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Reply | Sir Keir Starmer PM
at 11:03 6 Jul 2024
They would go on my list as repeat and nuisance offenders so yes. |
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Reply | Sir Keir Starmer PM
at 10:13 6 Jul 2024
For me, prisons should be about violent offenders, and what I call "nuisance" offenders. Your violent types, murder, rape, arson etc, by all means custodial sentencing is necessary. I would also use prisons as a means of giving society a rest from habitual criminals. You know the type. You see them in the Evening Post with 87 previous similar convictions. Those ones can't really be rehabilitated. They just keep offending and being sent to prison on a regular basis until eventually in most cases an overdose takes care of the problem.
There is another subset of criminals however for whom prison isn't a suitable place. Non Violent offenders. Possession charges, Fraud cases. There has to be a better way of "punishing" (for want of a better word) those who aren't really a threat or nuisance to society. [Post edited 6 Jul 10:20]
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Reply | Matchday prices slashed
at 09:57 6 Jul 2024
If it was a game we lost 1-0 despite having the quality but not the tactical approach to win it then the crowd would have been entirely justified.
I can accept losing. What I won't accept is losing because we've lacked the guts to try and win. We've seen far too much of the latter in recent years. Too many teams sent out to wear the opposition down via possessional attrition rather than by creating chances and openings.
It's the primary reason why I will always maintain that Paul Clement bears the most responsibility for our relegation from the Premier League whilst seemingly everyone else blames Carvalhal. The points we threw away at home early that season by cowering in our own half against mediocre sides cost us massively. |
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Reply | Matchday prices slashed
at 08:53 6 Jul 2024
Coopers football got stick for being dull because it was. In much the same way Martin's football was usually dull and Southgate's football is usually dull.
There seems to be a template that young British managers seem to want to follow, and it's tedious to watch. If LW is of the same ilk then next season probably isn't going to be much fun. Hopefully he isn't. |
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Reply | Sir Keir Starmer PM
at 08:18 6 Jul 2024
In the interest of fairness, having rightly criticised the appointment of Lammy, it's only right to say that the appointment of James Timpson as prisons minister could be inspired. [Post edited 6 Jul 8:31]
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Reply | No Tories in Wales
at 20:50 5 Jul 2024
Some people saw an increase in their income. Others saw a drop.
People would probably be quite surprised at how many skilled jobs suddenly started paying £2-3 an hour less than they were before the NMW came in. |
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Reply | Sir Keir Starmer PM
at 17:36 5 Jul 2024
To quote Napoleon, "Never interrupt your enemy when he's making a mistake". Starmer has played a perfect game.
Quietly got on with not looking like a complete idiot for the most part whilst the Tories imploded before him. It remains to be seen whether or not he's up to the job. Giving a racist halfwit like Lammy one of the Great Offices of State isn't a great start, but if that's his biggest mistake then he's off to a reasonable start. |
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Reply | Labour less popular now than under Corbyn?
at 17:20 5 Jul 2024
It could be argued that this election is FPTP at its best.
A failing Goverment was booted out, the biggest opposition party has enough of a majority to actually work, and the loonies on the extremes of right and left have minimal representation and are about as powerful and influential as Andorra.
PR would have given Reform or the Watermelons significantly more say, which I'm not sure that anyone should really want. |
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Reply | Dhanda joins Hearts
at 11:42 5 Jul 2024
We had a big, strong, powerful driving midfielder in our squad for the last two seasons who mostly ended up either out wide or on the bench. |
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Reply | Next Conservative leader
at 10:07 5 Jul 2024
They'll probably want to avoid a William Hague situation where one of the few younger, talented options gets the job too early. Kemi Badenoch has the brains and ability to do a good job but should be smart enough to avoid the poisoned chalice just yet.
I'd expect one of the few remaining big beasts to get it. Hunt maybe. |
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Reply | Will Reform win a single seat?
at 09:29 5 Jul 2024
Plaid for me.
I agree with almost nothing they or their candidate believe in, but I've met him a couple of times in his day job and he seemed like a genuine bloke who knew full well that he wasn't going to win. |
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Reply | 🔴🔵🟡🟢⚫️ Who are you voting for ?
at 07:57 5 Jul 2024
Completely agree with your second paragraph.
As I've said previously, trying to depict the Tory Govt as Fascist and Far Right when they were obviously nothing of the sort just cheapens the word and makes it easier for the real thing to gain traction.
Worth noting that very little of the opposite goes on. Some, but nothing on the same scale. Very rarely do you see Labour described as Communist or Far Left, which is why when the real thing emerges, like it did with Corbyn, it is roundly rejected by the electorate. The Socialist Worker candidate in Swansea West got just 337 votes. |
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Reply | 🔴🔵🟡🟢⚫️ Who are you voting for ?
at 07:25 5 Jul 2024
Absolutely. Shine a light on him and his party.
Smearing, sneering and trying to shut stuff like that down doesn't work. It gives him and his supporters an excuse to portray themselves as bullied. Daylight is and always has been the best disinfectant. [Post edited 5 Jul 7:26]
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Reply | Will Reform win a single seat?
at 06:31 5 Jul 2024
I saw something about the recent French results online which rings true here.
The current political establishment will work to prevent Reform/NR from gaining any power. They won't stop to ask themselves why so many people are now voting for them. They'll just carry on with the "Racist Gammon etc" nonsense that they've been spouting since 2016, and keep wondering why support for the extremists is rising. |
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Reply | 🔴🔵🟡🟢⚫️ Who are you voting for ?
at 06:25 5 Jul 2024
The results from by-elections over the last couple of years showed absolutely no enthusiasm for Labour. They were winning because the Tory vote was vanishing, not because theirs had grown. This has extrapolated UK wide. Not seen any "proper" turnout figures yet, but I'd still expect them to be on the low side.
There is an interesting quandry for the Tories now. They won big in 2019 by running on a fairly right wing message and promptly delivered on basically none of it whilst seeking to appease people who hate them anyway. This resulted in those who voted for them then then completely shunning them last night, either switching to Reform or not voting at all.
What happens next depends on who takes over as leader. They could probably take a big dump on Farage's parade by shifting back to the Right, but if they try to continue cwtching up with Labour in the middle they'll become an irrelevance.
Also worth noting the collapse of the SNP in Scotland. Single issue parties rarely make good Governments, and the Jocks seem to have finally wised up to that. |
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