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Stratton resigns. She's a symptom, not the cause though. How many people, regardless of how despicable their actions may be, will be made to sacrifice themselves so the incompetent floppy haired buffoon can survive another day?

Then he really is genuinely untouchable. What more can be said or done? I can't get my head around anyone who's looking at this and thinks "he's my guy" regardless how much you hate/don't want Labour in. Are we really at a point where it doesn't matter how bad the tories (and this particular tory) are because we're so entrenched that we'll forgive them anything?

Just out of interest. Why is this the straw that broke the camels back? Not the illegal proroguing of parliament? Barnard Castle? A thousand U-turns? 140 thousand deaths? Billions wasted on Track and Trace? Afghan allies left to die on the tarmac? Betrayal of the fishing and farming industries?

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Well this is just revolting isn't it? Even by the standards of these guys, surely the Johnson lickers will see this creature for what he is? Even they can't defend this and keep a straight face, even if he is the man that "got beggzit dun" and beat down "commie corbyn"?

Ings and Watkins aren't proper finishers? Come on, now. Watkins isn't the greatest finisher in the world but at least half the teams in this league would definitely take him. Ings has proven to be a predator, we haven't seen it yet for a couple of reasons but there's no reason to think overnight he's forgot where goal is.

They all count. What you're asking for isn't more goals it's more creativity from open play. That's different and something that's pretty complex to fix, particularly in the middle of a season.

Or you'd hear them furiously flicking through the rule book to find some obscure 19th century rule to allow.

Completely agree with this but they've backed themselves into a corner with VAR by refusing the let us hear the conversations between the VAR and Ref as they would in other sports. They want all the technology but without the accountability. They're terrified of any kind of scrutiny of "the why" in the decisions they make. Let's hear why they make/dont make some of these decisions so we can all have some clarity. The crap about "you'll hear lots of swearing on TV etc" is probably true but it would only be short term because I think it'll prompt a change in how the refs manage those situations...sending a couple of Neil Maupay's off for foul and abusive can only be a good thing. right?

"Doggerland" I'm such a child.

It is bonkers that the same people who were all about taking back sovereignty in 2016 now want another country to compromise theirs. The French government don’t want them any more than the British government does. Truth is they don’t want to claim asylum in France otherwise they’d have already done it. If we opened up a processing centre in northern France we’d still have this problem because it either would take too long to process them or they’d be rejected and go straight back to the dinghy’s. The only way it gets resolved is if we and the rest of the world make their home countries a bit more livable.

Tbh the industrial revolution we were taught was more 19th century (Brunel, Steam power, textiles, slavery etc). I don't even think we ever covered Waterloo, the Americal Revolution or the War of 1812. I really wish I'd decided to become a history teacher or something, it's something that as I've gotten older I've decided is far more interesting with the interconnected nature of it all than when I was actually at school. You pull a thread and you have no idea where it leads. Even some of the topics that we were actually taught, WW1 for example, a lot of things were missed like the Russian Revolution and what happened to their imperial family. The breakup of the Austro-Hungarian empire and all the ethnic consequences of it.

I remember at primary school doing ancient egypt and stonehenge but not a lot else. Secondary school was battle of hastings, tudors, industrial revolution, WW1, rise of hitler. Weirdly they skipped WW2 and went straight to Vietnam and the Civil Rights movement.

Watching it with the Mrs I turned to her at one point and said “what’s happened to Jeremy Renner’s face!?” He’ll have a face like Harry Redknapp in a few years at this rate. Luckily I could watch Hailee Steinfeld’s face all day

Hopefully the government will learn the lessons of what happened with the Indian variant where they placed very fast travel bans on pretty much all India’s neighbours but inexplicably didn’t put India on the list…I say inexplicable but I think we all know the reason was trade and money. I’d be surprised though. Tories gonna Tory. Edit: we’ll blow me down they’re stopping flights from 12pm apparently. It seems they are capable of learning after all.

Seriously who is voting for these jackasses.

As there is in sections of the country at large. Certainly a factor in selecting Sunak will be an assessment of how likely a lot of the farther right of the Conservative voters are likely to take to Sunak (or not). A lot of the new intake of "red wall" MP's are known to be pushing hard on "fixing" the immigration issue as that's the main issue they get on the door step in those constituencies. They'll ask themselves how comfortable they are answering those questions effectively on the door step while having someone who looks like Sunak, with a name like Sunak running the show.

100% agree with you buddy. No one has the right to force someone to have the vaccine but you don't have the right to transmit to others you're working with, serving or are serving you. I know we'll get someone say "well it doesn't stop you getting the virus etc" and that's true, but it's also proven to cut the transmission and hospitalisation rate and thats the really important thing here. I doubt we're going to get to a point where we have a zero infection rate, as it seems to be here to stay, but businesses have the right not to employ you or refuse you service on the basis that you are more likely to be infecting their customers.

We shall fight them on the.....errr....ahhh....forgive me....forgive me....er....beaches!

I don’t think it’s as simple as them just being overrated. They undoubtedly did overachieve but they’re also suffering from key injuries, they look like they’ve suffered the most from the poor preseason every club seems have had and bielsa just doesn’t seem to be able to get the same level of energy/impact he once did. Would it surprise you to hear he’s approaching the most time he’s ever spent managing a club? There’s a reason he doesn’t stay in one place too long.

No doubt next time they'll make another round of promises they'll have no intention of keeping. Just standard Boris things.

No way we'll sell Trez while he's injured. Davis, as has been done to death, is on a lot of money so we'll find difficult to shift. El Ghazi leaving is possible. Guilbert it's possible SG will take a look at when he returns but I doubt he'll recall.

how the hell has vaccination become politicised? There's a complete breakdown of trust from both sides in what is being said. Take for example, when Boris says anything I tend to believe the opposite is true, so I'm not immune to this either. Likewise, when these (primarily right wing) anti-vax fools see an educated man like Whitty tell them something, they think he must be some stooge of the establishment trying to do the bidding of Bill Gates or George Soros. Unfortunately when you've been fed a diet of "we've had enough of experts", social media bullshit, and just generally bad journalism. We've allowed a situation to arise where news organisations (the sensible ones, not the Heil and Express) have decided to have a debate about whether the sky is blue or green - with one person on each side of the debate given equal airtime and respect to their opinions - where what they should have been doing is looking out the **** window and doing some actual journalism.

Ok I’ll put it another way. He subverted our entire way of government by lying to our head of state. All so he could avoid the scrutiny of his grubby deal by the people the country elected to represent them. Whether you like the queen or not is irrelevant. For the record I’m with you.

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