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What we need to be careful of is a surge in demand when England get knocked out of the WC semi final on penalties. Was bad enough after the Bournemouth game.

You can see in local councils that decisions on special educational needs are now clearly driven by costs rather than welfare of the child. Hence the push by many for inclusion in mainstream that rarely works in secondary education. This is under the guise of it being better for the child which clearly isn’t. Although no one has the budget so no easy solution.

Interesting discussion but could do with being split out from Starmer thread

Isn’t that how democracies work?

It will be free vote so not something to lay at the door of the government pushing an agenda

I think the freebies is overblown but is of their own making as they seem to have amateurs managing their comms. Someone like Campbell I’m sure would’ve shut it down earlier and get everything out there and move on - although was lot simpler in the times before social media. I think Phillipson is wet and everything I don’t like about Labour. Also think Starmer is always worried and needs to plough on with some radical changes - many of which I am sure won’t personally benefit me. But he seems to care too much what the right wing press think and they are going to constantly pile on as long as he is in power. Hysteria about the winter fuel payments is laughable - people like you talking about grannies freezing to death. You get £900 more but £200 less - quite simple arithmetic so if someone can’t afford to put the the heating on this winter then they are pretty poor at budgeting.

Presumably you want VAT to be removed from many other goods and services?

Wait til Duckhunter bleats about his second home come the October budget. Only reason he rinses his tenants is cos he has been told he can the greedy bastard.

Tbf you sound like the hysterical halfwit

ICYMI as most media refusing to report on such a serious story

So Sue Gray is resigning? Probably the final straw was the imminent giveaway of the Falkland Islands on the back of that other place I have already forgotten the name

RM - Our challenge is “to be a much as ourselves as we can be” Lol

No point wasting the 2 week international break but more wishful thinking

Next it will be Starmer’s fault for the rain. Unrealistic for journalists to research the history of this when they have an agenda to push. Press are so dangerous brainwashing the thick.

Starmer’s biggest problem is he doesn’t appear to have a backbone and seems to want to ask people what is the right thing - not just with this freebie stuff but noticed in other situations. Public don’t necessarily expect saints but equally will have less respect for dithering and weakness. If he just said yeah realised all a bit over the top and is now stopping hardly anyone would care - well the Daily Mail and a few on Saintsweb if course

Some of my best friends are black neo-nazis

You know this means we won’t get hear about his daring raid to steal vaccines from the Dutch.

Poor show from Tory Laura. https://news.sky.com/story/bbc-cancels-boris-johnson-interview-after-laura-kuenssbergs-embarrassing-mistake-13226969

Beginning to doubt they’re going to do a Saints/Ipswich and go straight through the Championship

So it wasn’t Kemi on Penny?

Not so. Agree that applied to the first attack where drones gave plenty of advance warning so largely tokenism. Yesterday was more ferocious with ballistic missiles and was only US that gave Israel intel that was imminent. Fact that it appears not too much damage is not the same as was intended to not do much damage. As Benji highlights gives Israel an excuse, not that they needed one.

They might’ve been smarter to anticipate the Israeli retribution than worry about their PR

Must be staggering to those wanting an ‘unchecked’ Israel neutered that the UK govt is supporting the bad guys.

Fuck off

Russia are a busted flush. You think US will allow Iran to defeat Israel? I haven’t see the effectiveness but if anyone doubts the resolve of the Israelis they haven’t been paying attention over the last 12 months.