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Insecure anxious twats look to politicians for everyone. Us stronger sorts just get on with life. Boohoo I have to pay more why aren’t they doing anything. Weak individual

Sadoldgit bite potential rating = 86%

I've heard a lot of well intended words from politicians the last week, but very little action this far... I love the way they all say: "if there's any evidence of profiteering... Blah blah blah" when the evidence has been staring them in the face for the last two weeks. Maybe politicians should go on a mandatory training course to teach them how to use Google to do something really complicated, such as as: search for "domestic oil price trend"... 🤷🏼

What? So are your beloved Muslim Labour party not doing anything about this profiteering? I mean to say, is that not a Tory thing....surely labour care about you and want to being prices down no? Learning yet? They are all the same.

Increasing reference to ‘under the lights’ as if something special playing an evening game

Yeah, fancy coming on here to stoke up an argument... It'll never catch on...

We are in the same boat trousers. No gas in the village and those with electric heating are always complaining about the cost. Our price recently shot up from 55p to £1.20 per litre but fortunately we filled up just before the war started. Our house is Grade 2 listed and is also in a conservation area so any changes to the house involve protracted battles with the local council. You’d think they would be supportive of measures to improve insulation but when we needed to replace the windows in the front of the cottage they said we couldn’t have double glazing, even though the window frames were still going to be made of wood and looked exactly the same from the road. Long story short, we went ahead anyway and they haven’t done anything about it so common sense prevailed. I agree, it is blatant profiteering and should have the same high profile at the moment as the cost of petrol at the pumps. It is ridiculous that prices can more than double overnight.

Alas, I've just consulted my inner wisdom, and it's telling me Coventry City 3 Saints 0. Sorry 'bout that ☹️

Never heard of that pub... Maybe try the Bull and Anchor instead... 😃

Rugby parlance.

Don't wrexham also have middlesborough Also thik their game against coventry will be a win for them as by that point they will likely have won the league.

How about now?

KLF and Tammy Wynette has to be one of the strangest collaborations in modern music.

The same as you and Sir Ralph? You are no different and have had plenty of boring spats on here with other posters. In fact I seem to recall you saying that you came on here to have arguments to relieve your tension! If it bothers you so much put us both on ignore. Job done.

