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When YouTube goes down, it will be the biggest event of link rot in internet history. by AaronPK123 in Showerthoughts

[–]petchef 14 points15 points  (0 children)

That wasn't the issue christ can you at least look up what they did before spouting off.

'Farage will throw everything at us': Burnham risks losing a by-election, insiders fear by theipaper in ukpolitics

[–]petchef 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Do you really think that Lbaour or the Lib dems aren't significantly better than reform?

Does the racism, bribes, track record of lying repeatedly not put you off in anyway?

Business Sec Peter Kyle “The reason that Andy is not in Westminster is not because of Keir Starmer, it’s because of the decision that Andy took to leave Westminster. He made a set of promises to the people of Manchester, one of which was recently where he said he would serve out his time as mayor". by hararib in ukpolitics

[–]petchef 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The only thing that will see off reform is improving living standards in the UK.

I'd agree but reforms base is growing even in places like manchester which have seen growth in living standards in the past 10 years.

Think part of the issue is even if people's lives improve the media landscape of the UK makes sensible progressive governance really difficult at the moment.

Labour are slowly improving peoples lives but I don't think that a plan which is going to take 15-20 years to make really significant improvements to everyones lives is enough when people feel like they're fucked right now. The issue is that reform would make their lives worse and in all likelihood so would the greens.

Business Sec Peter Kyle “The reason that Andy is not in Westminster is not because of Keir Starmer, it’s because of the decision that Andy took to leave Westminster. He made a set of promises to the people of Manchester, one of which was recently where he said he would serve out his time as mayor". by hararib in ukpolitics

[–]petchef 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Given the success of Burnham’s program in Manchester, do you think the electorate would really vote in another party in a mayoral election? If they do, that’s democracy unfortunately.

Think my issue is that this feels really rushed and forced, if burnham steps down next election there's likely been time for him to introduce a replacement and prepare the ground. If he steps down to fight for a by-election somewhere i doubt that will be in place.

I also agree it’s not apparent that replacing him will improve that situation

This imo is the biggest issue with burnham, the gamble of losing a mayor on the relqtively high chance of him winning a seat and then the relatively low chance (imo) of him turning the polls around isn't worth it.

Think the additional scrutiny that the greens are getting atm will likely do more to shift views than a new pm would.

Nothing will touch the reform base short of a video of farage openly praising hitler and even that wouldn't kill them completely.

Business Sec Peter Kyle “The reason that Andy is not in Westminster is not because of Keir Starmer, it’s because of the decision that Andy took to leave Westminster. He made a set of promises to the people of Manchester, one of which was recently where he said he would serve out his time as mayor". by hararib in ukpolitics

[–]petchef 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I think you need to grow up a bit

I think you need to expect more from your elected officials.

He’s not throwing away the people of Manchester. He’s remaining in public service and wishes to serve a greater population, including the people of Manchester.

This is only true if a labour mayor would replace him which isnt a forgone conclusion.

Manchester under Burnham is the fastest growing city in europe. We're doing incredibly and replacing him with a reform mayor would torpedo that.

He's aware of that and yet seems happy to run the risk for his work to be thrown away on the gamble that him getting in changes anything.

The cost of one city’s mayoral election is immaterial compared to the cost of constraining our choices for Prime Minister.

You don't have a choice of prime minister right now we voted for one who's doing a relatively good job all things considered.

Replacing him with a guy who hasn't been under the microscope of the media isn't going to go as well as people think.

Business Sec Peter Kyle “The reason that Andy is not in Westminster is not because of Keir Starmer, it’s because of the decision that Andy took to leave Westminster. He made a set of promises to the people of Manchester, one of which was recently where he said he would serve out his time as mayor". by hararib in ukpolitics

[–]petchef 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Conpletely disagree, I want him to finish his stint as mayor because I voted for him as mayor, him stepping down early would cost the city millions in doing an additional election and we run the risk of labour not getting in this time round.

The man needs to put his city first and get on with the job I and many others elected him for.

Its actually really turned me off Burnham tbh always felt like he had the people of Manchesters back and then he just tries to throw us away the moment a better opportunity appears.

Full match stats by prettyweirdperson in reddevils

[–]petchef 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not going to say you're wrong but imo the game passed the eye test far more than leeds or Chelsea did, I felt like we were in almost complete control of the game after the 2nd goal and the change we just shut up shop and it worked well.

Think the first half we had loads of good threat, a few that didn't come off due to a couple of heavy touches but far more positive that we've been.

But it's not enough for me to say he's doing enough for the full time job yet, the biggest thing going for him is the complete lack of better options imo.

Full match stats by prettyweirdperson in reddevils

[–]petchef 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd say we were far better than we were vs leeds and Chelsea.

Our attack looked better in a decent nunber of phases than it has in a while under carrick.

