Renton

Hamas not hezbollah. I'm not sure it's anything to do with Saudi Israel relations thawing, or Iran Saudi proxy wars. More just the inevitable continuation of a bitter decades old conflict. I do fear for Gaza now though.

Bullying by Fiona Bruce! These GBeebies are the ultimate cry babies. Like that weird speech by Mordaunt. Absolutely amazing the party who have been in power for more than a decade have such a victim complex. Boo hoo.

Lewis Goodall describes the HS2 situation really well today in the News Agents, which is now my favourite political podcast. As he points out, people don't seem aware what a catastrophe this is, both for ruining the future economic integration of the country, but also what it says about our political system and our future in general. We are incapable of building a railway ffs. He describes it as the worst thing the tories have done in their 13 years of power, which is saying something (must have forgotten about Brexit)

Let's try to get this up into the millions. https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/641904

Not to mention the factory that has the orders to make these trains was in Bishop Auckland. Good bye jobs.

Honestly though, how much of this land was bought under market value or under CPOs, only to be resold a decade later when land and proprty prices have soared. This looks dodgy as fuck, I hope people are paying attention. Labour are going to inherit a catastrophic mess, and it's intentional. What else can you call these people but traitors?

And look, they're operating a scorched Earth policy so LAbour will not be able to reverse HS2. No doubt for the benefit of donors. I mean, considering it is thelast year of the government, why not just mothball it for the next government to decide. Words cannot convey how much I hate these cunts.

Btw, I'll drop this in. One of the "Network North" plans that was mentioned in the report was the reopening of the Leamside line, which has been campaigned locally for years. Less than a day later, it is removed. Sunak is as much an inveterate liar as Johnson.

Well that's true but either way they'll need to reinvent themselves and the only way of achieving power in the UK is to move to the centre, like Blair and Cameron. Difficult to see any mechanism for that. And as I said, demographics, Murdoch gone and the reach of the written press reducing every year. Previously the tories got new cohorts of people as younger people had families and got on the property ladder and became cunts. Not any more, it's just been a complete shit show for the younger gen X and the millenials onwards. Honestly, it's looking very, very bad for them to me, but I don't really trust my own judgement on this, I admit.

Is he taking the piss?

Or like Cameron in the late noughties. Or alternatively this time, given the extrremity of trhe party now, they literally cease to exist. With changing demographics (only about 15% of people under 50 will vote for them) and Braverman as their leader, it's possible. See, this is what happens when you lie constantly. It eventually catches up with you. Brexit was one of the big lies. It's severely damaged our country and might destroy the tories. NO way out noe.

So why is the match going popularity off the scale now? Last time we were in under Robson, I'm not even sure we sold out in the CL. We still had a canny team on the up. I used to easily upgrade to the platinum club for a modest cost, tickets weren't an issue then.

He'd beterr apologise for it if he apologises. He's bang on tbf.

But worrabout watching Disney? Send the bairns to the Hague marra.

Football's ruined for me. Every time we annihilate a team, be it Spurs, Villa, or PSG, whoever, I find out from the SMB that it wasn't because of our performance but because the team we were playing are shite and the mackems would also have beaten them by even more. We just can't compete with them. Edit: FFS, Gemmill ripped me off again.

Please stop. I really have to do some work.

Are we still talking about Sammy's balls?

Enjoying chatting with my colleagues on Teams this morning. A lot of neutrals watched the game and they loved it (sorry mackems). A couple of Parisien colleagues, " Je m'en fiche. S'en aller. Sob".

He'll be adding this interview to his LinkedIn profile as we speak.

And yet Sunderland is the club of the whole of County Durham and anything within 10 miles of the Wear is "theirs". Until he became a pariah, Henderson was theirs despite playing for a different club nearly his entire career. They can think what they want, they can identify how they want, I couldn't give a shit but I do find it constantly funny the way they twist. Sad Mackem Bastards.

Don't want pollute the PSG thread any mnore. This knacker man!

Guess who 5 Live havegot on to talk about it. John fucking Carver.

And before I sleep, I'll leave this.