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Are you joking or do you really think this?

Think we need somebody experienced to come in and just get us working as a team. Tony Mowbray might fit the bill until the end of the season.

Think if Norwich get the win he'll be sacked

Probably time to unlock the door and give the place a quick once over

Who still thinks we've got one of the best squads in the league?

Never been the same after his injuries. Still has the skill, fantastic guy to have around the team, but not the old Ricardo (if he was he'd have gone years ago).

I invite you to consider what the reaction might be if 9/11 happened on trump's watch

Thing is a couple of games ago he missed some great chances but at least he got in the position to miss. Nobody else is even doing that so I'd have given him a pat on the back, kept him in the team and told him to keep getting into positions. One goal could change the finishing.

I often think how awful Bush and Cheney seemed at the time but how moderate they now seem compared to what's in place currently.

This is exactly the game for Sergeant to bang in a brace. Who knows. Hope we might win this one.

They did have the world's best defensive midfielder I'm front of them TBF

Pretty much non of the ideas in the media before the last one made it into the real budget so I take it all with a pinch of salt until the day arrives.

I'm going to be sorely disappointed if some of the home help ones aren't ridiculously fit. Sci-fi has promised me this.

Kenny, I like how you approach these conversations. I'm prepared to accept labour aren't doing great on the economy ATM. But the Tories left the entire country in an absolute state. Public services are a disaster zone. They were the worst government of all time, hands down, even in rishi was marginally better than what went before.

Some of the things seen in recent years have been utterly absurd. In Pakistan 2/3 years ago and area the size of England was flooded. China saw a huge long stretch of temperatures over 40° in a similar timeframe. 40° starting to become a summer norm in southern Europe. The UK wasn't supposed to see 40° for another 50 years even on the worst climate models yet we saw it on a similar timespan to the above. Really scary times are coming over the next 15 years. By then, nobody will be laughing any more.

Oh I agree I just didn't pay attention to the first bit

No, I can't. But then maybe that's something that comes with hindsight when his time here ends. Not many at the time have Puel any credit but actually some of the recruitment was fantastic (admittedly Macia had a lot to do with that - he was our biggest loss btw) and he did start us down the road towards the kind of football that should have seen us champions League regulars under Rodgers if we didn't have a group of bottlers.

The US is as divided but then it's the US who we're being pushed to follow down the path towards division.

I'm glad you took the time to respond, what I sometimes miss from posters like Tommy - and maybe that's my fault and it is there but I'm not seeing it - is a critique that we can engage with. By which I mean more than something outright dismissive without really looking like any thought beyond 'labour bad' has gone into it. You make some fair points. Unemployment and inactivity seem to have risen and the NI rise is likely to have hada negative effect on business as Tommy alluded to. Labour really do need to do something to get the economy moving. I'd much rather see them borrow more in the short term and use it to try to instigate growth, than I would tax ordinary people more. I'm not so sure about Rishi and Hunt doing a great job. Growth was incredibly weak for years, inflation had come down but it was under the Tories that they lost control. They also did intentionally fail to include a fair number of guaranteed spends on their final budget, producing misleading figures and the infamous black hole (for instance, when inflation was much higher the year before they only gave small pay rises to the public sector pointing at their inability to override the independent panels. Last year they knew what the independent panels had recommended before leaving office, which they would have to pay, but they intentionally set no money aside to try to salt the earth in terms of tax rises being needed to fund them and to try and blame labour for "inflation busting pay rises", even though they'd all been through the process under the Tory watch who then simply sat on them until the election). No government acting like that, just to make life hard for the next lot at the expense of the country, deserves to be treated as if they were economically competent.

If you graduate now, you come out with something like £50k in debt to start with an the interest is something like RPI+3% which is currently 6.2%. it's ridiculous. It's effectively a lifetime 9% tax over £25k ish. Remember how much shouting there was when Corbyn suggested a 5% tax over £80k? But yet we accept a 9% tax over £25k ish. So when you earn that you have income tax, ni, then pension, and then 9% student loan. It's crazy. And we wonder why young people aren't having kids or going out.

Indeed. But I don't understand what it's got to do with the next budget. You think that any tax rise somehow changes the last budget? It's just bizarre. And I notice how yet again you refuse to engage with the rest of what I wrote. It's pointless trying to have a sensible discussion with you as you only deal in pointed comments to support your own agenda and stupid laughing emoji. Why are you so scared of looking at positives in the labour record?

I'll read the whole thing properly later but just in tuition fees, they should be done away with. You can set limits on courses and numbers if you want to do something on those lines. Tuition fees are a net negative to the economy as people paying tuition fees aren't spending that money in the economy. Current tuition fee debt should be bright back to be held by the government, having been sold on with huge interest rates attached so they can't be repaid. The cost of bringing out back should be borne by the government. There should be zero interest for existing debt. If £20k was borrowed, then £20k should be repaid. With inflation that means it'll get easier and easier to repay over time for those with existing debts. That would mean those people can get on with spending that money in the real economy, boosting local businesses.

Why do you keep banging on about the once in a generation thing? The coming budget is no different to any other budget. They'll be tax rises in some areas, tax cuts in some others, closing of loopholes over there, a few freebies and handouts over here. They were left an absolute mess of a country. It's clearly more than a parliament worth of work to fix it for anybody. On the economy there may be own goals in there so far, I'm not particularly for arguing over that, but we can all see across the western world there are fundamental problems in most economies. You can point at the effect of the NI risev as a negative, I could point at relative predicted growth as a positive. There's no black and white in this, it's shades of gray, and I think I've been pretty fair in yes trying to point out where they've been unfairly targeted, but accepting mistakes have come and may again in the coming budget if they do look to raise income tax (I did read somewhere the idea of 2p on income tax and 2p off NI but I've no idea what the net effect would be or if it's just pre budget nonsense). I do wish you could come to the conversation equally prepared to accept they might have done some good things as well as the same few negatives you like to point at constantly.

It would be a very poor move given the manifesto I'd agree. Probably political suicide which is why I hold out some hope maybe they won't but we'll see soon enough. I'm not sure rishi is in much of a position to comment given he had already taken tax to record levels as chancellor. As well as intentionally salting the earth by not setting aside funds for a number of known costs within their last budget, leaving behind the black hole that was very much real when labour took office.

No that's fair enough, as I said, I'm prepared to accept that's the direct line of sight. I'm just saying that the results of government policy aren't usually that linear.