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I see the thing about pension funds all the time. It’s just an excuse not to do anything. We can’t nationalise it because the pension funds, we can’t let it go into administration because the pension funds, we can’t fine them for shit performance because the pension funds. It’s **** blackmail.

Am I missing something? The company is unviable and potentially insolvent and the shareholders are unwilling to provide it with the capital injection to continue. Surely the thing just goes into administration and the government create a new entity, buy the assets and the debt gets wiped out? The old shareholders get **** all and we get a shiny new co with none of the debts, as tax payers we’d still need to pump some capital in to get the infrastructure up to standard but that’s surely something that’s worth the investment, from a state perspective?

Translation: we’ve already bunged the FA some of our dirty oil money to **** off and leave us to our sportswashing and murdering.

He’s trying his best to get himself a presenter spot on Gbeebies.

Only certain clubs are facing consequences when we all know there are far bigger rule breakers who they’re either scared to go after or have decided not to for other reasons. It’s like the police sitting at the side of the road with a speed gun all day while burglaries and muggings go uninvestigated and thinking they’ve done a good job. Not to mention the rules themselves are set at a level far too low to allow those clubs to actually be mobile within the pyramid.

“staffed by believers” **** me. It’s becoming religious now. If the people running the system believe hard enough it’ll work. Conversely, it’s not that the current system is bat shit crazy, underfunded and generally unworkable. It’s just that the people there don’t believe enough. Simplistic answers for people with simple minds.

I think that’s overly harsh tbh. Seasons 3 and 4 were great. It’s well known that all Star Trek shows need a couple of seasons to find their feet. The first few of next generation were trash as well. Agree on the theme tune though. They tried to do something different and I think they kinda acknowledge all these years later that it didn’t work. The scenes in decontamination where they rub gel over each other were creepy and unnecessary.

At least it's getting done I suppose.

Add it to the list. Have they fixed the collapsing school roofs yet?

Reading Forests statement I agree with pretty much everything that say on PSR. The rules are absurd. The cut off date being before the end of the window is ridiculous and just means clubs have to choose between getting less money now or breaching the rules to get more value later. That can’t be in the spirit of the rules. It’s also unarguable that these rules are harming mobility within the football pyramid. That being said, 4 points seems a fair reflection and does take into account their mitigating circumstances around Brennan Johnson. They’ll moan and appeal because it’s risk free to them as the appeals panel won’t increase the deduction for a frivolous appeal so in that way you the statement about how they feel “disappointed and dismayed” is largely for show. They would have thought given what happened to Everton this would be the outcome (4-6 points) and I’d think they fancy their chances of getting 1 point more than Luton over the next 10 games.

They’d need to burn down the reichstag first.

White told him he didn't want to be considered. I know what my answer to that would have been. Book yourself a nice holiday in June you word removed because you won't be on the plane with us.

It was interesting that Sky chose to run an interview this morning with a guy who's current really involved with several Muslim groups Friends of Al-Aqsa, Muslim Association of Britain (MAB), Muslim Engagement and Development who says that this is an attack on free speech. He was also one of the main ring leaders of the group that was protesting outside schools in Birmingham saying they shouldn't be allowing "LGBT literature" in schools. Hardly a poster boy for the "we're definitely not extremists" cause.

I don't think he's overconfident. He strikes me as a deeply insecure person on a number of levels, hence getting so defensive when he thinks people are laughing at him. It was only a few weeks ago that he literally admitted changing how he was going to vote at the last minute because people were laughing at him. Like a lot of people he overcompensates through bravado but like you say, he's actually stupid, so he gives the game away with what he actually says when you listen. He even did it again yesterday when he talked about his parents saying he needed to go to reform in order for them to vote for him. I mean, what the **** is that? He can't even count on his parents unconditional support? That maybe hints to something in his upbringing, but who knows. Ultimately, his insecurity causes him to look for some kind of validation or affirmation wherever he can find it so he has to call about the emails and letters he says he receives from people saying "you go, Lee!". So yeah, total bellend. Obviously one of those guys who's definitely a racist but lacks the self awareness to know he is. Undoubtedly very stupid. Manbaby.

Did you hear the opening to his statement? He had apparently positioned himself behind a giant flag, started spouting his nonsense and all the journalists were giggling, one assumes, because a giant flag was saying it wanted it's country back.

I don't know about you but I think when you add "Great British" to the front of something it makes it at least 70, maybe even 100 times better. Great British Power Great British Rail Great British Wind Great British Bake Off It's just makes me fell like Winston Churchill is in the room with me telling me everything is going to be alright chap and we're going to beat those Bratwurst eating so and so's.

When I stayed there for a work event last year I noticed from my hotel room there was an apartment block opposite and on these massive high rise balconies were artificial grass, kids bikes and slides etc. I just thought - Who'd want their kids playing on a balcony 50 stories up? Who'd want to raise a family in a high rise apartment? It just seemed like an utterly mental way to live unless you're a single person or maybe a young couple without a family.

I think it's general dissatisfaction with everything. The urge to give whoever is in power a kicking, regardless of whether you broadly agree with or like them, is pretty powerful.

That's the double danger of having someone on those wages. You want them gone and you're willing to basically move them on for nothing but the bastards just won't go. We've felt that pain with the likes of Richards, Bent and McCormack.

I've been susprised how well this guy has done. If the money was right I'd sign him permenantly in the summer but knowing Barca he's probably on something utterly ridiculous.

Yep. You think the players have a shitty attitude now just wait until they've officially been told they've got nothing more to play for. See Chelsea for how that goes.

What got me was when he started talking about people undermining democracy. I don't think the guy who's not one a general election and lost his own parties internal leadership election but still ended up as leader by default because the person he lost to is batshit crazy can talk about respecting a democractic process.

I'm not sure it's particularly controversial to say different things to different communities as long as what you're saying in one doesn't directly contradict the other. In one he campaigns on stuff that would be pretty standard stuff in a lot of the country (Hospitals, Public Services, Business, Football etc) along with a couple of things more specific to Rochdale (grooming gangs) and a wedge issue (trans) but says nothing of Israel/Palestine. In the other he basically wastes a sheet of paper on a single issue which to me suggests he thinks that demographic are far more interested in what's going on 3000 miles away than what's happening with their local maternity hospital...it might be so, but I doubt it and it's very simplistic. The fact he won suggests he at least him some of the right notes in that constituency though.

But ironically what he said would have gone down very well with the demographics of Rochdale.

and that's the reason Labour will wait as long as possible before announcing anything despite all the hyperbole from certain people that they're not offering anything.