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Reply | Euros Match Fred
at 21:33 21 Jun 2024
VAR works really well until the English refs get involved. |
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Reply | Serbia 🇷🇸 v England 🏴 Match Thread
at 10:31 17 Jun 2024
Don't like GS at all, but this was like a typical England performance in tournaments against half decent teams for as long as I remember.
Start with all guns blazing and get an early goal, start to run out of steam and the opposition gradually takes control of the game as it goes on. I think it's a symptom of the way English players play more than anything. They seem to lack the ability to control the game over 90 minutes. |
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Reply | General Election Thread
at 08:55 16 Jun 2024
Are you asking why people who don't believe in man made climate change don't want to do anything about it?
What baffles me is that people who do believe in it also seem to like the idea of a load of immigration from low carbon countries in the third world to the West to prevent population decline.
Surely they'd be welcoming a lower population here as it would naturally reduce carbon emissions, but nope they want the complete opposite for some reason. |
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Reply | General Election Thread
at 08:02 16 Jun 2024
Climate scientists don't do themselves any favours with reports like this year that we're in the middle of the hottest spring of all time in the UK, when it's clearly not.
I don't know why anyone still believes any of it after they were caught fiddling the figures to hide a fall in temperatures years ago. |
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Reply | General Election Thread
at 08:13 15 Jun 2024
The figures are in the link in my comment.
I don't think as many migrants work in the things you list, as if they did then the millions already here would have filled those jobs and yet we still have an endless shortage of workers. |
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Reply | General Election Thread
at 10:13 14 Jun 2024
I don't think reducing immigration would cause wages to suddenly rise to £60 an hour, would be a slow increase in wages over time and a slow increase in prices to match. Hopefully as wages increase more people will want to work and things will even out.
Any direction from here is going to be difficult, I don't think that continuing to increase the population of the country by 750k+ a year (over double the population of Nottingham) is sustainable. |
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Reply | General Election Thread
at 09:26 14 Jun 2024
What you're describing sounds a bit like Switzerland, everything there is extortionately expensive in comparison to here. I know someone who tried to get a cleaner and the cheapest was over £60 an hour so they decided not to bother. When I went there over a decade ago a small bag of potatoes from the supermarket cost £6 .
And yet despite that their quality of life is much better. They don't have a large proportion of the country working long hours to spend all their money living in a room in a crappy HMO. |
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Reply | General Election Thread
at 09:13 14 Jun 2024
If no one wants to do jobs because they are so terrible and low paid then without immigration the employers would have to offer better wages and conditions until they can attract employees. It's what used to happen in the past and why people with unskilled jobs could still afford a house and family and have half decent lives.
The other problem with using immigration to gloss over the problem is that they don't like poor conditions much either (why should they?) and once settled here will often quit for a better job and then we suddenly need a load more immigration to fill the posts the last lot have left. Have you noticed despite record numbers arriving every year employers are still complaining about lack of workers? It's basically a pyramid scheme at this point. |
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Reply | General Election Thread
at 07:10 14 Jun 2024
Immigration works fine if you only give out visas for high paying work. The government seems to have other ideas, giving them out like confetti for low skilled workers and that's if they are working at all.
Immigration cost the country £15bn from 1995-2011 I dread to think of what it is costing now after the massive influx of the last few years:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-25880373 |
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Reply | General Election Thread
at 17:37 12 Jun 2024
Well yeah that's because wages are so lousy in the UK.
£50k now is worth what £27k was worth in 2000 with official inflation figures and probably much less in reality. You'd struggle to buy a studio apartment in London for that, I don't think it's a massive salary ready to be taxed to death. |
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Reply | General Election Thread
at 13:33 12 Jun 2024
Sunak with his finger on the pulse as usual with his new tax breaks for landlords idea.
The Greens close behind with the idea of upping taxes even more on the ludicrously ultra wealthy on £50k and above. |
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Reply | General Election Thread
at 07:39 11 Jun 2024
I don't get what is wrong with going on TV or doing talks for money, it's basically working isn't it? Pretty much every major politician does that stuff, even Theresa May has managed to make millions giving talks and they must be incredibly dull. Or if they're not doing that they get parachuted into a major corporation after office like Nick Clegg as head of global affairs at facebook.
"There is also a reason he cosies up to the very wealthy big donors. They help him get his (their!) message out, yes, but they also prop him up financially."
Yeah that's pretty much how politics works, every party does this I thought this was common knowledge. |
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Reply | General Election Thread
at 17:32 10 Jun 2024
Fair enough, just I noticed the same things repeated almost word for word about Boris when he was the current pantomime villain.
Not sure you can throw greed at him though, the best way of getting money and power is to go into an established party that gets into government and then make out like bandits. Not only is Tony Blair a multi-millionaire, but his son is as well now. There's plenty of Tories who did very well out of the covid hysteria too. Despite this it's only non-establishment politicians that get the grifter tag for some reason. |
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Reply | General Election Thread
at 15:56 10 Jun 2024
Isn't this the same old stuff that is thrown at anyone genuinely right wing?
"Yes he might have a point sometimes, but BOO he's a bad person don't listen to him!".
There's got to be a better argument in politics than that surely? After Farage has gone it will be the exact same hysteria about the next right wing political figure.
I suppose when I asked whether people still fall for those ludicrous hit pieces like the one Bazza linked earlier and the answer sadly appears to be yes. |
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Reply | Alan Hansen seriously ill
at 12:12 10 Jun 2024
Enjoyed him as a pundit as well. I read he gave up in the end as he got too nervous, I always thought he was the calmest one on there. |
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Reply | General Election Thread
at 11:28 10 Jun 2024
So a tiny media outlet with little to no assets that if you successfully sued for £300k would just go bankrupt and appear the next day with a different name repeating similar stuff on twitter. There's not really any point.
I think these mock outrage hit pieces are losing their effectiveness after the 1000th time they've been used on someone. Do people still fall for this stuff?
To be honest I never quite grasped what was so bad about that "infamous poster" from the EU campaign. I suppose as it was pointing out what was happening therefore it was racist. |
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Reply | General Election Thread
at 10:38 10 Jun 2024
Sue who though? If you sued everyone who talks crap on twitter you'd probably have about 1000 court cases a week.
Notice that on the same twitter thread are claims it is a photo of him in the NF with Nick Griffin when it wasn't. Even if you were to win all these court cases they are very expensive and time consuming and you'd have to prove material damages to get costs awarded which is almost impossible, so it would end up costing you a fortune anyway.
Even on this thread there were multiple people on here who believed that he paid his own staffer to chuck milkshake over him as well. Best just to ignore these sorts of people rather than get bogged down in legal action. |
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Reply | General Election Thread
at 10:04 10 Jun 2024
Lolz loving the hit pieces that are cropping up. Where is that from? Seems like the type of thing Channel 4 would do.
Would like to hear the explanation of how an alleged private letter from a teacher about a 14 year old is suddenly public domain. Do they have similar files on all of us ready to reveal if we go into politics with the "wrong views" one wonders.
Or more likely they just made it up. |
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Reply | Single file Queuing.. in pubs!
at 09:35 9 Jun 2024
One of my mates used to work in the student union bar and used to make sure he'd serve the quiet ugly blokes first and the hot women and loud posh rugby types last "see how they fcking like it for once". |
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