meregreen

1 hour ago, LondonLax said:

He’s right that most NATO members were taking the piss by not bothering to have a proper military safe in the knowledge that the US would just defend them if there was ever an issue.

Honestly. The USA do nothing that isn’t in what they consider their own best interests. NATO protects their markets as much as anything else.

2 minutes ago, ChesterDad said:

Look we all know, Matty is not the best player in the squad, but he always tries his very best. I do think his starting point for the goal is questionable but I don’t hold this against him in any way. 
I think he very much has a role to play in the run in 

I hope not.

Bottled it. They should spend the next week learning how to shoot FFS.

Pathetic the way we simply stopped pressing them.

Final third we are shit.

Watkins first touch is awful.

We won’t score in a month of Sundays if we keep missing chances like this.

We are shit in front of goal. 

2 minutes ago, villan95 said:

Ahh saw this and thought he was leaving parliament. Shame.

Hopefully he will be, soon.

Sunak criticising local councils for wanting to raise council tax above the mandatory 5% limit, in order to stave off crippling cuts to council services. This is the leader of a Party that has cut the central govt. grant to local authorities by 40% since 2010. They’ll happily offload responsibilities to local govt. that used to be funded direct from Whitehall, then starve those authorities of the money needed to support those things. Duplicitous bastards.

Strictly speaking, there has been sectarianism in Britain for centuries. No Catholic can ascend  the throne. Yet another example of how ancient prejudices permeate modern life.

Infuriating the number of times he collects the ball, checks and passes back. Hard to believe he started his career as a winger.

No end product tonight. Got into plenty of good positions but simply didn’t deliver into the box.

1 hour ago, MakemineVanilla said:

The right to buy your council house at a substantial discount seemed to work well, along with free shares in privatised building societies and privatised public utilities.

 

 My wife worked for the local housing authority for 26 years. She could give you a very good argument against the pillaging of council house stocks . The lack of suitable homes for families who are unable to afford to buy their own homes today, can be directly attributable to that asset stripping of social housing. Incidentally, most of those council houses are now back in the rental sector at exorbitant rents, private landlords and speculators have made a killing. As for private utilities, take a look at your latest bills . The Tories are named after the Irish word for robbers, has any political party ever been more aptly named.

1 hour ago, mjmooney said:

I'm curious as to what the right reasons might be. 

There probably aren’t any. His point I think, was that he couldn’t find any reason to vote for them that didn’t involve him putting selfish self interest above the common good. He was a child of the depression, who lived to see the great strides made in Britain after the war towards making a more just and equal society, slowly dismantled by Thatcher and her latter day acolytes.

For “don’t want” read too ashamed. As Keith Waterhouse once said, people tend to vote Conservative for all the wrong reasons.

Bastards probably ran a sweepstake on the number of deaths during Covid. I jest of course, they wouldn’t……would they.

Whatever the situation with Konsa, this guy must not be picked. He’s a walking disaster.

Placing bets on the destination of desperate people. This is a new low for Sunak. Have we really sunk this low.

They’re right back in the mix for the drop now. How beautiful would that be.

48 minutes ago, Mr_Dogg said:

Israeli's would have a much different attitude if they weren't backed to the hilt by the US.

I doubt that. When Israel fights, it’s in the knowledge that if they lose just once, their country will cease to exist. That would tend to engender a hard nosed attitude to any perceived threat.

Needs to be benched for now. We looked more dangerous when Bailey came on. Will hopefully come again for us. He is undoubtedly a quality player, just lost his way at the moment.

51 minutes ago, Chindie said:

At least one of them was a patient since October. Bad guys get medical treatment too.

Not sure a 'covert' assassination mission in a hospital is a good look.

That claim is yet to be corroborated. If they were Hamas, then it isn’t assassination. Wars a dirty business, it’s why it isn’t a good look for either side. 

2 hours ago, Chindie said:

Perfectly normal and acceptable.

The other side to that coin, is why we’re Hamas gunmen in a hospital?

Tories haven’t quite grasped the concept of free people withdrawing their Labour in pursuance of a decent pay and conditions agreement. They prefer a system that compels those free people to do as they’re told. Industrial slavery.