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News and Current Affairs / Re: Labour Thread * No Gaza *

« Last post by Robinred on Today at 01:58:17 am »

This whole affair is beyond distasteful.

I’ve no time for those Corbynites who snipe from their newspaper columns at Starmer’s Labour. Owen Jones in the Guardian and Andrew Fisher in the iPaper consistently do this, and they piss me off no end.

But this episode represents something of a watershed. Do we now accept a notion that Natalie Elphicke has had a Damascene conversion?

Of course not. So the blatant and patent cynicism of her decision should, if we’re being morally consistent, beg the question asked this evening of John McDonnell - if Elphicke is ‘acceptable’ why shouldn’t the whip be restored to Diane Abbott? It’s a good question. Personally I have little time for either, but of the two, Diane Abbott is preferable by a considerable margin.

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Liverpool FC Forum / Re: LFC's next manager - chat and informed speculation

« Last post by istvan kozma on Today at 01:53:22 am »

Another departure coming out. Kornmayer now.

The bench is gonna look so weird next season.

So leaving are:

Klopp, Lijnders, Krawietz, Achterberg, Matos, Kornmayer, Schlumberger.

As far as I know. Anyone know of any more?

Slot, Hulsoff, Peeters and Reijnen due to arrive.

Feels like more news will come for some additional staff members.

Would be good for Slot to have some extra heads on top of the 4 that have been mentioned loyal to the new management team to share the workload and stamp some sort of authority across the squad.

Can't ever remember a cull like this, regarding coaching & medical staff leaving. To hardly have any staff left after 9 years, is worrying.

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Liverpool FC Forum / Re: LFC's next manager - chat and informed speculation

« Last post by Samie on Today at 01:42:38 am »

We have Taffarel. 

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General Football and Sport / Re: NBA Discussion

« Last post by Coolie High on Today at 01:32:20 am »

I would have gave it to Doncic.

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Liverpool FC Forum / Re: CL SF: Liverpool 4 vs Barçelona 0 (4-3) Origi 6', 79’, Gini 53', 56 Bloody hell.

« Last post by newterp on Today at 01:29:24 am »

Fuck, can you imagine it? They would have spent at least 5 minutes reviewing the fourth... "it FEELS like you shouldn't be able to do that, matey"... "is it in the rules, pal?"... "don't ask me, chum"... "I don't know buddy... I'm ruling it out. I'm going to rule it out"... "good process boys"

"Spirit of the game" - hey keeper go fake an injury please. I'll pretend I blew the whistle.

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General Football and Sport / Re: NBA Discussion

« Last post by Lynndenberries on Today at 01:21:51 am »

SGA. But Jokic is a worthy winner, too.

Because he got the one seed? Outside of that, there’s no reason to give it to SGA.

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News and Current Affairs / Re: Never mind 'Stop the Boats' - STOP THE TORIES

« Last post by Sangria on Today at 01:18:59 am »

The Torys will never gain large majorities in the future, they will loose far more minority seats than they win due to tactical voting, tactical voting is here to stay, imagine the Torys will argue to pass laws to stop online sites from advising people on who to vote to keep the Torys out but that's not going to stop it.
I think the Torys just went too far this time, they've been a education for millions that will stay with them for life.
 The Torys will be back but they will never be the force they were, this is not wishful thinking,  I think people are overlooking something very important, what's happening today has never happened before, nobody thought the Torys were destroyed back in 97, comparing past election results and what happened in the following years isn't a guide to what will happen in the future. the fearmongering to scare people into not voting Labour has always been the biggest weapon in Tory election victory's, that has lost it's potency, the public have been educated, they know it's all about deflecting criticism away from the Torys, they know the Torys aren't a safe pair of hands with the economy, they know the Torys can't be trusted with our services, those beliefs will stay with millions for life just as they stay with the vast majority of posters on here.
i still don't believe the Torys understand just how much damage they've done to their party.

Labour will be able to act as a party of government for a while, but there will be the ever existing undercurrent that Labour aren't left wing enough for the purists. They'll mock a Labour government as being no better than Tories, and push for policies that have no effect other than to show how pure they are. They'll win enough support to push the narrative that the Labour government has run out of steam, and the country will revert back to voting Tory. And 10 years of Labour government will be followed by 15 years of Tory government.

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News and Current Affairs / Re: Never mind 'Stop the Boats' - STOP THE TORIES

« Last post by Sangria on Today at 01:15:26 am »

Of course it would be voted down, but I think the whole point of such a vote would be to show how self serving and utterly selfish the Tories are.

Currently, there are 63 Tories standing down at the next election; MPs that, you would think, wouldn't really be arsed about sticking around for another six to eight months, and more than enough to bring down a government who's majority is now around 45.

Whether the vote wins or not, I'd be really curious to see if any Tories voted against the government, or even abstained under the circumstances.

I wouldn't. They're Tories. Voting for the Tory government is their raison d'etre.

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General Football and Sport / Re: LIVERPOOL TRANSFER THREAD - 2023 (FSG posts = get muted) - No Mbappé

« Last post by Bobinhood on Today at 01:13:50 am »

Its going to be boring watching watching a plain 4-2-3-1 next year. in fact, if we....ah never mind. i dont care im tired. im going to bed. might quit my job tomorrow fuck i hate going to work. Iam. Im gonna quit and just sleep in.

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General Football and Sport / Re: 7he Manches7er Uni7ed 7hread - NO GREENWOOD/ANTONY*

« Last post by Bobinhood on Today at 01:06:28 am »

Andy's right though  The guys a total dinosaur. A caricature rich guy. Spitting Image puppets couldn't improve on this guy as he already is, as no satire can possibly be added.

That's just fantastic. Time spent in the office with the boss should be just grand then.