The Doctor

I'd suggest the mainstream parties have actually made it worse by not challenging reforms framing at all, on anything really. Everyone and their nan has an opinion on "small boats" because it's been allowed to become a hot button issue. Rather than showing compassion for refugees, talking positively about our obligations as humans to protect the most vulnerable, and about the contribution that immigration has made to this country, labour have gone along with the reform framing of it being an invasion and Starmer goes out there quoting Enoch Powell. ironically as well, by constantly kowtowing to reforms framing, and arguing on the case of competence, labour also make the case that reform would be better than them as well. Very easy to suggest that you'd be better off living under incompetent evil than the competent evil.

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ehhh, I'm 32 and heading into by my count, the fifth once in a lifetime event in my life, and yet the general consensus on millennials among the older generations is that millennials are spoilt brats wanting life on easy mode. I don't think there is actually much awareness of the difficulties that younger generations are facing tbh

if that's the criteria for disenfranchisement you're gonna be getting rid of a hell of a lot of 30 and 40 something's...

nah. He's an allotment owner, 100% smells faintly of soil and real ale. Some might suggest you need to actually have a left of centre government first in order to prolong it... Also, is it actually likely to give labour a significant number of votes? There's a real issue with young boys being radicalised by Andrew Tate and the rest of the "manosphere", if I were to put money on where their votes would go, it's reform. The boys who haven't gotten drawn into that, the girls and the rest, maybe some will go labour but I'd expect the classic lib demming - say good stuff for teenagers and then immediately betray it (no, I don't still hold a grudge against them from 2010, what gives you that impression), then a split between the semi-engaged going the same way as their parents (which under current polling would benefit reform), and the engaged and left wing going for either the greens or Sultanas Corbyn Party

Another stellar bit of King Power "due dilligence".

can't wait for the new goalkeeping coach Di Azepam to be appointed

I do appreciate Norway's commitment to being the "golden generation who achieve nothing" team. Like, absolutely stellar work.

honestly more staff should have a name that could also have feasibly been a touchline instruction for the early 2010s Barca side

see where I disagree is the idea that fascism will arrive soon. 1 year ago we had race riots on the streets and attempted pogroms. The government response was to say that they had a point but should make it in a different way. They've then spent the last year treating every single ridiculous myth that the race rioters got riled up about as absolute fact, and have treated people vandalising military equipment with harder action than they did those who carried out what can be fairly described as a series of coordinated terrorist attacks (like it was definitely the use of violence and violent threats to advance a political agenda and intimidate the public). Fascism won't arrive soon, because it's already here.

100%. It's a deeply concerning trend. Like ok, he's a relatively young person to be in a position of such power and has ended up there quicker than planned. That gets you some slack for making mistakes - frankly I don't think there's a single football club owner who's never made any mistake - but its about learning from them. He seems to refuse to learn and actively angry at the fans for asking him to do so? Like the sponsorship thing is a disgrace, due diligence my arse, but even lower down the totem pole of errors - we've been massively overstretched on finances because of a wage budget well above what is affordable and what the squad would merit in the market... ok, recruitment mistakes happen but a) why has no-one carried the can for so many happening so quickly and b) why, with all that known, are we then throwing big money at dross like Oliver Skipp again? it's the behaviour of a man who thinks accountability is an insult, a spoilt Nepo baby who never learned anything and refuses to start now.

I'd argue their active embrace of fascism is in fact a course that burns the world down so they can be king of the ashes. You can argue literally as well as figuratively with climate change but frankly Labour aren't going to take the decisive action needed at this point to fix that, and frankly as one of the minorities who's right are being eradicated by this labour government, I have no inclination to give them any benefit of the doubt on anything

honestly I don't think people even voted with that in mind, it was basically just people being fed up with Tory sleeze (this is why Labour won a massive majority with fewer absolute votes than they got in the disaster of 2019, and without making huge gains in vote share - the Tories collapsed and labour essentially won by default) Problem is, labour appear to have taken the message that the problem with the Tories was that they weren't competently destroying everything, and so campaigned on change but haven't really changed anything for the positive (if we're being honest, that was obviously going to be the case, hence why Streeting nearly got portillo'd and was basically saved by a lack of a deal between an Indy and the greens, and why Starmers majority was cut nearly in half). And when you do that, people who wanted change go for something else - and we're stuck with reform on course for a majority of their own while labour join the Tories in the dustbin, Zarah Sultana and Corbyn argue over whether he should be part of her new project, the lib dems continue to be the lib dems. The only real hope I've got is that between Ramsey/Chown wanting to go back to being the political wing of Greenpeace, and Polanski's left wing populism, the green membership makes the right choice, and the centre/left rally around them instead.

I mean, we can get worse from where we are currently but the issue is that that very much appears to be labours strategy as well. You can take the optimistic view and suggest they're just on this path to appease the felon in chief and might change tact in 2028 if America pulls itself out of the death spiral it is in, but thats a degree of optimism I'd class as naivete. Would our current trajectory be significantly different under reform as it is under a man who quotes Enoch Powell in a professional capacity? I'm not convinced that it's anything more than retying the laces of the boot as it kicks your teeth in.

yea, but they're gonna use that time to just make things worse. Constantly turning a dial that says "right wing populism" and looking over to the press barons and farage for approval. Like, when labour are bringing back aspects of section 28 (not even joking, their RHSE guidance the other day contains provisions (clause 72) which mimic the language of section 28) and trying to balance the books on the backs of disabled people, how much worse can Reform be really?

Inevitably bottom, but bottom plays 3rd in the championship in a play-off, which realistically we should be able to beat. Basically taken the position that relegation for any WSL side is highly unlikely so write the season off before pre-season has even started. Another top bit of work from the clowns on the board.

not too sound too disrespectful to the standard of Belgian league football, but if you claim to be a premier League standard midfielder worth over 20m you really should be head and shoulders above every single player on the pitch for Leuven

unnamed north London footballer finally has a name then. Should have been suspended by the club pending investigation the moment the police investigation started. If his contract would have put the club at liability for that, then the contracts aren't fit for purpose and just underline a systemic problem at the club (and in wider football) with dismissive attitudes towards sexual violence.

that's a big loss if true.

weird that we wouldn't do any maintenence when we're literally hosting a lionesses game. Like, if it's not in use you can kinda excuse not doing any maintenance and taking a month off, but not when you're set up with events on it.

Almost like we've got a little nepo baby who's desperate to be pals with some footballers as chairman

such disrespect to our Player of the Season 2022/23

his record when you go for the teams they both faced is the same as Cooper's... Cooper W2, D4, L6. RVN W3, D1, L8. Both took 10 points from those 12 games

bring back the days of shit Photoshop tbh, at least then some effort was put in

Dyche is mates with Rudkin, he'd do **** all and labour us with more useless old bastards like BdCR.