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8 minutes ago, Demitri_C said:

Well regardless if they are in government surely our saviour the labour party won't drop it? It would be  a complete shitshow from labour if they didnt go ahead with it

30 free hours for 2 years+ was part of Labour's last manifesto, and they've been banging the drum on support for families recently, so you'd assume they'd at least match the Tories here

Was there any mention of changing the child:carer ratio? I assume they would lower the ratios to help lower costs 

1 minute ago, mjmooney said:

Oh, look - there is. Doesn't come in until September 2025. 

Absolute ****. The first part of it (for 2 year year olds) doesn't start until April 2024. They'll be out of government by the time it reaches 1 year olds

The whole 'special military operation' was based around Russia protecting russian passport holders against Nazis. Putin can just come out, and say all the Nazis are gone, we did it, we saved the people from Nazis yet again, let's go home boys.

Where do I collect my Nobel peace prize from?

Can Georgia join the EU? I assume they can't join NATO as they still claim South Ossetia from the Russians 

13 hours ago, Brumstopdogs said:

 

I'd love var to start picking this stuff up for bookings

33 minutes ago, lapal_fan said:

The reason they're dropping is because whilst they have a decent, sturdy defence and a good keeper, their attacking options are pretty pants.

It makes me laugh seeing Callum Wilson giving it the biggun' when he scores one of his 10 PL goals a season.  Almost like he's in denial that he'll be the first position they'll improve on in the summer  

Guy is deluded. 

Isak should be back soon as well. Missed half the season with a hamstring injury 

Sainz slowest overall. I assume Ferrari were running at full fuel capacity for some additional testing?

4 minutes ago, bickster said:

Yep, forgot she was banging on about that still

Still you'd have to question Hancock's sanity to let her write this for him

Isn't this all just PR for her new book? Same as the roald dalh 'controversy' last week

I think the fast jets are a bit of a non starter, due to the amount of time needed to train up the pilots. Ukraine needs support now for the spring offensive, not in 8 months time when the pilots are ready. 

Unless the plan is for us to buy MiGs and gift them to Ukraine, which I assume they are ready to fly.

2 minutes ago, tinker said:

He needs a loan deal to the championship to get some game time. Problem is Chelsea seemed to be in a complete mess so not sure it will happen next season , that's 2 seasons wasted where he could have been playing premier League games with us.

 

I'm surprised he's not out on loan, seeing as Chelsea have 20 other players out on loan at the moment 

3 minutes ago, HKP90 said:

When's Biden's speech? He needs to knock this one out of the park.

2pm in Poland, so 1pm here

13 hours ago, Genie said:

We’ve been looking at holidays and the prices are absolutely incredible. Miles above the official inflation figure.

We’ve looked at abroad and UK. My wife just mentioned a 1 week stay at Butlins in July in a 2 bedroom chalet is over £1700 self catering. That’s ridiculous.

 

The price of holidays in the UK have been a joke ever since COVID. They know that people are less interested in going overseas, due to potential disruptions, but rather than try and build a domestic holiday market, they're just squeezing every last drop out of you. In a few years it'll be 'why does no one go on holiday in UK, we need the tourism money' despite the fact they've caused it through their own greed 

24 minutes ago, sne said:

The US have shot down another "object", over Alaska this time

I knew it was that dastardly anti-growth coalition all along!

1 hour ago, BleedClaretAndBlue said:

Juve Doubled by new promoted Monza this season. -15 point deduction, 13th in table, no CL football for the foreseeable. Finished club. Shame

I'm sure Berlusconi will be preparing quite the celebration 

10 minutes ago, Mark Albrighton said:

Zahawi sacked

Can't believe it took this long

Do the Russians have a Javelin/NLAW equivalent that could take out a Bradley/Leopard/Challenger?

37 minutes ago, Jas10 said:

I wonder who is going to be our penalty taker? Ings rarely started but scored a few for us, Ollie doesn’t seem up for it…

New signing?

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Bring him back?

 

You'd have to imagine Young would be great at pens

44 minutes ago, limpid said:

Can you link this please?

I think he's referencing the Autovia Driver Power Shopper survey, which asks up to 60,000 people why they bought their car in the past two years.

I can't find a link to the raw data, but there's loads of websites referencing it in Dec 2021

Not just Wagner using prisoners. Looks like prisoners being put to work in the Russian arms industry 

10 minutes ago, Withnail said:

So did Dark finish on major cliff hangers? Actually has that been canceled as well?

Dark had a full proper ending

Just now, Villan_of_oz said:

your just a shit Andy Carroll

The Villa fans aren't wrong 

1 minute ago, MaVilla said:

why is the match thread in the pre match thread?

Mods are having a Christmas hangover 

One of the things I noticed in the world cup was that most of the goals scored were well worked, technical goals, and there wasn't that many 'screamers'.

The Saudi's second goal against Argentina is the only one I remember really getting me off my feet thinking what a hit