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The second yellow was his own doing completely. Spend ages on the ball and then got caught. He should have moved it quicker. The first yellow was a poor first touch from him in my view. Both yellow card situations were created by Bragg himself. I like him as a technical midfielder but as that type of player he can’t be making mistakes like that as it is his bread and butter

They really have a lack of quality up top and that’s what bit them in the bum in the end. 45 mins against ten men and no chances created. We have Larin, scienza and azaz they don’t appear to have much at all

That’s another gotcha question. The most recent version of the tories in government aren’t as bad as the labour government but they deteriorated in their adherence to conservative policies over time, hence why lots of Tory voters deserted them. By the time they left power they were unfortunately hooked on government spending and buying votes on this basis much like the current government. So no Tory voters aren’t socialist as ultimately they deserted them to closer they got to centre left policies. That’s why Badenoch is desperately trying to give the impression that the tories are returning to conservative roots to get their voters back

No I think the most recent version of the Tories and Labour are similar. Slight variations but I wouldn’t describe the last version of the tories as being to the right

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Not really. Currently political decisions tend to be very much along the lines of traditional party values - ie left and right, hence why you get the comments. I think most people will support a policy, if they agree with it, regardless of party. For example I think illegal immigration Labour get a hard time in the context that the Tories were probably worse in dealing with it

Neither have an overtly racist policy they are campaigning on. They are seeking to reduce illegal immigration (as are Labour and the Tories) which doesn’t target a specific race / nationality of people. The perception of racism relating to restore / reform is miles off this policy. Also Labour are the party that was found to have anti semitism within its ranks. I can’t believe that a party would openly promote this policy. Surely it doesn’t meet the equality act standards

So it’s a racist policy which is causing division by trying to appeal to a group with religious beliefs at the expense of seeking to eliminate the state of Israel, namely targeting people of a specific nationality. How can that be allowed? Doesn’t this contradict the Equality Act?

Which part of the electorate are they targeting with this policy?

If they pass this motion, if you vote for the Greens you are racist. Overtly racist policies

I can’t think why you would want to live there with kids anyway. We moved out to commuter belt a while ago. Better community, nicer open spaces better bang for your buck in terms of property and your kids are less likely to end up dealing drugs. Cant think why you would want to stay in London. In commuter belt you can dip in and out of London when you want to

Round us they mostly have unfortunately. Thing is on the face of it earning £178k in London you probably have less disposable income than if you were on say £100k up north

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq74e4jg9leno This bloke is a menace to society and very thick. Imagine saying to nursery providers that their costs needs to be capped. What do you think they would do? Stop providing the service People that own homes alternatively will just jack the rent up at the start of the 3 years and justify it against the renter right act as evidence of market increase. Renters will pay the increase earlier and therefore more overall.

Good lad - save that 20% vat rather than hand it over to be wasted

And this is why politics shouldn’t be allowed near football. Must have been gutting for Baz that Saints chose Peretz over him. Would he have even played? If he had they wouldn’t have kept a clean sheet

Smallbone is a Martin dream. His side way passing stats are off the scale. Too lightweight and not enough of a risk taker to materially impact games at the higher level

The gender neutral dolphins will have a calmer state of mind

@aintforever there is a well known phrase which has the words “shoot” and “foot” in it that could be applied to your response. He applied the comment to governments across the last 10 years so it wasn’t party political. Of what he said what is incorrect or is it right and you don’t like it?

Absolute nutters. https://spectator.com/article/inside-the-green-partys-orwellian-language-guide/

Fair enough that’s a pretty balanced response. My view is simply that government has become too interventionist and we have created too much reliance on the state, hence increased state spending and taxes, etc. that doesn’t mean that I think every single person on benefits is a scrounger or lazy or that people shouldn’t be helped when they genuinely need it. I just think the better long term answer is lower taxes rewarding work and risk and making it easier for businesses to invest and grow. That creates jobs and opportunities and ultimately a more aspirational society rather than continually increasing redistribution

I understand global shocks impact economies but it’s not that simple either. Government economic policies play a role, including government spending on welfare, and if the policies dont play a role why have economic policies! I don’t expect to keep everything - I expect a system that rewards hard work and risk and doesn’t encourage or reward people not to. If you’re employed 9-5pm and do that don’t expect to earn the big bucks and then moan about it and say others should be taxed more. I expect value for money for the tax being paid not for it to be pissed away on employing more and more bureaucrats who make business harder. Again you are looking at things too simplistically. People that earn a lot more typically work a lot harder, have more stress and significantly more responsibility and take significantly more risks to make that money originally and continue to make it, including putting personal guarantees in place to start businesses and secure investment etc. I have no problem with people making 20 times the money if they are worth it, continue to grow and business and keep people in jobs (I previously said I support increased pay for good senior people in the public sector). Again easy to look at a figure and say it’s unfair but that is a failure to understand the context and that the country needs to reward such people. If you want to apply that logic why should an officer worker get paid 4-5 times that of a cleaner in that office.

Yes big commercial buildings have been doing well for a number of years, including logistics sites, due to a lack of them rather than the success of economic policy but they have mainly been left to get on with it. Most other people aren’t as optimistic based on the direction of travel. Unlike residential co living student and hotel simple box commercial buildings haven’t been hammered by various taxes and charges which are increasingly scaring of investors. It sort of makes my point, the less government intervention / tax / bureaucracy the market system actually works well. Tamper and fiddle too much and it doesn’t

I keep landing on bloody super tax!

I believe you have entrenched views also. I i would be interested to know what these people are involved in as they would certainly be bucking the trend compared to lots of the people I work with who are pretty unanimous in terms of their view. What types of properties / land do they own? Do they rent their portfolio to local authorities?

Great response. These tend to be successful and experienced business owners within property and land, albeit with diversification / investment into other areas. Some of the responses from you and your friends are frankly immature and embarrassing. You can’t debate things and just come up with slurs again and again.