Dr Gloom

the big city is appealing to a lot of people. london gates a lot of hate, sometimes justifiably so, but you will never get bored there. newcastle is a beautiful city but it is small and the weather will put off a lot of players, whether we like to admit that or not.

two words: money and london

there's also the question of whether he actually wants to govern, or not. i suspect the latter because it's too much hard work. he's a campaigner, an effective one at that. i think his goal is to pull uk politics as far to the right as possible (something he has already managed to do) while having his say from the backbenches, or possibly the cabinet, as part of a coalition government.

i just tried to log on to that there discord page for the first time and I apparently I don’t have permission to view anything. Even when I finally reach the secret forum promised land after all these years, I still can’t find it.

Reform are going to romp home aren’t they with both Labour and Tories haemorrhaging votes. 2029 might be the year to emigrate

If he had any balls he’d start the ball rolling on electoral reform because that’s the only chance of a progressive-led coalition in four years time. (Not the Starmer’s Labour have done anything particularly progressive). But he doesn’t, so he won’t.

This is great news for Reform

It’s an accountant/narc thing

they all sound pretty gutted to lose him

Good signing. Expensive but that’s apparently the going rate for a PL proven winger now thanks to Man U and Chelsea. And it finally puts the RW v CB debate to bed. £55m must be a canny chunk of our budget

Hope reckons it’s happening. They’d be mad to turn down £55m

alreet, toonpack

ok boomer

for example, i used to wear CND badges. i now accept that nuclear weapons act as a deterrent. how fucking sad is that

yeah, totally. i used to be an idealistic socialist in my youth, but the the slow creep to centrist dad is real.

Who gives a fuck

not you, obviously

Chris Waugh's take on the window https://archive.is/T3K7r

Poor bloke - newly married, in the prime years of his career playing for the league champions. It's a tragedy and so shocking