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kaosmark2

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  1. I don't give much credence to those opinions tbh. I think the problems this season aren't really to do with the manager. I'm also not really sure there's a big name I want that'd consider joining.
  2. To be clear, I don't think good times are on the way, just less sh*t times. There's enough just obvious, basic stuff to change that'll create some improvement.
  3. By trade up do you mean the manager? As I'd say Howe's done plenty to earn a longer chance.
  4. Some of the growth will just naturally come from there being trust in there being a stable government for the next 10 years. Add in that the country will no longer be losing as much money to corruption, and there will just be some natural, inherent growth that's been choked out by the Tories. Other growth will be triggered just by spending on the basics. If you get more money in the pockets of working classes, they instantly spend it because it's actually really hard emotionally to save when you've been struggling. Whether this is a big night out, on a new fridge when the old one is almost but not quite dead, a nice outfit, or whatever, if money gets into the pockets of people who've been skint and tight, it'll get spent and chain into more growth. I think after Labour's first budget, regardless of what's in it, there'll be a starting point for some growth. My fear is largely that they don't utilise it enough to turn the spending taps on and trigger more.
  5. Have you seen the difference in how good Wilson, Joelinton, Schar, Murphy, Almiron, Longstaff have been under Howe compared to Bruce? And Lascalles has been back to the level he was under Benitez instead of how he was playing under Bruce. I didn't rate Gordon when we signed him, but he's been magnificent this season. I'd argue that the only player that regressed under Howe was ASM, and that's because the system under Bruce was "pass it to Allan and hope his trickery gets a corner". And he's been sold on.
  6. I saw a piece a month or two ago saying that Tonali was using this time wher ehe couldn't play to settle into the city/country more, while still training hard, which if true, makes me hopeful for next season. In the game's Tonali was good, he could break up play effectively and turn it into going forward, but Bruno can do that as well. I get the concept that they're similar, but they're also both quite all-round box-to-box midfielders, so I'm hoping that somehow between our midfielders we can get a functioning system. The squad depth thing absolutely showed in the game yesterday though. A quadruple substitution and 3 of the players brought on are teenagers.
  7. Tonali had a couple of games where he looked insanely good. He was ridiculous in the opening Villa game, and our 2nd best player after Pope in the draw at Milan. I don't know how much the upcoming gambling ban affected him after that. I'm not convinced by the "Tonali and Bruno don't mesh well together" noises without seeing more to justify that. I think the biggest problem is squad depth - basically we didn't have our summer signings for various reasons, and Wilson has gone back into the injury cycle that's plagued his career. Add in more games and an injury crisis creating a chain-reaction of just most of the squad being permanently barely fit, and it's just difficult.
  8. Neil Coyle is a racist c**t and shouldn't be in the Labour party.
  9. £3k to go to Rwanda is definitely a great deal. Just like convicts being pardoned the death penalty to go to Australia was a great deal. It's not a real offer. It's a threat disguised as a bribe.
  10. I realise that! I'm just referencing the quick mentality. I'd pay good money to pelt corrupt politicians with rotten fruit.
  11. US and UK should have stopped all weapons supply months ago. But yeah, there needs to be consequences applied by Israel's allies.
  12. It's one of the classic right-wing populist things. Who cares about the rights of criminals? I'm not a criminal so it couldn't affect me.... But every civilised society has also abolished it (yes I'm saying the USA isn't a civilised society).
  13. Referendum on capital punishment probably.
  14. Can you explain what you mean by this? I think I know, but I'm being hopeful that I'm misinterpreting you.
  15. It's absolutely batshit, considering the horrendous sh*t she spouted and culture she created while Home Secretary, that we would now talk about her as a "moderate Tory". Evil, evil woman, and still somehow better than a lot of them.
  16. Employers NI is a bit of a double-edged sword though, and already has some obnoxious work-arounds. Notably, a huge number of employers - both small businesses and giant ones - do the "you're not my employee, you're a self-employed contractor", to get around employer's contributions to NI, and a bunch of workers rights stuff. It's been prominent in the media about zero-hours contracts, or about uber/deliveroo, but I'd explicitly say that virtually everywhere that tries to get around the employer's NI contributions is kind of doing so already. PAYE isn't the same thing for Gen Z and many millennials as for others - so many people are self-employed and doing their own tax calculations in the same way as in the USA. I do agree with the concept of what you're saying - don't let businesses off the hook for their tax contributions - but it's already happening and if scrapping NI overall would come with a wider reform of how the tax system works - I think it could definitely be done as a good thing. Ofc, I also think Universal Credit is a good idea, making all benefits assessed and paid in combination - but the way the Tories implemented it was a cruel one that came with brutal cuts and left the poorest worst off. So even if it should be a good-thing long-term, there's many that would suffer from that transition - and they're already often the poorest amongst society and a natural target of Tory goverments.
  17. But this is exactly my point, the phrasing and framing of it isn't "the tories are lying to you" it's "the tories aren't cutting your taxes", with the exact framing of "tax cuts are a good thing and you should want them to do it". The framing needs to be "the tories are making your life worse" "the tax cuts they're claiming aren't making your life better". It's not about whether it's actual tax cuts or not, it's that it's ceding the narrative of "tax vs spend" to the tories in the "tax cuts good, spending bad".
  18. I know it's a lovely attack line but I wish people would stop using it. I want the narrative changed away from "taxation is a bad thing".
  19. I read it as "to be implemented". I think they're wanting to a do half-arsed version with workarounds for their mates to stop labour doing it properly. I do think they'll be trying to get something through.
  20. But Hunt has said "to be replaced with a new scheme", and so far no details of that scheme. It's utterly meaningless until we know the details.
  21. I'm generally a believer in the idea that mid-table teams tend to be a bit flat in the final 3-4 games of the season, with fairly little to play for and players having very little wish to risk injury, particularly if there's a tournament that summer. If City don't fall far behind in the next 2 games I don't really see them dropping points again. That fixture run for Spurs as well.... City, Arsenal, Liverpool straight on the bounce. They can have a big impact there.
  22. Social media is generally angry people with too much time on their hands. Particularly location-based social media. I'm acquainted with a few of the local green campaigners, and they don't think it's an easy win at all, they think they can make it a hard fought seat and are aiming for victory. Starmer pissed off a lot of people with going on about knife crime last visit and evading questions about bus service and housing. Add in pro-cop anti-protest comments, and standing by racists and homophobes and I don't see a high turnout from Labour voters in Bristol Central. I genuinely don't know if Greens will be able to mobilise their vote and convince half-arsed voters to vote for them over staying at home.
  23. Have you learned nothing in the last 200 years? Smallpox, measles, etc. The impact of the COVID vaccine is impossible to know because we can't have a control sample to compare it to, we can't repeat the outbreak, etc etc. But vaccines work, some reduce the impact of infection and chance of hospitalisation, others reduce spread. Anti-viral vaccines do generally reduce but not remove transmission, but it depends on modes of infection, rate of mutation, and viral load. There's also just basic things, like if your cough isn't as intense, you're not going to project COVID particles as far, but maybe you go out more often so infect people the same amount.
  24. There's a lot less Labour support than 5 years ago though. I'm seeing a lot more apathy, a lot more "they're all the same", and a lot of distrust in Starmer. Add in the various protests, the huge amount of distrust into the police, and Starmer's general socially illiberal attitude, and I think it'll be narrow.
  25. It's partially a boundary shift. What used to be Bristol West had a posh Tory section near the Clifton suspension bridge, which is being removed for the Bristol Central constituency and they're adding in areas which are largely young professionals.
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