Rayvin

I'm aware

We just have to hope that the need becomes clear. The tables are turning in the media at least, you can see it even at staunch Brexit cheerleaders like the Telegraph and the BBC.

The only thing the Tories ever manage to grow is inequality. For all that people went off on Corbyn for being ideological (rightly) the Tories are actually far more consistently ideological in their crazed pursuit of austerity. There is no economic justification for it at a time when we need growth. They won't run out of money, they can afford to raises taxes on corporations, but because that would mean that everything they stand for is shown up to be the nonsense that it is, we have to watch them double down on destroying what's left of this once proud nation.

More than enough though. I think it will continue to be a long game with Brexit though and even with my staunch opinions I'm ok with that as long as we're moving towards rejoining. People need time to understand that they really did vote to make us weaker, insignificant and poorer. Starmer's approach is to pretend that's not happening so that he can win in the short term, but the media is now starting to talk about it more honestly and that in turn will make it more possible for Labour to do so. As that happens, that 57% will become 60, then 65% etc. Once it reaches that kind of level, we can likely persuade the EU to forgive us.

Am actually feeling fairly positive on things atm. The Brexit Sea change, the Suella scandal and now Matt Hancock. The Tory party is an incompetent, hilarious mess even under Sunak. There genuinely were no capable Brexiteers it seems.

Think I heard a Labour MP say in the commons yesterday that 70% of them were legit. Depends where they're coming from too tbh, that may also be a factor in the increase. I wouldn't even put it past the Tories to have manufactured it themselves in order to give them something to 'win' on.

I've never observed any significant ill feeling towards City from our fanbase, I think possibly because your success came at the expense of many clubs we genuinely didn't like. Charnley and Ashley were entirely on their own path with what the club did anyway, you can fully consider the institution and the fans to be hostages in that situation.

I read it too and felt the same. Different fucking planet, the daily mail.

RTG analysis, incidentally, is that the Saudis are right, we belong to them and they can do what they want.. except that the club has actually taken our line, not the Saudi one. It's not great to see that backlash though, reminds me of reading RTG itself before our takeover necessitated that they have to be "pro" most of the things that their politics thread reveals them to be "anti".

Granted, am only aware of this thanks to RTG and exile specifically, but this tweet seems to have caused a bit of a backlash amongst our new Saudi followers:

So we only beat 5 teams so far, no big deal. Goes on to say that them besting a single team, Brentford, a team we also destroyed, is proof that they'll get a result They might tbf but we'd have to be having a very shit day. If both sides turn up to 100% of what they're capable of, Villa lose 10-0, frankly.

Aye cos, as we all know, water companies famously avoid filling their reservoirs unless told otherwise by politicians. Utter prat.

Aye genuinely not sure what to make of that Maybe he's trolling everyone.

One of the tweets under that video: Work to do yet.

Totally agree I just wish it was a bit higher nonetheless. As I've said I'm happy that it's even being discussed at all.

Still only 51% though. Accounting for death and replacement you could probably argue that all who voted for it still refuse to see reality, to varying degrees.

Good news.

Could quite fairly level this at all of us too mind Although I guess we're at least not trying to make a platform for it.

Does feel like there's been a shift in the winds on this - possibly thanks to Truss accelerating us to oblivion, possibly just cost of living biting. Long may it continue, we need a bit of fucking reality.

Doesn't seem to have a blue checkmark actually so I guess the more interesting consideration here, given that he's a nobody really, is why Gemmill even knows who he is

Agreed, sniping at the leader of the Labour party to give the Tories an advantage is incredibly dismal behaviour. Momentum seem to have quietened down though at least, this has probably been the most internally stable the party has been in years. I've no idea what would possess any individual who claims to care about the politics they speak to (on the left) to actively work against the party leadership. Just suggests they're either too arrogant or wholly insincere. And either way, completely fucking useless and complicit in what follows.

I also think this. She was going to be my pick for Labour leader before Corbyn came along and seduced me with his socialist wiles. On balance of where we are now, I regret that choice - that said maybe it's for the best in some ways since if she had been leader, she likely still would have lost in 2019 and then she'd have been a busted flush. I think she'll be leader after Starmer now.

I don't disagree with that hugely tbh, but what has given me some optimism is the reminder that most people who were working age did not vote Tory. If those people continue to work harder and harder for less and less then I don't know, eventually something has to give. That something could be full on fascism though, you're right

I'll stress the article just paints a picture of the despair of the current reality, it's me that's saying it can't possibly be sustainable

Sorry to double quote you but this article actually does give me a bit of hope. The scale of the betrayal of older generations of the younger that is clear within this is at some point in the hopefully very near future, surely, going to result in not just a swing to Labour for a single election victory, but a full scale swing back towards internationalism and collective engagement. It seems our lot in life is to endure this so our children may repair it, but this fully demonstrates the extent to which we have just walked into the mother of all national dead ends. It can't last, there will be some manner of reckoning in the end. The only shame will be that those who induced it won't live to see it.