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Much better PR, the "adults being back in the room" which means no scandals on expenses or peddling of undue influence from outside parties, not banging on about great British energy saving us money when energy bills only go up, not making a cock up of the finances and the messaging around the finances so we've seen less tax revenue in than predicted and the tax take going down for the first time in a while. I think they clearly went heavily on how terrible everything was and how it was unlikely to get better when they first got in, realised that was a terrible mistake and so did a handbrake turn and are trying to accentuate positives now. I thought hiring Sue Grey in the manner they did was a terrible unforced error and made them look really dodgy needlessly. I think the Chagos Island deal makes them look weak and gives an impression that they aren't acting in our interests even if I don't particularly care about the Island in isolation. I accept that some things such as private schools and the farmers stuff is a political choice that I disagree with but they could argue they had a mandate for. I think that even discounting that stuff and allowing for the difficult financial situation they inherited, they've been below my expectations and have failed to sell a vision of Britain and a cohesive narrative to the country - hence the woeful polling data (a fact that even Alistair Campbell has been criticising them for.)

The mistakes aren't solely on tax although I agree that is one of the problems.

Nobody asked him to do that though just as nobody expected labour to come in and fix everything. What people wanted with Juric was for us to improve and put a consistent run of improved form together. What is expected from Labour is the equivalent for the country. Sure it's an impossible job if your expectations are wildly and completely out of kilter.

100%.

No job is impossible. There are degrees here it's not all good or all bad and even the most ardent Labour supporter will surely admit that they've made an awful lot of mistakes since last summer even if what they inherited made the job difficult.

31 pages and the usual posters are still talking about the Tories in the thread about Labour.

Soggy - the king of empathy.

Agree again! Resolutely refusing to criticise the "other side" of an argument or even worse misrepresenting or lying about an opposing view is beyond tiresome. Regarding poor MP behaviour, I think we can all agree that there have been some absolute giant shits and wronguns in all sides of the house.

I don't think there is a solution to stop us being shit. I'm merely saying that had we had some more flexibility from the start of the season we would likely have been less shit.

Please can we just have a manager that is flexible and not wedded to one particular style. Ideally it be that can make a neutral assessment of our players and then devise a system that is most suitable for them?

Finally something we can agree on.

Well I disagree. Ramsdale is a proven premier league keeper and the only reason he didn't move sooner is because he was waiting to see what his options were.

Surely Ramsdale will be in greater demand than Fernandes.

Yes but 'for a relegated club' is the key bit.

I'd say given inflation, the fact he's English and a youngster who has been one of our only bright sparks this season I'd be expecting 40 million as a minimum. Maybe I'm over inflating it and 60 probably is a stretch.

That's probably true. I could see us getting a Dibling sale in early for say £60 million and then driving a harder bargain for the others. I expect all to go eventually but hopefully we identify what we need early.

25 would do it I reckon you're correct. We won't have a strong negotiating hand after relegation.

It will (rightly in my opinion) be viewed as intimidation. There is no legal requirement for the police to inform her of the complaint and certainly not for them to do it in pairs in person. This follows numerous other occasions where the police have turned up to intimidate individuals for something posted on social media even when no crime has been committed.

He was undoubtedly a psychopath that no one should mourn the death of. I had the misfortune to know of him prior to him moving to Ukraine and getting political. The idea that he is potentially one of the reasons that Trump is mad at Ukraine is laughable.

Sick. To think that some think there's some sort of equivalence here. Hamas are human scum.

Indeed. Grotesque displays of barbarism are not part of the deal. Using kidnap victims as part of their propaganda campaign is disgusting.

Whatever anyone thinks of Ukraine, the fact that America is bringing up coachredpill in serious conversation is absolutely batshit insane.

Good point. That makes all the difference.

Terror attacks in Germany in the past year: @sadoldgit

Half a reserves game.