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    James Maddison

    I think that was a side effect possibly of the change but I also think the main purpose of the change and the main impact waw to get us more legs in there. That's what Ange said in his interview and while I don't think Maddison is lazy, it's just that they were coming forward quicker than he...
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    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    I think you've hit on a point there in that the property investment boom really happened due to the post-financial crash interest rate environment, which left traditional savings and investments options with trash returns and cheap credit and a property market that could only recover upwards in...
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    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    Are the MSM pro-Israel or happy go along with Israel's view of the middle east? I think most media report facts around Israel and in a relatively neutral way: - Israeli settlement expansion amd settler violence is widely reported on for example. But the whole Israel/Palestine issue is a tough...
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    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    I'm trying to think how left-wing you have to be to view The Guardian as not being left-wing? Look, The Guardian are very left-wing, but they're also a broadsheet and will report on any officially released government analysis, in a relatively unbiased manner, and I'm not sure this reporting is...
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    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    Every politically active person thinks the media is biased against their own side. All the right-wingers claim the BBC, Sky and Channel 4 are left-wing and biased against Tories/whatever Farage is calling the latest extension of his ego. I again go back to the fact that the biggest source of...
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    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    Corbyn got standard treatment by the press in this country. The press feed on ammunition. The problem with Corbyn and his media treatment was that Corbyn spent his entire political career feeling like it was improbable that he got anywhere near power. He was a hard left-wing activist...
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    James Maddison

    I don't actually think Maddison was that bad, he was creating plenty of opportunities and getting on the ball quite a but, but West Ham were consistently exploiting gaps in behind Kulu and Madders and if you were going to hook one of them it had to be him. I think that says more about Kulu's...
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    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    It's largely smaller family businesses that pay people minimum wage: because they often close to the viability line, don't have the capital reserves to absorb large pay rises and inflationary costs and don't compete for staff in the same manner that large companies do. Nor do they have capital...
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    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    It's not gonads actually. It's partly more accident than design on the tories part but yes, due to the uplift in funding for Covid that hadn't ever fully been stripped away (and has likely actually simply become a permanent funding benchmark), the NHS now has way more than £350 million a week...
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    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    Not really. This idea that nurses and doctors are on the breadline and going to food banks to scrape by is total tosh. In fact, Labour are expected to u-turn on changes to pension tax relief for high earners as analysis showed it would disproportionately affect public sector workers and...
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    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    It's no more bullying or threat making than the unions saying that if doctors and nurses don't get a big pay rise the NHS will collapse and there will be further strike action. It's basically just a reality that the government has to deal with. Statements and interviews with big multinational...
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    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    Do we get bullied into it? I don't think we do. I don't think the global.elite and large multi-national corps are phoning up Kier Starmer and going "give me a preferential deal or I'm gone". At that level it's a market. That's what people need to understand with this ideological "tax the rich...
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    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    What money are they taking out the country? A recent example poured over by the press? What money is Rishi Sunak's wife taking out the country?
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    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    What do Nom Doms "take out of the country"? Honestly it's this kind of mindless gonads that does my head in.
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    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    That's the thing. You can't just look at individual policies in isolation but what the whole suite of policies look like together. I have no real idea on any of the tory candidates "manifestos" which probably says something in and of itself (I can't be bothered to even Google it)
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    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    But the whole talk of "holes" is economic illiteracy in and of itself. And Labour are finding that out. Lowering tax on something can often make that something more attractive and therefore you get more people giving you the tax albeit at a lower rate - this can often result in a higher overall...
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    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    Interesting revelations from David Cameron that he was in the process of drawing up sanctions against right wing members of the Israeli government prior to the election. Surprised Lammy hasn't followed through on this given his publically tougher words on Israel than the previous government....
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    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    Yeah they look 1) totally clueless 2) totally gobsmacked that they're where they are. I think that's what's gone on with all the selfies in Ibiza and Taylor Swift concerts. They look like a bunch of 6 formers that have got to run the school for a day. And the cringe of the economic policy: -...
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    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    Yep. It's a policy based on a back-of-a-fag-packet report produced by a guy at the IFS who is best mates with the cabinet minister whose baby the policy is. Labour have only been back in power for a few months and they've already reintroduced the "dodgy dossier" to support ideology-based...
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    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    It's been a neglected issue for decades. My dad remembers campaigning about sewer discharges into rivers when he was at uni - that was in the 1970s. It's been a ticking time bomb that's been sat on by governments and the can kicked down the road to we are at overspill point - literally.
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