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- Fri Jun 13, 2025 3:24 pm
- Forum: General Banter
- Topic: The Politics Thread
- Replies: 21332
- Views: 5056475
Re: The Politics Thread
The only way you would get 'affordable housing' is if taxpayers provided the money to support it but, that money is being splashed aound everywhere else and there is none to spare,
- Wed Jun 11, 2025 12:53 pm
- Forum: Other Footy
- Topic: Tonight's Football
- Replies: 6719
- Views: 5366562
Re: Tonight's Football
Is it just me? I'm seriously concerned about the skill standards of the players further down the squad who should be playing their hearts out to move up the ranking.
Last night was garbage, like watching a bunch of kids who'd just met and turned out for a game, rubbish!
Last night was garbage, like watching a bunch of kids who'd just met and turned out for a game, rubbish!
- Mon Jun 09, 2025 8:27 pm
- Forum: General Banter
- Topic: This weeks RIP's........
- Replies: 1823
- Views: 405594
Re: This weeks RIP's........
Frederick Forsyth
RIP
RIP
- Thu Jun 05, 2025 1:42 pm
- Forum: General Banter
- Topic: The Politics Thread
- Replies: 21332
- Views: 5056475
Re: The Politics Thread
Extension of free school meals to all on universal credit is some good news in a year that hasn’t contained much! I think that's good news. I'm less enamoured to be paying for people to pop out more than two kids on benefits. Well you aren’t yet. And who knows if you will be? I think we should be b...
- Wed Jun 04, 2025 6:12 pm
- Forum: General Banter
- Topic: The Politics Thread
- Replies: 21332
- Views: 5056475
Re: The Politics Thread
So the unelected US bureaucrat, Mathew Whitaker, seems to be telling us we need to spend 5% of GDP on defence as "baseline." Where is Farage and the massed ranks of the indignant, pointing out from the rooftops that we don't take rules from anyone? It's oh so quiet... To be fair, if things are half...
- Wed Jun 04, 2025 6:59 am
- Forum: General Banter
- Topic: The Politics Thread
- Replies: 21332
- Views: 5056475
Re: The Politics Thread
See, you say that, but, just trying "something different" doesn't necessarily mean better. I'd contend that none of the current parties are "anything too different." They're all broadly neoliberal. Question for you - when we "shrink the state" - who controls the lives of people more? That'd be "the...
- Wed Jun 04, 2025 6:55 am
- Forum: Other Footy
- Topic: Tonight's Football
- Replies: 6719
- Views: 5366562
Re: Tonight's Football
England Women one up on Spain, lose 2-1. Just like watching Bolton. Own worst enemies giving the ball away. Way second best. :evil: ae:) Thought our lot was second best virtually the whole game Tango. Never fails to amaze me how many foreign teams seem to have a sharp passing ability both the male ...
- Mon Jun 02, 2025 9:03 pm
- Forum: General Banter
- Topic: The Politics Thread
- Replies: 21332
- Views: 5056475
Re: The Politics Thread
Hmmm, you didn't vote for any parties who just outright lied? Like maybe the last few Tory governments? I mean you can point to all the lies over 14 years...you don't seem to have spotted many of 'em... Dig and you will find. Labelled May a traitorous liar, Boris, an absolute liar, Truss, not aroun...
- Mon Jun 02, 2025 4:34 pm
- Forum: General Banter
- Topic: The Politics Thread
- Replies: 21332
- Views: 5056475
Re: The Politics Thread
Hmmm, you didn't vote for any parties who just outright lied? Like maybe the last few Tory governments? I mean you can point to all the lies over 14 years...you don't seem to have spotted many of 'em... Dig and you will find. Labelled May a traitorous liar, Boris, an absolute liar, Truss, not aroun...
- Mon Jun 02, 2025 7:23 am
- Forum: General Banter
- Topic: The Politics Thread
- Replies: 21332
- Views: 5056475
Re: The Politics Thread
^^ Yeah, I know you'd have been at the tail end of food stamps mate, we all had outside bogs, nothing like central heating etc. but don't let that stop anyone telling you how good you got it. Touche.. :wink: ae:) Was recognition, not a swipe, TD. :-) Oh, I saw that Worthy :wink: Seems a bit strange...
