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After Soyuncu it's hard to get excited by anybody else.

Bamford is still better than Daka

Zero support for what he believes, but he's paid to be a footballer so it's irrelevant to me.

OMFG. Please be true. First Musa then Daka, the middle East is doing us a great service again if this happens.

I just always notice it on the M5. It's becoming an issue everywhere, middle lane hoggers, people refusing to be overtaken, others brake testing etc, but on the M5 it's like nobody understands what the lanes are for.

Imo it's why we're lagging behind with EV uptake - our cars could be better, batteries could be much better and we don't have the charging infrastructure because it's all been left to the market. Government should be deciding what the country needs then whether directly being involved - perhaps funding R&D firstly - or by being very clear it's where the money is given government spending underpins everything else. Because we have quite a noisy element of British politics that don't want to move beyond oil and gas, the government can't offer the business certainty that's needed. I think labour really should be much bolder and louder in this area. They're being way too meek imo.

Basically everybody on the M5 as they are unable to see that the left hand lane exists and seen to think that the centre and right hand lanes are both for dawdling in.

Exactly what I'm thinking. Think it looks like a training top because of lack of sponsor.

Behind the scenes the club were very happy with Coady. He just didn't perform on the pitch and didn't have a year long contract.

Don't want to jump to conclusions. If we have a proper chat with him, explain we need to rebuild and instill a winning mentality and culture, and can he help us to do that with his experience, then if he wants that kind of role I could live with a year long contract with option to extend.

Most the supposed unintended consequences are made up. None of the good things they're doing are even being reported. And yes they're getting some things wrong, particularly in presentation. But any move to make landlordism harder is a good move. They can move on to the corporate landlords next if need be.

Tbh I couldn't care less either way. Kinda concluded that we're unlikely to go up so it makes no real difference. Sell, keep, whatever. Feeling pretty ambivalent.

Lol nice try Even if your story is true the idea it's a move to side with corporate landlords is laughable.

Ultimately China are leading the world in all sorts of areas and their technological advancements absolutely show that government led progress is far more efficient than leaving it to the market. And that's not a call for communism, just an observation that market dogma has largely failed to deliver. Their progress on clean energy and EV tech in particular is incredible.

Good guys with guns failed to stop it again then

Telegraph is the absolute worst. Doesn't print a word of truth these days. Sad state got a once great newspaper.

Russell Martin taking an absolute battering in this write up BBC News - 'Martin's mess exposed - but when will it end?' https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/c0j93z96wd8o

This is turning into a great transfer window even without us buying anybody! I happen to think he's our best centre back but I do also think we have a similar issue to Man Utd, in that it doesn't matter who's in charge, there's something wrong in the culture of the squad, so need to clear it out and start again.

Fair enough, I'm not looking to argue with you on a personal level. Just in general think landlordism hasn't been good for society, accepting that individual landlords got into it legally and to try to do right by their families. Think you've just got to accept whatever money you have made from property value increases and that it was a temporary part of your life.

Absolutely the system needs fixing. But it needs honest and open debate and discussion, then agreement and cooperation. Instead what we have is attempts to divide and stoke hatred. While I think the Tories and reform are a blight on the nation on this issue, the left also needs to allow genuine debate on this issue and not pretend there's no issues. Labour actually are taking it very seriously but being drowned out right now by Farage.

The property value going up over time is the money. The fact somebody else has been paying your mortgage costs so you now own x% of a property you haven't had to pay for yourself is the money. Complaining you can't make a monthly income on top of unbelievable really.

I understand that. And those landlords bought their rental properties with the best of intentions, to build wealth for their families. I'm not attacking individuals. But successive governments should have seen the issues that landlordism would create for society and should have limited it years ago. So I entirely support efforts now to reverse the trend, and you selling up shows it's working. And, let's be honest, if you've had the property a while you'll have made good money on it with your tenants paying the mortgage. So you've lost nothing and only gained is the likely outcome (I realise you may have very specific individual circumstances where that somehow isn't true).

The only chink of light for those of us not wanting a hard right government is that together the Tories and reform account for 36% of current polling. Labour, lib dem and greens account for 42%. The left just needs to stop dividing itself. And Labour need to not be afraid to talk as a centre left party, rather than just talk about right wing talking points.

We have nearly 3 million landlords in this country. Not properties, actual landlords. 3 million. They are the reason the housing market is so badly broken. They buy everything at the cheap end, stopping first time buyers getting onto the housing ladder. Action is definitely needed to stop them doing that, and to free up properties currently owned by landlords. Most renters don't want to rent. They have to because they can't compete with landlordism.

Western capitalism is on its last legs. Ordinary people are finding ordinary life harder and harder and are desperate for change. A new economic model and social contract is needed. At the same time, climate change is starting to gather pace and we're going to see increasingly erratic weather patterns, floods, super storms etc over the next decade+. In the last century oil was the great wealth creator and those benefiting from it aren't going to go quietly. So we have what, on it's own, is an annoying but relatively small issue of small boats rammed down the throats of the masses 24/7 to create public belief in a crisis, the fermenting of disorder and dissent, including by a political party, and suddenly the entire political world is focused on that one issue, pushing the overton window rightwards, keeping those that need it there in business. Nothing else is reported. It didn't matter what good things labour do, the media just doesn't report them. Social media now is a cesspit of people simply parroting the talking points of their chosen media outlets, no free thought, no new ideas, no possible progress. It's all very depressing.