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Tynemouth MP, he plagued us on behalf of his less well off constituents.

The willows club was a well to do key club once upon a time, my dad was flapping someone would black ball him because there was always one funny cunt. Changed when we were started getting in. The Scrogg was always a hole tbf.

I've genuinely never heard anyone have anything good to say about Neville Trotter mind. He did absolutely fuck all of note in his protracted time as an MP other than hold back good people like Paddy Cosgrove imo. Thankfully the last tory MP ever to win in Tyne and Wear I believe.

They may have point though after all it’s a piss poor league going by all the shite teams we beat last season 🤣

If there's no one to vote for who represents what you want, why vote? Chicken and egg I suppose. Additionally, insufficient work is done to prepare young people for the realities of adult life, so they only start taking politics seriously once they've realised how fucked they are. Either way though, I remember Brexit enough to blame older people for a lot of the shit we're in, my own grandparents included. I think there'd be more sympathy with the nuance if the same was applied the other way around - instead we have had to endure decades of being called feckless and worthless. It sucks, but I honestly have more anger for the boomers than I do for any other grouping of society. That's not personal btw, and I would never apply it indiscriminately, but as a group - the numbers over time justify the view. A generation who don't know how good they had it compared to those that came after, and then preached to the rest of us about how hopeless we all were that we couldn't achieve the same things they did. Again, I know that's not you.

After Sunderland do it next season, EVERYONE is going to want to get relegated.

Even the name man.

https://www.readytogo.net/smb/threads/jealousy-from-other-clubs-about-safc-being-trendy-now.1659357/ “Jealousy from other clubs about safe being trendy now” is worth a read

I‘m actually really not arsed about the transfer window. I started supporting Newcastle about 30 years ago and for the most part it was worrying about the next season and if things were going to be worse. Last season was the most amazing experience for me as a football fan taking in mind I celebrated two world cups and one European Championship with Germany (I was not really into 1980). I am pretty sure something will happen until the end of August. We might miss some targets but will end up with other players Eddie will make to be great. Instead of worrying about signing or missing out of some players I do rather wait on who we will play next season and what opportunities might arise to get a ticket. I am more pissed off with some random foreign fans getting to take part in adverts considering the pain I suffered for three decades. All will be well. Or not. I will still die having seen Newcastle lifting a cup. I am happy, I enjoy supporting Newcastle. Something that was difficult for quite a long time.

Politicians in slanting policy towards those who actually vote shocker.

Words cannot define this cunt And he is a fucking 'staff member' just about sums these lot up

But they’re the trendiest club in the Premier League so it will be an instant classic.

It sounds as if he doesn't intend to spearhead it and that it's the brainchild of several other MPs as much as him. The left wing Reform, I suppose.

Yeah we did, average salary in 1980 was £8K my Mrs worked evenings after having to give up her day job when she had the kids. No paternity/maternity leave, no childcare, no central heating in a house I lived in until I was 14, and no central heating for our first 5 years married. When I was really young we did have two bogs though, one of those was outside mind, I only wiped my boomer arse on £50 notes on the inside one though. No generation can be blamed for the years they live through, that's the thing that's just luck. Who's fault is it house prices rocketted ? It's no member of the general publics fault housing has shot up, it's the fault of successive governments doing nothing about housing stock. The area of land taken up in this country by housing (exc. Gardens) is less than the land taken up by golf courses. Don't tar everyone with your mothers brush.

I never went in there back when, very, very rarely, last time I was in was a couple of years ago for a wake for an old mate's Mam. Still rough but they did still have McEwan's best scotch on draught which was a real throwback and I bought a couple of pints of it.

It's a shame it'll have his name associated with it. I know he has a big and very loyal following on the left, but nobody outside of that specific group has any time for the bloke and he's regarded as a bit of a joke.

Is that the Reform UK Ltd lad?

I sat in a cafe there this morning and there was a table full of barely alive 80 somethings being patronised into being publicly racist by an enormous jowly loud mouthed Essex cunt who was maybe in his early 70s .. probably been a Tory since he was eating rusks but is now undoubtedly the local Reform UK LTD organiser. He said he'd been at uni in Edinburgh and he could understand the locals there but not those further west which is because he loudly divulged that he lived n fucking Morningside which is like living in fucking Belgravia 😑 They were all complaining about being overrun with foreigners, I was there all morning, drove into cosmopolitan Bournemouth this afternoon and it was only then I saw someone who wasn't whiter than a fuckin polar bear .. there is no doubt that some areas of the UK are experiencing huge problems due to immigration. Dorset isn't one of them and never fuckin will be... I remember your visit to rural Dorset, still a fairly magical place as can be seen in the pic and although not tourist free it's not anywhere near like Devon & Cornwall . I advised you to visit the next valley to the Piddle to observe this magnificent edifice:

And in news which I guarantee is going to annoy absolutely everyone... Corbyn is exploring setting up a new left wing party. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jul/03/jeremy-corbyn-hints-at-launch-of-new-party-as-leftwing-alternative-to-labour

Young people don't vote because they're disillusioned with democracy and don't believe any of the options will do anything to improve their lives. This is because the options cater to older people rather than the young. Vicious circle. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/11/younger-people-more-relaxed-alternatives-democracy-survey

Point one - who the fuck other than some old people read (and thus are infuenced by) the fucking press. Point two - already looked at the stats earlier today and "checks notes" young'uns don't vote. Less than half of them per BBC.

I was never, still aren't tbh politicaly motivated (or particularly interested) I have as I got older voted for whoever would beat the Tory, which usually meant Labour. I'd vote green if we had PR. I did once vote for Neville Trotter (possibly 79, my first election or maybe the next one) because I came across him through work and he was a first rate local MP who got regularly involved for his constituents and given my line of work at the time, they were "anything but" what you could call core Tory voters. Voting for your local MP used to be a thing, none of this US-like vote for who'll be PM shite. I probably only became semi interested with politics due to my views on brexit and the shitshow that followed. If it's any consolation to Gloom I've become way more lefty as I got older, that said, I possibly haven't and it's like the right has gone so far right my position has gone left by default.

You’d think she’d have learned her lesson after the first train

Was driving past the Scrogg recently, which is now a social club and not a pub I think. My laddie was playing v Walker Central. I’ve been in the Scrogg years ago when my grandad who lived near there was still alive. It was canny rough then but now the fortifications added give it the appearance of a police station near the Falls Road