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Only if its you doing the unfurling.

A nice sentiment Gloucester, but these are just words. I expect to see a proper protest on my behalf at next years Epsom Derby.

To be honest it's always the case that those oppose a Labour government won't comment on the good news and will on the bad, the same goes for those who oppose a Tory government. I'm a little different, I'm on the right but happy to give praise to a Labour government if it deserves it, despite of course not being allowed to vote.

Yes, good news indeed, better than the markets expected.

Is that SOG driving?

Bragg plays deeper than Smallbone so you wouldn't expect many goals from him. I'm sure he will play a lot more minutes this season, he impresses me a lot.

I think you could go round and round for ages and he still wouldn’t get it.

He apparently made all sorts of claims that were plainly false, sounds like he had some sort of mental health issue.

Clearly we will be getting a new striker in and would Blackmore have mentioned Vipotnik (sp) if it wasn’t close to happening?

Loved Seville. Agree about Italian cities, Bologna certainly sounds nice.

Exactly the same for us last year, we started walking very briskly.

My dear old Mum always used to say "Shhhhh....ugar", for Dad is was a simple "Bugger".

'Muppet' has had a recent renaissance in my personal vocabulary, and you can't beat a little bit of 'dickhead'.

Very kind of you Sir. What was it that Soggy said to upset me so much? I seem to have forgotten. 🫢

“I think taxes should be lowered for low and medium earners you gimp” A little bit personal I reckon.

People who think my dribbling impacts in any way my ability to make financial decisions.

Bloody hell, I better delete that post I made on the Transfer Window thread with a link to a post on X, someone might think I’m a racist.

With the greatest respect, who are you to decide from which platform articles can be posted?

Sorry Ralph, I'm certainly on the right like you, but can't agree with this post. IMO Egg is a decent and reasonable poster.

This is a myth. The money you 'pay in' in terms of NI goes towards current pensions for current pensioners, it doesn't go into any sort of fund for your retirement. NI is just another tax and IMO should be abolished and moved (over time) to income tax. Our tax system is ridculously complex and gets moreso every year. At least a Labour and Tory government implemented workplace pensions which was a start.

Oooooh, young man! Seriously though, in 27 years the retirement age will probably be 70+.

I'm also lucky enough to have private healthcare, paid for by my company, but I have to pay BIK tax which costs me about £180 per month. I have colleagues who have declined private healthcare because of the tax they'd have to pay. This seems wrong to me, the government should be encouraging people/businesses to use private healthcare, it would ease the burden on the NHS.

Probably not no, but better than they were. To be fair, I did say 'more' acceptable level.

The triple lock does have to go sadly, it's unsustainable. It has done what it was supposed to in restoring pensions to a more satisfactory level although we would all want it higher. Changing it to match average wage growth would save something like £6bn (I think). The reality is that the state pension will at some point be means tested and that threshold will go down over time to a point where middle income earners will have to fully self-fund their retirement.

And I'm the one who's not allowed a vote? 😞