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That's right, dude. It's all about Marx and Lenin and that we want to take all your hard-earned stuff. Nothing at all to do with the abuse and racism these guys have to take on a daily basis.

They would need to completely detoxify the soil and groundwater first.

At the reported 30m though? (pinch of salt required)

He’s inconsistent sure but his goals and assists stats this year have been ok. He’s certainly better than trez and el ghazi. don’t get me wrong he’s not going to be getting into any top 4 sides and he is one footed but he’s a solid mid table premier league player.

Is Chuk an 8? I see him more as a 10.

Buendia AND Pereira signing in one window!? Don't tease me! I don't think that'll happen now. I'm not sure we should either. We need to leave a path for some of those outstanding youth players, particularly Chukwuemeka to make it to the first team.

Where do we expect him to play? Right side would see Traore drop out. I think it's more likely we'll see him start centre before all hell breaks loose and him Grealish and Traore start the interchanging. It's a mouthwatering propect!

It wasn't meant to. There's a spectrum of outcomes that can't be predicted accurately. The rates of deaths and hospitalisations has come right down but the number of infections is going up and we still don't have any data on how bad those infections are. It's clearly not causing the deaths it was before but how ill are these people getting? Is it enough to lay most people up for days like flu and then your fine (something I think we could all live with) or are these people getting medium/long term breathing issues or long covid? I don't know because I haven't seen any data on it. Seems to me they've made a dumb decision today based not on the "data" they've always spouted to be following but the PM's wanky self imposed deadline that he's gone around parroting like the fool he is. I think the sensible thing to do is to leave everything as it is now with small, incremental improvements as and when we can make them rather than this crazy "freedom day" all or nothing crap.

Should it? I know people who got the virus who were doing marathons and wolf runs etc before who now can't walk a mile without needing to sit down. None of them went to hospital.

Nope. This is a desperate action to try to save 21st June. They know it's political suicide to not do it so they'll **** over and lie to whoever they need to to meet that date. We're 100% opening up on 21st regardless even if we have to do an about face a couple of weeks later when they realise they've massively **** up.

The glorious leader is nowhere to be seen after dropping this **** bombshell either. Only wants to be seen when there's good news about.

100% agree. I thought it was becoming a bit of a tired empty gensture but the moment the fans came back in and started booing I changed immediately. The thing is, when it started there was almost universal praise for what they were doing but you soon started to see in the right wing press and social media lies about BLM being a bunch of communists wanting to pull down the capitalist system. As you said, the irony is that the systems these fools have been brainwashed into holding sacrosanct have failed them utterly but they're too foolish to see it

Careful not to underestimate the Scots. I hear they've got a lad in midfield who's handy.

I wonder if this might have something to do with that squads of yesteryear were made up of a core of Liverpool and Man Utd picks which inevitably led to 2 camps who intensely disliked each other. By picking from a more diverse pool you don’t get that even split.

I don't disagree that in large part this is a situation that the Tories have made worse with pathetic political games because they hate Khan. I don't know about how London's funding arrangements compare to NY or Paris but if the network is majority paid for by fares then it seems that if there are fewer people using services and thus fewer fares then a conversation should be had about, at least temporarily whether there should be less frequent trains or buses? The last thing I want is for people to lose jobs, but at some point an assessment needs to be made if TFL should be running at the level it is.

I don't doubt that TFL is being used as a political football - certainly sounds like something the Tories would do. You're right that they didn't cause the complete collapse in demand for their services. There seems to be an underlying assumption that at the end of this there'll be a rebound and everyone will go back to offices, start going to London on business or to visit etc in anything like the numbers in 2019. Is that realistic? How long will it take to get back to the level of utilisation we saw pre-pandemic? Do we continue to hand out tonnes of cash for another 3/4/5 years? I'm no Tory, far from it, but is it really unreasonable for TFL to be asked to put on less busses and trains while no bugger is using them? Could we use that money to do some electrification or other service improvement in areas that have had to take a shocking level of service for decades? I don't buy that there would have been a complete collapse and end of all services. No one is going to wake up tomorrow and the tube is closed for lack of money.

Another massive TFL bailout due to a collapse in demand with everyone working from home. Total of £4 billion handed out now. Raises eyebrowse when the rest of country is still using slow, crowded and generally disgusting diesel trains to get around.

Im in the same boat. Planning to just park the other side of the ring road and walk to MP.

I don't expect we're ever going to know where this came from or how. The Chinese don't want anyone poking around in their business. If it was from a lab then the evidence (including the human evidence) is likely long gone by now. If it jumped at a wet market (the most likely scenario imo) then we may find that out in time but I find it unlikely the Chinese are going to actually do anything about it. Even so, pandemics have happened throughout history and will definitely happen again regardless of the lessons we learn about where it came from. The best lessons we can learn are at home about our on handling of the situation, the political decisions to put trade, greed and popularity above making hard choices that would have saved peoples lives. I suspect our government to be every bit as dishonest and disruptive to that investigation as the Chinese have been to the WHO.

Advice needed... The last few months we've developed a massive badger issue. Specifically, they keep digging under fences and ripping up the garden during the night. They're going under fences into the neighbours garden and rather than leave the holes under the fence so they have a clear path he persists in blocking up the holes every time, meaning the badgers just pick another spot to go under, causing more damage. I've told him not to do this but he continues. Clearly as they're protected, shooting or poisoning them is out of the question so how do I make them take themselves elsewhere?

Watch the first season of Sunderland 'Til I Die and all will be revealed...

I just don't buy that it's a sham position and she had no say over how those campaigns were fought (and lost). Sure the leader has the ultimate power and that's why I'd say she's not entirely to blame but certainly there's an element of delegation that has to happen in any large organisation. When someone fails at a role that's been delegated to them it's not unreasonable for them to carry the can. Your second point is probably one of the big problems with the party as it exists now. When the leader (presumably?) wants to take the party in a certain direction, and has an elected mandate to do so but can't because the PLP is so resistant.

Is it a position of a strength? She was Labours "National Campaign Coordinator" in an election where they were thoroughly licked. I'd say it's hard to argue that she shouldn't be held highly (although by no means totally) culpable.

I didn't vote yesterday. I always have done since being old enough (I'm now 33). I just thought yesterday "why should I bother?". I knew Labour were going to get a kicking in my area (Halesowen/Dudley) and but they didn't do enough to convince me to come out and vote for them. I don't want the tories, but you can't expect people to just vote "not tory". It's not a lack of hope or apathy that's blaming the electorate for their failings as a party.

Completely agree. Being in opposition isn't just about opposing everything the government is doing. I like to think of it this way - we all have that person at work who always brings problems to the table but never any options/solutions. Labour need to be presenting alternate options and alternate policies to the ones currently being pursued and at the moment they just aren't because we have no idea what they would do if they came to power. When they start to look like a credible (and that's the key word) alternative government they'll start to see some improvement.