Rayvin

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.

Superb article. 100% correct about the lot IMO.

Have to say that article really drives home this wider issue at the top of the Tory party - they are all overpromoted and out of their depth, politics aside. So not only are they morally objectionable, they're also dangerously stupid. Johnson really has moulded the party in his own image.

That's a comedian tbf - she does a very convincing job though!

She's not even Jewish... she's of Sri Lankan origin apparently, and is a practising Buddhist (which clearly aligns with the compassionate and anti-materialist values of the Tory party). She's married a Jewish man, as far as I can tell, but isn't Jewish herself. In summary, Hancock is a weapon.

If anything, the fact that everything we've done so far was well within Ashley's ability (top end maybe, but still within it if he was running it properly) actually further underlines how fucking useless the guy was.

I genuinely believe that's the answer to this question presently. I can't really see how it could be anything else unless they're intending to find some large trading bloc to share in the negotiating power of, and use the wider common challenge faced by all the nations within it to tackle the issue from a position of collective strength in terms of negotiating with pharmaceutical giants and so on. That sounds like it would be a pretty useful thing to do, wonder where we could find a trading bloc like that... But yes, clearly the plan is simply that people will die. People that didn't have to die, will die. That's Sunak's gift to the country.

Where exactly is the NHS going to find upwards of 10% to cut from its budget?

Double digit cuts on every department off the back of 12 years of cuts. Are they fucking serious. Tax corporations, you fucks. Raise the money that way and then invest it back into the economy, boosting public sector spending, raising growth, and then tax everyone (in a proportionally fair way) to a higher level to pay off the debt. That way we're leaving our children with an economy that has some chance of delivering a better life to them whilst at the same time paying off national debt over the long term - rather than failing to pay off national debt through austerity since it leaves us completely defenceless against things like Covid and externalities we can't control, and on top of that means our children are inheriting a smoking ruin rather than a nation. In other words, do what Truss was going to do but a) funded through taxes on (corporations) those who can afford it and b) give the proceeds of that to the people of this country so that WE can spend and WE can bolster growth, not your fucking mates who will just offshore the lot of it anyway. Oh and one other thing, small point really but every little helps and I know how keen you are to "give back to the country that gave you so much" - REJOIN THE FUCKING EU.