Rayvin

He's a human being whether we like it or not, also a cunt, and whether I call him Boris or Johnson changes none of those things. I do try fwiw but I'm over apologising for forgetting like I'm a hen pecked husband who forgot to put the seat down ffs You lot can have at it, I'm going to ignore the comments in future. Johnson is a cunt, and he has been one in my mind for his entire political career irrespective of who called him what. I suspect everyone else on here has the same view. If you found him more relatable when he was being called Boris, that's on you tbh.

So, this may be common knowledge for all I know - I wasn't aware of it but there's plenty of people on here more knowledgeable on the region than me - I was told earlier today by my old man that the animosity between Sunderland and Newcastle (or at least the overenthusiasm for it on wearside) stems back to the 1700s and the English civil war. Apparently Newcastle was a royalist city, and Sunderland threw in with Cromwell and, by association, the Scots. When the Royal family was restored or however that went, Newcastle was rewarded for its loyalty by being given mining contracts that were otherwise with Sunderland. A grudge that the Sunderland residents apparently have generationally hung on to without necessarily being aware of it. And from that point they've been economically behind us. It's interesting because the English civil war was a great waste of everyone's time that Sunderland seems to have wholeheartedly embraced following a populist uprising, which they 'won' and then disproportionately suffered for.. which, idk, sounds kinda familiar to some other great event that perhaps occurred more recently...?

I hadn't realised he wasn't the first tbh so yes, fair comment on that.

What exactly is he going to do if he finds out it was Number 10?

Christ man, I don't know who we think on here is going to read my post and start thinking that he's somehow not the very obvious bastard that he has proven himself to be over and over again just because I called him by his media name. We get worked up about weird shit on here, genuinely.

The pictures and videos of Boris walking through Kiev, mind... I reckon he's gotten an approval boost in the post there. Dare I say it, even I respect that. As much as it will be for his polling, it's still actually braver than most leaders.

She is arguing that we shouldn't send weapons for Ukraine to defend itself against tyranny, and should instead leave it to be conquered. And that at this point, we can agree peace with Putin. The alternative is what we are doing, which is to give Ukraine the ability to defend itself so that when the eventual peace discussions occur, there is something left of their country outside of the Kremlin's fascism.

Ridiculous view. Should we have sat down with Hitler? The only possible outcome of her view here is that Ukraine ceases to be an independent state. Who the fuck is she to claim that this is an acceptable cost - which is what she's effectively saying.

Just thinking as well, assuming it's inconsequential to us, would we prefer to lose to Burnley on final day of the season if it relegated Everton? Man I can see that one being notorious tbh

I think Watford are done unless they win today. They're probably done anyway, but definitely unless they beat Leeds.

We are 7 points up on where I thought we would be across the same games. I had us getting 15 points total by end of season and we've got 13 already from that stage. So we're definitely going to exceed that, I can't see us only getting 2 more points. I'll dig it up later but my head is swimming a bit tbh

I may have had a few last night but I stand by that post We are safe despite everything. And we are gonna fucking win something in our lifetimes, I am sure of it. And they will all bitch and moan and complain, and we will magnanimously inform them that they are, to a man, cunts.

We are fucking safe. It's over man. Just fucking done. "Oh but no club has ever survived after failing to win 13 games" "Oh but Saudi Arabia" "Oh but Steve Bruce was actually doing a good job with a championship team" "Oh but we won't sell you players to protect our cartel" FUCK OFF you southern fucking bastard journalists, and you fucking Northern fucking mackem bastard whatevers, and you fucking variably placed top 6 cartel motherfucker clubs that are piss scared of a resurgent Newcastle. I hope you all fucking choke on it! Fucking safe. Done. Fuck off the lot of you.

Just reading Marina Hyde's article on the Sunak affair - I'm still not overly excited by it I'm afraid, but one thing she did raise that got me pretty fucking annoyed ws this section: Hard to pick a low point, but I’ll go with the time he turned down the request from the hugely respected educational recovery tsar Kevan Collins for £15bn in pandemic catch-up funding for children. Sunak would only fork out £1.4bn, which isn’t even twice what he spent buying people free burgers with “eat out to help out”. Collins resigned in despair. It emerged that an internal presentation had shown Sunak and others in Downing Street how failure to invest £15bn now in this failed generation of children would result in the state paying upwards of £160bn down the line in welfare and criminal justice. And still Sunak said no, presumably on the basis that that would all be someone else’s problem in the future. The Tories are an absolute disgrace. It's unconscionable. It's a total lack of interest in the future of our nation, short termism and more than anything a callous disregard for the lives of the people who our later £160bn will be paid to 'deal with' in some form.

Did that noise about pre-existing business relationships around sponsorship ever get sorted out?

Also a decent point. Like I say, carry on Let's hope it buries him. It won't, but we can dream.

This is it, honestly I do get it, but compared to the other stuff it feels very minor. I mean, what will happen? Nothing. His approval ratings go down I guess, that's good. Let's hope the public don't forget about it going into the next poll.

They have long since broken my spirit on that front, I should add. Brexit killed off any hope or aspirations I had for this country to be anything other than a shit heap.

I mean I think at this point it's so "par for the course" for this government and everyone associated with it that I'm struggling, other than it being a handy stick to beat Sunak with, to get very worked up about it.

So again, I'm just talking through my understanding of it in anticipation of discussion. I don't really understand why you've levelled that last question since you've dedicated the rest of your post to correcting my assumptions. If there is a double tax treaty in place then yes - that does change the picture. Then she is simply choosing to pay tax (or not) in India for what are presumably financial reasons, despite the fact she lives here. So yes, I understand the outrage better now. Carry on.

I just try to understand issues before flying off the handle. I think what I'm getting from this is that she may or may not pay tax in India on her earnings for this company - we don't know - but we feel that she should be paying them here instead because she technically lives here. And that this matter is made worse by the fact that Sunak is increasing taxes on everyone else. I'd find it a lot easier to pick up my pitchfork if we definitively knew she wasn't paying tax in India. As it is, as long as she's paying it somewhere, I'm still not quite getting how she's done anything wrong (other than that she clearly is domiciled here). So we're saying she should be double taxed, effectively (but also that she's probably not being taxed even once anyway because she'll be doing similar bullshit in India). My position on this then becomes that I don't think people should be double taxed, but that if she isn't paying tax in India either, we should kick off. If she is, then I just... I mean idk, the optics look bad for Sunak, we should absolutely kick off on that basis alone, but for me personally that would just be a political kicking off rather than a principle one. If India would insist on taking the tax revenues as well as the UK, then I fully see why she's done this. I would do this. Do we know if that's the case or not? This post is going to go down like a lead balloon, I can see it now

I'm kind of struggling with this one tbh. She's not paying tax in the UK but she is presumably paying it in India? For earnings made from an Indian company? What is everyone complaining about...

If anyone, Everton should be the ones primarily worried about losing last night. The only thing that seems certain at this stage is that Norwich are gone, probably Watford but you never know I guess. It's very much in our hands, we can absolutely pick up points as we move forward, no one should be getting worked up at this point man.

Aside from the Elton John bit, the guy who kicked all of this off with his original response isn't even responding to the main jibe Trippier makes. He's saying they're a shit fanbase who don't make anywhere near the noise that NUFC fans do. On recent evidence, he's right. Nothing to do with Sam Fender or Elton John. He's just saying their fans are crap. Interesting that this isn't the line they're challenging.

I absolutely loathe these views coming from the so called left. They're not left wingers, they're just mad at America.