- Tue May 27, 2025 9:55 pm
- Forum: Other Footy
- Topic: Tonight's Football
- Replies: 6719
- Views: 5366562
Re: Tonight's Football
Not football, but related. Don't care what teams you like or dislike, but can't have a parade without a car ramming into people and the world's a chunk fcuked up. See your point, but following an ambulance in seems a bit pre- planned rather than spur of the moment? Just a thought... ae:) I thought ...
- Tue May 27, 2025 9:50 pm
- Forum: General Banter
- Topic: The Politics Thread
- Replies: 21332
- Views: 5056475
Re: The Politics Thread
^^ Yeah, I know you'd have been at the tail end of food stamps mate, we all had outside bogs, nothing like central heating etc. but don't let that stop anyone telling you how good you got it. Touche.. :wink: ae:) Was recognition, not a swipe, TD. :-) Oh, I saw that Worthy :wink: Seems a bit strange...
- Sat May 24, 2025 3:13 pm
- Forum: General Banter
- Topic: The Politics Thread
- Replies: 21332
- Views: 5056475
Re: The Politics Thread
I think broadly it's fair to say current pensioners have a better deal than anyone younger than them will ever have. I'm really cautious about "generational warfare" or the grim trend of pitting generations against each other. It isn't pensioners fault. It's a maths problem from the 40s. The stage ...
- Tue May 20, 2025 4:44 pm
- Forum: General Banter
- Topic: The Politics Thread
- Replies: 21332
- Views: 5056475
Re: The Politics Thread
The fishermen/women were fecked over when they voted for Boris and his chums and the subsequent oven ready deal (which was a rebranded hash of the May one that he said was shit). The new deal is no worse for said fishermen/women and actually improves their ability to sell their catches. If you real...
- Tue May 20, 2025 10:49 am
- Forum: General Banter
- Topic: The Politics Thread
- Replies: 21332
- Views: 5056475
Re: The Politics Thread
The fishermen/women were fecked over when they voted for Boris and his chums and the subsequent oven ready deal (which was a rebranded hash of the May one that he said was shit). The new deal is no worse for said fishermen/women and actually improves their ability to sell their catches. If you real...
- Tue May 20, 2025 7:19 am
- Forum: General Banter
- Topic: The Politics Thread
- Replies: 21332
- Views: 5056475
Re: The Politics Thread
I think the deal today sums up a lot of Labour’s problems. The deal is something that has been secured way above the expectations of people if you go back a year and see the questions to Labour about ‘how it could get a deal Ben the EU weren’t interested and that it would take years’. The concessio...
- Tue May 20, 2025 7:10 am
- Forum: General Banter
- Topic: The Politics Thread
- Replies: 21332
- Views: 5056475
Re: The Politics Thread
As predictable as it is mental. On what possible planet are we "virtually back in the EU"?! The planet where people never understood what the EU was nor what membership of it entailed. That one. Yeah the same planet as the globalist, secret commies, who hate free markets unless they control them to...
- Tue May 20, 2025 7:02 am
- Forum: General Banter
- Topic: The Politics Thread
- Replies: 21332
- Views: 5056475
Re: The Politics Thread
As predictable as it is mental. On what possible planet are we "virtually back in the EU"?! We will be able to use e-gates again. What a fcuking disaster. I'd much rather be waiting in a long queue, scowling at all the Johnny Foreigners passing through seamlessly, whilst singing Rule Britannia. Wow...
- Tue May 20, 2025 6:56 am
- Forum: General Banter
- Topic: The Politics Thread
- Replies: 21332
- Views: 5056475
- Mon May 19, 2025 12:46 pm
- Forum: General Banter
- Topic: The Politics Thread
- Replies: 21332
- Views: 5056475
Re: The Politics Thread
Virtually back in the EU, thank you Starmer, you undemocratic, thinly veiled bar steward. When you fall, I hope it's from a great height.