Danny

Gotta be honest I liked 1917, cinematography is amazing. But as far as greatest war films go it just doesn’t come close to Saving Private Ryan

Affluence mainly tbh, not really much to do with greater London in it self as a lot of areas in greater London like Hayes, Ealing, Harrow, Wealdstone, Feltham, Hounslow, Brentford, Enfield, Illford, Dagenham, Croydon etc voted Labour and are by and large known as run down/working class (not Ealing itself but the borough in general) White flight comes into account too, Ruislip for example is essentially a BTEC Essex. Thing is nowadays what used to be white flight areas are now as diverse as any area in London.

Nations League is probably the best idea UEFA have had in years, and clearly it’s contractual that the games be played. But the season and how short it is, plus a tournament at the end...the players will be dead on their feet

Surely they haven’t got rid of the mascot due to cost cutting? Surely that is something made up by the media? Surely.

I’m a maverick I do what I want

Grealish was given a green light to have a go there but Liverpool unlucky with these two deflections

Even then Henderson plays a limited role at Liverpool under a manager who knows his strengths and weaknesses, what he does there he does brilliantly. Southgate tries to play him in a way where his weaknesses are glaringly obvious, I.e. the woeful passing against Croatia.

Again defunding the police means different things in different countries, generally mental health provisions are better in the UK than they are in the US. Police have less guns here. Also defunding the police does not mean get rid of the police altogether, it also doesn’t mean that there aren’t areas where the police do good work. I don’t want to come across as an expert cos clearly I’m not, but the police are used as the main tool to prevent crime. They do not prevent crime, they just put people through the criminal justice system which by and large does not reform criminals, just creates career criminals. Yet social workers and youth centres, charities have their funds cut when they are the people on the ground doing vital work. That is a valid argument for defunding the police right there, fund community policing, social work, adequate mental health provisions within communities, fund regeneration rather than gentrification. I was interested in getting into social care but the reviews I’ve been given from people 10-15+ years in are that it’s shot to pieces, stretched too far, too much pressure on one individual social worker. My sociology lecturer literally pursued a career in teaching because of it, and she had been teaching our class unpaid because she was being overworked and overstretched by the college. And she was much happier with that than her previous role. These are the people who are actually doing the work to prevent crime, prevent people taking the wrong steps in life, and there’s barely any funding.

To an electorate that were pushed to vote Brexit due to a lot of xenophobia and racism no doubt, but the idea is radical and new to the general public, you have to get the message out there and have the discussions as it goes. Defund the police is a good slogan, the message behind it is even better. This we have a great police force etc etc really does nothing for the conversation, because there are countless examples where the police force have discriminated against communities. Countless examples of how the police are used to only put people in prison, through the system and to ignore the root cause of crime. You’re just doing a number on yourself trying to defend them, of course there are good people in the police and at times they do good work, but as a whole the police force is used to discriminate against non-whites, against the working classes (how many stories do you need to hear about police treating normal football fans like animals) and against people with mental health issues. I realise Starmer probably won’t get voted in on those sorts of policies, well aware we live in a country that is racist, happy to live with class warfare, sexism, discrimination against people with mental health issues. I get that. Which was my point about Starmer to begin with, he represents all of that because he is the centrist to win back the working class racist demographic that stopped voting Labour and he represents it whilst pretending he supports change for black lives. There is no long game here, he wants in and he’s willing to throw BLM under the bus to get there

You do start with defund the police because it fits on a banner lol, it’s a statement. Corbyn was never getting in charge and Starmer knows he has to win back the Labour supporters that went UKIP/Brexit/Tory, because of that Starmer is not going to properly support black people.

Of course it needs a reform, not just the police but laws as well. Proportionally compared to populations there are more black people in prison in the UK than there are in America. Black people specifically are targeted by the police all the time. Our prisons are run by private contracts, they’re now an industry aiming to profit. Again this effects black people specifically, but also the working classes in general, criminals with mental health problems are rarely diagnosed, given health care plans, end up in and out of the system. Police who are untrained as social workers are consistently called out to incidents where someone is having some sort of break down. The system is in need of an overhaul, end the war on drugs (poor people), invest massively in social work, invest massively in mental health provisions. Cuts in public services like youth centres and social care put the onus onto the police, so instead of having systems that try to prevent kids from getting into crime and being put through the system, you encourage that they commit crime and to win votes increase policing which increases the amount of people going through the system. The current system works great for the middle classes, white especially, not that great for those below that. Any leader who claims to support BLM for example but does not want to reform the way black people (and others) are consistently oppressed and exploited is just a liar.

Whilst I’d probably end up voting Labour, Starmer completely let down the BLM movement by pandering to the public who were against it by waffling on about organisational issues. For a man who portrays himself as intelligent his refusal to understand the complex nature of defunding the police was just political point scoring.

Test and trace has nothing to do with the spread? How can you be so incompetent? What is the point in test and trace if not to help prevent the fucking spread

What a cunt honestly, he and the Tory party in general will say and do what they can to not have to admit they’ve got things wrong and drastically wrong at that

Brentford maybe

This is just wrong, clubs like Man City and Chelsea are a symptom of the problem. Association Football is brutally capitalistic and has been long before the oil clubs took over, the revolution of English football with the Premier League gave big time investors the green light. Man Utd made their riches from foreign fans through merchandising, they were so good at it they opened the door to what a Premier League side could achieve off the pitch. If there was adequate regulations in place that prevented financial doping this wouldn't be an issue, something similar to the American sports which ironically resemble communism more than anything. Man City and Chelsea are not the cancers, they didn't ruin the game, they're just a pair of lumps and pains in a testicle.

Feel like last season was just a scramble to get a squad together considering how little players they had after loans finished and contracts ended, this season they’re making signings with intent

Watkins and Martínez in now, Smith bringing in some nice additions

No

You just focus on James Tarkowski and we’ll focus on promotion

Have a day off son

The geezer scored 29 goals last season, he’s worth what they’re paying and Arsenal need him as otherwise where else do they get a world class striker from? He’ll bag plenty for them for at least the next two seasons which is what they’ll need should they get top 4

It’s to stop house parties ain’t it, I get on the tube with 30 other people in my carriage every morning and evening but it’s the pesky kids fault

This sort of windfall will make us stick to our price tags for Ollie and Said even more...just a shame it’s West Ham as they won’t buy him

That was funny just to see the less placid version of themselves compared to what they normally have to present to the media...but must be more to it?