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Reply | Get the Blankets Out
at 10:38 12 Jan 2025
Quite possibly. Basic human nature in action.
It's a situation probably not helped by the people in charge of the projects on the Government side not being up to the job of managing schemes on that level. If you're a person with that level of ability then you're not going to be working for a Civil Service wage. You're going to be the one on the other side of it. |
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Reply | Get the Blankets Out
at 09:44 12 Jan 2025
We do it every time we build a nuclear submarine. Same basic principle, just scaled up. The skills and knowledge are most definitely there.
It's so costly because of the planning process. It's probably doubled the price of HS2. |
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Reply | Labour's New Tick Tock Video
at 20:44 11 Jan 2025
And to think that there were people trumpeting that "The Grownups were back in the room" after the election. Currently they're making the last couple of Tory administrations look competent.
This recent story is a cracker too...
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Reply | January Transfer Thread
at 14:08 11 Jan 2025
Can you imagine him playing in a system like ours? LW would hook him in minutes for playing a pass that wasn't a 100% cert.
One of the most fun players to watch we've ever had though. You'd never know if what he was going to do next would be brilliant or idiotic. All the talent in the World but a 10p brain controlling it.
Apparently his missus was forever having to collect him from the outdoor courts in Glais because he was always down there having a kickabout with the local children. Just a big kid. [Post edited 11 Jan 14:09]
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Reply | Swansea 2025 budget
at 13:51 11 Jan 2025
Surely the point of the mobility car is to enable the child to get where he needs to without the taxi? Mum can get the bus to work. |
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Reply | Get the Blankets Out
at 12:28 11 Jan 2025
And with vegetables like Milliband holding important roles in the decision making process that's not going to improve any time soon.
In any case, the Tories aren't blameless either. Eighteen years in power between 1979-1997 and opened a grand total of three. |
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Reply | Get the Blankets Out
at 11:36 11 Jan 2025
Decades of poor Government decisions led us to this point, not least of which the reluctance to build plenty of nuclear all over the place and switch the UK to an almost entirely electric energy system.
The UK has nine reactors. France has 57 and is able to export €3bn worth of electricity every year because they don't waste their time on renewables. Far more of their homes and businesses are heated by electricity, leaving them far less reliant on gas supplies. |
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Reply | Swansea City : A club with access to millions but can’t spend it !
at 07:17 10 Jan 2025
Because we offered him a salary considerably larger than they did. It certainly wasn't loyalty as he was making it very clear at the time that he was waiting to see if there was interest from other clubs.
It was a tentative effort from them. Nothing more. If they'd seriously wanted him as anything than a potentially interesting freebie they could have outbid us. They didn't bother. |
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Reply | Oldham grooming gangs: Government blocks national inquiry
at 20:52 9 Jan 2025
The fact that it's mostly Pakistani Moslems would suggest that it's probably a mix between culture and religion. Given the general disdain in Islam for the rights of women it would be dumb to suggest that Religion plays no part, but Moslems of other cultures and ethnic backgrounds don't tend to feature much in the lists of those prosecuted.
Perhaps that's just because most Moslems in the UK have their roots in that area instead of others like Bangladesh or Indonesia, but you'd expect to see some others if it was purely a religion thing. Maybe it's just an extended family/clan thing. |
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Reply | Oldham grooming gangs: Government blocks national inquiry
at 20:33 9 Jan 2025
Most religions promote the belief that their followers are superior to others. The Catholic Church has a history of bloodshed that at least rivals and possibly surpasses Islam.
Religious crazies are going to crazy whatever fictional book they're into. |
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Reply | Swansea City : A club with access to millions but can’t spend it !
at 20:30 9 Jan 2025
Yep.
Salary and spending caps only really work in closed systems like the US sports leagues. Nobody who is any good at Baseball is going to earn anything like the same cash anywhere else so how much teams spend can be controlled.
How do you do that in a global game like Football? If the Football League and Prem instituted a cap then Serie A would dominate again. Or maybe La Liga. They're not going to do that because they have a product to sell. So we're stuck with this pretence. |
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Reply | Brendan mentions us in his press conference
at 20:25 9 Jan 2025
Exactly.
Passing and moving needs to be done with intent and tempo, both of which are completely absent in Williams/Martin style football. Grimes can sit there racking up as many completed passes in the final third back and fore between the flanks as he likes, but it'll get us nowhere.
People are getting excited about Ginelly returning to action. Odds are if he returns he'll either get the ball far too deep because he's had to come back for it, or far too late when the opposition have had time to double up on him. Then some will blame him for it. |
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Reply | Swansea City : A club with access to millions but can’t spend it !
at 20:20 9 Jan 2025
The problem is that there isn't really a way to properly Police expenditure at the higher levels of the game.
FFP in its first iteration was a stitch up. An obvious plan to pull the ladder up behind the already big and wealthy clubs like your Man Utds, Liverpools, Arsenals and the like and prevent clubs like Man City from doing precisely what they have done. Same basic principle on a European level. To protect the big boys from stade funded interlopers stealing their glory.
I can't even really hate Man City for breaking the rules as they stand. They've only done what Jack Walker did at Blackburn. Spend their way into a position where they can challenge the big boys.
The rules now have turned football at a certain level into a game for accountants and lawyers, all looking for loopholes to excuse extra spending. Stadium sale and leasebacks, dodgy commercial deals. It's all a bit silly.
The one thing that might start forcing a bit of sanity back in, caps on spending in terms of salary and fees won't work either as all it'll do is force the best talent to leagues not covered by them. It wouldn't even work Europe wide unless they wanted the Saudi Pro League to become the strongest in the World. |
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