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Agreed. The only real impact I see is a reduction of hosting any data in the UK. It is an insensitive not to work here. If you are an international company it is a big insensitive not to be based here. UK data will have to be separated from the rest of the EU and treated differently. This is just effort and therefore cost. It just further isolates us from the rest of the world. The idea is dumb, but from the world of Brexit it is what I have come to expect.

Koch being worked on by 2 men.

Omg the defending AI is so stupid, the worst it has ever been. I'm watching as my defence with 6 men in my own box manage to leave 2 attackers unmarked. Switching defenders does me no good as they are all so out of position I can't get anywhere near them. I just watched a goal back where my defenders formed a 4 man semicircle around a single striker, not a single one got close, not a single one got between striker and the goal and none of them tried to cut out the pass. The striker just stood there until the pass came in then boom, another goal in a 6-2 loss. Gameplay is shite.

IMO the game as a single player experience so far is awful. 14 games into my first career mode and there have been 74 goals scored in total. An average of over 5 goals a game. It feels scripted beyond my experience of any other year. I will go 3 up in a game then my team is unable to complete a tackle or a pass and I let in 3 goals in 15 minutes. It's so frustrating to play. And the keeping is so broken. It's like they jump out if the way of the ball on occasions and more often than not they just fall over rather than dive. It is to football what police squad is to detective work.

Don't disagree with any of that. However that is proof of a sense of self preservation, not of conscience.

35 Tories with a conscience? Good luck with that. More likely to find life on Jupiter.

And what happened to the goalkeepers? They are awful.

I'm not sure this is a very good game at the moment. Played last night for a short time. My first game ended 5-5. Scoring goals is stupidly easy for the user and for the AI. I'm not feeling a simulation here, it is very arcade game IMO. Will put some more time in it to get a better feel, but not impressed with gameplay so far.

The first time I ever sold a home, I had one of these landlords introduced to me by my agent. They offered about £20k under the asking price (I was asking for £180k) and the agent strongly recommended that I accept the deal. At that point they had not shown my home to anyone. I fired the agent that same day, the whole arrangement stunk and I ended up selling only a few weeks later at over £200k (£212k I think) with a different agent. I hate to think how many people get taken advantage of in this way. A £50k swing to me was simply 25% of all of my assets in the world, it made a huge difference in the house I could afford to move to and the area I lived in, even the school my kids ended up going to was in the balance. To the landlord and the agent it was small change, to me it was a life changing amount of money. If I had trusted them my life could have been very different.

Bet she thought local radio presenters were all smashy and nicey so would have an easy time of it. What she came up against were a bunch of people who don't rely on access to politicians for their careers so are happy enough to ask the awkward question and call out the BS. In part this morning is further exposing how pathetic mainstream media is at holding politicians to account.

Have you heard Truss this morning? She has no clue. She cannot answer any questions sensibly. Has no recognition that what she has done has made things worse. An absolute nightmare.

The bubbles can absolutely do one. Would disable it in a heartbeat if the option was there

I don't mind that so much. I just imagine that Ellis is the chairman

Yeah the amount of time that has gone into minor things that make no difference is silly with basic bugs still littering the game. That Champions League glitch forced me to forfeit a League One game that I would otherwise have played. It hasn't ruined the save, but had it been a more crucial game I would have been properly pissed off.

Any bugs spotted in career mode yet?

Crazy isn't it. I've read what the IMF have to say and funnily enough, they don't mention Starmer once.

If they do ditch Truss a GE has to be the next step. This cannot go on

The tax cuts help almost no one. The amount saved in tax is dwarfed by the negative impact on the economy. The tanking of the pound plus all the already known problems of Brexit, inflation, fuel prices etc make this tax savings evaporate even as they are implemented. The only people who are doing well out of this are the people who bet against us on the markets. For the maths to work out in your favour you already have to have so much money that you wouldn't notice the difference anyway.

I watched reruns of game of thrones last night. I say that as someone who turned into forest green Vs Exeter today just because it was on.

Yep, they totally f'd us in every conceivable way. I'm looking at leaving too, and our choices have gone from very many easily available destinations to points systems, most of which I don't qualify for. I could get into the USA, but not interested in jumping from pan into fire.

Saw the first 3 episodes of Andor last night. Really enjoyed it. They are spending time building story, it is well acted, writing is good and it looks great. Not flashy great, but lived in great. It looks real enough to not jar you out of the story. Fan service BS is at a minimum too, which is a good thing.

It's the deal the NHS is being softened up for. US private healthcare is positively tumescent with the idea of getting its hands on our NHS. Loosing the NHS into private hands would be even worse than Brexit IMO and it is happening Infront of our eyes.

So true. This is one of the most frustrating parts of the game. At release it was a really good FIFA. The patches absolutely made the gameplay worse.

I enjoy the fallacy that the Royal family stay out of politics, or that the power they have is only ceremonial. Sure they don't do much out loud, but on the quiet in the background on matters of real estate, taxes etc they have a very powerful and direct route into policy makers that they are only too happy to use. Also breaking the law as a Royal is pretty much ok. Just imagine what would happen to you if you drove into a bus stop full of waiting passengers. They don't care much for politics it's true, but when it comes to cold hard cash they are happy to dip a toe in the water. One example