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I have never employed a football coach, but would you just look at the applications or would you work through your own list of people you have identified as being of interest. I can’t see a quality manager worth his salt sitting down and putting together a formal application form. I wonder how many of the 150 applications were people on Universal Credit fulfilling their job application quota? 😉

We had that conversation a couple of months ago. If we were 10 years younger we might seriously consider it. 14 years of austerity, Brexit and Covid have all left this country in the crapper. Anyone who thinks that Labour, or anyone else for that matter, can turn things around quickly are delusional. We like to think that we are a tolerant country but the truth is that we are rapidly turning into the country we were in the 70’s. Starmer was right when he said it would take up to two terms to fix this country. Like with football managers now, if they don’t deliver in two months they can expect the sack. Just over a year in to an even tougher job and Starmer is, supposedly, toast. Driving back from the supermarket today I noticed that the Union and St George’s flags hanging from the lampposts are now just shredded rags. If the people who put them up were so proud of their country, why haven they replaced them, or at least taken them down as they look a mess? Just the usual nationalistic gesturing I suppose. What’s next? The country needs more money which means taxes will need to rise in the budget. Starmer and Reeves will get a kicking but at some point this country, all of us, are going to have to accept that we voted economic sanctions on ourselves in 2016 and we will be paying the price for some time to come - be it under Labour, the Tories, the LibDems, Reform or the Greens. The alternative is even less public spending and we know where that leaves us.

Hard left? Who? The only people I can see making moves are from the opposite end of the political spectrum. What have I missed?

It was on LBC this morning. The guy said the numbers had increased because they are now calculated in a different way, but if using the old method there was little change over the last 4 years.

Fair enough, I just thought your response was a bit over the top given the subject manner. I know you don’t know me, but you did post a while back that you didn’t particularly like me (not my posts). It’s okay. I can live with that. And yes, I do play the poster on occasion, as I have been played myself rather than my posts. I do remember you “playing” a certain poster not so long ago.

You will know all about a narcissistic response. You are desperate for attention, good or bad. Like everyone else on the planet, I get things wrong. So what? I live with the fact, quite happily, that I am far from perfect. You, on the other hand, can’t handle that you are not so live in a world where you make out that you are (ref. Donald Trump). How many grown men brag about the number of laughing emojis they have had on here? I rest my case.

I can promise you that, if I was a woman, Farage is one of the people I wouldn’t touch with a barge pole.

You really need to spend more time on your job and with your family and friends. This need you have to follow certain people around and have a pop at them on a daily basis is not good for your mental health.

This is a football forum. A large proportion on posts on here are crass and fucking stupid. You know that just as well as I do. You also know as well as I do where John Crace’s comment came from (as a political sketch writer his job it to make fun of politicians). I am sorry that you have felt the need to take things so personally and seriously but I guess, like another poster in here, you feel the need to have a pop because you just don’t like me.

Isn’t that what NATO is for?

Thank you for pointing out the fact that I missed a word out. I have now corrected my mistake. 😘

Fascists are very far right in the political spectrum. When you start making sense perhaps people will take your posts seriously. When are you going to respond to my request for the question you say I haven’t answered?

Harsh, but fair!

No one said he was? You seem to have missed the point. It isn’t as if we are comparing Brad Pitt and Tice. Tice and Farage however… I couldn’t say for certain that she has shagged Farage. Can you say for certain that she hasn’t?

It doesn’t mean to say that she hasn’t/wouldn’t shag Farage too though does it? Her taste in men is clearly questionable.