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What are you scared of?

We all knew that at the time because the politicians and medical experts were telling us exactly that.

I knew two people who died from it you twat.

If Tories get wiped out I will find it hilarious but it won’t change my view on PR. I would prefer a Labour government to the Tories but I am not a huge fan of Labour or Starmer. That just shows how fucked the system is, I vote Lib Dem because where I live it’s a straight choice between them and the Tories. I want Starmer to be PM because it’s a choice between him and Sunak even though I don’t think he’s that good yet if my vote actually counted I would vote Green because I think the environment is the most important issue we face.

Don’t agree with that, I think if we had PR then people would vote differently and the parties would be different to how they are now. Corbyn would probably be leader of a momentum party and there would be another centre left Labour Party with someone actually electable in charge. I expect the Tories would be completely different as well with the headbangers on the right in a party with the reform loons and the rest in a sensible centre right party.

Can’t agree with that. The last election was a Tory landslide but still more people voted for left leaning parties than them. The whole system is outdated and is why we end up with having to choose between the likes of Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn for PM.

He is someone who is aiming to become leader of the opposition and then our next PM so any outrage is totally justified. Imagine the outrage if Corbyn had said the same. To put any blame on ‘the west’ is just nonsense, he talks about the EU/NATO ‘expanding’ as if it is some sort of colonial power invading countries and forcing them to join. These are free democratic countries choosing which trading block/political union they want to be part of or what is best for their defence.

English ref on VAR fucking up the Euros.

That’s a fucking insult to Saints, at least we can string a few passes together.

Maybe he goes to watch the footy down the local “alehouse”?

I felt sorry for Rice, he had Trent alongside him strolling about like a spare right back and Bellingham in front poncing about like he’s some sort of god who doesn’t need to bother working for the team anymore.

That side doesn’t have a hope in hell of winning the Euros.

Ha, they have updated it from the one I downloaded from their site earlier in the week. The previous version (if you want to know what they really think) included a load of denier nonsense including this: “Climate change has happened for millions of years, before man made CO2 emissions, and will always change. We are better to adapt to warming, rather than pretend we can stop it. Up to 10 times more people die of cold than warmth” Old rubber face has obviously realised their real views are not a great vote winner and has been careful with his wording. He got completely rinsed over it on Radio 5 last week.

Except whoever wrote the Reform 'contract' it seems.

This. It's an odd choice of target but I guess the more outrageous the more publicity it gets. I would prefer it if they chucked stuff at Farage as well TBH.

Happy with that, important that we get a bunch of easy home games early on to get some points on the board.

This. It would be interesting to see what the rules state but surely is the defender is pushing into his arm then it’s not positioned where it is deliberately?

Think Sunak has made a big mistake with the timing of this election, he has a few weeks to try and claw back Labour’s 20 point lead in the polls and it’s just going to be blanket coverage of the footie on TV from now on.

Brexit is the elephant in the room at the moment. The Tories can blame anything in Brexit at the moment because they are responsible for it, Labour won’t go near the subject because of the red wall. I expect that will change big time after the election once the Tories are out, anything negative to do with Brexit can actually be discussed with a bit of honesty. I expect the new government will blame anything shit they can on brexit when they are in the firing line.

This. I went to a comprehensive school during the Thatcher years and it was a complete dump, I remember one class that was about careers and one kid said he wanted to be an airline pilot and everyone laughed, including the teacher. I was lucky that my dad had been to uni and encouraged me to do so as well, to many kids it was something that never even occurred to them as being possible. My other half was the first in her family to get a degree, she's a maths genius but only thought of going after meeting me. It just wasn't something her family did.

I'm not for disarming at this moment in time but this is a fair point. Being part of NATO already gives us a nuclear deterrent (all be it not independent) could the money saved on nukes be better spent elsewhere?

Not a good one. I don’t think it’s the right time to disarm just pointing out that as part of NATO we would still have a deterrent even without Trident. Also I don’t think we should be too worried about Russia, they are struggling to take Kharkiv which is just 18 miles from their border in a country without nukes so I don’t give them much hope of invading us.

True, which means we would have the same deterrent within the alliance.

I dunno, there is a wiff of racism with his choice of language IMO. Maybe it's because of who said it but it could be racially motivated. If Boris Johnson had left early do you really think he would say he doesn't understand "our culture"? I doubt it, he would more likely say he's out of touch with normal people or something similar.

No, so the best thing we can do it rely on the experts to try and work it out as best they can. The fact that we are heating the planet and it could potentially be catastrophic is not in doubt, the only questions that remain are what happens next and what do we do about it.