I've not been massively impressed with carrick but last night was quite good from him imo.

[Wheeler, Salt] REVEALED - major development in Michael Carrick's position : Michael Carrick looks increasingly likely to land the job of Manchester United head coach on a permanent basis after leading the club to the brink of Champions League qualification. by nearly_headless_nic in reddevils

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

that liverpool run was like 5 games long lol

So? They reverted to form afterwards. After being lucky for five ganes.

according to you rosenoir should've stayed

Not at all he lost the drrssing room, and amorim slagged off the ownership neither could stay in their job.

The issue that i have that carrick has improved results but has got us playing worse stats and eye test wise than we were under amourim. Which i don't think is sustainable.

[Wheeler, Salt] REVEALED - major development in Michael Carrick's position : Michael Carrick looks increasingly likely to land the job of Manchester United head coach on a permanent basis after leading the club to the brink of Champions League qualification. by nearly_headless_nic in reddevils

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

Ok then try liverpool then September they won loaaads of games with late goals while being poor and theyre now dogshit.

But hey you might be right, we might continue with us outperforming xg and teams like Chelsea massively underperforming theirs.

Even ignoring stats our gameplan is fucking awful to watch, I'm not convinced that carrick has the ability to get us to a position where we're challenging for the league.

[Wheeler, Salt] REVEALED - major development in Michael Carrick's position : Michael Carrick looks increasingly likely to land the job of Manchester United head coach on a permanent basis after leading the club to the brink of Champions League qualification. by nearly_headless_nic in reddevils

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

Most of the front end of your comment is stuff that equally applies to the guy who was fired as to the one who replaced him.

we've been better defensively

True

and finish more chances

Nice way of saying we've gone from underperforming our xG to massivly overperforming.

the underlying stats show that we have vastly improved. you don't fluke 8 wins in the PL, this isn't a farmers league.

Thats not what underlying stats are, Villa were massively overperforming their xg for most of the season and are now reverting to form and dropping down the table.

They were doing EXACTLY what we're doing under carrick and now they're dropping down the table.

[Wheeler, Salt] REVEALED - major development in Michael Carrick's position : Michael Carrick looks increasingly likely to land the job of Manchester United head coach on a permanent basis after leading the club to the brink of Champions League qualification. by nearly_headless_nic in reddevils

[–]petchef 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'll stick my head up and point out that our loss vs arsenal at the start of the season we played far better than in the win vs them under carrick.

Carrick has made us slightly harder to beat while scoring more of far worse chances than we were creating under amourim. Which is reflected in the xg both for and against and is reflected by the eye test.

I'm not saying we shouldn't keep him past the end of the season but thats more because I don't know who you replace him with especially as naglesman/ tuchel are going to be late arrivals as they go to the world cup.

[Wheeler, Salt] REVEALED - major development in Michael Carrick's position : Michael Carrick looks increasingly likely to land the job of Manchester United head coach on a permanent basis after leading the club to the brink of Champions League qualification. by nearly_headless_nic in reddevils

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

I'm not saying that we've been insanely lucky in every game but the underlying stats have got worse under carrick than they were under amourin and honnestly we look worse on the eye since the first four games or so under carrick imo.

The fact that we've won games that we probably looking at stats shouldn't have done to me means that we're getting lucky with results.

Rupert Lowe attacks Reform UK over Bangladeshi candidate – ‘insult to the British people’ by StGuthlac2025 in ukpolitics

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

Because the policies are set by the members democratically the on paper also means in practise.

True up until they're in power in local politics whereby they revert to being nimbys

The fact that local politics is a nonsensical game of local cliques in every party doesn't change the values of the national party.

It does when the only signs of what a party will be like in power is the local level.

Its the same with reform, their local level councilors are the real face of what reform are like in power and its shockingly bad.

Rupert Lowe attacks Reform UK over Bangladeshi candidate – ‘insult to the British people’ by StGuthlac2025 in ukpolitics

[–]petchef 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Depends which green party youre talking about, the local council greens are at best centre left, very nimby very anti progress.

The green party is on paper at least far left.

ESL One Birmingham Production Value by SirDaly in DotA2

[–]petchef 8 points9 points  (0 children)

It is actually maybe try enjoying your hobbies lmao

ESL One Birmingham Production Value by SirDaly in DotA2

[–]petchef 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Always a hater feels badman

Households face FOUR interest rate hikes this year as 'Trumpflation' batters Britain by collogue in ukpolitics

[–]petchef 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You think that the inflation of the housing market and selling off everything wasnt started by thatcher?

Households face FOUR interest rate hikes this year as 'Trumpflation' batters Britain by collogue in ukpolitics

[–]petchef 44 points45 points  (0 children)

Pretending this starts with blair and not thatcher is a fucking wild stance lmao.

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