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Think their fans might spontaneously combust if they sell Gallagher and sign Winks.

Unbelievable. What an extraordinary game.

Starmer is not popular - albeit he is still the most popular party leader. It’s just not true to say Labour isn’t popular amongst 18-24 year olds. They’re polling the same as they did in the 2019 election amongst that age group. They are very unpopular amongst a small group of very online young people, but the polling suggests that group is not representative of your average teen/early 20-something. Obviously it’s likely that if elected they will become less popular with all demographics, because that’s what happens to every government.

Was wondering how many times a promoted team had changed manager in pre-season so had a quick look at the last 10 years. It's only happened twice in that period: Watford in 2015-16 (who stayed up) and Hull in 2016-17 (who went down).

3 that spring to mind: Bringing train operators back into public ownership Establish a new publicly owned energy company Bring into law a new bill of workers rights including banning zero hour contracts and strengthening union rights

'Democratic socialist' is a phrase which means a lot of different things to different people, so I suspect we won't agree on Corbyn. But that's ok. Let's return in 2029 and we can discuss what Labour have done in government.

Yeah, I don't think he's secretly a communist or anything. My view is that opposition is really different to government, it's mainly about positioning, and once you're in government a lot of what you do is dictated by events rather than what's in your manifesto anyway. I think what you can determine from Starmer's positioning in oppposition is that his government is going to try to prioritise the economy and revitalising public services, and everything else is regarded as a distraction. Not only does he actually believe in that stuff, but it also happens to be what the electorate are most bothered about. There's nothing wrong of course with being passionate about trans rights, or Palestine, or the undercover policing scandal. But let's face it, most people don't care about that stuff so if oppositions are percieved to be focusing on those issues they risk being percieved as out of touch. Case Study 101: The Labour Party 2010-2020.

A big part of Starmer's MO over the last four years is to not do anything pointless that makes no difference to the actual policy outcomes but could give the Tories a stick to beat them with. Think that vote falls squarely into that category. As it looks like he's on course to win a triple figure majority I'd say it's a strategy that's worked. Obviously it's a matter of opinion whether getting into power is more important than the outcomes of individual votes while in opposition. Personally I think it is.

I thought this might be what you referring to, but was confused because Section 35 doesn't require Parliamentary legislation to be used - it's a statutory instrument. There was a standing order debate in the Commons but that has no bearing on whether S35 is applied.

Can you explain what you mean by this?

Knutsen has done an unbelievable job at Bodo. But he's 55 and never managed outside Norway. Premier League would be a huge step up relatively late on in his career.

I reckon Reform have maybe a 30% chance of winning Boston and Skegness but that's it. The absolute funniest (unfortunately unlikely) scenario there is that Reform and Conservatives split the gammon vote and Labour squeeze through the middle.

David Platt is a strange inclusion in this list for many reasons, not least because he’s not from Leeds and has never played for Leeds.

What a fantastic interview. What a bloke. Would love to see him come back in a coaching role once he’s finished playing. Maybe as manager one day, who knows.

Outcomes in order of preference: 1. Enzo stays 2. Enzo goes 3. Enzo given new multi-year, multi-million contract We absolutely cannot have another Brendan situation where a manager holds us to ransom. He’s done a good job so far but no man is bigger than the club.

Hilariously that was true when the boundaries were confirmed. But evidence from the last set of council elections and YouGov’s MRP polls suggests the new boundaries actually might work in Labour’s favour.

Long story short. There was a boundary review during the Coalition years which proposed reducing the number of MPs from 650 to 600. That was ditched due to a Parliamentary rebellion because turkeys don’t vote for Christmas. The Boundary Commission went back to the drawing board but the number of electoral events between 2015 and 2019 (3 general elections and a referendum) meant they couldn’t get round to redrawing the boundaries. The last 3 or 4 years is the first opportunity they’ve had to do the work. So no it’s not normal to have this many boundary changes but it’s also not normal to have this long between boundary reviews.

Yep that’s a pretty safe Tory seat to be fair. I notice the boundaries are changing for this election but don’t know enough about the area to know whether that will shift the dial much. If they’re losing there then they really are on for wipeout.

If you don't mind saying, what constituency are you in? There may not actually be that many safe Tory seats in this election, so your vote may not be wasted as it might have been in the past.

Could be our first goth manager. Gerrimin.

Corberan I like but would want a clause in his contract banning him from wearing skinny jeans.

Will come back here with a prediction in about 4 weeks once I've done some canvassing (for Labour obviously, I'm not mental).

Get so emotional thinking about this bloke. He deserves all the happiness in the world. Grazie di tutto Claudio.

They had a good end to the season and Schumacher looks to have turned them round a bit. Their squad last season was better than their league position suggests and it looks like they're investing again this summer. I expect they'll be targeting the play-offs next season. And Coady wouldn't need to move house. It makes sense but, as others have said, only if Stoke are either paying a big fee to take him permanently or all his wages to get him on loan.

I thought our fans were bipolar but Leeds are on a different level.