Finnegan

This is a massive easier said than done but you deal with the root causes. We're living in a period of immense wealth disparity and inequality where even the middle classes are struggling. Throughout a large period of economic turbulence for the average working populace, the wealthiest people in the world have just gotten phenomenally wealthier. There's an enormous amount of stress, anxiety, hopelessness and pessimism and eventually that does breed apathy and cynicism. People will end up voting for individuals and parties that don't seem to represent the status quo because they're desperate for change. A lot of western, capitalist societies have attacked, underfunded and over charged for their education systems leaving a voting base increasingly lacking in knowledge and critical thinking. At the same time our news media and "new" phenomenon social media are owned and used more than ever by billionaire bad actors using them to push messages convenient for themselves. What happens then is populism. It's not a new idea. We've obviously, famously, seen it before but the conditions are perfect now to mass produce it and bombard people with it all day. Those same people that are struggling to afford homes and families that they've been told all their lives they just have to work hard for are extremely easily seduced by the message and who can blame them? Someone is acknowledging there is a problem and, better yet, they're saying they can fix it and telling them who is to blame. And why would it be lies, it's in the news and it's what I want to hear? So fix the global economy, stop capitalism running out of control and start truly and honestly informing the electorate, easy enough huh? But the last problem is closer to home and we're all responsible, both on a personal level and at a political party level and it's exactly what Daggers has just done (and I've done countless times.) Gordon Brown calling Gillian Duffy a bigot was a great early example because it was really a precursor of something in this country. Increasingly over the last fifteen, twenty odd years, the traditional parties of the white working class have lost them by either looking down at them or looking through them. Legitimate concerns about immigration in the context of housing and employment have been handwaved off as racism and bigotry leaving the door absolutely wide open for the Mails and the Suns of this world to help steal millions of votes. We have to stop hearing people's fears and anxieties - of which they should have plenty - and just dismissing them as ignorant without acknowledging that there's something there. If all we do is call people idiots or stupid or bigots or whatever else in response to, ultimately, their desire for a better life then we're never going to win those people back. And we need them. Labour, the Democrats, these parties have to start going toe to toe with populism and addressing the concerns of their historic base. The Dems are terrible at this and even in the face of a landslide win I'm not convinced Labour have learned the lesson so much as the Tories just spectacularly killed themselves with disastrous government. I'm not suggesting we hold hands and sing kumbaya with genuine open racists and bigots, the likes of Trump and Farage have genuinely emboldened some of the worst of us to spew hate. But I do think it leads to a lot of people seeing everyone voting Brexit or Reform or Trump the same way and I think that over simplification is killing us.

Can we please lock this thread it makes me depressed.

Di Natale: he's definitely going to Roma Di Marzio: West Ham are the new favourites. Semerano: Leicester are about to close the deal! Percy: Leicester are still interested in Matias Soulé of Juventus, talks are ongoing. Mercury: CITY IN SENSATIONAL SWOOP FOR LEFT FOOTED ARGENTINIAN GENIUS BEGINNING WITH M CLICK HERE TO FIND WHO (WE'RE NOT SAYING ITS MESSI BUT WE AREN'T SAYING IT ISN'T EITHER HERE'S A THUMBNAIL OF MESSI.) Owynn Palmer: Matias who? Sean from Enderby: Leicester City have made an approach for Robert Lewandowski

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This is essential Schrödinger's transfer. He both is and isn't coming here. Constantly.

"This is a massive club with great facilities, when I heard about the interest I just knew I had to play for Leicester. I can't wait to get started..."

It's depressing that all I can offer is "some of our Puma ones were alright?"

What a lot of people still don't get, unfortunately including the Democrats, is that a lot of Trump's base don't give a shit about Trump specifically. There's a list of reasons as long as your arm that nobody should vote for him but they don't really care. They just want to vote for someone they see as anti-establishment, anti-politics, it's the same sort of vibe Boris and Farage try to cultivate here with their man-in-the-pub, one of you, common sense shtick. It doesn't matter that they're oxbridge educated lords of the manor or that Trump is an East Coast elite millionaire with a gold plated bathroom, their supporters just like the idea, lie or not. Trump pulling faces mocking disabled people, going on about grabbing pussies and just yelling over everyone in a debate isn't presidential in the slightest and that's basically all he's gotta do to please those voters. Only way he could ever lose them would be to actually start talking like a politician.

Summerville is an outrageous talent tbh. I'm a bit surprised there's not been more obvious moves for him from clubs in European competition tbh. Nathan Tella just went off and won a league and cup double in Germany off the back of his Championship season and I think Summerville is a better player frankly.

Stephy when the Ponty Pep re-invents him as a Ballon Dor winning 9 and Summerville assists him to the Golden Boot. ... It's possible I'm still a bit drunk from yesterday.

Who doesn't love smashing a ball at your mates at terrifying speeds with a **** off great stick.

And reveal him with a video of Stephy welcoming him to the better team.

Can we let them all fight over Soulé and just sign Summerville?

I want to argue but I have to go back to 19/20 to make my point and I think I just grew a few more grey hairs on the spot realising how many years ago that was.

Just put on your big boy pants and admit you ate the Onion you plonker.

It's a massive miss for me. Looks a huge mess. Adidas did one with similar vibes for Ajax couple seasons ago as a Bob Marley reference and it was superb. This just looks off somehow. The Samp third kit could have been brilliant, unfortunately with the sponsor on it it's not great.

I think you'd have to be very optimistic to think he's ready for the Premier League, personally. It's good that he's driven and ambitious but he probably needs a lot more first team football.

Any idea if they mean loan or permanent? Wouldn't break my heart if we sold him permanently but if the best he can currently do is Cardiff, it's probably worth loaning him to them for a year to see how it impacts their value. Worth the gamble. I doubt they're going to pay so much that we can't possibly turn it down on the off chance his worth pretty much doubles if he can bag 20 odd goal contributions playing every game for a half decent side.

I for one think we shouldn't sign anyone that doesn't have the commitment to hang around in front of Seagrave for six weeks begging Rudkin for a contract. Eight weeks if they don't already have a fox tattoo somewhere. I'm not fussy about where but I do want to see the proof. Nothing dirty like. Clean enough for Instagram is fine. Unless...

That Fiorentina away kit was sensational.

From about halfway through the year last year, if not earlier tbh, Fatawu and Mavididi were just getting double if not triple marked at times. They created a lot of fear in defences in the league. Despite players generally having less time on the ball in the Prem as a whole, I think both our wingers will probably benefit from more space this year tbf.

And the exposure. It's the most watched league in the world and we'll almost certainly give him an out clause if we go down.

If her running mate isn't the most generic, white man career politician from a swing state I'll eat my own shoes.

Straight up lying to people and having your mates in the news along with millions of Russian bots on social media repeat those lies isn't a "personality."

I mean they aren't saying different things are they. Fab and Percy are reporting the same news just with a different perspective. We basically have a stalemate. It's not new to us, we've seen similar before. I don't doubt the player's first choice is Roma. I get it. If I wasn't a city fan I'd probably have the same preference. But at the end of the day, they aren't offering Juve what we are. So this will drag on a bit. He's hoping we drop out or Roma up their offer and Juve and us are hoping he gives up and comes home here. City fans will be defensive and touchy about this but it happens all the time in football transfers. Plenty of players we've signed might have hoped for other moves. It just is what it is. I just hope we get on with other business while waiting. As a club we tend to hyper fixate on one deal at a time which is fine but if we do it now we might miss out on our next targets.