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Todd, is that you?

Cutting edge reporting by the BBC. I’ve just received a notification that we beat Shrewsbury 2-1.

One of the reason I dislike mainstream politics.. you are told what your convictions are, as a politician

If I was Zarah, I’d be raisin hell about that..

Think I need to dust off my GK gloves…. My nickname was “ The Flying Potato”. True story.

if Rudkin goes, who’s going to sack scooper and Ward? Just sayin’…

Wouts a matter you hey! Why you lookin so bad?

So hot.. Edit: this can be misconstrued. I’m wanting to keep the thread ‘ hot’.

id like to work for Google in The Netherlands for half a million pounds a year. But it might not happen. I’m still going to give 100% to my current Job.

I can handle someone rejecting us for Roma… but if he then ends up at West Ham, I’ll be selling voodoo dolls of him. £5 each. Inbox me.

ah yes… how very human of us….

he was a satirical poster.

im really at the stage of ‘anyone but trump’ besides, surely the Republicans don’t have the nerve to call out the Dems for having a ‘ rude and obnoxious’ leader when they have Trump as their leader…

So interestingly, I haven’t seen many of the top democrats, other than Biden, endorse or back Kamela Harris… some names to look out for as possible runners… Josh Shapiro (No relation to Ben! ) has a reputation for getting things done.. kinda young and dynamic.. and Gretchen Whitmer.. reputation for being a fast acting progressive.. passing key policies.. others would be Gavin Newsome and then Pete Buttigeig ( sp!?) None of those I just mentioned have endorsed Harris and all have shown no secret about their own political aspirations. I will just add though that whoever gets the nomination will face an uphill task… The democratic voters will feel somewhat lied to and cheated having voted for Biden and to have that pulled from them, especially as it appears that top democrats knew very well of Biden’s cognitive decline..

i think the point really is about the establishment of culture within those lands that take countries to where they are and not the specific date. But what you are essentially arguing is that England was not a country before the Union of Great Britain was established, which I must disagree with.

im all for a bit of exploitation of Chelsea!

Great Britain was of course established in 1707 by two already established countries of England and Scotland. England was established in The year 927, many centuries before Any colonizer had even set foot on what we call the United States, let alone established a coherent government structure..

what I would say about this is that there really is a cultural difference between the U.S and the U.K. We are at different places within the development of our countries. By all accounts, The U.S is still quite a young country.

whilst I do agree with you, you have to understand that the U.S is still very different to the UK and they are, unfortunately, still breaking boundaries. It’s very important to some people to have someone they can relate to, someone who empowered them to be who they are and someone who might have faced similar struggles to them. I long for these days to be over, but I fear it might be some time away..

she could do well with the women who are swing voters- she’s very very pro- choice and is a big advocate of abortion rights.. she’ll not win over the conservative Christian women, but then again she might not even want to. She is for expanding the influence of the state and social care and government supplying healthcare so she definitely falls into the ‘liberal’ category. with the Israel/ Hamas situation shes said a few contentious things. For example, she’s said that the “campus protesters are showing exacty what the human emotional response should be”. Whilst I think I know what she meant by that, it’s possibly open to exploitation by the Trump campaign. She’s also said that the only way Israel can remain a Jewish and democratic state is as part of a two state solution. Again, that’s open to exploitation. However she’s also said that Israel should be treated equally and she’s also said a resolution to this situation can not be imposed upon but equally agreed by the Israelis and Palestinians. So she should be able to come out of any mud slinging on Israel by the Trump campaign. It all comes down to whether she can secure enough support within her own party.. they have GOT to be of the mindset that they should be willing to do whatever is needed to be re- elected. she is direct and blunt and , apparently, that spills over to being ‘ rude and obnoxious’.That seems to be accepted more by the republicans actually, but it remains to be seen if the democrats will accept that. im not convinced Biden’s endorsement ,someone who has lost a massive amount of political respect recently, will be enough to secure her place. it needs to be though.

She’s definitely picked a side with regards to the Israel- Hamas conflict, and her phraseology has upset some applecarts. She had a high turnover of staff in her early tenure of vice president and has been known by a few whistleblowers from that time as being rude and obnoxious. However as nice and rosey as it would be, picking a leader should never been just about being a popularity contest. Can she get the votes to beat Donald Trump? That’s got to be the biggy, surely? as superficial as it may be, being a woman with African American heritage should help to reign in some votes. partly because, believe it or not, Trumps support amongst African Americans is the highest it’s been for a republican for many years ( still a tiny percentage compared to the Democrats of course.. If the democrats can swallow the same pride that caused them to persist with Biden for so long and unite behind Harris, then it could be a nail biter in November. People might talk about how she might not have enough time to campeign, but the flip side of that is that Trump doesn’t have long to fling dirt either and whittle away at that public persona like he has with Biden. It’s been a long yet successful campaign to turn America against Biden, even if he did ultimately undo himself, he won’t have that time with Harris. The democrats have to unite and elect an electable and they have to do it now to stand a chance..

This needs to be settled over a round of golf…

I don’t think I could stomach having a ‘Truth’ social media account…

"If you think that there is consensus among the people who want Joe Biden to leave that they will support Kamala - Vice President Harris - you would be mistaken," Representative Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, a Biden supporter, said on Instagram. "There's no safe option."

I just don’t know who they’ll pick. Democrats are suffering right now for having the ‘ old guard’ in charge - Schumer and Pelosi and the only ‘ emerging stars’ are from the far left and they don’t have the ability to unite the party.. There remains several ver influential Jewish financial backers who withdrew their funding because of how ‘ badly’ Biden treated Israel ( as they see it).. and Kamala Harris is much stricter and is known as being very scathing of Israel’s position on all things Palestinian so I’d be very very surprised if she gets the nod to lead the party…