Lord Duckhunter

😂😂 Dinosaurs stuck in the 1980’s, “It’s The Sun wot won it”….. I can see them now, reading the “right wing press” during their coffee breaks, moaning that nobody gets the good news because it’s not in the paper. 😂… I would comment on the actual substance of it, but I’m totally in the dark until my paper boy turns up with my paper.

Yeah good news, yields on 10-year gilts are back down to Liz Truss levels…

Impossible

The other problem is the lack of local accountability as we’re too centralised. MP’s end up dealing with issues that are basically down to councils. Poole have a labour MP, and to be fair to the guy he gets involved with lots of local issues. However, most of them could be fixed if voters had more faith in the local council actually doing their fucking job. People moan about MP’s but more local councillors and councils are rotten to the core. They don’t come under half the scrutiny they should do. It started with Maggie and subsequent leaders haven’t handed real power back locally. Councils don’t really get punished for incompetence because they can point the blame at central government. I bet half MP’s issues could be dealt with locally, freeing them up to be better MP’s. They spread their time too thinly at the moment.

It causes issues within his mps as well as the public. You can’t keep sending ministers out to defend unpopular polices which are then ditched. Who is going to want to go out and defend this jury trial stuff on the Sunday morning round, they’ll face continued questions as to whether they’ll U-turn, as well as looking stupid when youve defended it publicly and they then do a 180 shift . Loyal ministers won’t like being hung out to dry, Boris had the same problem when he started veering about abandoning stuff. Every U turn weakens you internally, and that’s before you factor in the public reaction.

They might even get a coffee break from work.

Once you’ve opened the floodgates to VAR, there’s no turning back. If you’re using technology to determine factual decisions then you have to stick to it. You can’t say, well if it takes longer than 2 mins, then it’s onside, you’ll end up with an offside goal being allowed because one VAR took 2mins 1 sec to make a decision, whereas a similar goal is disallowed because a different var took 1min 59 secs. Harland was offside, it was then up to the referee to determine whether he was interfering. Why everyone was getting their knickers in a twist is beyond me. The right factual decision was reached, & most people would say it was interference. The dopey bird co commentator said “we don’t want to see goals like that disallowed “. WTF, she wants to see offside goals allowed? You can’t be slightly offside, there aren’t degrees of offside. You’re either onside, or offside….Once you take that decision from the Lino or referee timescales don’t matter.

Iran could be such a great country if it wasn’t held back by the medieval lunatics that have ruined the country. The 30 years before they took over Iran the country was pretty westernised with chicks having the same rights as Western Europeans, they could wear what they wanted were highly educated with 60’s & 70’s culture mirroring ours. They were a friend to the west & didn’t have the blind hatred of Isreal the rest of the Middle East had. It could be a wealthy, open and secular nation which could dominate the area in a positive way.

Good luck Baz, hope it goes well for him and he gets his move. I’ve not been impressed with him, but he was still a Saint, so thought I’d post highlights of the great saves he’s made over the years. Good luck, you’ll be missed….

I think it’s more that they’ve accepted Baz is shite & a bloke whose played 6 games in 2 years is far better.

I’ll remember him in a similar way. When I look back at his contribution I will be grateful . Grateful he got injured and missed the play offs.

We’d have probably gone bankrupt. He’s a short arsed Peter Risdale. If you think players & managers would have turned down Liverpool, Utd, Spurs and Arsenal to stay under a Cortese inspired Southampton, you’re deluded. Leicester won the league and couldn’t keep anyone except Vardy. The rebuilding job that Kat, Les Reed & Koeman did after Cortese left was remarkable. His “foundations” all fucked off. Amazing how a guy who would have taken us so far, and did so well hasn’t been snapped up by another club isn’t it?

Fuck, he’ll be back next year then.

I’ll let you know when it happens 😂

Wilder was good friend with an old mate of mine. Wilder was his best man, that’s how close they were. I haven’t seen the bloke for years as he lives abroad, but keep up with him on FB, every time he’s back he’s posts pictures of a night out with Wilder or in the players/directors lounge at a game. Anyway, I messaged him when Wilder got sacked, “we need your mate at Saints”. He replied “he’d love to”. Imagine the meltdown had we done so 😂😂