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I’ve just paid back a wedge to the HMRC, as my wife couldn’t fill out a form correctly. Easy done

Luckily, I don’t come across many people wandering around with a machete in the UK either. You can outrun a knife, you can’t out run a bullet.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/czewp16k6k6t

Starmer has sacked Mandelson then!

I think without social media, the world was a more innocent place. We didn’t know about half the stuff that goes on now.

It’s bizarre though isn’t it really, if you think about some people the West perceived as “radical” or even others might label as tyrants / terrorist. People like Osama Bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, Ahmed al-Rahawi and Gaddafi were assassinated / executed, however whilst the West might celebrate these, it drives and stokes tension within the East.

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I think we can all acknowledge in the UK, we have an issue with knife crime. You can run away from someone who’s trying to stab you realistically. The reality is, you can’t outrun a bullet. Can you imagine what it would be like in the UK if we had the same gun laws as the US? it would be carnage. Unfortunately the rabbit is out of the box in the states and it is such a big issue in terms of how do we deal with removing all weapons, that no one will oppose it. The secondary issue is that they feel they need the guns, to protect against others with guns. In reality, with the current political uncertainty, if you own a gun, would you want to give that up, knowing that crazy Dave (or Gill) might not give up the one they own? I’m anti gun, anti violence, however putting yourself in that persons shoes and seeing it from the perspective they stand in, I don’t see a quick and easy way back from the madness.

The world is turning back on itself. We’re edging closer and closer to the longest relatively war free time in European history (WW2 to now), coming to an end. This week alone; we’ve had: Russia strike Poland. Israel strike Qatar. Charlie Kirk assassinated at a speech. Vigilant attacks on migrants in Belfast. School stabbing in Antibes, France. Upcoming clashes in Melbournes CBD. Roadside bombing in Cameroon. Ongoing gang warfare in public in Limerick. Alone these are isolated incidents and some have largely gone unreported. Compound these with ongoing wars in Ukraine, Gaza, large portions of Africa, Myanmar, Mexico, then other situations like Thailand and even rising tensions in the UK, which continue to turn up the pressure in a melting pot of an area. The fact we’ve actively got people going around using flags as a symbolic reason of hate, painting roundabouts, then finding time to go and shout at a hotel (which conveniently holds people who have come here for a better life), is insane if you take a step back. Why hasn’t this been stamped out? Like why are people procrastinating on this and letting it escalate? The butterfly effect from this entire situation worldwide could be phenomenal in terms of pushing everything off the cliffs edge. Violence and aggression are never the answer in a logical, forward thinking society, However unfortunately it’s a primal state that all living beings resort to, asserting dominance over others. We are going to hit a point when the other side stands up and that’s where the lid comes off the pressure can and all hell brakes lose.

This Conservative Party isn’t the one with the same principle values as the one David Cameron headed up. However, I think it is coming back from the far right to be more centre right, however they don’t have that presence at the moment. To do that they need a strong leader and figure head. Unfortunately that isn’t always the smartest person in the room but someone who’s charismatic. Boris was that person. For Labour back in the day, it was Brown for example, dare I say Starmer is maybe that person for labour now? For Boris it was Rishi. The public buy into story tellers, they’re sold a dream and the reality is, whoever takes control of the office at the next election, won’t know the full extent of the challenge u til they’ve assessed the books. This is why we get all of these sweeping g statements like well do this, that and the other, we’ll save “X” amount of millions, then once they’re in power, they can as they’ve got a really sense of the problems they face. Its like three people buying a house and letting the local neighbourhood vote for who gets it. Person 1 is the current owner and says we have to fix the fundamentals, which we basically need a money tree and the town folk will need to pay for it. Person 2 states no worries, we’ll sort the house but we’re also going to give it a full renovation and it’ll look loads better at the same time. We’ll even stick in solar panels, air source heating, full landscape it etc for half of the cost person 1 is quoting. Person 3 is quoting that one they have the house, they’ll dealing with what the towns perceived issue with people from the neighbouring village coming in and stealing their jobs, then ban them from entering the town. House, what house, we have a plan but you don’t need to know about it that (no one really knows if they have a plan or any experience) The bizarre thing is, people vote for Person 2 because they are selling utopia and a dream. People vote for person 3 because they are dealing with a perceived issue. Person 1 with experience is sat there thinking what on earth am I doing wrong here by not lying about the state of all of this, but stands little to no chance. Rince and repeat with the house coming back on the market 4 years later, as person 1 and 2 have now swapped. My very long winded analogy have how politics works and is a snake oil salesman’s job.

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Just to bring everyone up to speed if they didn’t know. Saudi Arabia - Closes 10th September Turkey - Closes 12th September

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They don’t have the players for it.

The world doesn’t feel in a good place right now. We’ve been here before, however it feels like we’re spiralling downward currently. We’ll be have full on pitchforks and torches out come the next St George’s day at this rate.

Yes, This was my thought.

This entire flag thing is ridiculous. I drove through Coalville yesterday and every lamppost has a bloody England flag on. Then the wife told me they’d crowdfunded on a local spotted page to do it. I was like “WTF”, why on earth would you do that to make it look more trashy!

The last election was weird though. I know so many Conservatives that voted labour out of protest. The existing government has basically collapsed. I think the conservatives will need to reshuffle again before an election if they want to re-establish themselves, however they need to come back from the right a little to potentially differentiate them from reform, which I think has started to happen. I think if the Lib Dem’s would have had a “Nick Clegg” type at the last election, they would have pushed Labour harder.

Soumare will start in midfield.

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Billy Kee was highly rated as well. He just never really kicked on at a high level.

Good points! Overall, not a bad trophy county from our academy players!

I can find loads of videos of him doing media work, but not a lot on him actually goalkeeping’

I’d agree on Chilwell, although KDH pushes him, depending how much value you place in the club World Cup. Dewsbury Hall - Championship, Club World Cup, Community Shield, UEfA Conference Chilwell - Premier League, Champions League, Super Cup, Club World Cup, FA Cup Barnes - FA Cup, Community Shield Choudhury - FA Cup, Community Shield, Championship Thomas - FA Cup, Community Shield, USFA U21 Euros Stolarkzyk - Championship Schlupp - Championship, Premiership, Scottish Premiership McAteer - League 2, Chanpionship Marcel - Championship

Our academy has produce some very good players in recent seasons. Until they’re retired, it’ll be difficult to state which one is better than which.