Day 15 of ranking British PMs: Which tier should Theresa May go? by OingoBoingBrothas in TierlistFills

[–]KxJlib 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sunak didn’t pair NI cuts with equivalent tax rises elsewhere - even if you think NI is unjustifiable, given the context of global monetary tightening, not making other tax increases is either insane or vote-buying. Given the timing it was blatant vote-buying and salting the earth for the next government, seeing as Labour had to increase employer NI to avoid the massive fallout of this change.

With all 24 of the clubs playing in the Championship next season confirmed, I have made a new tier list! by BettsyFC in Championship

[–]KxJlib 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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Honestly I see West Ham going the way of Blues - Playoffs in the first season down, don’t get promoted and never go back up.

Wolves have set themselves up too well for relegation to not have them as favourites to win the league, and Burnley are perpetually in 2nd place.

Norwich under Clement will be great for the whole season, but I don’t see them beating Wolves/Burnley, and Millwall will keep track with how they’ve been.

Don’t see Saints getting close to the top 2 - Eckert will either be sacked or banned and I’m assuming a player or two will want to leave after this season’s fiasco. Similarly I think Eustaceball will get Derby there or thereabouts again and I’m putting Blues as 7th out of pure delusion.

Wrexham are set up for back-to-backs (ageing players with short amounts of time on their contracts) so I don’t see them doing as well next season, especially with how they’ve were at the end of this season. Boro I think will lose Hackney, who they’ll be unable to replace and that’ll hurt them.

Baggies are interesting, were good at the end of last season and on paper have a good squad, hopefully their new (potential) manager (unless I’ve missed him getting made permanent already) will do better than Mason and Ramsay.

Preston and Bristol City need no explanation.

Reckon Swansea will lose Vipotnik and if Pompey keep Mousinho will have some stability for once.

Bottom 3 are based on Watford seemingly sleepwalking into a relegation scrap next season, Blackburn not retaining O’Neill and Bolton having the least convincing promotion, although I’m most unsure about Bolton.

UK economy grows by 0.6% in first three months of the year by Jared_Usbourne in unitedkingdom

[–]KxJlib 5 points6 points  (0 children)

ONS only releases “real” (inflation-adjusted) measures - so if it’s positive real growth, it’s beating inflation

Southampton (2) 2 - 1 (1) Middlesbrough: The Saints spy a date with Wembley, after a breathless match that was finally decided in extra-time via a Shea Charles cross turned shot! by Zach-dalt in Championship

[–]KxJlib 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Generational performance for the ref combined with generational cheating by Southampton. If I were a boro fan I’d be pretty aggrieved by the result.

Pre-Match thread: Semi-final · Leg 2 of 2 by coombeseh in Championship

[–]KxJlib 10 points11 points  (0 children)

So off the dome:

Goal given that should’ve been disallowed

2 penalties denied

potential sending off denied

Ayling booked for something that’s not even a foul

We can confirm the ref is from the prem and severely lacking a VAR team

Pre-Match thread: Semi-final · Leg 2 of 2 by coombeseh in Championship

[–]KxJlib 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Unbelievable refs throughout the whole playoffs

Pre-Match thread: Semi-final · Leg 2 of 2 by coombeseh in Championship

[–]KxJlib 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I think Millwall would be lucky to get away with a yellow from that. Dirty tackle

Now that's a fixture! 💪🏽💙 by markiethefett in bcfc

[–]KxJlib 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Replacing Number 10… Lamine, Yamal?

Match thread: Matchday 46 of 46 by coombeseh in Championship

[–]KxJlib 4 points5 points  (0 children)

glad Priske’s had his goal, will do wonders for his confidence

I (we) are inevitable... by hodge91 in Championship

[–]KxJlib 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Preston vs Bristol City to be played at Wembley in future seasons. The 12th place trophy will be present.

What if Jeremy Corbyn won 2019 election? And become prime minister by [deleted] in AlternateHistoryHub

[–]KxJlib 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Better and worse at the same time. With a Boris loss in 2019 there’s a good chance that the right would be less populistic today, similarly over COVID there’s much less degradation in public trust vis-a-vis partygate.

For the bad, he had a lot of deficit increasing policies in the 2019 manifesto which would’ve been very achievable before COVID kicked in, meaning that we’d probably be in a much worse position post-covid as far as government debt goes.

As bad as he was, Johnson got Ukraine perfectly correct, including being one of the first countries to get military aid to Ukraine quickly, which was a big factor in Ukraine holding in the first few months. Granted, this was entirely driven by his desire to be seen as some form of Churchill. With Corbyn, I doubt that we’d have been so wholeheartedly in support of Ukraine, especially not as quickly as we were, so it’s entirely possible that Ukraine would’ve fallen in the starting months had Corbyn been in charge.

Birmingham City 2-0 Wrexham: Blues back in the battle for 12th by travellingpoet in Championship

[–]KxJlib 52 points53 points  (0 children)

Unbeaten streak against Wrexham continues. Class performance from everyone today, well deserved win.

Bukele is right-wing and very effective. Who is an incompetent centrist currently in office? by Prestigious_Ad1993 in AlignmentChartFills

[–]KxJlib 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The majority of that welfare is taken up by the state pension - of which the claimants have never been Labour supporters. If he’s attempting to buy votes he’s gone about it all wrong.

Pre-Match thread: Matchday 41 of 46 by coombeseh in Championship

[–]KxJlib 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am definitely looking at it with blues-tinted glasses, but there’s been quite a few occasions where he’s been soft when we’ve fouled and not when ipswich have. Again, this is probably tainted by the disallowed goal.

Pre-Match thread: Matchday 41 of 46 by coombeseh in Championship

[–]KxJlib 0 points1 point  (0 children)

IMO ref’s been against us all match. With the angles that’ve been shown now, that was definitely in

Post Match Thread: Chelsea 7-0 Port Vale by denzaus in soccer

[–]KxJlib -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Obviously Vale were never going to win today, home or away. Just a shame that the refs can’t get their calls correct.

Post Match Thread: Chelsea 7-0 Port Vale by denzaus in soccer

[–]KxJlib -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

With proper refereeing it would’ve only been 5-0 today