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In what context? I'm not doubting you here btw, I'm just interested in how you would do it. I honestly can't think of a time when I've heard anyone say "I'm off to see united today" or something like that. I suppose I could envisage someone saying "for fucks sake united come on" or something like that I suppose. I certainly would never dream of saying that I supported united if someone asked me. And not just because I would expect them to assume I meant Manchester. Newcastle would be the name that always immediately came to mind.

i don't feel particularly scared myself. like i said i'm a secular jew so i can walk around and people presume i'm just a white bloke. but it's clear lots jewish people who live in central london are scared to be "visibly jewish" and don't feel safe around these rallies, which is really what falter was trying to highlight. i don't think calling for the commissioner's job reflects well on him, but the choice of language by the officer was pretty appalling, and he was right to share it, however contrived the set up might have been. my mother is worrying herself sick with this stuff. her grandparents fled to israel (mandate palestine at the time) from ukraine during the pogroms. she keeps saying she's waiting for the cossacks to come and get her. i told her not to worry - i doubt they'd make it to her quiet corner of County Durham.

It's also nicely distracted from the discovery of mass graves at hospitals in Gaza.

That’s debatable…a Berlingo has windows all the way round and seats front and back. It could however be adapted quickly and simply into a vital transport link for an amount of two “live” beehives at a time every August; to take them from their usual valley location up to the high hills where they feasted on the heather blossom of late summer producing beautifully pungent heather honey 😊

My current “drive it to work, drive it back” is one of these French pieces of shite. It does 0-50 in about half an hour, the Frogs couldn’t be arsed doing a proper right-hand drive conversion so the passenger side windscreen clears first in cold weather, then about a week later the drivers side follows suite. It does have a spin cycle and low temp wash cycle, though. It’s that basic that there’s not really much to go wrong.

It was contrived, but he didn't present it this way. And he facilitated a shit storm cluminating in Braverman requesting that Mark Rowley is sacked - again. The policeman he interacted with did nothing wrong in my view, but he also landed him in the shit. There are unpleasent elements in every protest. The police have a balance in allowing freedom of protest and keeping the peace. I don't think he helped. Also, for your own sake, I'd avoid reading social media on stuff like this, its just an amplifier for bigots on all sides. Just use common sense, avoid potential dangerous situation where you can, rather than try to score political points against the police.

Are we tekkin t'Berlingurrrrr?

A Berlingo is a van, mate.

I bet she fucking HATES cyclists.

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow is a great read

Good mates with Elliot Anderson. LADS

just finished jarvis cocker's memoir, good pop, bad pop, which was an enjoyable enough easy read. also just read tunnel 29, a harrowing story about people in west berlin building tunnels under the wall to free people from the brutal regime in the east. it's a fascinating story, based on true events, which shone a light on a terrifying piece of history i wasn't familiar with. other books i've enjoyed this year include yellowface and tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow

"My ambition is to be at the very top of football, and I couldn't do that where I was." Gonna go down like a shit sarnie with Everton fans.

As if Liverpool are gonna lose out on their top two managerial targets to Bayer Leverkausen and West Ham.

Small boats are relatively new. Prior to this people were smuggled on lorries etc but this has now been effectively stopped, hence people taking more desperate measures. It's an issue, but 97% of immigration is legal and directly under our control, so not much of an issue really. I guess if you live in Kent it probably is a real concern though.

I did too, until they tried to link what he did to the mayoral elections - like Falter is some kind of pawn for the right, to undermine Kahn, for the likes of Suella Braverman to exploit. Antisemitism isn't a right-left issue, or at least it shouldn't be. It should be treated just as racism or islamophobia is, and yet it feels to a lot of Jewish people like it isn't held to such a high standard, particularly among the progressive left. All you have to do is look at the comments on Twitter or in the YouTube videos, where I've lost count of the amount of times I've seen people call Falter out for being a typical Jew, always playing the victim. I mean, ffs! Or to look at some of the things that have been chanted in the marches, or the terrorist flags, or antisemitic signs on display - without any police intervention or threat of arrest - to see why jewish people are anxious to make this point. I would like to attend these marches to call for a ceasefire too, but I doubt many people there would appreciate it if I chanted for the release of the hostages at the same time. I'd probably get shouted down as "zionist scum". The situation Falter presented was massively contrived. It's obvious that he was out to make a point when he turned up with his camera and bodyguards. I think he still made his point, whatever you think about his intentions. Depressingly, our few allies at the moment are generally appalling people that you wouldn't want to be associated with. I can't tell you how miserable that it is, as a progressive lefty myself, that it's only right wing nutters or nationalists who seem to have our back.

I just use our nick name, Poocamel.

I think up till the early 90s if you walked into a pub in Newcastle and talked about United most people would think Newcastle. Fairly sure that’s not the case now

Possible ignorance here, but before the Tories started kicking off about this particular issue I assume it was already a thing. Like it didn't just start happening suddenly once the immediate devastation of Brexit was complete. So before Rwanda and so on, what were we doing about it? And is it actually an issue, or just a more Tory nonsense?

At the match I'd use it at times, not just the United chant.

Parody account and quite funny, but what I want to know is - who the fuck is Arthur Wait? This lad apparently, definitely nothing dodgy about him, sure he's never been involved in any construction of concrete motorway supports or anything like that. Wonder if Steve Wraith knew him?

If you want to stop the boats starting with the smuggling gangs is the right thing to do I really don’t think the tories want to stop them… suggesting that Labour would be worse on this issue is all they’ve got so sorting the issue isn’t in their interests

He nails it with the people thinking he's a typical scouser. What a lad!

Listening to him speak, if we could get a few more like him at the club, we'd really be going places. He's nothing like the impression I had of him when he was at Everton.