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Reply | Verdict today then…
at 16:15 22 Sep 2025
Lord so and so will conduct an enquiry which consists of a minimum of 6000 words. The results will be announced early 2027. Retrospective points addition/deduction will take place in season 2027-2028. Points deduction/additions will only take place if the teams involved are in the Championship.
The Ipswich player sent off in the game between Blackburn and Ipswich Town on Saturday 20/09/2025 will be suspended until the enquiry concludes.
Blackburn Rovers pitch will be ploughed up and turned into a municipal tip by order. |
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Reply | Just going to pop this here...
at 15:58 22 Sep 2025
We should as Brits be more concerned with what is going on here. Police turning up on people's doorsteps about tweets on social media whilst completely disregarding burglaries, shop lifting and even rape gangs in Rotherham.
A government intent on policies that totally go against what a majority of what ordinary working people want to see happening.
An explosion in costs for benefits and looking after illegal immigrants whilst disregarding a sensible approach to immigration that enhances the Country where migrants come here to work and pay taxes and actually contribute to the country rather than being a burden on an already overblown budget spent on supporting people that will in some cases never put a penny into the exchequer.
America is a great country, but like us it has problems. Many such as a right to arms which has seen many people slaughtered by people who should never have access to guns.
But as with our government, whilst it is necessary to intervene into what some countries are doing they/we should concentrate more on where we as a country are heading. |
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Reply | Having played so well last week...
at 11:07 19 Sep 2025
I think the team will be the same at the start and the subs the same and only when we get weeks where it's Saturday, Tuesday/Wednesday, Saturday will KM rotate the squad. |
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Reply | The state pension will rise by 4.7% next year.
at 11:03 19 Sep 2025
It is exactly that "Means" a young person earning say £25,000 would after tax and N.I. take around £21,500, so would take home £1791 per month. Take from that a rent or mortgage between £1000 and £1200, council tax getting on for £200. energy at £100 per month, food at £350 etc,etc, nothing left.
Obviously all item costs are guesses and will be more or less depending on individual circumstances.
That then means if a pension provision for an individual/couple is to be made then it would perhaps be taken out in later years which in turn means the amount required to provide a good retirement would be higher.
On a recent search I discovered that in order to now have a good retirement a couple needs £38,000 per annum. An adequate retirement where luxuries are few and far between like changing your car, going out for meals, holidays etc would be severely curtailed.
I don't dispute the high figure as the older I get the less capable I am to do jobs I would carry out around the house. Where to get holiday Insurance due to underlying health conditions of both myself and wife where I used to pay a few hundred now run into between £1000 and have been over £2,000. Repairs to roofs, new fencing and dental work for my wife and myself have totalled around £15,000 in the last four years. The dental work was because no NHS facilities were available. |
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Reply | The state pension will rise by 4.7% next year.
at 12:29 18 Sep 2025
I receive the State Pension and whilst I agree that there's really no need to link the SP with three different things and I would agree with it just linked to inflation unfortunately the element of inflation it's linked to is CPI rather than RPI which makes a considerable difference and anyway who actually believes in the inflation figure anyway.
When I go to the shops weekly I very rarely see anything come down in price except perhaps summer clothing when winter is coming or visa versa where winter is over and spring and summer is on the horizon.
Most goods are rising by 20% or more.
I also advocate prescriptions for those attaining the age of 60 being scrapped as many will now work until 66,67 or 68. Certain health issues would be exempt as they are now.
I also see no reason why if a person continues to work after their official retirement age that they should continue paying N.I. on that basis maybe their pension could be enhanced slightly whilst bringing in extra revenue to the exchequer. |
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Reply | Keno's solution to the UK's problems
at 11:19 18 Sep 2025
Unless you can get all of those whether in a coalition or a single party to be as one it will make little difference as we have seen with both Tories and Labour.
Maybe it would be of use if any Government in power did what was right for the Country rather than having agendas of their own.
It has been said that because of the relatively short time a government is in power, unless re-elected that their policies are always based on short termism. For instance Labour wants more government based people and the Tories go for private firms. Most likely due to their individual paymasters.
Also many ministers seem more interested in what they can get out of it themselves than what they are paid for and that is to run the country.
Politics need to change as many people are fed up with being spoon fed lies and told do as I say and not as I do. Whilst billions are wasted and we the people have to pick up the tab. |
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Reply | The state pension will rise by 4.7% next year.
at 11:04 18 Sep 2025
From what I understand Defined Benefits schemes don't guarantee an amount payable on retirement. It depends on the contributions by the employer and the employee and what the outcome of the investments make.
Although a Final Salary scheme also needs investment made by both the employer and employee the amount paid will be based on the final salary of the employee and doesn't waiver from that. |
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Reply | The state pension will rise by 4.7% next year.
at 19:08 17 Sep 2025
I am in a similar situation to yourself whereby I get a Company pension on top of the SP.
I pay tax on most of my company pension and this gets more and more each year due to the personal allowance remaining at £12,570.
For instance I received a moderate amount on my Company pension of £147 this year. But due to the increase in State pension my tax increased by £250.
I went on to YouTube and a single guy was showing how he could claim benefits depending on what he put on the claim form.
For instance he put a figure of £1000 for his rent and his benefits total would have been £900.
A person I am close to is on benefits, they are single and have a council property which is paid before they receive both Universal credit and PIPS.
I estimate their total value including things they don't have to pay for like medication to be in the region of between £25-£30,000 a year.
Whilst I have no axe to grind with those on benefits who are entitled to them during a lifetime of work from my late teens until I was 71 I was lucky if I earned much above £20,000. |
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Reply | The state pension will rise by 4.7% next year.
at 17:56 17 Sep 2025
I note that nobody ever seems to bash politicians about their near £100,000 a year wages and subsidised food and drink in the house of parliament.
