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Reply | Sheehan - The Man For All Seasons ?
at 13:11 30 Mar 2025
He's as inconsistent as his team at the moment. Started very well, then made some questionable, and in the case of the Burnley game, downright bonkers decisions. Yesterday you'd have to say he got most of the major calls right, although there's no way on Earth that anyone should be starting Cullen up top on his own.
I'd still prefer someone with more of a track record/experience behind him, but he's got plenty of games left to make his case. |
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Reply | 🔴 Likely candidates for the Swans job
at 11:09 30 Mar 2025
I can't agree that him being the "cheap option" will be that much of a factor. With one exception (Cooper), we've paid compensation to other clubs for every permanent manager we've appointed since Carvalhal.
Clearly we've been willing to spend if they think the preferred candidate is the right one. Problem is they haven't been. Sheehan will get the job permanently if they think it's the right call. If they don't, he won't. |
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Reply | Justin Welby
at 22:39 29 Mar 2025
Welby is an absolute tw*t. A virtue signalling, "won't anyone please think about the victims of the day" type who has clearly fallen short when dealing with the usual kind of abuse that goes hand in hand with organised religion. |
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Reply | Capital Gains Tax Revenues Down
at 21:46 29 Mar 2025
The maddest thing about this is that people are surprised.
For decades the evidence has existed to demonstrate that punitive tax rates are counter productive. Unless you're a complete moron (and in fairness, most Socialists are), it's irrefutable at this point.
Encourage and allow people to keep more of their own money, and they will usually decide to pay sensible tax rates. There will be the odd outlier of course, but most will decide that it's not worth the hassle. |
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Reply | Vipotnik hits the ball very hard
at 21:42 29 Mar 2025
It's been quite heartening to see people begin to realise that Vipotnik was on a hiding to nothing with Williams in charge.
We've been here with several strikers in the past of course, and given that history you'd think more people would hesitate for a bit before laying into the player, but it's a start.
Given the service and players around him I reckon there's a 20+ goal player in Vipotnik. |
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Reply | All this Budget Speculation
at 11:52 23 Mar 2025
And all this doesn't even cover their putting public services into penury for decades with their extortionate, expensive "investment" via PFI. Conning the gullible into believing that they were improving public services, when all they were doing was shopping in Brighthouse. |
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Reply | Council Tax
at 08:27 22 Mar 2025
"Stopped a number of strikes" = Appeased their paymasters in the unions at huge expense. Unions that of course loved the idea of strikes in the run up to an election.
"Banned no fault evictions" - Idiotic move that will continue to reduce the availability of rented housing.
"Overseen interest rate cuts" - BOE MPC is independent from Government control.
"Raised the minimum wage" - It goes up every year no matter who is in Govt.
"Launched planning reform" - Already well down on their housebuilding targets, a target that seemed to have been plucked from the air in the first place as it was utterly unachievable.
So, of these things that they've "achieved", very few actually are. Offset against the staggering incompetence displayed everywhere else after 14 years of preparing for Government, it doesn't seem a lot. |
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Reply | Dangers of sentiment
at 10:44 21 Mar 2025
Can we (the Royal we, as in everyone else on this board tired of your hypocrisy) assume that you'll never pass comment on our attendances again as you couldn't be bothered to drive 30 minutes yourself? |
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Reply | Dangers of sentiment
at 10:17 21 Mar 2025
I think we can all safely assume that the answer to the question is "No". |
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Reply | Dangers of sentiment
at 10:00 21 Mar 2025
You could just answer the question and then I'll stop asking.
Surely a gentleman as critical of our dwindling crowds as you are ventured to one of your closest games of the season? |
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Reply | All this Budget Speculation
at 09:46 21 Mar 2025
You would say that because you, along with others who think like you, lack the cognitive capacity to grasp that the taxes paid by those people that you're saying "Good Riddance" to then have to be paid by someone else. |
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Reply | Dangers of sentiment
at 09:06 21 Mar 2025
The amount of people who have swallowed wholesale that story about players wages is beyond belief.
At one point no doubt Naughton would have been on £20k a week. Maybe more. He was a big money signing in the Premier League. Now? As you say, he's on a quarter of that. Tops.
£5k a week for a supremely fit and professional player who can, at a push, cover three positions? I'd call that a bargain. Perchy's had a bee in his bonnet about him since the day he joined though. [Post edited 21 Mar 9:07]
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Reply | All this Budget Speculation
at 09:04 21 Mar 2025
There's no doubt whatsoever that the budget is a prime reason why. Capital flight is already well underway, and companies are recruiting less as a result of the other tax grabs included.
Some people will never, ever understand that raising taxes and expenses on business is always ultimately self defeating, but it is what Labour always do. Millions of people will still be suffering from Gordon Brown's pension fund tax raids (a large amount of today's problems have their roots in New Labour). |
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Reply | All this Budget Speculation
at 21:33 19 Mar 2025
All of which underlines the points made previously.
The Government is spending far more than it is taking in. That is a situation that simply cannot continue, as much as some people seem to think otherwise.
You can try to increase taxation, but as has become increasingly obvious to all but the most twp, there's only so far you can squeeze high earners. They will just move elsewhere and tax take will fall. The best level of tax is one that people are happy to pay.
All Goverment departments need to be ruthlessly assessed for efficiency. There are too many people still sitting at home watching Daytime TV when they should be in the office working. |
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Reply | All this Budget Speculation
at 11:27 19 Mar 2025
The tax take from the 27m (plus corporate and business taxation) is propping up everything else though.
An NHS nurse may provide a brilliant service, but if they receive £40k a year in salary and pay £5k back in tax and NI, the Treasury is still £35k down on the deal. Money that has to come from somewhere.
There are not enough net taxpayers and too many net tax receivers. If that doesn't change the country will slowly go bankrupt. [Post edited 19 Mar 12:12]
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Reply | All this Budget Speculation
at 10:59 19 Mar 2025
Anyone who receives their sole income from the government is a tax recycler, not a tax payer. |
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Reply | All this Budget Speculation
at 08:14 19 Mar 2025
I read somewhere that there are 27 million private sector workers in the UK. So that 27 million people are supporting the other 41 million. |
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