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He needs to do an Enzo at Chelsea. Pick the squad of players regardless of position or ability that want to be here and have the right cultural fit. Set the others adrift and tell them to find new clubs. If that leaves us midtable then sobeit. My suspicion is that a more cohesive group with the elements of quality that we do have will do better than the oft trodden path of trying to get the same group playing well together. Then he needs to look at his tactics as its clear it isn't working and nullifies all our best players.

Available on a free. Be careful what you wish for!

A long thin bedroom the width of the garage is very common in extensions like this. As long as it's wide enough for a double bed plus bedside tables it's fine. You end up splitting the room with walkthrough wardrobes often to an ensuite. There are loads of 1930s houses with a garage to the side that people want to extend over so it's a common problem your architect can help with. I've never heard anything good about checkatrade fyi. Good builders don't need to be on it....

Its a BSA issue as the contractor becomes the Principle Designer under the act despite not being competent to do so. Particularly as the organisations that appoint these contractors are often publicly funded ie, the council or Housing Associations.

Except that its benefit is for working parents who need to get to work early not benefit claimants. You can get 2-3 weeks of kids breakfasts for the cost of a single day at breakfast club.

Our free breakfasts are £4.50 for a bowl of cheerios. Its absolutely the staff you are paying for.

80% of all current employees according to the government. Then there are the £13m currently claiming their pension on top of this. Over 30m people I reckon.

Good news for this thread.

Its interesting that you have omitted the amount of increases in wind under the tories which wildly outstripped anything Blair managed while focusing on renewables. Some of my team spend a long time focusing and not much doing, so perhaps he was one of those? You are right to suggest our electricity prices are high. They are above the EU average, though lower than Germany and Ireland. (Top 3 is highest isn't it?). We could chose as a country to lower them by changing the way the prices are calculated and no government appears to want to do this. Ive never understood why, but I assume that it brings in too much tax at the higher rates so they cannot afford for it to happen.

Im dealing with a load of council properties at the moment. Its weird what these contractors get away with. Its poor that the system isn't designed by a qualified technician for each property rather than just slapped on by a builder. You would assume under the Building Safety Act this would have stopped but it doesn't appear to.

Its clear you aren't in the planning of major infrastructure projects so I understand why the conjecture and confusion. On the positive you have acknowledged that it is being built and it wasn't all on Milliband. Also that the Tories didn't achieve 'absolutely nothing' when on the subject of Nuclear power. Interestingly Labour were in power for 13 years previously, how many Nuclear power stations were constructed in this period I wonder? (Hint - it took 9 years after their energy white paper until EDF proposed the idea of Sizewell C). Back on topic. Milliband doesn't deserve to be in this thread.

At the point where playing senior pros isn't winning matches, not playing more promising youth players becomes a very mute argument.

My concern is that the ball is moved too slowly so we nullify our own attacking threat. By the time the ball gets to Fatawu or Monga its 3 on 1. This should mean there is an overload in other areas, but we manage to make it so that we are crowded out at all times. As it stands, he doesn't appear to have an attacking plan in place. Under Enzo ball, it was clear that he wanted to slow the game down to snail pace then attack quickly when ready. The wingers were always supported by the 8's and they stretched the pitch wide to leave room for Vardy.

Sunak was in favour. So assuming he was PM he would have continued the build that started while he was PM. What Badenoch would do? Who knows, but the Conservatives have been broadly pro-nuclear since Thatcher and she has included it as part of her energy strategy. https://www.businessgreen.com/news/4520109/kemi-badenoch-promises-proper-strategy-tackling-climate-change

You right that Milliband attempted to turnaround the Blair government towards nuclear as it was mostly against it up until that point, whereas the Thatcher government was generally pro-nuclear. https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/New-dawn-for-UK-nuclear-power This article is from September 2008 confirming EDF's proposals before they even purchased the site. You have skilfully and wilfully ignored the fact that the Tories approved Sizewell C, got the planning approved, fought off the 2023 legal challenge and started works on site with a £2bn enabling works package.

EDF identified the site I believe? Cameron supporting the preparing of the plans by EDF and accepted it would be the next project after Hinkley Point B. BJ approved the development control order and had committed £3bn in funding for the development works. I hadn't appreciated that pre-construction started on site in Jan 2024, 3 months before Labour got into power. Then it was put into Labour's manifesto. I think Ed can take the credit for this.

The third resignation from the grooming panel. Crazy to read.

Im being silly, he has ran straight to the Guardian. Its odd that he has ran straight to the newspaper with his story. It does pave the way for all asylum seekers to claim France isn't safe if he is allowed to stay so maybe thats his angle. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/oct/22/man-sent-to-france-under-one-in-one-out-scheme-returns-to-uk-on-small-boat

Typical right wing MSM click-bait.

You know that none of that is true?

Put the 36000 on boats and kick them out? Equality crisis solved?

It depends whether you want to be attractive as a country to people with wealth such as Italy. These individuals being present increases inequality. However, I see them as free cash. Even if they don't base their businesses in the country they live, they use little services and pay for all luxury goods, staffing, regular taxation, all on top of whatever wealth tax they pay to be here. Driving them away out of spite is so stupid.

It was written by and activist and artist that has little to no knowledge of economics. It's a set of figures from the ONS spun to his political wants.

According to chapgpt, absolutely. So no, probably not.

These are the short term accomodation costs and won't include NHS, education, pensions, social the real costs are much higher.