A long read but nails Farage perfectly. 𝗡𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗹 𝗙𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗴𝗲: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻'𝘀 𝗚𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁 𝗕𝗲𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘆𝗮𝗹. Nigel Farage presents himself as a political outsider, a man of the people, pint in hand, rallying the nation to "take back control." But peel back the layers of manufactured charisma and populist bluster, and you’ll find something far more calculated, elitist, and damaging. Farage wasn’t just a player in Britain’s political drama — he was a frontman for one of the most significant bait-and-switch operations in modern UK history. 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙋𝙪𝙥𝙥𝙚𝙩 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙃𝙞𝙨 𝙈𝙖𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙨: Farage’s success wasn’t born from grassroots rage. It was bankrolled by millionaires and hedge fund managers with one primary concern: the growing threat of EU regulations on financial transparency. The EU was moving toward mandatory disclosure of beneficial ownership, tighter corporate tax laws, and cross-border cooperation that would have exposed Britain’s offshore tax havens. The very wealthy were running scared — and Farage offered them a lifeline. Enter Arron Banks, the multimillionaire insurance tycoon with opaque finances and offshore dealings. Add to the mix a network of hedge funders; libertarian think tanks and tax haven defenders. Farage became their man — a “rebel” with a tailored script. 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙈𝙚𝙙𝙞𝙖 𝙀𝙣𝙜𝙞𝙣𝙚: Farage’s rise would not have been possible without the mainstream media. The BBC, desperate for "balance," handed him dozens of appearances on Question Time. The right-wing press — Telegraph, Mail, Express — turned him into a household name. LBC gave him his own radio show. GB News now serves as his echo chamber. Why? Because outrage sells. Farage was clickbait personified. He delivered ratings, controversy, and headlines while reinforcing the interests of media barons who shared his disdain for Brussels’ oversight. 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙏𝙤𝙧𝙮 𝙎𝙮𝙢𝙗𝙞𝙤𝙨𝙞𝙨: Farage’s relationship with the Conservative Party was never straightforward. Publicly, he was their enemy. Privately, he was their pressure valve. His threat to Tory votes — especially in marginal, working-class areas — forced Cameron to offer the Brexit referendum. Later, in 2019, he stood down Brexit Party candidates in Tory seats, helping Boris Johnson win a landslide. In return, the Tories absorbed Farage’s playbook wholesale: anti-immigration, anti-Europe, pro-privatisation, and pro-deregulation. Farage didn’t just influence policy — he reshaped the party from outside. 𝙍𝙚𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙢 𝙐𝙆: 𝙍𝙚𝙗𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙍𝙤𝙩: Post-Brexit, Farage didn’t retire. He rebranded. Reform UK emerged as the next vehicle for his populist project. Now he rails against Net Zero, attacks trans rights, and blames every national failure on "woke elites" and illegal migrants. The messaging hasn’t changed — just the targets. Reform UK isn’t about reform. It’s about keeping the anger alive while ensuring the same elite class stays untouchable. It’s The Brexit Party 2.0 — the cultural sequel. 𝘼 𝙂𝙡𝙤𝙗𝙖𝙡 𝙋𝙡𝙖𝙮𝙚𝙧 𝙞𝙣 𝙖 𝙉𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙏𝙧𝙖𝙜𝙚𝙙𝙮: Farage’s ambitions didn’t stop at Dover. He aligned himself with Donald Trump, spoke at MAGA rallies, and worked with Steve Bannon to build a transatlantic alliance of right-wing populists. His influence stretched into the American culture war, feeding the same lies about immigration, globalism, and democracy. He positioned himself as a British Trump, a warrior against "the deep state." But the reality was that he was always defending entrenched power, never fighting it. 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙒𝙤𝙧𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜-𝘾𝙡𝙖𝙨𝙨 𝘽𝙚𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙮𝙖𝙡: Farage’s greatest deception wasn’t what he said — it was who he claimed to represent. Working-class voters, especially in post-industrial towns, were sold a revolution. They got deregulation, rising costs, weakened rights, and a divided society. The rich got richer. The people got slogans. Farage played the role of rebel, but his loyalties were always to the elite — the same ones hiding money offshore, lobbying against transparency, and laughing behind the curtain. At the same time, the public turned on each other. 𝙇𝙚𝙜𝙖𝙘𝙮 𝙤𝙛 𝙍𝙪𝙞𝙣: Today, Britain is more divided, isolated, and less secure than ever in recent history. Farage didn’t do it alone, but his fingerprints are on every broken promise, every shuttered factory, and every food bank queue. He weaponised nostalgia. He distorted democracy. He convinced the nation to burn down the house, then walked away with the matches in his pocket. Farage is not an outsider. He is the inside man of a very elite con — and the bill is now due.” Author Unknown

Smaller than parking the bus to be fair!

Er, Peretz is only 25 so young for a keeper and had barely played a front line game for two years so hardly battle hardened. Spors picked a decent keeper is all.

Pubs for today chaps, anyone in the know?

Not sure either of those players were available in the summer. We had the worst squad in the Premier League by a margin and perhaps it wasn't realistic to turn it round in one window. But under Spors we've gradually been sorting ourselves out

He was on fire (IMO) in the last season of the Championship until he got mullered by the Norwich player. Hopefully gets back to that level and he, as others have said, will be a great player at this level. Very odd how he has been bombed out and brought back again. I wonder if he will leave or will run down his contract in 2027.

Sorry to break this to you Sir, but check our record vs the top 6 , we also struggle , not beaten any of them except Wrexham first game of season

This is a good test of where we're at. I'll go for a 2-1 victory to Saints just purely based on the fact we seem to struggle against lower teams but tend to do ok against the better ones

Depends would Still had still done the same? Seems like he really couldn't get anything across to the players and it was a mess. Same with Tonda, would he have started the season with 5 at the back....!

I quite like the simpler newer terms like low block and transition. Use of language changes over time I guess as there are new sources of influences. Dont get me wrong, some is useless too.

Ha ha by "big" I meant people trying to be smart arses