Lord Duckhunter

No need to wait and see what’s happened to our tenants, their rent has gone up because supply is going down. Exactly the same thing that happened when Osborne introduced restrictions on buy to let mortgage tax relief, instead of hitting “greedy landlords”, it hit ordinary Joes because supply went down. So many sold up, the ones that didn’t were able to pass the extra tax due onto their renters.

This. A rise in CGT from the current 20 per cent to 40 per cent or even 45 per cent now seems certain. The trouble is, people are already planning ahead. There are reports from accountants and financial advisers across the UK that small companies are being sold, share portfolios cashed in, and property holdings reshuffled to book the gains right away. That makes perfect sense of course. If you sell now, you only have to pay 20 per cent of whatever profit you have made, whereas if you wait until the end of the year you will have to pay twice as much to the government. The result? The raid will generate almost no additional revenue, for the simple reason that everyone will have sold if they can, and if they can’t, they will just hold onto the asset until the rate comes down again, or they can move abroad for enough years to avoid it. If you are going to raise CGT you have to spring it as a complete surprise, and implement it on the same day that it is announced, so that no one can plan ahead. Instead, Labour has made a complete mess of it. In reality, all it has done is expose how hopelessly ignorant this administration is of basic economics. Neither Starmer nor Reeves, even though she keeps boasting about how she ‘knows how to run the economy’, have worked out that taxes impact the way people behave, and that has to be taken into account when planning any major changes. That hardly bodes well for the next five years.

Based on what?

Oozed class. Looked a quality above anyone else last night. Don’t think he gave the ball away once, and it wasn’t just safe balls either. Hopefully we’ll see a few more cameos like that in the league before the seasons out.

Only saw the second half, but was a decent game for this stage of the competition. Pleased for Bree that he got a goal, and hopefully this may fire Archer into a goal scoring run. Lallana looked a class above everyone else on the pitch imo.

Ultimately, not good enough despite early promise. Hopefully Sully next out the door.

Not a peep, what ware you on about 🤡. Plenty of complaints about tax rises, immigration & other pinko nonsense. Still, as I’m on ignore you probably missed it. As Dan Hodges has said, being as incompetent as the previous Government isn’t the “change” people voted for. Unless Starmer gets a grip this is heading one way.

Revolver started topping various best Beatle album polls around the Brit pop era, whereas it had always been Pepper or Abbey Road prior to that. The look The Beatles had in ‘66 could be seen as similar as well. Myself I always thought they were more like Slade, not in style, but a great little band with decent catchy riffs, who were of their time. Like Slade, they’re probably better to have left it where it was. The greatest trick the Beatles pulled off was staying apart. Nothings as good second time around.

Taking winter fuel payments off pensioners, giving in to the train drivers & then letting the bloke who coughs up for his clobber & glasses wander around Downing Street with access all areas pass. Not a very good start is it. When can we start complaining about it, because if it was The Tories you’d be on one of your crusades. God knows what a cock up he’ll make of the budget and the unintended consequences of these duds running amok. I had one perfect example myself last week. We rent out a property through a letting agent, & every year they give us a recommendation of the rent increase we should charge. We go with them because they know the market & know their renters. Lease is due in Oct, and need to give them 2 months notice of any increase. Recommend increase huge , fucking hell. Rang agent to ask why & check it wasn’t a mistake. Evidently it’s now become even more of a landlords market, “they’ll pay it because there’s nowhere else to go” & went on to say that landlords are selling up when tenancies end to avoid potential CGT rise in up coming budget. Supply is now taking a real hit, particularly in larger property (as our is). Rents are going up above inflation. There you have it, a policy to squeeze the rich, ends up hurting ordinary Joes and adding to their cost of living. Labour in a nutshell.

Perhaps somebody can explain this to me, because it’s baffled me since Lego arrived. If mincing around at the back & in midfield was the way to bring opponents on to us, to then play through their press, and if keeping the ball & recycling it is the be all and end all of the game. Why do we hoof it into the channel from kick off? Every kick off it goes backwards & then is hoofed forward. If knocking it long to battle for the loose ball is ok from kick off, why can’t our keeper do the same from goal kicks?

I’m fully in the “dont give the ball away camp” was brought up playing like that & fully bought into it watching. Played CF for many years, at about Wessex league level (didn’t exist then), not great but a step above pub football. I’ve had ex pros fucking dig into me for giving it away, been substituted (in the days of one sub) for giving it away cheaply, so it’s been drummed into me for 50 fucking years. The massive difference was we were only talking about 2/3 of the pitch, when you got in and around the box you were expected to try things and make things happen. That’s what every pro side did. If the full back or winger got a yard, he whipped it in, he didn’t recycle the fucking thing inside. Nobody ever got a bollocking for giving the ball away in the final third. I’ve no problem with keeping it, in areas we need to keep it (which doesn’t include our box), keeping it to move up the pitch. But fuck me, we play safe around their area as well. What really boils my piss is we have midfield & attacking players obsessed with not giving it away, and centre halves & keepers doing just that with kamikaze mincing about. Possession based football, my arse. Bally was one of the best short passers of a football I ever saw, yet he wouldn’t be attempting passes we want AM & Jan fucking Bednarek to make in and around our own box. Madness….

