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Tell you what. Forest don't have much wiggle room!

Financial services' tax receipts make 12% of total tax revenue in the UK so they're already a major source of income for the government. It's an increasingly competitive world and if you hammer banks with taxes they'll simply move elsewhere and with them goes the exisiting tax base. London is already suffering from record low numbers of IPOs and putting extra taxes on the industry is only going to have a negative effect on the tax take. It's like Labour's plan to end non-dom status that would cure everything. They announced it and suddenly 10,000 millionaires left the country. Unfortunately there isn't a simple answer to all our ills.

They were hoping for a way to lay off 25% of the workforce and replace them with AI

From Kieran Maguire. Villa are fucked.

Or Israel. Which is really code for 'don't let anyone left wing into the country'

My issue with the winter fuel payments was the majority of 'noise' I was hearing was from Tory-voting cunts of pensionable age who were busy dipping into their inordinate wealth buying their groceries from Waitrose and spending vast amounts of their time sitting in expensive coffee shops. These arseholes absolutely don't need it. My stepmother was one of them and she's learned the hard way not to bring that discussion to my doorstep.

If we keep voting for him as he moves further right, he never has to fight for our votes/appeal to us. We are simply taken for granted because we're living in fear of the 'something worse'.

He’d have literally fuck all to lose. Tax the merchant banks on every transaction they make and say it’s to fund the NHS instead of giving the perception (and ammunition to your opposition) that you’re targeting pensioners. It would be the right wing press Starmer would’ve had to have dealt with but not really anyone else (Badenoch is an irrelevance) he may have also been able to snare Farage on his CoL past..the entire institution and concept of the CoL is bent as fuck, expose that like the Covid PPE procurement scandal and you look like you're on the side of punters and not giving your implicit consent to world wide white collar crime. Vested interests would have gone through the roof exposing themselves further.

Eddie Howe making more demands, I’m sure

Quit before he was fired, the duck-lipped useless cunt.

What surprises me about the stat is that Forest are so low down on the sprints. Their whole counter-attacking ethos was based on Hudson-Odoi, Gibbs-White and predominately, Elanga sprinting like fuck. You're right to call out that Leicester did it with better players but there seems to be a general view (especially from the Sky Sports lot) that low possession is a bad thing. Surely winning games where your players aren't having to put in the miles / sprint continuously is a good thing? Certainly reduces the injury risk.

Is it fair to see whatever political party is in, they're scared to go 'there' with taxing the rich?

Although if you make it a prediction we’re safe.

fair point

I can completely agree with all this but cutting the WFA was bad politics when you’ve gone nowhere near the tax haven that is the City of London. Standing up to the bully boys in the media over something like that would’ve been better than having Nigel Farage stealing your policies and running your government less than a year after taking office..tbh if a group emerge that can persuade Burnham to stand at the next by election then Starmer is toast. That’s highly unlikely even if Burnham was willing so hopefully Starmer at best may be able to form a government with the Lib Dems in 2029. I can’t think of a single Labour cabinet member who could replace him, that’s the only thing keeping him there for the duration.

Hope the BBC hasn't made the mistake of signing him for the new look MOTD.

I saw a clip of (I think) Max and Paddy they go into a muslim shop with a pig. The comments were 'Imagine that now, all the woke lot would be up in arms' etc. Just comments from Gammons saying poor it is we can't have stuff like this on TV now. I mean, how would they feel if Muslims did a 'comedy show' showing them slaughtering an old man who stormed the beaches at Normandy for the 'lols'

It’s prawn balls and Canadian Clubs all round in the @Howmanheyman household tonight!! 😀

Absolutley smashing. But man Gazza.