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You really need to get a full time job, or at least a hobby. It is an opinion piece. I am sharing someone’s opinion. The colour of her skin has nothing to do with the criticism as well you know. On the other hand you were the one getting upset about footballers taking the knee against racism. Remember? Does the slogan “Black Lives Matter” still upset you? Hypocrite. “They” are only good for pulling my pints? Do you ever stop to think how stupid you sound? Clearly not. What is it with you people that you become so desperate that you try and distort reality in order to make yourself seem more important? We see it with Johnson and Trump and now we see it with people like you on social media. It’s like living in a parallel universe. One minute you are having a go at me for being woke and defending those protesting about racism and the next you are accusing me of racism. You really can’t see how odd that is can you? You made yourself look stupid on TUI and managed to get yourself banned. You haven’t learned any lessons have you?

Kemi seems to be determined to give Liz Truss a run for her money. https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/kemi-badenoch-declares-lunch-for-34298950.amp

It’s been a Godsend for Starmer. Farage has got Badenoch so rattled that she seems more intent on appealing to Reform/would be Reform voters than those middle ground floating voters if PMQs are anything to go by. She seems to have forgotten though that she was part of the government that presided over record immigration. Farage’s problem at the moment is that he is only attracting people like himself into his party. To grow a serious base he will need to attract some serious politicians with serious politics, something other than demonising immigrants or the EU.

You have a problem with people doing what they want even when it doesn’t impact others or you. We saw it with assisted dying and now with the legal practice of first cousins marrying. I think you need to ask yourself why it upsets you so much that people should live their lives, or end their lives, as they wish. You’re not a happy little soul are you? You come across like a male version of Kemi Badenoch. As far as I know, none of the people I know who have had children born with deformities or congenital health issues were of parents who were related. Should we stop all those from reproducing if there is the slightest chance of birth defects? Sounds a bit Brave New World to me.

Kemi makes a dog’s dinner of PMQs again. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/dec/11/the-tories-are-living-in-an-echo-chamber-with-kemi-badenoch-as-its-mouthpiece

Given the form of both teams I am expecting both of the teams to lose.

Now that Farage has finally made into Parliament and we have to take him and his party seriously, perhaps they should have their own thread. I’ll start. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/dec/10/nigel-farage-man-of-the-people-welcomes-his-latest-billionaire-to-reform

Just wait until they find out that Jewish people do it too!

Like everyone else here I have absolutely no idea what is going on at board level. If though, it has been decided at the highest level that the club will play the same way at all levels, then unless they make a u turn they have painted themselves into a corner. If they sack Martin they will need to replace him with someone who will play with similar tactics (which kind of defeats the object of making a change). I suspect the reason we haven’t heard from them yet is because they find themselves stuck between a rock and a hard place.

If someone had asked me last week if it was legal or not I wouldn’t have had a clue. This is a bit of an eye opener. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cousin_marriage I did hear today that there are genetic tests that can be carried out to determine whether there would be any problems with any children produced from such a union. It seems like it is widespread in some parts of the world and has clearly not been illegal here for some time. Is it such a problem if those concerned can be assured that their children will not inherit genetic problems? Apparently you are allowed to marry your first cousin under Judaism. Be prepared for an outburst of claims of antisemitism if it is banned here!

So it has been legal here since the Middle Ages (when marrying off children was also a thing) how come it has taken so longer before we are told that we should be angry about it now in 2024? Given that it has been legal here for so long there must be plenty of cousins who have married through the ages and are planning to get married now. If it is made illegal, will these people separate or just stay together outside of marriage?

Why? The EPL is a waste of time unless you are owned by people with more money than sense. Even then there is no guarantee that you can be competitive. It is full of overpaid prima-donnas and VAR. I wouldn’t have a problem with staying in the Championship. It is much more like Division 1 when I started following football back in 1965/66.

And while we are at it, if you are so hot on misogyny, why haven’t you bothered to pick up Duckhunter about his comments about 9 pinters down at his local ale house?

WTF are you talking about? Since conspiracy theorist Nic started posting on here you seem to have caught his disease, but I will bite. Evidence please of misogyny.

I used to enjoy your posts but you seem to have morphed into another internet forum idiot. It’s a shame. https://apnews.com/article/israel-netanyahu-antisemitism-campus-05ebd71bec931a62f58e7d5f9e93fa19 The same people now accusing me of being stuck in the 70’s, a racist and a fascist have spent years accusing me of being a lefty, a snowflake and woke. Only those very hard of thinking can see that you can’t have it both ways. If I were any of those things why on earth would I post against their posts? Surely I would be with them and one of the usual suspects? Or is that too hard to understand?

So you have well and truly joined their ranks. If you go back and read my post you will see that I base my comment of the hostages being safer with Hamas in that the IDF have a record of taking out their own as well as their enemy. It happened on 7th October. It happened to 3 of their own who were holding white flags at the time and a number of hostages have been killed by “friendly fire” whilst in captivity. All you are doing is what Netanyahu does. You try and defend equally abhorrent behaviour by throwing the anti-Semitic accusation their way. This is precisely what Netanyahu is doing with the ICC and it really needs to stop. This has nothing to do with hatred of Jews and everything to do with deflection. Anyone reading these threads over the years will have seen a lot more hatred directed as Muslims because of their religious beliefs than Jews because of their religious beliefs. My issue with Netanyahu, his government and the IDF has absolutely nothing to do with the Jewish religion per se other than where they use it to justify the genocidal actions towards the Palestinians. Carry on making yourself look like the other genocidal apologists though. As I said before, more Mrs Hudson than Holmes and Watson. What you and a great many others do is conflate support for the Palestinians with anti-Semisim which is what many Tories did and still do whilst displaying blatant Islamophobia themselves. I could have bet my mortgage on the usual suspects posting emojis. It speaks volumes that the same people don’t have a problem being associated with each other.

Did anyone mention that Queen Victoria married her first cousin (jaw dropping?) or are you all too busy trying to mitigate your Islamophobia by accusing someone else of anti-Semitism?

Rumours in Newcastle that we are looking at Rafa Benitez. https://www.newcastleworld.com/sport/football/newcastle-united/rafa-benitez-primed-for-shock-premier-league-return-at-newcastle-uniteds-struggling-rivals-4903987

Incest is illegal here isn’t it whereas marrying your first cousin currently isn’t. Not sure why you feel the need to bring Islam into it but then you and hypochondriac aren’t the biggest fans of Muslims so I shouldn’t be surprised.

Apparently he is going to tell the truth, as he “remembers it”. https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/10/benjamin-netanyahu-court-corruption-trial

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqx808q7lrno Netanyahu at it again

If he has attacked The Guardian it must be doing something right. https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/dec/10/journalism-values-reader-support-trump-musk

Why so “jaw dropping” if it is currently legal here and in many places around the world? What would be “jaw dropping” if it was illegal everywhere and someone brought a bill in to make it legal here.

School has broken early for Christmas I see.

I seem to remember a coach of our getting grief because he didn’t do it a while back. The game has changed and coaches coach. When they used to be managers they managed. Does it make any difference? Who knows, but the team that wins will always be the one that scores more goals.