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It's ironic, the grief Starmar gets from the right when labour have actually done more to reduce legal and illegal immigration, and deported more failed asylum seekers, than any government in UK history. "The number of asylum seekers living in hotels while waiting for their claims to be processed in the UK has fallen to 20,885 in the 12 months to March 2026. That's down from 30,657 people in December 2025. The peak was about 56,000 in September 2023 under the last Conservative government." Also, BBC News - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cvgzjpd1jjgt UK net migration drops to 171,000 in 2025, lowest since 2012 excluding pandemic - follow live - BBC New Then, Boat crossings last year were 3% up on the year before, but so far this year are 42% down.

Shock horror: maybe the situation was more complicated than certain right wing politicians and commentators, who made hay from it, would have liked.

Won the championship in one attempt at Leicester. Won the club world championship at Chelsea. In both cases the manager before and manager after have all done spectacularly worse jobs with similar groups of players. You're making yourself look really very silly.

Two minds on it really. On one hand it does seem a really harsh penalty for what is a pretty minor thing really, doubt they really gained much from it. On the other hand they cheated in the play off semi final so being handed a defeat in that match isn't inappropriate when looked at in that way.

I'm pretty sure the west only has any real suspicion of China because of our friendships with the US. Without the US influence we'd be working much more closely with them. Unlike the US they seem to be more confident of themselves - they know their a superpower and don't need to constantly dominate everybody to prove it.

That may be true to a degree but research showed that 90% of online pro reform comments were produced by bots. Huge numbers of social media profiles existing for a fortnight before elections, spewing non stop pro reform spiel and lies about other parties, then disappear into the ether. The same happened around Brexit but it's getting more and more sophisticated. Anybody pretending it's across the political spectrum evenly is not being honest with themselves.

There's a bot army fighting for reform on social media

The media won't support anybody that doesn't want to let things stay the same. Nor will social media that is basically bought and paid for by the same people.

There's zero chance surely. They need to re-ticket, with an appeal presumably likely?

Issue of the last 40 years. Proceeds of growth are all going to investors and CEOs, not being shared by workers. Fault lies with Thatcher and Reagan.

Why don't we just send better songs? Spaceman would have won if Ukraine hadn't been attacked that year, it's not that we're hated, it's that we continually send awful music.

NHS waiting lists fell, boat crossings fell and fastest growth in the g7 despite them to. Outrageous luck how these things all happened about 18 months after policy changes occurred.

Best boobs won TBF

I suppose I'm blaming the club not him but the overspending he made a comment around the time he left about the club needing to let players leave rather than keeping them trying to get top dollar. I think that's where our issues lie, continually keeping players like Thomas and Choudhury on big contracts instead of selling when we had the chance.

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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.

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