Lionator

Glad that wasn’t given a red, clearly a complete accident.

The dreams of 3.30am finishes ended when Selby was knocked out

Feeling smug with my Zhao predictions on pages 10&11.

Zhao fans have just unfurled their tifo, Ronnie fans chanting “where were you when he was banned?”. Virgo on the mic asking for calm in the Crucible…

Who got the stinkers?

I’m with ya

The point is that you have to cut it off at source

Hey, stop that! They’re cutting DEI in your local council building!! That’s real change

Where are you going to lock them up? Prisons are full and we can’t build anything.

Yep but these are problems that Reform are going to make worse not better because they’re for low tax, low wages.

Got the Russians crying though, so every bonus. They exaggerate their role anyway.

Nobody is blaming the elderly, the point is that our demographics are atrocious, younger people can’t afford to have kids and that assets are disproportionately balanced in favour of the elderly. The rich that you talk about are mostly elderly. Taxing wealth is the obvious answer but voting Reform will lead to the opposite.

The Power of Nightmares by Adam Curtis on bbc iplayer, is a great watch in this context.

Pitch looks tricky on the stream. No idea what a good score will be but I think we have to get 300 on the board.

I met an Irish bloke the other week who told me about a video Jim Davidson had got hold of where it showed Keir Starmer having sex with his political donor and that he was personally involved in facilitating the grooming gangs. When I politely suggested this might not be true he seemed staggered that I could think that way?

It strikes me that we’re in some kind of a vicious circle of parties having to appeal to older voters because they’re core voters, but a big chunk of the economic problems in this country are caused by the needs of older people (I don’t advocate killing old people to solve our issues). Thus to pander to them, you have to cut off younger people who then become less likely to vote. Therefore you’re stuck in a short termist doom spiral where nothing actually changes for the better.

Go on Zhao lad

But then what happens when little changes (or gets worse)? Do they push further? Thinking that European bureaucracy is the barrier to all this country thriving is so stupid, it barely feels worth engaging with but here we are. I get that people are massively disenfranchised, I’m on the left I genuinely would struggle to vote for any of the parties in a way other than tactically.

Interesting analysis of the minerals deal from a pro-Ukrainian and a good author. Basically it signs away Ukraine’s sovereignty.

They won’t be able to fix any of that either unless they go full on fascist which I doubt.

They’re playing terribly and have been worked out. They’ll beat us but Palace away will be difficult and West Ham could still do a job on them. Remember our run in 2019/20 and the season after, it’s very similar.

With the current state of play I think an economically left wing approach would be very popular. Reform are going to sweep votes because a large proportion of the country think that migration is to blame for all of this country’s problems. To a certain degree I think it is an issue but on the basis that it’s a symptom of the broken system. They’ll soon get a shock when things remain the same or get even worse. The economy as it is cannot run without migration.

That’s a spawny goal as well 🤣

Do England have six teams in the champions league if one of them win this?

That should not be a penalty or a red card. Hjoland has already missed the ball.