Rayvin

The PR point is fair but I'd need to be really convinced before I put a secondary issue ahead of a primary one.

I agree that Labour are the best bet for it to happen, but only if they believe there are votes in it. I am useless to my cause by throwing my vote at Labour and trusting them to just get it done anyway when they've already broken that particular trust in the short time Starmer has been in charge. So my choice is to be taken for granted by a party that is pandering to gammons, or to stand to the side and stick to what I believe is the single most important political issue this country has to deal with, which is rejoining the EU. It's not an easy choice, and I'm very aware that if I'm representative of a decent number of people (which I suspect I am given the numbers involved in moves towards the Greens and LDs) that it could mean bringing about another Tory government, but if we elect a Labour one that isn't interested in the issue then I'm no further forward than I would be under the Tories. If Labour come to understand that there is a serious vote winning proposition in rejoining the EU, they may pivot to it quicker than they would if I just throw in with the gammons and vote for them anyway. It's a long game, I'll grant you. And I'm under no real illusions that my vote is completely insignificant and this so called 'pressure' will likely not amount to much. But then I've never cast a vote in my entire life that actually mattered anyway (other than, ironically, the EU one) so I mean, what difference does it really make anyway?

As I've made clear before, I'm presently a single issue voter. That issue isn't nuclear power (I agree with your stance on that incidentally). The Greens aren't going to win power though so what their other positions are don't really matter to me. It's a wasted vote insofar as attempting to remove the Tories, it's not a wasted vote in terms of pressuring Labour.

Well he certainly won you over. I'm sticking with the greens for now but if he continues to improve on the run in to the GE at least it'll give me a difficult choice.

Where has this version of Starmer been until now?

I mean that article basically reinforces what was quite clear throughout but which some of us have struggled to see. They're not football people and we shouldn't expect them to be able to work well in this industry until they have more experienced football related management staff in place. Sounds like we had a series of problems throughout the recruitment process that were down to the boards naivety, although it's good to see them owning that. It'll all be fine but we need that DoF role filled and more broadly, we need more experienced people making key decisions.

Well this has been special The two standout moments I can remember for Shelvey for this season are being subbed on against Spurs and being sent off again within 10 minutes for two separate bookings, and floating a harmless free kick into the box for an easy opposition clear instead of shooting against a team that had an outfield player in net with 1 minute left to play in a game we needed to win. Clearly a player of absolute quality. "We played him so he must be good". FFS. We hired Bruce and kept him for 2 seasons man. And he was anything but good.

What misconduct charge does he have against Starmer?

Yeah it does tbh. Johnson should see this coming really but it'll be interesting whether or not he tries to hang on.

As a staunch republican, I wish her well as a human being but she'll get nothing beyond that from me. That said, she's a key part of the identity for some people in this country and I am tempted to say that the last thing we need right now is for her to die.

So is Starmer a tactical genius or is Boris a walking disaster?

Yeah that'll catch me, I racked up £20k of debt due to taking a 4 year course and coming from a financially challenged background (they gave extra allowances for that sort of thing back then). So that's another £500 a year on top of everything else. Nice. I'm actually fine with paying student debt (to the reasonable levels I had no, not the insane ones of today) but I'd rather not take another hit to the wallet given how unstable my work tends to be and how many other hits are presently landing.

Aye, sorry, I meant for them more than us Fair

My best guess, and I'm not even taking the piss here, is that they're now in the mindset of a small club and Arsenal represents a big day out. That's depressing as fuck if it's true, but this is how non-league teams react to drawing someone like Arsenal.

Well that poll is good news indeed. Long may that continue.

This is regrettably a far right twitter account it would seem, and so is awash with people insinuating that this is happening because she's black. Instead of the truth, which is that it's happening because she's a Londoner

Yeah that's possible, although I thought it was Reuben who was pro-Howe. Not sure where I picked that up like but either way aye, you might well be right.

So I've just googled Wraith because I'm curious as to what he actually thinks his job is, and Google believes him to be an 'actor'. And he has his own imdb page: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1724384/ Complete with painful showreel proving that he is not an actor after all.

Interesting things about that interview: 1 - It's a bit difficult to take her view that he's the perfect appointment seriously when we were clearly in for Emery. I get that she can't really say anything else but come on man, we're not stupid. 2 - Impressed that they took the risk to buy us given that she's say they could have waited. 3 - Mentions she was impressed Howe brought Bournemouth out of League 2 on 'limited resources'. Similarly, mentions January isn't a window they would normally want to invest in - which I totally get. I think the emphasis is going to be on spending but doing it smartly, not just throwing money around until success comes. 4 - Pleased that their decisions are being strongly underpinned by data and numbers. You'd expect that these days of course but I still suspect it's a strong departure from Ashley.

It's a weird fucking thing to see this complete transformation of Gemmill tbh

That sounds like good news. So we may not be heading back to Christmas lockdowns then?

I want to stress for the record that I have never been pro-communist I believe in mixed economies of left wing persuasions. I'm still capitalist. The manga comment is a bit rich coming from Captain Comic Book, mind.

"He has our full support until he doesn't". It's up there in terms of cynical management speak with "It's up to you, I know you'll make the right decision" right after you've set out two potential options to someone and made clear that you have a strong preference for one of them.

Essembee probably knows more about Sunderland than you do He's an anomaly.

I really hope she's the fucking president one day. Took a while to win me around but she appears to be an actual human being, which must be a first in American politics. Maybe even politics in general.