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Given that last season we were a premier League club, I can't fathom why we've kept braybrooke on the books when he can't even dominate a league 2 game. Obviously now we're going into league 1 that maybe changes things but a year ago we weren't.

They'll never fight each other directly. Too much is made of these things. There'd potentially be a stand off but not a full scale way between them. Will never happen in the same way it would never have happened with Russia and the US.

Oh sorry, thought you were talking about the likely candidates for pm. Yeah, I have no idea why they haven't been screaming the immigration figures from the rooftops. Immigration down 80%, small boats down 42%, it's incredible they've put so much effort into it then not really said anything. Maybe waiting to see if the numbers stick perhaps?

Oh of course, but at the moment the candidates need to win a Labour party vote. They need to focus on their message to Labour members if they want to become PM. Once in the job, the winner will need to decide how to communicate with the wider electorate. Any candidate stood there talking to Labour members about small boats will not be the PM. You'll see Burnham move first to talk about those other issues as he is the one candidate that needs to win an election with the wider electorate. Until that campaign begins you might not hear much about immigration though.

It's where we are with capitalism. The benefits of growth of all going to the top, not being shared between investors and workers.

I would counter that Rodgers' job was to advocate for squad improvement, and to look to do what he felt would push us forwards. A manager is supposed to want to spend as much as possible. The role of other senior managers (directors of football, finance and CEO) are to count the beans and either sign off on spend or provide limitations. It's not the manager's job to decide what we can spend under FFP.

At this point they are talking to members. Labour party members are not reform voters. They don't want to hear about boat crossings. They want to hear some left wing ideas about a path forwards.

There needs to be a puking feedback option

I think this is nonsense. Rodgers did a fantastic job for 2/3 years, then when he wasn't allowed to refresh the squad he threw his toys out the pram which ended in disaster. But I'm not a fan of pretending he didn't do a phenomenal job for a couple of years.

Why have they released him? Or would he not re-sign?

What Maureen said....

He has had a positive impact on things like waiting times. Thing is, he's created a huge transformation within the NHS. A lot of this is effectively cost cutting by removing NHS England, merging ICBs, merging trusts, it's a really significant change. It's only halfway done. Organisations are mid merger. People are still working out what future structures will look like. Having the architect of this (though that's a poorly used phrase in this regard as he actually made big decisions re culls and then has left it to the NHS to sort out the detail) disappear before it's finished could be chaos. If he wins and becomes PM then presumably he would want it to continue. If he doesn't and he doesn't pick up the health secretary job again, then what? I'm a little unimpressed from this angle.

Apparently Burnham has found an MP that will stand down to create a bi-election. Only problem is it's rumoured to be polling very high towards reform! It's a tricky one for Burnham, he is their best hope, and I think has a chance to win over the electorate, but finding a safe enough seat where the MP will stand aside in time is an issue now. He should have been allowed to stand months ago of course.

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One of the many reasons capitalism has failed is that markets aren't really markets. Let's take the chocolate industry. There's not much competition coming to steal their thunder that I can see: One company bought every brand you grew up with — then quietly gutted them. Same packaging. Same price. Less of everything that made them good. That company is Mondelez International. 🐀 Mondelez owns Cadbury, Toblerone, Milka, Oreo, Ritz, Chips Ahoy, Marabou, Clif Bar — and dozens more. 🐀 In 2010, Kraft (now Mondelez) acquired Cadbury for $19,600,000,000 — against the will of British workers, unions and politicians. 🐀 They promised to keep the Somerdale factory open. They closed it. Hundreds of British jobs gone. Production moved to Poland. 🐀 2015: Cadbury quietly swapped the Dairy Milk chocolate in Creme Eggs for "standard cocoa mix." Their own words: "It's no longer Dairy Milk." Six eggs became five. Same price. 🐀 2016: Toblerone widened the gaps between peaks — 400g became 360g, 170g became 150g. Consumers said they felt "cheated." One fan: "Not to be melodramatic but thanks for ruining Christmas, Mondelēz." 💰 2023: Toblerone moved production from Switzerland to Slovakia — cheaper labour. The Matterhorn logo, 115 years of Swiss identity, was legally required to be removed from the packaging. 🐀 Milka: 100g bars became 90g. Price unchanged. In 2025 Milka was awarded Germany's "Goldener Windbeutel" — the consumer protection prize for shrinkflation. 🐀 Oreo: packages shrunk 10–15%. Consumers on PissedConsumer.com (1,321 reviews, avg 2.3/5): "Less filling and taste different." In 2024 Mondelez quietly "adapted the recipe" — called it "meeting changing tastes." 🐀 Marabou: Sweden's beloved chocolate since 1916. Swedish consumers: "It no longer tastes the same." Mondelez announced weight reductions in 2025 — customers: "Tänker inte köpa deras produkter framöver." (Won’t buy it again). 💰 Clif Bar: founded on organic ingredients and employee ownership. Mondelez bought it for $2,900,000,000 in 2022. Employees on Glassdoor: "They gutted everything." "Sold out everything good they stood for." 💰 CEO Dirk Van de Put: $22,300,000 in 2024. 657 times the median worker's salary. Bonus structure based on "cost savings." Your chocolate got worse. His bonus got bigger. 🐀 Mondelez 2024 revenue: $36,400,000,000. Net income: $4,610,000,000. The playbook never changes. Buy a beloved brand. Cut the ingredients. Shrink the package. Keep the price. Deny everything. They didn't ruin your taste buds. They ruined the product.

God this is all so depressing

Numbers are falling quite rapidly. The solution being used is pretty simple and has come from America - lines of bouys that make it difficult to make it to the sea. France has used them across waterways leading to the sea. Belgium, were many boats now enter before heading into french waters, are now looking at doing the same to stop movement so south. This is coupled with different tactics by French police. Labour's work with European governments is making a difference. Just a bloody shame they're apparently unable to communicate this to the electorate.

Rubbish. Costs are high because shareholder value is legally what CEOs are appointed to maximise. That means maximising profit by keeping wages low, increasing prices, reducing quality. Things we see across the board. If you get paid minimum wage with a family, it is highly likely the state is paying you benefits to subsidise your wages not being enough to live on, even if you work full time. Work used to pay enough to live on. It no longer does. Minimum wage is an attempt to at least force some degree of sensibility to wages. Without it wages would be even lower. Wages is only one aspect of cost. If wages go up 10% that is not the same as costs rising by 10%.

This goes on all the time. Derby had a similar thing few years ago, can't remember if they were spying or spied on, think the latter

This is the weirdest argument. I often see anti-immigration people ask this of pro-immigration people. But nobody on the pro side is asking anybody to house anybody themselves. It's just the weirdest attempt at a gotcha moment.

Strong policy content from this reform councillor

Leaving behind my feelings about Thatcher, I'm not sure the modern 24/7 news and social media reality, plus gotcha journalism that is more interested in constantly taking the opposing side rather than actually listening to ideas, will allow this now.

They are the conservatives. Only worse.

Pretty sure it's making it up as somebody that many years ago used to assess benefit claims

Are we 100% sure they've actually gone? Feel like I need to see them not at training and working down the car wash or whatever to stop me thinking rudkin is going to come in with a last minute contract offer