The usual suspects 😡

Even if no arrests were made and there were no stabbings, the thing shouldn’t be in the streets. Fucking rubbish left everywhere, people taking a dump in gardens, ugly fat birds shaking their booty, horrendous. It’s more like fetish week in Gran Canaria than a Caribbean carnival. Is Notting Hill even a Caribbean area anymore, more hipster twats I’d imagine. Move the fucking thing to some controlled outdoor venue, and let them get on with it.

Lord Duckhunter thinks that’s a load of old pony. Is an interesting thread, if you don’t like it put him on ignore.

There were leavers from the left and leavers from the right, wanting totally different things. Just as Kier Starmer wanted a different UK in the EU than David Cameron did, the RMT recommended Leave alongside Nige, so whose version should be “forced to give an accurate picture”. Two of histories biggest leavers Tony Benn & Bob Crow didn’t want to leave so we could become Singapore on the Thames, people wanted to leave for different reasons, you can’t demand a manifesto from one group of leavers. When we voted in the first referendum there was no mention of a single currency, Poland joining the bloc or other changes to our relationship that came about as a result of Maastricht & Lisbon. The vote was to leave or stay in, & Parliament to decide what both looked like. The Government decided to sign these treaties. You bang on about a second referendum, but our side weren’t given one when those treaties were signed, changing the EEC we voted on. Most remainers seem to fundamentally misunderstand the role of the referendum in our parliamentary democracy, which is strange because they’re supposed to be the clever ones.

That’s it in a nutshell. It wasn’t like we were 1-0 down when they went to 10 & couldn’t get it back. Does anyone seriously believe that Newcastles tactics didn’t contribute to us “playing well”. They let us play in certain areas, but once we got into areas they didn’t want us playing in they snuffed us out pretty easily. We seemed to surprise them early on, but we did that to Liverpool last season & once they adjusted they overcame us pretty easily. That was a massive missed opportunity, and Sat was a shit show. If we play like that at Brentford we’ll get beat as well, with UTD to follow. People moaned about Jones losing winnable games, those 2 we’ve lost were both winnable. 0-0 when they go down to 10 and an average Forest at home, 0 points is under par.

What did it for me was when their ex player got some applause when coming on for Fulham. “You wouldn’t expect anything else from these fans”, the fact that it happens at every single ground nearly every time an ex player returns seemed beyond him. I think Michael Owen might think differently as well. Fucking sickening & I quite like Scousers.

They had 10 men for a friggin hour.

Fuck me, the Liverpool love is a strong as ever. I thought it might dim when Klopp left, but sky still wetting themselves like adolescent chicks.

I’ll make it easy for you. What a load of old pony.

Fuck me, you need to calm down, it’s only Aug and your blood pressure must be through the roof. All I said was Adam Armstrong isn’t good enough, if that makes me a Skate there must have been a lot of skates in the Cricketers after the game. Adam Armstrong, Edozy, Smallbone, were woeful yesterday & I’ve seen enough of them to form the opinion they never will be good enough. BDD was poor, but I haven’t seen much of him (but haven’t been impressed with what I have seen). THB had a poor game, but he’s a good player. The stand outs for me were the little Japanese bloke, Downes & KWP. As for Lego, his tactics in the second half at Newcastle were poor & his tactics yesterday were baffling. Taking the third best squad in the championship to promotion doesn’t give you a free pass to be tactically inept in the Premier league, not from me anyway. He needs to sort it out pronto.

Not impressed myself, didn’t pass sideways enough, didn’t slow the build up to walking pace & what on Earth was he doing taking people on? #russball

We can judge him on his 2 previous premier league seasons though. Absolutely nothing I’ve seen in his two games this season convinces me he’ll be any different this time around. He’s not good enough to start at this level.

Who was that bloke who has 68 premier league appearances before this season. You know the little short Geordie bloke, what happened to him?

How could it be defined in any way. Leave weren’t a Gov in waiting putting forward a proposal of how they’d govern, people within the campaign gave their opinion, but George Galloway wanted a different country after Brexit than Nigel Farage. Neither were in a position to enact anything, the remain Parliament were the only body that could. It’s the reason referendums are a bad idea in a parliamentary democracy. A referendum called by & voted for by the remain side who thought they’d win. Some on the leave side did want to stay in the SM & CU, but as many on the remain side spelt out that voting leave meant leaving both, these included the PM, who was in a position to enact that. Talking of which, the biggest lies came from him, he’d negotiated a great deal, and he won’t resign if he loses the referendum. Complete pony, from the bloke that ultimately gave us Brexit. But ultimately it wasn’t Farage, or leave that took us out of the SM & CU, it was Parliament. A Parliament stuffed full of Remainers. Your side took us out of those 2 bodies….