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That was something else, particularly second half, The Amex was absolutely rocking Verbruggen 8 -- some cracking saves first half, great on the ball Veltman 7 -- solid as ever JPVH 9 -- enjoyed his scrap with the beast, and was immense Igor 9.5 -- utterly brilliant today, and has been near...

I'm up that end of the WSU and don't think so. Our players are in offside positions far too much

Lovely highlights, but his best contribution to the game is absent.

Did you see any of Steve Ansell's prior bands? There was a great Brighton scene at that point, largely based around The Freebutt. Charlottefield were the stand-out band for me.

I don't disagree with any of that at all, and I think I've made my credentials on here abundantly clear as to the kind of future I'm fighting for. But I'm now 55 and -- generalising enormously -- since as a 10yo, economic inequality (and all that comes with that -- abandoned communities, ghost...

There is some of that code for racism, but there's also an awful lot of others that have to suffer being told that they're thick. That's pure intellectual snobbery, and yes the 'more pious end of the left' is the most guilty of this, closely followed by those that have magically discovered the...

Do you know what, I think you're on to something here with some of these points. And I don't normally think that, let alone post it.

Well, I think it's the other way round. There weren't that many tax and spend promises in Labour's manifesto and, what were there, were costed. What they've done in the budget is to raise employers NICs in the budget which wasn't in the manifesto, and increased spending on the NHS, which also...

Wot, no Wele, Wozza.

Decent assessment by El-Erian: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/07/labour-budget-bank-england-interest-rates

^This seems the most obvious range of options. Others include a land value tax, probably replacing council tax. If a LVT isn't viable or generates deleterious repercussions, then council tax remains ripe for reform -- and might produce some of the effects that @abc is seeking.

Depends on which of the EU's institutions you're referring to. If it's the Council, remember that there will be representatives of Hungary there so the extent to which they're generating strategies that Putin isn't privy to is open to question. If it's the parliament, then it's an open...

You make it sound as though the EU is a super-state with a foreign policy and an army.

More like a troll than a viking shirley?

It was a little bleak early on in 2020, but that's because the Rep voters are counted and released first. It wasn't that bleak in 2020, and I put a bet on a Biden win after the polls had closed at 5/2. It's looking bleak from what I'm seeing atm. Reps have taken the Senate. Harris just has a...

Is he a Smoothie?

Unfortunately I tend to wake up at about 4 and often struggle to get back to sleep so, tomorrow morning, will probably just get out of bed and head downstairs to watch the telly. I'm not entirely sure that we'll know too much before that. Polls close in Georgia and NC at midnight our time but...

There's literally no comparison between the two cases. The Tories tripled tuition fees from £3k to £9k overnight. This was done as part of the austerity regime, and with the intention of getting university tuition off the public purse. The 'increase' that the new government are introducing is...

The most startling thing in those numbers (to me, at least) is the high % of Independents.

Much easier for our friend that supports another club and likes commenting on the political threads on here to engage in some cod-logic and draw wild conclusions to suit his particular brand of prejudices though.