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  2. Posted

    13 hours ago, Corbs1 said:

    Oliver Skipp, a very good player, but anyone would think he was world class and almost solely responsible for the success we had, so in my view over rated. Would I have him back, of course, see initial comment. 

    A good tackler but that was about it. He was also very good at waving his arms around and he ran around a lot. 

    He will probably be available in the summer as he doesn't even make the bench at Spurs at the moment. I suspect he'll see out his contract though, he's not going to earn that much anywhere else. 

    The one that drove me to distraction was Lee Croft. He somehow managed to win POTS for running down the wing and getting corner kicks. 

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    On 25/04/2024 at 19:36, Fen Canary said:

    A genuine question, if the Rwanda scheme did get underway would people on here be happy if it did work as intended and acted as a deterrent and stopped the bulk of the boat crossings? Or are you hoping it fails? 

    That's a bit like hoping Norwich win the Premier League. Hope doesn't matter. The Rwanda scheme won't act as a deterrent and I'd be very surprised if a plane actually took off. I suspect that Sunak would be surprised too, this was never about solving the problem, it's about winning votes by blaming leftie lawyers and the ECHR. 

    I hate to tell you this but the Conservative leadership doesn't see immigration as a problem, they see it as a way of winning cheap votes from simple people. This sort of politics worked in Europe 90 years ago and they're simply hoping it works again and saves them from oblivion. 

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    This is an extract from an email being circulated by Open Britain - 

    In a terrifyingly matter-of-fact interview with the Sun’s Harry Cole, Steve Bannon, the architect of Donald Trump's polarising presidency, gave Farage a glowing endorsement and set out how he would go about succeeding Keir Starmer as Prime Minister.

    Bannon believes that Farage could soon ride a wave of populist sentiment all the way to Number 10, especially if the Tories take a drubbing in the next election. (Spoiler: They’re going to.) His strategic advice? Take a page from the MAGA playbook and stage a hostile takeover of the Conservative Party.

    And now, in his most recent email to his supporters, Farage has given his strongest hint yet at a potential return to frontline politics.

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    The prospect of Farage at the helm of a radicalised Tory party, steering the UK down a path of increased nationalism and xenophobia, is deeply troubling. At Open Britain, we've been warning about this possibility for some time now. With these brazen comms, it’s starting to look less like a potential distant nightmare and more a well-planned future reality. The 2029 election may seem a long way off, but the foundations for the profound political shift it could bring are being laid now.

    We cannot afford to be complacent. It's essential we spend the next five years growing, organising, mobilising, and fighting for the values that define us as a nation - openness, tolerance, and unity. We need to counter the siren song of populism with a positive vision of a Britain that works for everyone and secure the functional democracy needed to deliver it.

    The next five years will be a pivotal period in our history. The decisions we make - and the policies the next government implements - will shape our country for generations to come. 

     

    This is the article in The Sun

    https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/27534918/nigel-farage-prime-minister-after-keir-starmer/

     

     

  7. Posted

    33 minutes ago, Fen Canary said:

    Worked in Australia. If the asylum seekers know there’s no hope of being settled in Britain it does remove the incentive of trying to get across. It also needs an increased Navy presence in the Channel to intercept any that do try and get across

    The BBC interviewed a lot of refugees in France yesterday. They thought a 1 in 50 chance of going to Rwanda was worth it. That's of course if it gets that far. It will end up in the courts. 

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    On 23/04/2024 at 14:21, Yellow Fever said:

    Rwanda flights in July?

    That' a little bit of an optimistic date I think to send the Tory party into exile.

     

     

    How long does it take to get an appeal before the ECHR? 

  13. Posted

    5 hours ago, Rock The Boat said:

    The bit in bold made me chuckle. I might even be a bit cheeky and suggest that is the Trump method of diplomatic relations but then you wouldn't be able to agree with me.

    I think you're a bit confused. I think your worry is that the people in those boats manage to get here. My worry is that they don't. 

  14. Posted

    3 hours ago, Rock The Boat said:

    That may have been true in the past but I don't think it is so certain today. In many european countries, far right governments have taken control, and in the US, the Republicans are likely to win the Presidency. The UK seems to be an outlier because it is moving to the left and Labour but my opinion is that Britain thought it was moving to the right in 2019, when Johnson was elected on a landslide to get Brexit done, and we thought we were going to get a right-leaning government. Instead Johnson turned out to be a another Liberal with a centrist agenda.

    The Tory party members are way to the right of the majority of Tory MPs and in the upcoming election the Tories will struggle even to find the army of volunteers needed to do all the leafletting and local doorstepping that is part of an election campaign.

    I disagree with you that the Tories need to move to the centre in order to win an election. The groundswell of opinion is centred around right-wing issues - immigration, the economy, replacing the failing NHS model, removing wokery from the institutions. The Tories will get a thrashing for failing to deal with these issues. Labour won't deal with these issues either, so it leaves a vacuum on the right that someone will fill sometime over the next five years. and I think it will come from a very unexpected source.

    In which European country has a far right Government taken control? The last European election was in Poland where the left replaced a right wing Government. 

    I'm afraid that you are suffering from an illusion if you think this country will eventually move to the right. Support for the Conservative Party among the under 40's currently stands at 14%. The vast bulk of Conservative support is in the baby boom generation (born between 1945 and 1965). Those people are starting to die. In 10 years time 75% of them will be dead. Most frightening of all for the Tories is that the average age of their membership of 250,000 is now 75. Around 90% of them will be dead in 10 years time. 

    Meanwhile, thanks to the Blair government, over 50% of young people now attend University. If you go to University you are 90% certain to vote Labour. That's why Blair pushed University education and it's why Cameron tried to put a stop to it. 

    So quite simply, it will be impossible for a right wing party to win a UK election in 10 years time. 

    You might think that the current policy announcements on cutting the Civil Service, stopping the boats and cutting sick pay are aimed at gaining votes from Labour. The reality is that current polling has the Conservatives on 90 seats, the Lib Dems on 50 and Reform on zero. The current policy statements are aimed purely at stopping more Tory voters moving to Reform. If that happens the Conservatives are in real danger of coming 3rd. They're not fighting to win an election, they're fighting for their existence. 

    You are right that they will be replaced on the right of the political spectrum but they will be replaced by a party that is currently polling on zero seats.

    It is worth repeating that Farage has stood for election 7 times and lost 7 times. That sums up the level of support for the far right. 

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  20. Posted

    Perhaps they need to do the River End as well? 

    I moved seat this season because a complete **** head kept standing in front of me. That's upstairs in the River End where most people are too knackered to stand after walking up the stairs.

    Don't bother complaining, Norwich City won't do anything about it. 

  21. Posted

    Bearing in mind the mess that Angela Rayner is in, you wouldn't have thought she would survive PMQ'S.

    This thread is entitled 'Next Tory Leader'. It's probably fair to say after this lunchtime it won't be Oliver Dowden. An astonishgly shocking performance. 

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    10 hours ago, Mr Angry said:

    My primary school had a completed World Cup 1970 album on display in the assembly hall. I particularly remember the Cuba and El Salvador teams and as a 6 year old it may have been my first introduction to life outside England.

    I was 11 and have great memories of that tournament. It was definitely a whole new world! 

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