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Just seen that article myself. What a scary ****ing world we live in when people can make up fake stuff you said

Rumours of a big defection from Tories to Labour today or tomorrow. Some even suggesting it’s an ex-PM though that seems a bit far fetched.

Yeah who scored just rates players each match based on its statistical rating system and then there’s the best average rating over the season. It is of course subjective what is important to a performance though and so inherently favours certain attributes (dribbling stats are notoriously given a lot of weight for example).

We’re still physically in Europe even if we’re not in the EU, we didn’t lift the anchor off our country and row it to Asia.

Yeah exactly. The jury vote saved Eurovision’s skin. Can you imagine how many countries would boycott next year had Israel won?

Posts like this can get in the bin tbf. Allowing Isreal to perform is no less political than not allowing them to perform. Voting to piss protesters off is no less political than those protesting. Not claiming anyone should do one thing or the other, that’s individual opinion, but you should have the self awareness to know you’re being just as “all political” by wanting the status quo or “business as usual” in your post as those you’re decrying.

Sounds like they’re out all together to me and they’ll be no recording

It just looks like clouds unless you’re in the arctic north but shows up on your phone camera in a way it doesnt to the naked eye. I’m sure it’s genuinely impressive if you see the real thing but the couple of times I’ve seen it I can barely make it out until I point my phone camera at it

I don’t think it’s happening anytime soon but I could easily see it in reality in 15-20 years time. The nation state as a concept is on pretty limited legs imo and dunno if it’ll see out this century. Easy to see sport being completely supranational by the 2nd half of the century

Cameron sold the country out for a minor in-party dispute because he’d got cocky after the Scotland and AV referendums. Watch the Cameron Years documentary on BBC - Clegg and Osborne both tried to talk him out of it but Cameron stubbornly went along with it anyway. It was his choice and he caused the country’s biggest self-inflicted geo-political shitshow since at least the Suez Crisis if not before. No way he should be considered one of the “better” PMs of this generation of Tory rule. He absolutely belongs alongside Liz Truss, Anthony Eden and Neville Chamberlain as history’s worst ever PMs.

Sincerely hope you’re wrong

Well in many ways it doesn’t make sense to release their policy plans in advance so the Tories can attack them before the election is called so I get the fence sitting to an extent. Starmer was a strong remainer and campaigned for a 2nd referendum so he’s definitely pro-EU, although he seems too scared to admit it now he’ll almost certainly try and steer the uk back to the eu. Even if it’s just to allow long term residents who are EU citizens the vote in general elections and referendums the same way commonwealth citizens who are long-term residents have, that’s one thing I think most people expect to be on the Labour manifesto. Most non-British citizens who have the vote overwhelmingly vote Labour so it also could help keep them in power for a generation if they suddenly have potentially millions of extra voters who overwhelmingly vote Labour. I expect it makes a future referendum on rejoining the eu/single market in 2029 election a long term strategy I also don’t find him an inspiring pick but this is the most right wing government probably any of us have even had in our lifetimes even over Thatcher and it’s clearly got the point where most of the country want to kick it to the curb.

In reference to this especially. Sadly there are many out there who have the same line of thinking.

No surprise that Tory MPs already saying the answer to this is to shift even further to the right. It's funny, back in the 80s people used to mock the left in the UK and saying they always thought the answer was to shift further to the left and the "real communism has never been tried" was a much mocked reapeated phrase. Nowadays it feels like exactly the same thing is happening to the right in the UK. "This isn't real Brexit, they screwed it up in how they enacted it" has become to the 2020s what "real communism hasn't been tried" was to the 1980s when the only way it could be harder is to stick a hard border in Ireland and essentially guarantee Irish reunification and this constant answer to get more and more right wing as the answer to overwhelming defeat. I sincerely hope the right will eat itself but the clear different is they have the newspaper press on their side in the way the left never have had.

Yeah there’s zero chance the LibDems would work with this current Tory party, Lib Dems have always been the most pro-EU and pro-immigration and supra-nationalism major party and far more aligned to Starmer’s New Labour style party than the post-Cameron Tories who are becoming increasingly nationalist, anti-immigration and anti-internationalist. Starmer is ultimately trying to portray Labour as far more of a free market party and more right wing economically than under Milliband or Corbyn so it will make them compatible enough for the LibDems I think. It’s irrelevant though. It’s a Labour majority at the GE for sure.

Cameron would still be shit scared of them and request a yes-no referendum on whether or not we should abolish courts defending human rights and abolish all vaccines to try and placate them and "settle" a minor division in his party tbf.

Sadly, all I think the Tories will take from this is the depressing thought that they think they haven’t been right wing or anti-immigrant enough and need to be more so at the ge

Even Mahrez got jeered, I think they all will. I know football is naturally tribal but it always feels like there’s more menace to it than pantomime booing. Never sat comfortably with me.

Who won?

Honestly if this was done now I’d change my vote and vote Vardy as he’s dragged us over the line. This is why it shouldn’t be done til the end of the season.

Wish I could change my vote for player of the season. Vardy deserves it.

Now the job is done got to give him the last 10 minutes at Blackburn at least so he can have a proper goodbye from the crowd.

I think that’s 190 LCFC goals for Vardy now

It also makes Vardy officially our most successful ever player right? As he’ll have 1 Championship title over Kasper, Wes and now Albrighton too.

It’s always been that way though. The media have always managed to repeat the “it’s middle class yuppies protesting” over and over again until people start using it as an out and turning their noses up at the protest and it works time and time again. Someone’s class shouldn’t matter when the protests are against so many unnecessarily dying. It’s easier not to protest and scoff at the protesters and I get that to an extent though, it’s impossible and can be overwhelming to think about these things all the time