Renton

In contrast over the same time period, real term pay has gone up 10% overall in France (all sectors) and 20% in Germany. And in just 7 years now, the average pole will be better off than the average Brit. The tory cunts have been MUCH worse for the UK than my worst fears.

They're not making the play offs, they never were. Let's hope they have a tricky second season next year and go back to their spiritual home. With the "model" they are so proud to boast about (which to my eyes seems to be an even shitter version of Ashley's), I think this is a possibility, although tbf, you have to be pretty shit to get relegated from the championship.

Eeeeh, you and your wars Isegrim, what are you like?

So, one of the good things about Spotify is obviously after I listen to an album (I still do this) once it finishes it continues with a play list with music simialr to that album. So today up pops the Divine Comedy with the theme from Father Ted (Songs of Love). I like the Divine Comedy, especially A Lady of a Certain Age and my Lovely Horse, but probably not the type of band I would actively listen to. But I must admit I actually listened to the lyrics to this song and thought they were brilliant. Made me think of back in the day times of Newcastle or Whitley Bay nightlife in the late 80s / early 90s meat markets that I could never feel part of. Remember those turqoise dress shirts, and then the striped ones that looked like pajama tops, and beige chinos, etc. Also reminded me of ewerk (given what we know of ewerk's irishness, skin pallour, and his obvious solitary proclivities). First verse:

GET BACK TO WORK YOU SHIRKING CUNT.

So listening to bits of that budget, my summary take is that, because there is a labour shortage due in part to Brexit (didn't see this on the side of a bus): If you are retired: GET BACK TO WORK YOU OLD CUNT. If you have kids: GET BACK TO WORK and ignore raisning your kids, YOU CUNT. If you are disabled: GET BACK TO WORK you bone idle shirker, CUNT. If you are unemployed: WE'RE STOPPING YOUR BENEFITS YOU FECKLESS CUNT. Is that about right?

Sunak there, saying Starmer is "siding with the people smugglers" in parliament when it is their fucking policies that has facilitated them. All part of a normal functional democracy.

Yeah, I remember it, was the Mail. The paper of the brown shirt (covered in sewerage shit) patriots.

Cheers, the day the date is announced, you fill your boots Gemmill. 👍

The tories are only doing this to give them the soundbites to cut off Philipson's policies imo. It'll help them in some interviews or debates but do fuck all to stop the rot.

That fucking tory tweet with Braverman's prologue is a fucking disgrace. It's overty fascist in my opinion, and combined with the blatant lying about Labour we have come to expect from this government. Sir Michael Take's mockery of it doesn't cheer me up, because most people won't see it and anyway satire is dead, he could well be a real tory back bencher like Gullis. It really shouldn't be legal for the home secretrary to do this, and yet they have the fucking brass neck to try and censor Gary Lineker. I think I officially detest Braverman the most of any in that rancid party, which is some stiff competition. From the day she came on the scene, she just struck me as evil incarnate. I had believed she was too stupid to advance to the upper positions of power but Johnson has normalised incompetence and here we are. Starting to despair we can ever get out of this now.

And, relating to the small boats, Rwanda issue etc.... So this shit works. Quite why, somebody living in a shithole like land locked Stoke on Trent blames their circumstances on small boat asylum seekers is quite something. But the tories will continue to swhip up wedge issues and hatgred while the country goes down the pan. There are far too many stupid people. And it is blatently obvious to me that if 1930s Germany had happened here, the outcome would have been the same.

When he was born, the doctor threw away the baby and kept the afterbirth.

I find it staggering this is only now the case. Just walking through town before, and fuck me it's like a set from the Last of Us. All the restaurants, cafes, shops, are deserted. Everything looks so run down. Shuttered retail space everywhere. Northumberland street, once the second busiest retail street in England after Oxford street, is a fucking dive. Cracked paving everywhere, interspersed with bare tarmac where they couldn't afford to replace it. Beggars and tramps on every corner. At my local Co-op in Tynemouth yesterday there's this homeless person who was drinking vodka neat out a bottle in fornt of the school kids, at 8.30 in the morning (and no, it wasnt me!). I mean, when I think back to the New Labour years, did I just imagine things were so much better? The town was busy, thriving, people had money to spend? Not saying it was perfect but my God, I reckon if you could do a side by side comparison it would be striking. And all the time we're paying more and more taxes for worse and worse services. And only NOW are people waking up to the fact that maybe, just maybe, the tories are fucking SHITE at running the economy.

I know a lot of people aren't supportive of HS2, but what a farce this is turning out ot be. They're delaying building it, even though this will cost more, even before you factor in the delayed benefits, presumably to hand the costs to Labour. London to Manchester, if it ever gets built, will be complete some time in the 2040s. More than 30 years to build a railway. London Leeds and the NE, permanently scrappped, so we get no benefit at all. Yet it was the Eastern leg which made the most sense financially. As a country, we just can't handle infrastructure developments any more. We even need the French and Chinese to build our power stations. Fucking pathetic.

Ahh, the good old days. He used to terrify me as a kid, even more than Mr Baxter or Miss McCluskey.

All this is nonsense. The truth is the cafe had a spotless full length mirror.

One of life's greatest mysteries right there Why the fuck were the hedgerows of England in the 1980s chocker full of jazz mags? Nearly every lad, and most lassses, got their first glimpse of a hairy pie through the serindipitous discovery of a Fiesta or Razzle magazine in some old garden bush. Along with white dog shit, it's a conundrum that will never be solved.

"World leading". Dubious ethics aside, there's often a good reason other countries haven't introduced policies like this. Iirc Denmark have dabbled but have given up on grounds of practicality. So far the Rwanda policy has cost us £160 million. As nobody has been sent there, and realistically that can't happen until 2024, that's an infinite amount of money per person deported. Using economic terms I use in my day job, that doesn't appear to be cost-effective. But let's say they succeed in their aims. The capacity of the program is currently 200. So that's £800,000 per person, with the deportaion of less than 5% of the current backlog. I don't know what the government's willingness to pay threshold is for this policy, but we could fund a fuck ton of life-saving treatments with that amount of money, literally save childrens' lives. Meanwhile Braverman claims this is a deterrent, whilst at the same time painting Rwanda as as some kind of African utopia. Pure cognitive dissonance from the cunts again. Come on Labour, this is ludicrous. If you're not willing to tackle this head on, you may as well give up. Just campaign againstit stating the tories are more interested in sending asylum seekers to paradise than saving the lives of sick children. 👍

Will Joe public be happy spending a million quid a person on this policy I wonder?

The BBC are more subtle in their gaslighting than yhe government, but removal of even the smallest words can change the tone and meaning of a sentence. And of course, Stanley Johnson is set to receive a knighthood from his son while we're at it. Nothing remotely wrong about this, is there? I've just come to the conclusion all Bruces are cunts (not you ozzies).

Aye, and Liverpool losing against Bournemouth too. And Casemiro being suspended. Tbh I'm just exhausted finally being invested in it again. Bring back the FCB and the cabbage.

That was actually a bit odd. I mean, we're 2-1 up in a nervy match with seconds to go, and we send up our best CB who can't score to save his life (except against us) to receive a corner? NOt complaining like, I prefer keeping the pressure on.

I did, but tbf you were absolutely categoric that we were out of the race. I've never thought we were (still don't), but new information comes available with each game. And despite us playing some good stuff and winning yesterday, my own personal estimates of the probability of us finishing top 4 have actually declined after yesterday, cos the problem are still there and I am doubting we manage a sustained run.