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Not been thrown in Guantanamo yet...

Surprise surprise. Farage’s claim of voter fraud was all bollox. https://www.ft.com/content/8c6c4ff0-68d9-4e08-a9a5-a317742d112e?syn-25a6b1a6=1

@Weston Super Saint fill yer boots…

The reason for the venom at Starmer is all about this, plus the Coulson and Brooks prosecutions https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yvx5xpze5o https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqxdy01z0r8o https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9dvz6ldevqo https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdjnnyp79rwo

I thought for the most part they had to qualify themselves and the purpose was so they could all sit together.

If there is one thing Farage is useful for it’s giving us a laugh.

I think anyone who can't see that there have been improvements, doesn't want to recognise that there have been improvements. Slight, sure, and limited in scope, but there have been upticks. Now show me post Brexit improvements.

NHS waiting times, and the NHS in general. It’s still a massive mess but the stats and facts tell my eyes and ears that it’s getting a tiny bit better in certain areas including waiting times for surgery. Even jolly old immigration figures are significantly better in some areas than the previous regime. It’s still a dismal plod into far too many people coming here and far too little preventive activity, but the numbers of illegal arrivals being processed are massively up, the number of asylum hotels are massively down. Corruption from top officials seems to be less widespread and obvious. The Covid times are now a long memory away but the amount of law breaking and pocket lining by those in power at that time is one of the more disgusting things I’ve been witness to in all my voting days. Just having a man in the hot seat who doesn’t try to deceive his public every day by telling shamefaced lies then laughing about it is an improvement of sorts. Or having a PM who is so egregiously incompetent that she crashed the financial markets within a couple of days, and who to this day denies it was anything to do with her while spending her time trying to cosy up to the politics (and money grift) of those around Donald Trump. So, yeah. It’s still a massive shit show. Things haven’t improved enough, or quickly enough. Some things won’t improve enough under current policy so they need a massive rethink. At the polls I had a dismal choice to make as there were no leading candidates. There still isn’t. But there are at least signs of some of the country’s decline being arrested. On the flip side I’d be interested to hear what the ‘eyes and ears’ are telling in more specifics as to what hasn’t changed at all, or has got worse, and what benchmarks we are applying to expectations of improvement. Goodness knows that Labour have been a massive disappointment, especially to those voting for them (like me) expecting a lot more. But to hit a par score, what needed to have happened by now? Genuine question.

You’d have thought the Republicans had learned from JFK murder and Watergate, both driven by Cuban exiles. But no, like moths to a flame. And to think they used to criticise the British empire.

They frustrate me but 1k new GP hires has made a difference and Streeting is scything through the expensive and wasteful mess of the Lansley system. Whilst Starmer has been disappointing domestically, he’s strong on foreign policy, has handled Trump fairly well and kept us out of the current war when Badenoch and Farage would have us straight in. Migrant hotel usage is well down from the peak under Johnson and Mahmood has done more so far to tackle illegal immigration than Patel and Braverman ever did, and the appeals are clearing faster, albeit plenty to do. The EU trade deals have made some difference which will grow. As a Remainer, it’s still unsatisfactory but a lot better than Badenoch and Farage’s bonkers positions.

I've got a GP now, I didn't have one for a decade, now I can access appointments, and we have more police here - many things looks shit out there and the country needs loads of work, but there are undeniable improvements.

1 because they are the government SOG wanted - no other backup is needed

Seems odd, can see Saints Foundation and Man Utd Foundation logos on promotions, would have thought they'd make more of supporting good causes

No. My eyes and ears. But the invite is open to anyone to show how things have improved since Sir Keir took control as Soggy hasn't come up with anything.

I just bought one this week. I’ll let you know when it turns up how good it is / what size to get.

Job

Summer

Is that the total right wing press telling you that??

He 'won us points' in this game, right? The one where his positioning was so bad he managed to get lobbed by a wafty header from outside the six yard box?

Thanks, not sure if it’s fair they then get priority over fans who have season tickets and go to significant numbers of away games. Is what it is, probably a left over tradition from years ago.

3 independent and equal branches of Government keeping each other in check to prevent tyranny, ( apparently ).

Got mine in post Monday, opted for paper ticket for the £1

Assuming it’s about not having season tickets due to distance away from Southampton

What is the argument for regional groups being given an allocation? Surely if those fans have attended enough games they can apply for one like the rest of us?