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Reply | Voting age being lowered to 16 then
at 08:52 18 Jul 2025
Not old enough to drink a cold beer though 😃
This government aren’t offering anything for youngsters in terms of improving public services, affordable housing, boosting savings, and even the latest ONS jobs data is less than encouraging. I expect Labour will see little benefit.
Also see it as far more important to democracy to give us PR and break down this awful 2 party system which gives us endless mediocrity, complacency, and short term policies. |
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Reply | Bryan Mbeumo
at 13:19 17 Jul 2025
Yeah they’ll probably have to sack a few more cooks and cleaners to find the additional fee. Truly awfully run club. |
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Reply | 16 and 17 year olds will be able to vote in the next GE
at 12:33 17 Jul 2025
And if the rumours are true, Labour will be coming for their ISA tax free limit - further hindering youngsters saving to try and get on the property ladder. Really hoping that’s not the case as it’s hard enough as it is. |
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Reply | Sycamore Gap vandals sentenced
at 15:56 15 Jul 2025
They didn’t just damage it did they - they hacked down a historical landmark, absolute chavs.
A saddening and senseless crime, doubt they’ll serve anything like the 4 years anyway. |
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Reply | Time to trust KM
at 14:18 15 Jul 2025
Pragmatic, optimistic - who are you, and what have you done with Frimley? |
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Reply | 14.09 hrs.
at 14:17 15 Jul 2025
Playing devils advocate, it doesn’t mean he won’t go this window. Love Omari but I’m kind of relaxed, happy with our business so far - Delap was inevitable, (on paper at least) we’ve upgraded in defence and centre mid. |
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Reply | Favourite Morsy Moments
at 12:12 15 Jul 2025
Equaliser late, lateeeee into injury time at home to Leicester. The effort in the second half was immense, after being somewhat schooled in the first. With how tight it felt at the top of the table too, it genuinely felt like a win rather than a draw. Such epic times after the utter mediocrity in the 10+ years preceding it. |
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Reply | Everything's going to be alright......'trickle down' is back.
at 10:48 15 Jul 2025
It isn’t capitalist or free market - I’ve studied this stuff, just because you THINK it is doesn’t make it so. What you wrote is also wrong because Poland is projected to surpass the UK and Italy on a per capita basis within the next 10 years despite being held back by communism.
I only jumped in because you seemed to infer Venezuela isn’t at fault for its own sh1t-show. Nobody said things can’t be better than they are either. |
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Reply | Appears Morsy is off to Kuwait
at 10:42 15 Jul 2025
He changed the club to one with a winning mentality. Has been the ringleader of the most successful period of our club (in my time).
Sad to see him go but maybe he wants to go somewhere with less intensity in the game. Seems fit as a fiddle but you never know if he’s feeling his body. All the best Sam! |
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Reply | Everything's going to be alright......'trickle down' is back.
at 10:13 15 Jul 2025
Scandanavia isn’t capitalist it’s a mixed market model with state provision of services. Even their oil and gas E&P is state owned. Sweden has moved to a more free market model, but they aren’t defined as capitalist. I assume you advocate therefore for a centrally planned economy, though handing that much power to the state is a recipe for authoritarianism.
Not to forget the eastern bloc has had an astonishing improvement in living standards since their transition from a centrally planned economy - interesting that barring the odd questionable defector to North Korea - people only ever fled one way… [Post edited 15 Jul 10:16]
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Reply | Everything's going to be alright......'trickle down' is back.
at 09:32 15 Jul 2025
It’s also somewhat disingenuous to blame external factors, internal corruption, authoritarianism and poor economic policy is to blame for much of Venezuela’s troubles. There are many more successful left leaning governments in South America such as Chile who’ve achieved a good standard of living for the population. Venezuela’s state brutalised their own population in order to maintain power, believed to be the biggest outflow of refugees in the world (ironically many going to Columbia). It’s quite right that they were put under Sanction. Kicking out western companies was akin to shooting themselves in the shin and blaming ‘the West’. It left them without the capital, or skillset to exploit a resource wealthy nation.
