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Absolute mess. Pace may well use that money to pay down some of the debts accrued from their leveraged takeover.

I’ll consult with relevant authorities in Romney Marsh and let you know.

I don’t think you are. Shouldn't be allowed to vote though 😉

Not sure that stands up to objective scrutiny https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c5yz9pvvwg9t They’ll boot them out on the day of release but the HO won’t show its hand in advance to the activists and lawyers. The people protesting and being arrested/jailed are doing so violently, people aren’t being arrested for banners, chanting unless clearly racist, and lobbying. They’re being arrested for inciting arson attacks on hotels, attacking police officers, setting fire to innocent people’s houses, smashing windows, torching cars, and attacking black and other minority UK-born taxpayers who have nothing whatsoever to do with the original incident. Hell, even the GOP won’t let Trump have his restorative justice fund for the January 6 yobs who attacked police officers. As a final killer point, the people who carried out similar violence in 2011 who were from minority backgrounds received very similar sentences to those being handed out recently from Southampton, Southport, and no doubt Glasgow. Belfast might be a different magnitude.

As a non-Labour voter, I also observe that his government has gone much further in prosecuting people smugglers under new laws, the first prosecutions of which have happened today https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c5yz9pvvwg9t Good that custodial sentences given, I’d like to see them a bit longer still as a deterrent to others and I’d like to see instant deportations on day of release, but I can understand why the Home Office has said they’re considering deportation because you don’t want to give the lawyers and activists any chance to build an appeal. Kick them out first, and make the lawyers cough up which they won’t want to do. As icing on the cake, permanent bans from the UK and much longer automatic sentences if they are caught trying to re-enter the UK.

Human rights law firms and activists would scream but I’ve little sympathy because they’ll lie and tell judges pink is blue when it suits them and their client. There has been some acceleration since Braverman ground the system to a halt but it has to be much faster still, and yes, that has to mean tribunals.

Context dear boy. Trump has done the same over there for their tech sector in parallel with the ICE raids because of bros funding his campaign. I don’t think a 19 year old from Redcar with an U/C in Maths and English will be in the same ballpark.

The loyalist mobs are what Farage and Lowe aspire to. I bet Tommy Robinson was having a right old hand job watching the violence and pure racial hatred. @CB Fry if only it was just a bus being set on fire….although that always excites the camera crews as an image. Trial of the Sudanese man needs to be rapid, and instant deportation on release day.

Reported that the Samoan second row tried to hit Atkinson, missed but caught ECB security instead causing six stitches. https://www.planetrugby.com/news/saracens-player-named-following-melee-with-ben-stokes-and-gus-atkinson-in-bar-brawl Stokes in hot water though and if there was an alternative who hadn’t been in a fight or pissed to the point of staggering in the last 12 months, he’d probably be replaced. There isn’t an obvious option bar Caretaker Root who didn’t enjoy the role.

Makes a huge difference having an overseas player who isn’t a hologram. Must have been cursing the run out as looked set for a ton. 333 not bad, and forecast tomorrow should see a draw https://weather.metoffice.gov.uk/forecast/gcpuvk7px#?date=2026-06-10 Surrey could set a target with T20 scoring but seemingly no opportunity to bowl us out unless the Met Office is wrong.

The practical issue with that beyond legal immigration which all bar the absolute headbangers admit we need, is that we are an ageing population and the balance of those paying in and taking out e.g. triple lock benefits (40% of the welfare bill) for the oldies are a huge cost, it’s not just working age and mental health. Legal migration to prop up our health, social care and clinical sciences/civil Eng will get us so far this decade but the need will probably go beyond that. If people want to only have legal/economic migration to specific roles, then that means UK citizens taking a lot less from welfare especially pensioners. Given the hysteria around winter fuel allowance, I don’t fancy your chances of politicians of any stripe dealing with the practical impact. Our generation won’t get any form of state pension top up without an injection of younger workers paying in. Reform want to push up birth rates but that’s a generation away and more of adjusted property prices, land and much increased job security so people feel secure to begin families.

Disgraceful. It’s great to keep politics off of the main board but Trump won’t keep his out of football so strip them of it unless the referee is let in - Mexico can host lead with Canada. No chance Infantino has the minerals to do that though.

Stupid if they have but also Stokes’s batting has been on thr decline for some time so it may suit the ECB despite Stokes being an England hero. Don’t know who else is skipper though? Brook and Duckett also had nighttime incidents a recently and surely Root doesn’t want it back?

Will Lankshear? Makes me think of this originally being a Woolstoner https://www.facebook.com/groups/SouthamptonSotoniansandFriends/posts/4153587801598967/

Empathise in many ways with the current situation but you’ve also seen your club win in my lifetime the League Cup x2, Premier League and FA Cup. That ain’t too shabby at all for a mid-sized club similar to ours, probably exceptional along with your rivals on the Trent and if KP sell up, the good times will come back. Never know, you might have a promotion campaign next year although Rusty’s idea of football is very, very different to mine! I’d take some seasons in the National League if it meant I actually saw us win 4 major trophies.