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    3 hours ago, TheGunnShow said:

    That bit in bold looks incorrect as a far greater proportion of benefits are paid to the working poor, not the unemployed. These figures are from 2016 but it should make clear that unemployment is always a very small fraction of the welfare budget.

    How is the welfare budget spent? - Office for National Statistics (ons.gov.uk)

    I don't think anyone doubts that there are some people who do this here and there, but considering that Bernie Ecclestone has recently paid over £600m in previously unpaid tax recently, and this was just from one single tax evader, it's fair to say that tax evasion is a far more serious problem, and one that costs us far more money, than some people on unemployment benefit.

    I do agree that tax evasion and offshore tax havens are a far costlier problem ( over half the wealth of the world is believed to be hidden in these domains) but for society to function properly as a whole, then everyone who is able needs to pull their weight. As much as i would like it to be otherwise, in my work environment, i see lots who are quite happy to do the barest of minimum to ensure they survive.

    The problem is there are far too many leaving education with zero skills to offer to employers and to enable them to better their lives.

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    1 hour ago, canarybubbles said:

    Of course having an opinion that there is too much immigration is not in itself necessarily racist. The new far-right, however, is very keen not to appear bigoted or motivated by hatred since they know many (most?) people are horrified by a politics that aims to repeat what happened in Europe about a century ago.

    The Nazis were voted into power and then took away the right to vote them out. If you don't think the same thing can happen again - 'it can't happen here' - I think you're deluded. 

    You only have to look at Trump and the USA. Tried everything to change democratic rule when he knew the majority wanted someone else in charge.

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    45 minutes ago, Fen Canary said:

    I define a proper immigration policy as one that only lets in migrants who are highly skilled or have skills the country is short of, and with a rough cap on the number allowed in annually so as not to cause pressure and excess demand on housing and public services. Indian bar staff, Polish courier drivers and Lithuanian baristas don’t really qualify in that regard in my opinion.

    You're correct that falling birth rates means immigration is needed, however the UKs population has risen by 8 million in the last 20 years despite those birth rates being below replacement level, which to me is a rise that’s much too fast to allow the time for the infrastructure to be built to account all these newcomers. As I mentioned on another thread, those from countries that joined the EU after 2003 earned on 25% below the median wage on average in the UK. Who benefits from this except those who rely on cheap labour? When GDP per head is lower today than it was 15 years ago surely this massive influx hasn’t been the economic success story that many portray it as 

    So there will be very few courier drivers, bar or restaurant staff or coffee houses then. Our local pub/restaurant now closes at 9pm most week nights as they can’t get staff to do the job. 
    Too many Brits have found the idle way of living by screwing the benefits system and so don’t want to work nor do they have the skills to work. 
    I don’t get why people are so anti immigration, it’s usually to hide their dislike of ‘damn foreigners’. 
    Britain is going backwards at an alarming rate with investment falling dramatically. It needs to be looking outwards and not inwards before the economy collapses. 

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    11 hours ago, Fen Canary said:

    And yet this fascism could be stopped tomorrow if various governments would only listen to the electorate and implement proper immigration policies. You can’t spend decades ignoring the opinions of voters then complain when they look elsewhere.

    Anybody caught racially abusing players should be banned, although Italy has much bigger problems on that front 

    Define 'implement proper immigration policies'. 

    Most nations already have a robust immigration policy but when you have thousands fleeing their own country or just leaving it as they see no future there, then the world has a serious problem. Maybe we should not go bombing these countries and destroying their infrastructure.

    Western nation generally have falling birth rates and ageing populations. The only way to keep the economy turning is either to increase birth rates which obviously takes 20 years to have any effect, or allow staff who want to work to come from other countries. Right wing politicians with an anti immigration stance see it as a way to power, but just like Brexit it ultimately costs the Country big time and those who suffer most are the ordinary population.

    The only way to prevent immigration is to assist the countries they leave to build an economy and way of life such they don't want to leave it. But I guarantee you if we did not allow immigration of those who wa t to work, then our economy would collapse very quickly.

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    On 15/01/2024 at 08:22, Nuff Said said:

    B*llocks. The best you’ll find if you were to look for evidence is a grudging appreciation for some recent results. We constantly read posts about “love ins” and Wagner fan boys when they just don’t exist.
     

    Why some posters feel the need to make this stuff up is weird.

    Attention seeking to fill their vacuous life, i guess.

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    1 hour ago, Jim Smith said:

    Didn’t think the Dimi one was a red. Thought Gunn was perhaps a bit fortunate when he took out Connolly. 
     The way their players were diving was a disgrace. Good to see the ref book a couple of them but Tufan should have had two yellows and been off. 

    Gunny went for the ball, Connolly didn't, thought the ref got that right.

     

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    2 hours ago, Sufyellow said:

    We are a mid championship club. That's what the board and fans forgot . 

    And too many on here forget that football supporting is cyclical. There will be good times and bad times. It's the way of life.

    I doubt Chelsea or Man U fans expected to see their teams being so bang average......but they are at the moment.

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    Wagner is very one dimensional in the way he sets up and there doesn’t seem to be a devised plan in the way we play and looking to break the opposition down. It’s what will ultimately cost him his job. 
     

    as mentioned earlier if it’s successful supporters will go along with it, and if it fails they won’t. That was even the case with Farke. Many on here are forgetting the Leeds game where he lost the support of many simply because results were rubbish. 

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    7 hours ago, Terminally Yellow said:

    Amazing that this sort of attitude exists by Norwich fans towards their own club. 

    I hope we win, but my prediction is we lose narrowly.  

    A lot of so called supporters are here to have a whinge, moan and post abuse to players and staff. Dread to think how vacuous their lives must be. 
     

    No supporter can want their team to lose. 

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    12 hours ago, Mr Tea said:

    I have to ask .

    if DF was given the boot from Leeds, and let’s be honest it will happen at some point given their history, would many on here have him back ?

    Sure people, say never go back but given the level and quality of other ‘available ‘ managers I do wonder about having him back.

    I would as I still love him !!!

     

    No. 
     

    Struggling to turn the best squad in this division into a consistent force. 
     

    His time has gone. So many forget that without Emi his record was poor even in the Championship. 

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    15 minutes ago, Jim Smith said:

    Then Attanasio is in for a shock as he will lose 10,000 fans and there is absolutely no way in the world Wagner turns this around. Football fans are not the same as franchise baseball fans 

    So put your money into the club and run it. 
     

    It’s obvious to everyone, no doubt including Attanasio and Knapper, that Wagner is not the way forward but why sack a manager and appoint another short term manager, which will cost considerable sums of cash we don’t have, when for the sake of 4 months  they can make a considered appointment that will take the club forward over the next 5 years. 
     

    Knapper needs to have his own structure in place that he believes will work. Just because he isn’t facing the media weekly after just a few weeks in the job, doesn’t mean he isn’t working hard to move things forward in his way. 
     

     


     

     

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    This forum gets worse by the day. 
     

    6 weeks into the most important job in the club and already the nobheads are turning on Knapper. 
     

    The last thing the club needs is another knee jerk managerial appointment because of impatient fans.
     

    Read what Attanasio said about turning his US team into a successful one. He admits he spent three years making unpopular decisions but was proved right in the end.  Unless things turn really bad I can’t see Wagner being sacked until the end of the season. 
     

     

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