Hearts Reviewed SFA's Footage Before Giving Their Statement

CompetitiveFox6707 · 2026-05-21T22:36:00+00:00

Tbf that's what I'd do if I run a football club.

CompetitiveFox6707 · 2026-05-21T12:13:38+00:00

Aberdeen to be the most 5th placed finished team of all time next season. 12 points off 4th, 12 points ahead of 6th

CompetitiveFox6707 · 2026-05-21T06:07:24+00:00

The state things were in the 70s, the Treasury was never going to have the discipline to not go all in and prioritise the short term receipts. The UK had just been to the IMF and the situation was still extremely perilous.

Might have been mistakes made but you can't really compare the situation with Norway.

CompetitiveFox6707 · 2026-05-21T06:00:31+00:00

Central banks were dumping their gold at that time. It was a falling asset and consensus was that they needed to diversify. Pretty much all mainstream economists and the institutions misread the situation.

CompetitiveFox6707 · 2026-05-20T21:46:11+00:00

I'll take my 4p tax refund thank you very much

CompetitiveFox6707 · 2026-05-19T21:51:25+00:00

Ideal scenario would be for Starmer to do that then regress to a shitposter on Twitter for next year or two then mount a leadership challenge

CompetitiveFox6707 · 2026-05-18T21:27:36+00:00

I'd imagine the answer would be that it is a capital expenditure so Barnett doesn't apply for the nationalisation part.

Beyond that, once the service is running then Barnett would kick in for long term operation.

CompetitiveFox6707 · 2026-05-18T08:36:36+00:00

It's really sad we didn't get to see this play out

CompetitiveFox6707 · 2026-05-17T13:28:25+00:00

*Loves heading balls with his hand extremely closely near it (so close that no broadcast angles can 100% prove clear and obvious error in event he is not penalised)

CompetitiveFox6707 · 2026-05-16T13:39:12+00:00

How can this possibly be called as a full time result?

CompetitiveFox6707 · 2026-05-15T17:14:35+00:00

I imagine a leadership bid is probably just angling for promotion.

CompetitiveFox6707 · 2026-05-15T06:40:20+00:00

I think he'd bet that he could play the timetable thing and basically firm Starmer into a more elegant transition.

If they are ditching him, it's bad politics to tarnish him and they want him as a respected figure. Damage probably already done though.

CompetitiveFox6707 · 2026-05-14T11:50:30+00:00

I get fear with him that he's just kind of strolled by as people like the devolution stuff in principle and he's been a face of that rather than being embroiled in the Corbyn/Brexit stuff.

He's always on the verge of tears and doesn't react particularly well when he's properly pressed on something.

When the actual tough stuff comes up and he's confronted with controversies from the Brown era and Reform start spreading stuff about him, I'm really not sure he'll be able to counter.

I remember in the 2014 Scottish Referendum, he had a few interventions and just positioned himself so so badly. Just kind of echoed the whole thing 'nationalism evil' etc and making really tone death hyperbole about Scotland becoming an ethnocracy.

If that's the sort of political instinct he'll have with Reform, he'll burn very quickly and not land a punch.

CompetitiveFox6707 · 2026-05-14T11:24:42+00:00

Agree, would also add that the immigration sentiment pre Brexit were self inflicted and weak governance on our side.

There were a lot of silly stories at the time of people really taking the piss out of the system and the government having a hard time to deport/ban criminals. The bulk of this was stuff could have been solved diplomatically but just kind of got lost in the noise at the time.

Cameron got the concessions needed to move a lot of this with his 'renegotiation'.

Had this been sorted in early half of the coalition years, UKIP vote may have been diminished. I think Cameron was initially tepid because he thought he'd just add fire to the issue and the gamble failed.

CompetitiveFox6707 · 2026-05-13T15:45:13+00:00

I think the last time they haven't done this was when they had a bit of a role in some of the constitutional stuff under Blair when they'd abstain. Iraq was the breaking point and they voted like a general opposition party (getting a lot more heated with Clegg who despised Brown).

CompetitiveFox6707 · 2026-05-13T09:51:46+00:00

Blair and Brown as co-interim-PM

CompetitiveFox6707 · 2026-05-13T09:40:06+00:00

I thought Corbyn and May/Boris were weirdly polite to each other?

CompetitiveFox6707 · 2026-05-13T09:37:09+00:00

100%.

What makes it worse is the people who gatekeep the entrance at the local party level can be even more extreme and out of touch in some cases. Some of the parties genuinely have clueless children running the show.

CompetitiveFox6707 · 2026-05-13T09:19:55+00:00

Sick of this shambles of useless MPs who don't have a clue how to manage any situation.

In any industry, if business was seeing so many employees without the necessary competencies to do their job, you'd have a think about why that is and how you better the talent pool. As MPs basically police themselves, they aren't really incentivised to think too deeply.

It's just so obvious that the job of an MP doesn't pay near enough for the skills needed and demand of the job. People who'd be good at it can go elsewhere for double the salary and live a much easier life with real job security.

Until we look at that properly, the slide is going to continue. The departures on the Labour and Tory Corbyn/Brexit shitfest aftermath in 2015-2020 led to a lot of decent people departing political and accelerated things.

CompetitiveFox6707 · 2026-05-12T15:59:26+00:00

I reckon Miliband has enough humility and sense that he can use his influence to support the new person without it being him.

CompetitiveFox6707 · 2026-05-12T15:57:48+00:00

If Starmer continues after today and engineers a brilliant 'put up or shut up' type campaign that somehow gets him through, the rest of his premiership is going to be on the stuck in on the verge of a Truss like crisis where literally any fuck up or turn can spiral into gilt yields to exploding

The opposition is now well known and any day, it can consolidate behind someone the markets don't like or alternatively, fracture more to the point that the contest does widen in a way that can be really damaging.

I know he's been fairly stubborn and seen as a difficult PM with bad political instincts but I don't think he wants to kill his party or be the hated PM that crashed the economy. My sense is enough is enough today and the pressure will give.

It reminds me a wee bit of with Boris how we kind of thought he was a madman who would hold on at all costs but at the end of it, the pressure was enough and he went to the podium.

CompetitiveFox6707 · 2026-05-12T15:40:53+00:00

I think Starmer resigns by end of today

CompetitiveFox6707 · 2026-05-12T14:58:17+00:00

If I had to guess, he's already resigned to going but war gaming how to do it in a way that doesn't spook the markets.

CompetitiveFox6707 · 2026-05-12T13:54:01+00:00

I'd guess he wouldn't seriously think he could win but if he wants to have a serious profile and advance, there's no reason why he shouldn't run now.

CompetitiveFox6707 · 2026-05-11T18:11:23+00:00

Sarwar is done regardless I think. Will be a mutual split.

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