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Boris Johnson should never have been Prime Minister of this country. He's a bad and incompetent man on every level that I can think of. This story hasn't really riled me until tonight. It isn't even the hypocrisy, lies or sense that the rules don't apply to them that angers me, I've come to expect that. What angers me is the fact that Britain has become a country where you aren't even seeing people call for his resignation when that should be the minimum expectation. A Labour leader or even a Theresa May type gets strung up for this overnight. He should resign before the night is through. If this isn't a resigning matter for a Prime Minister in a pandemic then I literally don't know what is. Yet the Met police won't even investigate it. It's not the Britain I grew up in, or at least the one I believe I grew up in. We've become a country rotten to the core. How people can conceive of voting for this government and this party again is absolutely beyond me. I don't care how average the other parties are.

Are you guys happy with the new government and the centre-left party being the largest? I mean I suppose the election results sort of answer that question but is there a feeling of optimism?

Far too many middle managers haven't you heard? Big Dave and Honest Bob were telling me all about it down the pub last Wednesday.

Big strong Britain 5th biggest economy in the world, we can handle Brexit. Can't afford to do our part as a 'world leader' though and take a fair share of refugees and asylum seekers into the country, and certainly not when we're short on labour in multiple sectors that used to be filled by foreign or seasonal workers. But we can keep making the false claim about "they're supposed to stop in the first safe country" with a straight face which not only isn't a part of the Geneva convention but conveniently precludes us from taking ANY refugees unless things really kick off in Iceland or Ireland or France. Murdoch has done a cracking job with his life's work really. You can't even suggest that maybe we should accept a few more migrants across our borders anymore without getting the hysterical "YOU'D JUST LET ANYONE IN WOULDN'T YA, HOW'S DA NHS SPOSED TO COPE" in response.

With the reports of cocaine being found in toilets across the Houses of Parliament this weekend, how many MPs and indeed government ministers will be handing over their passports .

Dysfunction FC released a statement at 23:45 last night announcing the departure of Marcel Brands.

Also, perhaps most incredibly of all, is that this is being reported all over the print media and the Liverpool Echo yet there's not a peep from the club's official website or social media channels. This is the level of communication you get from the club and the owner.

Thread on Brands' departure which paints a picture of a man who basically wasn't allowed to do his job. Of course this will be him and his allies leaking his version of events to the press but it isn't exactly hard to believe. Any of it. The Allan/Rodriguez/Townsend/Rondon signings were clearly not anything to do with him and now it's claimed that Iwobi, the biggest waste of money we've had who wasn't blatantly linked to the manager at the time, was nothing to do with him either. Benitez/Moshiri also blocking the Dumfries deal and not signing an alternative too. Of course, there's another side to some of these stories but it's broadly very believable and fits with the evidence that's already publicly visible. Perhaps they got spooked by the protest organised for tomorrow and initiated action over the weekend in the hope it would act as a bit of red meat for the fans and put them off the walkout. Looking like this will have the opposite effect. More anger now at Moshiri on social media than before.

Benitez has overseen 4 wins since becoming Everton manager. Not really comparable. Moshiri was wooed by the Director of Football model, then he was wooed by Steve Walsh signing Mahrez and Kante and winning Leicester the league, then he was wooed by the idea of someone who had done it before, then he was wooed by Carlo Ancelotti, now he's wooed by Benitez because he apparently did a full in depth analysis of the squad before his interview. The man's crazy, he jumps from one big "this is the way to overnight success" idea to the next like a child with ADHD. There's no sustainable logic to any of it.

Brands probably will succeed somewhere else like he did at PSV. Not sure he'll prove to be a world beater but certainly competent at a reasonably high level. Some fairly well placed sources suggesting that he's been looking for alternative employment since the summer where he has apparently been sidelined by Moshiri who has been dealing directly with the manager. Also the CEO Denise Barrett-Baxendale is openly looking for a new career opportunity. Not sad to see the back of any of them but that leaves behind Moshiri, Kenwright and Benitez which doesn't inspire me with any confidence. Sounds like Moshiri has full on drunk the cool-aid where Benitez is concerned, and I don't like it. Say what you will about what he's achieved in his career but we're talking about a guy who was washed up in China a year ago and is currently overseeing the club's worst run of league results in something like 20 years.

What's touchy about that? Just trying to explain why it's impossible to know whether he was bad or whether he wasn't allowed to do his job because of the lack of transparency and muddy structure of the boardroom. If you're going to exaggerate by saying stuff like "hailed as a saviour" for extra effect then I think it's fair game to give a slightly barbed comment in response, whilst including the token emoji to clarify that it's all in good fun. Don't compare me to that lot though. At each other’s throats about whether they should have signed Andros Townsend after their latest 4-0 win.

Who even fucking knows whether he was shite or good after all these years? Nobody knows who signs who at our club even though the Director of Football should oversee the whole strategy. Moshiri invested in the Director of Football model then just fucked it off like a child with a short attention span when we appointed Ancelotti because Brands sure as shit didn't mastermind the James Rodriguez or Allan transfers. The boardroom is too dysfunctional for anyone to know, for example, whether it's even Brands' fault that we never signed a right back. You hear all sorts about how he had Dumfries over the line for example but Kenwright/Moshiri/Ancelotti/Benitez wouldn't sign it off. Then there was that deal for Nunes from Lisbon that was just waiting to be signed off for half of the summer but apparently Benitez didn't fancy him because he only wants to sign midtable journeymen that he reckons he can get another year or two out of. And we were excited when we signed him because we thought our owner had learnt from the failed Steve Walsh experiment and would let someone who had actually been a successful Director of Football elsewhere do the role properly but it turns out he's a lunatic instead. Good to see the hindsight police out in force though. How dare anyone try and be positive about their football club in the Internet just in case they look silly in 5 years.

