourite wins. https://www.paddypower.com/politics/uk-party-leaders

Spot on. Now perhaps we can return this and other threads back to the actual subject matter?

How would you know? You are too busy watching Tory/Reform people hosting GB News shows. Incidentally, if you tune into LBC now you will hear James Heappy hosting a phone on show. That should make you happy.

Offensive language to whom exactly? Trans people refer to themselves as trans. I know two people who have transitioned and neither of them find the term offensive I prefer to be guided by them than a bunch of WUMs on a football forum. This has nothing to do with my use of the word and everything to do with looking for every opportunity for a pile on. The same people who are feigning offence are the same who have issues with trans people. Egg let you off the hook but you have been just as bad as the others on this occasion. You spend much of your time on here calling others c**ts so are hardly in a position to preach. You think that calling someone an offensive term for female genitalia is less offensive to abbreviating transitioning or transitioned? You know just as well as everybody else, it is just an excuse for a pile on by grown men who still seem rooted in the playground mentality.

Jenrick the latest. Monday is the deadline apparently so the bun fight starts next week.

Reminder. This thread is about the Tory leadership contest. Any chance we can discuss that here?

This person as you call me is posting on a football forum. It is not the Oxford University Debating Society. You don’t seem to get so worked up when other people are “careless.” In this case I really don’t see the problem as trans people often refer to “trans” themselves. You just seem desperate to find something to have a dig. Were you really offended just because I said trans instead of trans person? I doubt it very much. I wasn’t sure if they were a trans man or a trans woman so I just said trans. If that has deeply offended you so much then I humbly apologise. I suspect though if someone else had said trans you wouldn’t have given it a second thought.

So what? You are just trying to make something out of nothing. Back to the real world. Tom Tugendhat has thrown his hat in the ring.

Australia ramping up the pressure. https://amp.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/jul/23/australia-sanctions-israel-settlers-west-bank-gaza-knesset-icj-ntwnfb

Netanyahu not getting such a warm welcome in the US. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c978m115eg8o.amp

Shouldn’t you be on the transfer thread? You haven’t posted there for at least 5 minutes.

Pakistani? If trans people call themselves trans, why do you have a problem with it other than trying to stir up more pointless nonsense? Australian = Aussie. Is that offensive?

Fair comments, but he was quality for us previously in the EPL so they would be buying a proven player.

More good news. https://www.joe.co.uk/politics/end-of-the-line-for-mp-gravy-train-as-labour-announces-clamp-down-on-second-jobs-449863

You said they were boring. If you don’t read them how do you know that they are boring? Anyway, on to more interesting things (but another boring thread for Whelk). https://www.barrons.com/amp/news/uk-to-name-commissioner-to-tackle-covid-era-corruption-1865be57

Short hand for a person who is transitioning but feel free to ignore the issue again by trying to create another. You would make a perfect candidate for Reform too. From what I have read, they often describe themselves as “trans” so if they don’t have a problem with it, why should you?

I have more of a problem with Trump/Vance running the country for 4 years than an elderly Biden plodding along for a few more months. At least now there is hope that Trump won’t win.

What has that got to do with anything?

You are sounding more like Duckie every day. I’ll read what I like and post what I like thanks. If you don’t care for the links that I post just don’t open them.

I am no expert on US politics but I am pretty sure that he doesn’t run the country on his own. There is no reason why he can’t keep things ticking over with his team while Harris is on the campaign trail

Starmer has previously been accused of flip flopping and now he is being accused of not flip flopping. Damned if he does and damned if he doesn’t.

This seems to be a sensible approach to tackling child poverty which is clearly a complex issue and isn’t going to be solve by one action alone. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn081lyqw44o.amp

Biden is giving a speech today so hardly being hidden away. From what I could tell there was a great deal of pressure put on Biden from Democrats prior to Biden’s decision not to run for a second term, so I really don’t buy the conspiracy theory nonsense.

Given the stupid money that is spent on home grown players by EPL clubs KWP has got to be worth £15m of anyone’s money, even in the last year of his contract. Whether we get it or not is another matter but I don’t blame the club for holding out for decent money for him.

If only people didn’t troll or behave as WUMs at every opportunity, eh, so that it wasn’t necessarily to ignore the childish nonsense. Maybe then we could concentrate on having grown up conversations. But well done you for reading every single post ever written in the Lounge and posting adult, well informed, replies and never resorting to Anglo- Saxon rich name calling. 👍 Here’s a thought, if there are duplicate posts, why not concentrate on the first one and reply to that? It might help your blood pressure and also help not clog up threads with pointless responses.