Rayvin

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.

I see Galloway, rightly or wrongly, as more of a Parky style figure. Parky maybe a bit more right wing in some ways (although I daresay Galloway would surprise me).

That's exactly what it is. They're the ones with the inconsistency, not the rest of us. It's been really revealing of certain wings of the left, far more concerned with their conspiracy theories and preservation of their worldviews than they are with human rights and so on.

I've just read through his twitter feed and yeah, he's retweeting stuff that is basically Russian propaganda. It's coming from left wing anti-imperialist individuals who I am sure do not think that what they're tweeting is actually Russian propaganda, since they're the only ones who really know the truth, naturally - but it 100% is. So yeah, twitter right on the money here.

It's probably wrong, it's probably not a good thing for the discourse, but it's fucking funny.

Aye, you're quite right.

Absolutely off his rocker. Thinks he's got the world all worked out, the experts aren't any smarter than he is, it's all just common sense after all.

Thinking about this, he might also mean in the sense of physical identifiers. He might have "FTM" tattooed across his forehead.

"Recognisable mackem" Is he one of the lasses from Sunderland til I die? Thanks to Howay and MF, they're about the most recognisable mackems I can think of. Unfortunately.

I agree with Renton on this, the last thing we need is another vehicle of internationalism smashed to bits. If we throw Russia out it would be the end of the UN unless we actually fully dissolved the security Council at the same time. Which I'm actually not opposed to. But yes, it is useless other than apparently working as a theatre in the same way parliament does for PMQs. If it breaks down though, we will end up with a new cold War for real, as the Western nations band together and everyone else cements alliances in separate blocs. Which would be fine (maybe) except we need collective strategy to succeed with things like climate change. We have to continue working within the framework we have even as Putin is executing civilians in the street. I'd sooner send troops in than kick Russia out of the SC, personally.

Updated my earlier attempt at this with actuals From the games we've played I thought we'd have 5 points, and instead we have 10 points. I still have us down, based on this, for another 10 by the end of the season.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2022/apr/04/six-months-in-newcastle-takeover-still-offers-little-cause-for-celebration?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other And so, Glendenning is finally permitted to have a go at us. His justification? It's been six months since the takeover and he has to earn his money somehow. Barry has taken aim, more or less, at us. Internet present Newcastle fans who, he argues, are useful idiots for the regime. We engage in whataboutery for all the other things Saudi invests in, and laments that football journalists have to explain all the other things they condemn first, before getting to Newcastle. I'll let you guys read it but he is sure as shit aiming that at forums and discussions like ours. No comments open naturally. Barry is earning money off this article, I am sure. So he has profited more from the Saudi takeover than any one of us so far. I am certain the money he has made will be donated to Yemen, as you would expect from any morally upstanding person who had gone to bat for these issues. He's a true believer, I'm sure. Not just an opportunistic hack making drama out of a story. I'm sure he was writing on the plight of Yemen for many months before this. I'm sure he's entirely consistent. And to accuse him of anything to the contrary...well.. that would be shameless whataboutery from a useful idiot.

Holy fuck..

The guy who wrote that is an academic in Russia, so it's not necessarily intended to be anything more than propaganda for domestic consumption; the Russian state itself cannot be that far gone, surely.

I don't think we should be worried. We're beating teams we should beat and losing to those who, honestly, we should also lose to. 5-1 is an unpleasant scoreline and we've clearly had a bad day, but in the overall scheme of things we're still sitting pretty IMO.

Aye but remember, the lower down the table the club is, the better they play against Sunderland. The curse of being everyone's cup final. If only Sunderland, its fans and the city itself were just less damn impressive, they wouldn't get all these try-hard smaller clubs coming up and ruining things. Victims of their own success if anything, marra.

Yeah the assumption is always that these people will somehow inevitably vote Labour. I think it's an extension of the US situation really but there are some key differences over there. People who live in poverty in the US are actively disenfranchised and prevented from voting, whereas in the UK I really think the issue is more apathy. If forced to vote they'd be easily led, informed by very simplistic takes, and then weaponised against the system. I would actually ban people from voting unless they passed a basic political awareness test. I think it would do more good. They could still vote for whatever nonsense they wanted, but they would at least have to demonstrate that they understood what the nonsense meant, and how it would impact them.

Maybe - that would make me feel more comfortable tbh. I would effectively trade my vote for someone voting LD/Green somewhere else. That way I'm still more or less in line with my principles.