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Reply | Jan Valery To Sheffield Wednesday
at 12:07 22 Jun 2024
It'll be interesting to see how Rohl does this season, and it may confirm a lot of saints fan's views that Ralf did well with Danny around. If he does well and Russell implodes with Saints, he might be a good option for us. |
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Reply | Who are you voting for?
at 11:30 22 Jun 2024
Nice one that'sfunny, but you can bet we'll be hearing of plenty of skullduggery from Labour MP's when they get their feet under the table. With Tories it always used to be sex scandals, Labour was always money scandals. |
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Reply | Who are you voting for?
at 11:07 22 Jun 2024
'Whilst illegal immigration into the UK has increased massively since Brexit, in the same period it has decreased in the EU.'
Looks like you've not noticed the problems Italy, Greece and southern Spain have had in the last 8 years.
Undoubtedly the Conservatives have been caught with their pants down in the last year with the massive increase in immigration, but they have moved quickly to stem the flow, Blair and Brown openly encouraged mass immigration much of it from the Indian sub continent and Africa as a political decision , they believe all immigratnts will vote Labour. Starmer is on record for supporting free movement and open borders. |
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Reply | Who are you voting for?
at 17:57 18 Jun 2024
You remember the 70s don't you? Racism was mainstream, and openly condoned, and in all the media. Remember 'Love thy neighbour ', Till death do we part, Dick Emery, Bernard Manning, and just about every other comedian. Casual racism was in everyday language in the office, workplace, schools and on the street, thankfully not any more, so please have some perspective. |
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Reply | Who are you voting for?
at 17:43 18 Jun 2024
Well my point is, we never needed mass immigration and in the late 80s and early/mid 90s we were growing very fast as an economy (which Blair was very happy to inherit).
The short term needs have hopefully been filled, but doesn't it concern you that we've imported 750,000 people in a year? That is the equivalent of 3 cities the size of Southampton, from predominantly third world countries. We used to be able to absorb other cultures over time and integrate people into our system, these numbers make that impossible.
Your point about higher wage costs is relevant but in the growing GDP of the late 80s, 90s that could be maintained.
So let's grow our economy use our own people to fill the jobs, after all we do have 9m who are economically inactive. I unfortunately know quite a few who are young but choose not to work because they can get paid by the govt not to. Maybe someone needs to get tough with them and help the genuine needy. |
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Reply | Some Tragic News About SFC_Referee
at 09:09 18 Jun 2024
Truly terrible news. I'm very shocked to hear of his passing, you feel like you know every poster on here to some degree, and Elijah came across as a very genuine guy with great knowledge. This has touched many people on this board as we've discussed subjects with him so many times, a real loss. Sympathy to his poor Dad and family, if it's a small consolation he will live on with us on this forum. |
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Reply | Who are you voting for?
at 19:13 17 Jun 2024
I don't buy that argument, we're didn't have a shortages of people to do jobs in the 70s, 80s and 90s and immigration was about 30,000 a year. Blair started mass immigration in the late 90s as a political decision.
We stopped training/paying our own people including our established immigration population because it was cheaper to get foreign workers....which as it happened drove down the wages of our poorest workers even more.. |
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Reply | Who are you voting for?
at 09:33 17 Jun 2024
Last year we saw 750,000 come into the country predominantly from third world countries, as a net figure. The gross figure was 1.2 Million !!! If you say average 2 people per property to house that many people you are looking at 375,000 homes needed. On top of that we have 150,000 illegal migrants waiting to be processed. We are building about 200,000 homes a year for the population we already have, so cannot possibly accommodate these extra numbers. We've increased our population by 10 million since 2000 and we wonder why people can't find a dentist, the NHS is on it's knees, people wait years for housing, house prices are sky high, schools are full up, roads are gridlocked etc etc.
Labour started the mass immigration policy under Blair because they assumed all immigrants would vote Labour and the Conservatives assumed it would increase GDP, infact GDP per head falls, so we are all worse off. So is it any wonder that people are looking to Reform to get immigration back to 80's and early 90's levels. |
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Reply | Eddie Howe
at 13:41 15 Jun 2024
He was an instant success at Newcastle before the big money started coming in, and he massively over achieved. Good coach. |
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Reply | LaLa signed
at 13:35 15 Jun 2024
Ha ha, no chance. |
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Reply | Stu Armstrong
at 10:09 6 Jun 2024
Our most intelligent and creative player by a country mile who should have featured more, when everybody else was passing sideways or backwards Stu was making his trademark diagonal runs or slipping through a pass and looking to open their defence. We haven't had a player like that since Lallana who ironically we may get back when he's too old. Very sad that we couldn't keep Stu for our PL return. |
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Reply | Transfer rumours
at 12:43 4 Jun 2024
I thought Tom Fellows at West Brom looked a terrific player, very fast and direct, definitely one to keep an eye on. |
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Reply | Trains Next Sunday
at 09:49 26 May 2024
We're on the train from Dorchester, a smattering of saints fans, Nice comfy seat, sun is shining, what could be better? Train back from Waterloo will be a different story!!!
COYS |
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Reply | Oh Sh1t
at 10:14 6 May 2024
Agreed. I was referring to forking out a decent wedge on 2 key positions. |
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Reply | Oh Sh1t
at 09:38 5 May 2024
Presuming we get £130m if we're promoted, then we must buy a proven £30m defender to partner HB. But crucially we need to spend to get a decent goalkeeper. Hopefully we'll then survive. |
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