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There's a few things really hurting them - small boats, unemployment figures and cost of living still needs fixing through wage rises - but they are making some good progress in a number of areas. They do look like a government actually trying to produce good results, which we haven't seen for a long time.

Also, they were investigated with it being found there was no care to answer. Are we really going to wreck the careers of people found to have done nothing wrong?

With us, I suspect we were expecting to be top end of the premier League when we failed psr, so would publicly argue that our sporting achievements without any real financial problems due to our owners picking up any debts, meant that we were being penalised for being competitive, and it's unfair to expect us to sell all our best players to meet an arbitrary financial rule - i.e. make the point that psr is simply keeping the big boys at the top. Obviously we didn't expect relegation and even then we could have afforded it, but the rules are harder to argue against from a sporting achievement point of view when you aren't achieving anything positive.

He has a choice of two awful left backs and two awful right backs (if we call Choudhury a right back and accept Pereira is a spent force) on the senior team, then Aluko who unfortunately can't play left back and right back at the same time.

Unfortunately not many public bodies in the States haven't been purged of non believers. A route I could see the UK rapidly heading down under a reform government as the right always rails against the public sector for supposedly working against them (complete nonsense btw)

Fox News claims to be an entertainment show when it suits them legally try they appear to not be being targeted.

To give you an idea how much better public administration is under labour, some public sector staff pay rises for 2026/27 have already been confirmed. Under the Tories pay rises due from April were often not finalised until the November after. Suddenly processes are working as intended.

I think take the socialism out of the equation and it's very clear that capitalism has utterly failed ordinary people. We have huge wealth gathering amongst tiny numbers of people - on course to be trillionaires - while even working full time doesn't lead to people having even 25% of the life it used to give. Work no longer pays for many people who end up subsidised by the benefit system while CEO pay and shareholder dividends skyrocket. Even if you can't stomach socialism as an alternative, can we at least agree that something else is needed?

It'll be an interesting shift. At the moment I'm my specific industry there's more of a call to use AI effectively as a tool with a industry specialist using that tool to support their work. It has huge potential for what we could do with it but also at this point needs a lot of prompting and somebody to sift wheat from chaff in results. Clearly it'll only get better. It could take out lots of admin jobs very quickly, will it open up other opportunities as it fills existing roles?

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Yep pretty much, clarification given 👍

Ah when id been winding you up about ai? Up to you I guess

We've basically sold off anything worth having and let private equity own the country. Now we've nothing left to spend and private companies aren't keeping up their side of the bargain post privatisation. Country is a mess of Thatcher's making.

I'll take it you don't have an answer then

Have you ever expected any other party to complete a manifesto commitment within the first two years of a parliament? Do you think attempting to stop the gangs behind it is a bad idea? What do you think has led to the rapid rise of small boat crossings over the last decade? What do you think could be done differently to stop them?

They don't seem to have ever got their head around how to create jobs and growth so far. Given the two numbers causing the biggest issues for the government are small boat numbers and employment figures, you'd have thought it will be a focus over the next 3 years, together with general cost of living.

Sounds like a fair ask. Don't see how it's any different to the other due diligence they'll be doing. Should be a normal part of a house transaction.

Good. Now for some legislation to block corporate landlordism.

As much as I quite like him and he's a good antidote to reform style division and unpleasantness, he's unlikely to be PM. Admittedly nor is Badenoch or Davey 😅

He's probably the right person given the other options are Ed Davey, Kemi Badenoch or Nigel Farage, the latter who will have limited appeal to Europe at a point in time when we need to move closer to them militarily.

Agree with this. I think it's good we have so many threads discussing so many different things and, for the most part, even when we disagree it's not a big deal really. Ultimately we're all just winging it through life in the best way we can, doing what we think is best with the information we have.

I don't think anybody hates us But yeah second bit sounds about right

There is something about being British which seems to mean we have to basically hate everybody else

Europe is a superpower as a combined entity. I always find it strange that Tory type voters, who generally love the US and hate Europe, don't want to see it recreated in Europe as for some reason as United States here would be terrible. It wouldn't. It would be fantastic. I've always wanted to see a United States of Europe. Britain would still have it's history but would be in something new. Something where as citizens we'd no longer be bound by just the borders of this island. What it is about the British that makes us so resistant to the idea of open borders in Europe I'm not really sure (I'm talking for it's citizens, not open borders for immigrants, though I'll give it two minutes before somebody moves on to that). Why wouldn't I want to be able to live, work etc in a much larger area? Why does having a different currency and governing body make any difference to me? The history of Britain, it's wars, palaces and currency would all still be a historic record, much as individual states in America have their own cultures and histories. Can't for the life of me understand why we have to only be Britain and stay within our little island and not be part of something bigger.

It's hard to blame just him given we had about 4 managers that season