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There’s a book called The Wall by John Lanchester where the UK builds a wall round it. Every citizen has to do mandatory military service guarding the wall from people coming in in dinghies. If people get in they’re allowed to stay but those guarding that section of wall where they get in are kicked off the island and cast into the sea as a punishment in a “1 in 1 out” system. Reading some people online today fawning over Nigel Farage makes me think there’s plenty in the UK who would genuinely welcome this system.

Brilliant in the first half of his time here, kind of crap and semi-permanently injured in the second half of his time here. Will always wish him well for what he’s achieved here, but I think it’s time to part ways. Giving big wages to players who haven’t performed for several seasons now feels like Matty James’ 4 year deal all over again.

Next Tory broadcast: ”Your guilty conscience may force you to vote Labour, but deep down you secretly long for a cold-hearted Conservative to lower taxes, brutalize criminals, and rule you like a king!”

Considering how “clear” this “plan” for saving our economy supposedly is from the Tories, I sure wish they’d actually be clear about what the plan actually entails.

“Kier Starmer wants to bankrupt the country. This is still the same man who backed Jeremy Corbyn for PM twice. Vote for the Tories or go back to square one with the same old Labour”. ”Mayor Quimby supports revolving-door prisons. Mayor Quimby even released Sideshow Bob, a man twice convicted of attempted murder. Can you trust a man like Mayor Quimby? Vote Sideshow Bob for mayor!”

Honestly, if I was in Clacton, as much as I want them out, I’d be tempted to vote Tory tactically. I have never hated a UK politician more than Nigel Farage. He is a cancerous influence on UK politics

Yeh Dominion is one of those that they still keep pumping out expansions that there’s probably tens of thousands of cards these days. But they all add new mechanics and work together. By its sheer number of potential combinations of games you do get some dud games of it, but it’s one of those games that so easy to just play 4 or 5 times in a row in an evening that it doesn’t matter. Cosmic Encounter is one of the classic and really influential “hobby games” from the 1970s that were even pre developers like Reiner Knizia, Wolfgang Kramer and games like 6 nimmt, Modern Art, Settlers of Catan, Bohnanza and El Grande which popularised “hobby games” in the early-mid 90s. Though Fantasy Flight games gave it a facelift about 15 years ago and made the definitive version of it.

I’ve already removed it. Campbell is in hospital seriously ill and fighting for his life though.

Great thread bump though never played Dagger heart. Big tabletop gamer for decades in general though, been rotating D&D and Call of Cthulu for decades with other odd TTRPGs here and there Then board/card games, probably some general favourites) Cosmic Encounter (still the best board game ever made for me) Libertalia Dominion Ra/Tigres & Euphrates/Modern Art/Quest for El Dorado (although any top tier Reiner Knizia game is always a blast) Clank! Catacombs El Grande Race for the Galaxy I do enjoy the bigger euro games from time to time but it has to be with players who know the game and don’t know it well enough to wipe the floor with everyone else.

Thank you, I have removed it

I know it’s been mentioned on other threads, but worth its own thread. Even if he was only here for a few months, he was a brilliant player in his brief time here who was head and shoulders above the rest of his teammates.

The main thing for me that the post-May government have proved to me is that I’d always believed that you had to actually be an intelligent person who understood diplomacy, economics and had a good grasp on how the world worked to get to the top in politics and that’s been proved wrong. I may have profoundly disagreed with Cameron or May on many things, but I never would conclude they weren’t intelligent people who had pondered a lot on how the world works, same with every other leader in most people’s lifetimes. Truss and to a lesser extent Johnson shattered that illusion. I have no idea how Truss genuinely made it to the top of her party,

I mean at least choose the Iraq war ffs! “I’m not the worst, there was this one guy who passed acts about human rights, equality and climate change ffs” The ever-needed reminder that Sunak lost to this lady

You have followed British politics for the past 10 years right? The right wing in the UK have gone just as far down the pathetic populist rabbit hole.

Yeh but Labour’s vote also rose in the blue well seats - the middle class seats in the Home Counties in the south east that all were remain seats and that have been gradually going red for years and that will all go fully red for the first time this election, that was the problem, it shouldn’t have been about keeping the red wall, it should’ve been about going after the remain voting blue wall in Kent, Surrey, Hertfordshire and the rest of the south east. The voting demographics of the country have changed, they were too scared to change the demographic they went after.

Milliband treaded the line well between Corbyn and Starmer but got slaughtered for eating a bacon sandwich wrong. Just hope the less and less power of the tabloids continues

Yeh I was cynical the EU would take us back but their recent offers of freedom of movement for 18-30 year olds and Macron talking about a European Association with “former members” seemed like they were aimed at the Labour Party saying they’re happy to renegotiate. Makes me think it’s a lot more likely we’ll drift back towards the EU over the next 5-15 years now

I’m not convinced this form of hard Brexit lasts another 10 years by this point. I wouldn’t at all be surprised if towards the end of the decade uk will start drifting back towards the single market and at least become more similar to Norway or Switzerland in relation to the eu. EU have clearly been making thinly veiled olive branches aimed at Starmer saying there’s room to negotiate once the Tories are out of power.

Corbyn and a lot of his policies were popular in 2017 though and made gains on the Tories don’t forget. 2019 became a single issue election on Brexit where Labour tried to avoid the issue instead of going all in on a 2nd referendum as they should’ve done.

Wasn’t arguing he wasn’t, I was arguing that Mahrez is and the reasons given as to why he’s not are bizarre. Just used Walsh as a comparison because the poster who said Mahrez wasn’t because of his behaviour included Walsh so just pointing out the double standards. It wasn’t meant to be a slight on Walsh.

Tories making adverts for Labour now, saying that if Labour win some of us might be able to actually have some savings.

Watching some of Sunak’s bizarre q&as this week just reminds me that he is way more awkward, wooden and goofy than Ed Milliband was. Curious but not surprising that the tabloids haven’t gone to town on his mannerisms and lack of “toughness” like they did with Milliband.

Yet you include Walsh who thumped a fellow player and got a 13 match ban and Izzet who requested a transfer who both achieved far less and were inferior players for us? It’s double standards, Mahrez should obviously be there.

Ranieri?

Victoria Derbyshire gave a good summary. You have to be in your 50s to be an adult during Thatcher now, that’s the thing. Many older voters vote Tory for life often citing the winter of discontent in the 70s. But this generation have Brexit, Covid and the mass fallout from this to look back on which will now in turn take a lot of getting over. I can’t see this generation getting over it especially when so many are overwhelmingly pro-EU. I think Brexit kept Tories in power in the last election but will kill then long term given how age dependent the demographics of the referendum was.