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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.

We've got a terminally unfit Ricardo and a centre midfielder in Hamza. I think it is a priority.

Apart from the wingers that makes me feel ill

VUAG is the best ETF for this imo. Reinvests dividends and with a solid home at Vanguard.

They're both crap

No, fair enough, I didn't read that properly. Would be interesting to know what sort of numbers we're talking about and what the policy intention was. Presumably there is a reason for it. Wonder if it's cheaper than the alternative of having to hunt down those having to be found and forcibly removed? I always like to try to understand what's going on under the hood, presumably there must be some sort of merit to it if it was introduced as early as you say as it survived contact with Priti Patel and several other pretty right wing figures.

You have to have been officially designated as a victim of modern slavery. Few will meet that requirement.

The alternative would be hard limits on spend to maintain competitiveness as it's a sport, not a business (or should be).

This isn't true. There is a limited voluntary assisted return scheme where some immigrants get money to set up elsewhere, but it is limited. A normal deportation involves zero money.

Asylum seekers have to prove they require asylum. So if they lose their identity documents that works against them doing that. They have to prove that they come from an unsafe country AND that they themselves are at risk. It's a high bar.

Feel like I've wandered into a thread I should quickly wander back out of....

It should be based on an even spend cap of £x per club. Not a proportion of revenue. That would make it more even rather than keeping all the trophies with the top few clubs.

The hotels only exist because the Tories stopped processing and caused a backlog. In the process they signed contracts with hotels until 2029 so we're paying for them now either way. Better to spend the extra money on more staff to increase processing numbers, and also to allow them to work in prescribed jobs to effectively pay for their keep.

They could after too. Jenrick signed off on hundreds of hotel contracts for asylum seekers well after covid too. Clearly if there's political will, then there's money for anything we want. There just hasn't been the political will or ability. It could also look at the "help or own" crowd constantly voting for benefit cuts despite the vast majority on benefits also being in work.

They could do that in an instant if they wanted to. As they did during covid. Very few of the people calling for us to "look after our own" vote for parties that actually would.

The flag isn't offensive. The people putting it up to signal to immigrants that they aren't welcome are. Not really bothered about the flags but I'm very concerned about the hatred you see everywhere online at the moment.

I like JJ. He always tries. Think he's been with crap players and can still do something better with his career.

Trump sacks intelligence chief following intelligence report saying Iran's nuclear programme only put back a few months. Follows him sacking a statistics head after it was shown there was a jobs slow down. Yet still the maga masses think it's others covering things up.