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He 100% smokes Monster flavoured vapes.

Different shift patterns for different roles I think, I know a lad from my last job who's there in a different role to mine doing a different shift pattern. Apparently a few of them already there were after this job so hopefully they don't bear a grudge!

3 days a week? Get me in if it’s not shite

As I've mentioned before, I went on Keith Barratt"s plane to Kiev in 2003 which was in September and it was hilarious to see all the MLFs heading on holiday, scrambling to change their shit tops after clocking a few daft lads wandering around the airport.

It's obligatory for them to be louder in the presence of non NE people, exaggerate their accents, trying to come across as sewper pally and over friendly before informing the unfortunate passer by that they're '....from Sunderland' when the unfortunate passer by never asked them where they were from in the first place.

Aye, that's the weird thing. That Sunderland fans lay out their travelling outfit the night before a holiday and it's ALWAYS one of their shitty strips. And then they arrive and make a point of exploring the hotel and walking round the pool area in them, so everyone can mark their cards that the bamps have landed.

Isn't in obligatory though for Sunderland fans to travel in their shirts and then wear them every single day of their holiday in Benidorm?

Also, what's happening with Man City and Girona both being in the CL next season?

You're invited to join European competitions aren't you? I don't think there's an obligation to play in them.

It would make sense, especially as Chelsea are now only in the conference. Are they actually allowed to do that though? I.e. you’d think there’d be sanctions

Shewally not? A NE based Stoke fan with no axe to grind against either club seeing more MLF shirts than NUFC shirts at the airport? Although he hasn't mentioned it I'm sure there was no fevered discussions with Mags about how they could just walk about with them on and everybody just letting them as that would just be silly.

Agreed. She’s been a victim of being held up to different standards her whole career. And the scandal of the antisemitism in the party, and the need to deal with it has meant this is another example. I suspect that, given the stage of her career and how she’s been treated etc, she is being cantankerous and they would quite like her to retire. If they end up with c. 450 MPs they are going to have to deal with more dissenting voices though. If she wants to cause a big stink and basically be a Tory enabler after the last 14 years she can do one though.

We've heard this song before https://twitter.com/mufcscoop/status/1795572958687358998?s=61&t=dT18lkv_gtx3CedULmHiZg

Aye, it was during the period when they were being hypersensitive and trying to show that Starmer was zero tolerance, and they completely overreacted. Mind, you can guarantee that if he hadn't immediately acted, it would have been used as a stick to beat him with by both Tories and the press. Which kind of underlines that she should probably have put a bit more thought into what she was doing and considered possible consequences. Or she knew and she was just seeing if she could test boundaries - that's what I mean about whether she's actually more of an arse pain than we realise.

New FT model to play with.

What Renton said was true as well. She made a clumsy point which she apologised for but it wasn’t antisemitic imo. If I understood properly she meant people from the traveller community and Jewish people weren’t always immediately identified as such, in the way a black person is identifiable by the colour of their skin. Therefore the prejudice they face isn’t the same.

I don't know whether she's a bigger headache behind the scenes than any of us realise, because otherwise what you say makes perfect sense.

I don't know what their plan was if the election was in November. Presumably they always wanted to do this manoeuvre during a campaign (but handle it better) cos it would all be done and over with quickly. But if the plan was to make her wait another 5 or 6 months in limbo, that's a pretty appalling way to treat someone.

Also, they should have and probably still should just let her stand as a Labour candidate. What difference does it make? If they stop her they’ll have to answer questions about it for days.

Yeah and the BBC were all over it like a rash. So you can see why labour were being careful but they seem to have made a right fucking mess. Especially as the outcome of the investigation was known in December. The BBC going the whole fucking parliamentary legend and trailblazer thing about her as well, man. I don’t remember that attitude when she was in the shadow cabinet. In the same news bulletin they made a huge thing out of Rayner, despite them being completely exonerated. Saying it still hasn’t gone away. I do think Abbott has been treated quite shabbily in general here though.

Looks like Labour have handled the Abbott thing terribly. They'd come to an agreement with her to restore the whip and then she would announce that she was standing down and bow out gracefully. But some dipshit yesterday told the Times she was "barred from standing" and now it's all become very acrimonious. I think the terms of the agreement were pretty much that she wouldn't stand, but when you've taken all this time to engineer an outcome, got the outcome you wanted, and then still managed to fuck it up is pretty shit.

Also, its mad how many people don't know that Bumder schools are run as charities and are exempt from tax.

Its about time, but I still dont think Labour will follow through with it.

Loads of these schools can’t even operate as a viable business without the tax breaks, etc. Despite charging exorbitant fees. Little wonder that they turn out so many entitled cunts who think the rules don’t apply to them. Fuck the lot of them tbh. They’re a massive part of the mess the country is in.

It would be hilarious after ALL THE HARD WORK Erik has done and then Sir Jim single handedly gets them demoted to another competition.