Scandinavia too has managed stability and prosperity with a US military presence, and economic influence. |
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Reply | Everything's going to be alright......'trickle down' is back.
at 08:53 15 Jul 2025
They weren’t a mess when Blair/Brown left power, only 70pc debt to gdp. Sadly 15 years of incompetence and corruption has led us here.
As for the rage bait- deregulation was a major component of the Leave campaign, they are just giving this Brexiteer what he voted for. |
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Reply | £20m for the American Budgie
at 13:28 14 Jul 2025
So that will probably work out £2m for each game he manages to stay fit (if they are lucky)… |
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Reply | Time to move on Town
at 10:51 9 Jul 2025
Difficult to know in situations like this how much it’s agent driven. Maybe he does want to join Town but the agent is playing games to get him the best deal. I agree with the sentiment that we can’t let these things drag on but I suspect it’s not always down to the players wishes. |
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Reply | Delap has his work cut out.
at 10:48 9 Jul 2025
They’ll be playing a lot of games this season with Europe and domestic cups.
He’ll get plenty of game time, plus he’s still only 22 so plenty of time to push on to be first choice. |
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Reply | Govt deficit: what would you do?
at 10:40 9 Jul 2025
I’m not sure Ireland as effectively a tax haven and key driver of offshoring capital is a model to aspire to though in fairness. That’s effectively the reason they’ve managed such a high GDP per capita (it’s also grossly distorted due to capital which isn’t even really circulating their economy in a lot of cases). They also have a tiny debt to gdp ratio compared to the UK.
The problem for me for the UK is the cost of the debt, rather than the debt per se. The amount of tax take which could be deployed to public services (and simultaneously boosting the economy) is now just going on servicing costs. Last year we spend more on debt than our entire education system. That’s a gross misuse of public funds in my opinion. Other countries like Japan underwrite some of their own debt which potentially is a cheaper way of doing it. But right now we are simply wasting over $100bn a year relying on borrowing (and the costs are increasing). We also have a disproportionate amount of index linked debt which doesn’t help (you can’t reduce it rapidly via inflation). |
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Reply | Govt deficit: what would you do?
at 09:30 9 Jul 2025
What would the ECB do differently though, they’ve printed over €1trn and achieved even worse growth (and forward projections) than the UK. Monetary policy isn’t controlled by the UK Gov so you’d be handing independence over to the ECB. Then you have a whole set of differently balanced economies tied to the same polices e.g export heavy nations like Germany dependent on the euro not being too strong, and you’d have the UK with a huge trade imbalance wanting a stronger Euro as we are dependent on imports. Denmark and other countries have managed fine with their own currencies.
Give us PR and we might get a better class of politician, rather than having to vote for the least worst option. |
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Reply | Birmingham trying to do an ipswich
at 13:43 7 Jul 2025
Let’s be honest the different rules between different tiers, as well as pitiful points deductions means you might as well just go for it. See Leicester, Forest, and now Brum - chance of a £200m promotion, or a downside of a possible 2 point deduction if you fail, seems good odds to me.
Maybe we should have done it last year like Forest. I don’t like cheating, but sometimes feel we are the only club following the rules and effectively penalised for it. Are we too sporting, a bit like when Britain was in the EU following the rule book, whilst France did whatever they felt like (eg illegal state subsidies). Just venting I guess, at cheating with few consequences. |
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Reply | Peaceful protesters arrested in Parliament Square.
at 17:49 5 Jul 2025
If I’m understanding this correctly they were arrested for supporting the banned group, not for protesting? Clearly Palestine Action members involved in the MoD case should have been prosecuted, but proscribing them as terror group is an authoritarian move. But there seems to be some conflation here that they were arrested just for protesting and that doesn’t appear to be the case.
They could have held a pro Palestine rally and nothing would have happened? Knowing Palestine Action was now a proscribed organisation they’ve needlessly put the police in a difficult position. All seems very avoidable, and perhaps they carried it out for the publicity. The police are not at fault here, the government should never have made that call but they seem increasingly authoritarian. |
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Reply | RJK Jr at it again
at 11:24 5 Jul 2025
Indeed, and the soft power vacuum will quickly be filled by authoritarian states like China and Russia who have increased influence in places like Africa. The US (and wider West) will find themselves isolated and without allies, lose access to trade, and cutting things like foreign aid will hamper development and increase the flow of migration. |
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