Brands OUT reported by multiple sources. Not sure he's the first one I'd get rid of or that he's had a fair crack of the whip but not going to lose much sleep over it either way.

There's a Twitter account called Voice of Reason I've stumbled across a couple of times peddling the usual stuff you'd expect. I have wondered whether it's the same guy.

Anyway I came here to share this: Bit of a read but another informative thread.

I don't know what's more insane. The fact that this has been posted or the fact that 10+ further people have read it and not responded to the fact that you're seemingly putting her entire success down to her not being vaccinated. The head boy and top students in my school all got their vaccines at school same as everyone else. To put it mildly, I think there are other factors and characteristics that have an impact on children besides whether they got vaccinated as young kids. If it was my little girl I'd be incredibly proud of her hard work and impressive approach to her studies and work, not using her success as an anecdote to perpetuate my edgy anti-vax shtick on the Internet but maybe I'm just a crazy person.

Again, it's not just about the lack of trophies. That's where the 27 is coming from and is the headline symptom of the club's decline. Second, Chelsea, Forest, Hashtag FC, nobody cares. The protest is about Everton Football Club and how Everton fans feel about the club. There are other clubs doing better or worse, nobody cares. The fanbase has sat idly by and continued to sell out home and away for years and years. They're entitled to make a small protest to express their dissatisfaction without fans of other clubs giving us a seal of approval. Nobody has any right to tell you what are and aren't reasonable feelings about your football club. If 1990s Chelsea or modern day Nottingham Forest or Derby County want to stage a walkout or a protest against their ownership then they can do what they want. I wouldn't be arsed at all and if I was interested, I might express confusion, but I'd never presume to claim they were out of order or ungrateful because other clubs have it worse (e.g. hey at least you don't support Bury or Wimbledon) because they have the right to want a higher bar for their club.

This is really one of those situations where you can't understand from outside the club. Like when people spent the last few years telling Palace fans they should be grateful to have Hodgson as manager indefinitely because why should you expect anything like exciting football or a bit of ambition when there are clubs who can't stay in the Premier League? With all due respect, opinions from outside the fanbase are meaningless. I couldn't give a shit how much sympathy we get from the rest of the league, let alone two. The bottom line is, we've spent most of the Moshiri era being laughed at. We've spent more than even some of the elite teams in Europe. The owner makes the same mistakes again and again and there's no accountability. Kenwright hangs around like a bad smell, always trying to keep his spoon in the pot without showing a hint of embarrassment that he's synonymous with the least successful era in the club's history while simultaneously claiming to be the biggest Blue ever. What would you do? Sit politely and accept the slow decline in league position? Keep yourself warm at night because at least Nottingham Forest have had it worse? "Arrogant" "Ungrateful". Give over. The fanbase of a club that's still in the top five most successful English clubs ever, despite a generation of borderline sabotage from an incompetent boardroom, doesn't have to whore out their gratitude to an owner who's taking the club backwards and hides from us behind his text messages to Jim White, regardless of how much money he's got or how many stadiums he promises to build. The protest isn't even against him or his stated aims for the club, its just to try and get him to communicate with the fans and make some basic but necessary changes to the running of the club. Here's a more clear explanation: To summarise though, walking out of a game once in response to the club delivering shite for 27 years is not a disproportionate response, and it really isn't feasible that people who don't support Everton and haven't lived this for that extent of time are at all well-placed to look down their nose and sit in judgement of fans who care about and follow the club making what's ultimately a pretty small protest at what they've seen.

I think we've all let ourselves believe to some extent that the vaccine was going to stop this thing in its tracks more than it has. Right now we're dealing with a perfect storm of winter, a new mutation, the "first wave" infectees hitting the end of their natural immunity window and the same for the first wave of the vaccinated. We will get there though, it will fluctuate for a long time probably but science and medicine will continue to innovate and eventually quash this pandemic as far as we can reasonably expect.

Seriously? If so get well soon and try not to spend too much of those two weeks going down conspiracy theory rabbit holes.

Etc. Etc. Good on them but we'll see how many do it. I can see it being quite a lot to be fair.

I don't think compulsory vaccination is the solution in the scenario we find ourselves in. At the same time, the hysterical 'muh fweedom' brigade or however you want to describe them need to stop acting as if it's unprecedented. There are already vaccinations for other illnesses that are compulsory for younger children, whether or not that's properly enforced, and certain countries require you to have had certain jabs or booster jabs before entering their territory for decades.

No.

The fact that we're rolling out 3rd booster jabs and starting to speculate on when we'll get the updated 4th(?) jab to combat the new variant while third world nations are sitting on a 1% vaccination rate if they're lucky certainly leaves a bad taste in the mouth and should be a source of real embarrassment for the Western blob for sure.

Thought the same a couple of weeks back. It's becoming a part time job for some of us challenging this nonsense which has become totally repetitive. The usual solution would be to ignore it until it fizzles out but it's hard to just leave some of the dangerous claims hanging out there unchallenged.