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There'll be a lot of labour MPs very annoyed at the Burnham situation. My dad has become a true Brexit lover, GB news watcher, immigration above all else voter and we do struggle to discuss politics at times. When we do have a calm discussion we usually find we both see the same problems, but disagree on the answer to them - basically he thinks reform style answers are the answer, whereas I think our current economic model has failed and we need something different underpinning everything. He hasn't been very fond of labour ever really - though he voted lib dem through the late 90s before going Tory then reform more recently - but he does seem to like Andy Burnham. He potentially had something about him that could have pulled voters back in. I think starmar is an honest and principal led man (labour really have stuck very closely to their manifesto on all but a handful of issues which has pretty much never happened before) who is genuinely trying to make hard long term decisions, but that doesn't really work well in the current 24/7 news and social media environment when alongside those things he keeps making really stupid political decisions that cause endless short term pain. So he's getting hit with all these immediate things that hurt him but all the good things he's doing won't come to fruition for years.

I'll be honest, I'm not sure some of those complaining loudest were quite the same when we had the government literally create a scheme for their friends to win contracts who then delivered dodgy gear. We also had a prime minister put a man with links the the KGB into the lords. I think I'm being fairer in my criticism of starmar than those questioning whether I'd have asked questions if it was the Tories.

It's certainly not a very clever look I'll say that. Whether it's right or wrong to have a friend that's a wrong-un, I will say it's a decision that didn't need to be made and representative or some really poor decisions starmar made early on. He's not played politics very well. It's certainly not been a low risk decision for him. I'll be out of replies soon I imagine.

This is the bit I'm trying to find out what was known, as I haven't seen it myself, to work out whether there's an excuse to have appointed. I haven't made my mind up as I don't know enough at this point, you guys might know more.

What I'm trying to establish - I haven't watched PMQs so you may have info I don't - is WHAT did he know about? I see a difference between having a friendship with somebody that has done wrong, and doing wrong yourself. What is it that was actually said today in terms of what was it wasn't known?

What do you/he/they mean by association? Again, Epstein was a wrong un but was there any suggestion mandelson had done anything wrong himself at that point? Personally I think that's the only relevant information we need an answer to.

I'm not a huge fan of attempting to damn politicians for things they couldn't know. Think there are legitimate questions about whether due diligence was done initially but equally it isn't right to not appoint somebody based on their old friend being a wrong-un. Obviously what's come out since looks pretty bad but nobody could've known any of it was coming.

Plasters. The type you use to treat minor cuts. There's only one sort of plaster that's truly useful - the long oblong one - yet you get about 6 of them and an assortment of useless ones. They know very well everybody really wants 20 useful oblong plasters. Should be a law against it.

Did Will Alves' injury ruin his progress or was he never destined to be the player we hoped? Not making the team in a lower division at his age doesn't look wholly positive for his chances at this point.

Is that right? Didn't realise that. Ok that changes things!

I feel your pain but modern football ownership in the UK doesn't lend itself to fan ownership of it would be basically impossible to fund.

Maybe but given his lack of game time I'd expect him to be brought in slowly. Aribo wouldn't surprise me given lack of options.

No striker or left back is a dereliction of duty

Mainly because, an ambassadorship aside, he hasn't been part of public life for about 20 years. He's an irrelevance.

I literally won't apply for a job that doesn't specify salary. Why would I? I would go much harder than you have on the lazy companies doing this if I didn't think it would result in my post limit being even more limited

Not wanting to challenge the underlying status quo is very much a conservative, right wing trait.

I think it would be good. Every week knowing you might not see the same clowns as the week before. A bit like when you used to watch a reserve match and A.Trialist would be on the team sheet.

Can we just close the transfer section of foxestalk down? For a while now our transfer business has been nothing but depressing. Think it might be good for us all if we just pretend it's not happening.

Background as a wind up merchant with a post limit, mainly.

Since reform appeared they do. Much lesser effect historically on the right. The centre left and left combined vote it's pretty much always bigger than the right/centre right vote. Not always by huge margins, Brexit was the one anomaly in recent years. So maybe slightly centre left would be fair.

Don't be daft. Using human sentence structures, syntax etc when a few beeps would do makes a big difference. We're talking about machines communicating, obviously it's quicker when they create something bespoke. In most applications involving communication it's actively encouraged. Take the tin foil hat off.

Polling suggests Labour and greens splitting well over 50% of the vote between them. Much the same as national politics week you include the lib Dems. The only thing that gives right wing parties power is the fact the left splits itself up more. We're a country of left wingers that constantly have right wing governments.

Why would you want to keep up with it? The whole point of AI is it can go faster than we can. We actively want it to think and communicate in more efficient and effective ways. Do we need guardrails through programming? Yes. But I'm not convinced what you've shown is an issue.

That would be fine, I'd be happy for them to put it that way and think collaboratively about how we could move forward differently, but there's a real nastiness that pervades in the way they talk about those that are culturally different - however small the cultural difference - not just ethnicity, colour, religion, nationality, but it's always the same people putting up laughing emojis when a cyclist is killed, complaining about teacher's holidays, shouting about cancel culture when somebody inciting violence is jailed before screaming that the BBC should be taken off air...... They basically hate everybody that isn't themselves.

He's not though. Daka is an awful footballer. We only have awful strikers. We have awful most things. There's a reason we got twenty something points in the premier League, we have terrible players. Ferguson or Guardiola would struggle to keep this lot in the championship this year.