Those in the House of Lords get £360 per day tax free.
Prime Ministers are entitled once out of office to a £115,000 allowance. So even in the case of Liz Truss who managed to get kicked out after two months would be entitled to that amount as would Cameron, May, Johnson and Truss.
The current government is wasting huge sums of money on mad scheme projects. The Tories wasted billions on Track and Trace, PPE and the Furlough scheme where companies like Bookmakers closed shops, furloughed staff and then made more on online gambling than if they had the shops opened and the online facilities.
Gordon Brown trashed Companies final salary pension schemes by taxing share dividends.
Governments for years have had Births and Deaths data and census to provide them with estimates for the amount of retirees they would have in future years. They would have been aware of the Baby Boomer years after the second world war. But did zilch about either making provisions or changing the system. |
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Reply | Amorim for the sack?
at 16:50 15 Sep 2025
The problem is expectation. The need for a club that sits at the top of the earnings league to uphold past success and a manager in Sir Alex that like Sir Bobby didn't start particularly well but grew into the job.
Today's managers are expected to have instant success even if the club they join isn't the biggest and cannot afford the huge wages and massive transfer fees of their bigger rivals.
Often the players that clubs like Utd sign find the pressure too much to perform to the level that they achieved from the clubs they came from.
Some need more time than appears to be available to them and they are moved on.
We saw this with a couple of City players in the form of Phillips and now Grealish. Multi million pound players. Fortunately from a City point of view they had enough quality to more than make up. |
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Reply | What’s this on BBC1
at 10:41 14 Sep 2025
Whilst it is totally wrong for people to attack the police physically I was watching one of the stations showing the massive crowds. Many were laughing and joking with the police and each other and the protest considering over 100,000 was relatively peaceful.
On the Kuenssberg show this morning one of the panel was basically saying 100,000 racists causing trouble.
Words like that can only stir and inflame situations.
Say it as it is that yes there were far right elements at work. But mainly it was peaceful.
Whenever you have marches, protests etc you will always have elements within that are not there for the main purpose. So you get violence, theft and properties trashed. If you compare our protests against those in France there was no comparison in the damage done and whilst that doesn't justify violence it does show the difference. |
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Reply | Some good news on climate change
at 15:18 10 Sep 2025
Wages and prices are a vicious cycle. The more prices go up the more wages people need. The higher the wages go the more the prices go up. Every year whether you work, are on benefits or an O.A.P. we all want an increase in our "Wages" come April as we know everything will go up. But are we better off ? 99 times out of 100 the answer is NO and in many cases we are worse off.
But then you take China. High productivity, low wages. Continually pushing the boundaries of innovation and if they can't invent it, they pinch the technology from someone else.
Those that run Britain are far too easily prepared to sell off things that could make the country rich again.
Government policies mean that energy has the highest prices in the world, around four times that of the US. Is it any wonder that we cannot produce things needed not only for ourselves but also to sell to others.
How can we be sure climate changes haven't happened thousands of years ago and that the earth will eventually cool down for another ice age. There were people who believed the earth was flat and that proved totally wrong. |
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Reply | Oh Mandy!
at 15:01 10 Sep 2025
Kier's crazy gang are doing really well aren't they ? A hosing minister resigns due to not paying the correct stamp duty, a homeless minister who's on a charge for making people homeless, a corruption minister who's on corruption charges and a UK minister who is pals with Epstein and was put into the job by Starmer whilst Epstein was himself under investigation and went to Epstein's home when he was in prison.
Isn't it time that whatever government is in power that they started to look after the very people that put them in power instead of having their own agenda and that individuals instead of being more interested in what they can get out of it themselves either whilst in power or when they finish put the country first.
We can blame whoever we want for the current situation. We can deny that Farage is the right man to lead us in future but my question would be "If not Farage" then who. Because we have had the Tories, we now have Labour and neither have come up with answers or improved the lot for working class people and we stumble from one crisis to another.
It is probably due to one of two things A) That those in government aren't good enough to do their jobs or B) That they have no interest in what the public want or need. |
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Reply | Just went past a community centre…
at 10:15 8 Sep 2025
Perhaps if we had a government that worked for us rather than the Unions and wasn't torn between satisfying the left and the right there would be no need for people to take to the streets and use the Union Jack and flag of St. George as some sort of protest against our country being ruined.
I have no time for far right, far left or whatever. They are destroying peaceful protests.
But whatever goes on sadly you will always have people that use the situation to their advantage.
There should be no questions asked if a person wishes to raise the flag. But because of reasons I have just pointed out it will now be seen in some quarters as racist. Which in turn gives those with an agenda to destroy our culture even more excuses. |
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Reply | Measuring the economy in Toasties
at 15:27 6 Sep 2025
I remember as a teenager a mobile chippie came to the village I lived in. It was a AEC bus converted so you stepped onto the back of it where there was a counter and the frying range ran along the inside of the bus on the right hand side.
You could get a bag of chips and scraps for 6d or 2.5p.
How the heck we have got to where we are can only be down to successive governments allowing all and sundry to plunder our fishing grounds.
Also for what you pay now for a bag of chips you could buy a sack of potatoes only a handful of years ago. |
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Reply | Rayner resigns
at 15:16 6 Sep 2025
We all want to be on that train, but for some it never reaches a station. I think we can say with a large degree of certainty that many ministers and MP's have in the past and currently lined their pockets when in power or have come out of power with nice little earners afterwards.
I think the question has to be asked whether the right type of people are putting themselves forward to serve us and that their objectives have to be brought into question.
I also believe that the aims of government have to be questioned when a large proportion of what they are doing in no way benefits those that put them into power. |
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