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Reply | General Election Thread
at 13:02 31 May 2024
Loads of new houses are getting built as well (housing some of those extra people) which put extra stain on the system, but they pay water rates so should expect for some of that money to be re-invested in the infrastructure. Instead billions of pounds flow out of the water companies and into the pockets of private individuals. Did they not know that they would need to increase their capacity, did they not think it was worth having a robust system that can deal with a few extra turds and some rain?
Thames Tideway is a great improvement but lets not pretend that it's not long overdue, it's replacing a 150 year old system. It also probably wouldn't have happened if it weren't for the EU rules around water pollution when the project started, if it was to be reviewed today I guess that the water companies would just lobby the government to change the standards.
My water company has sent me a marketing e-mail today to explain the difference between pollution and algal bloom, so I don't mistake the two when wondering why the waters brown. They weren't necessarily forthcoming in their communication that algal bloom is caused by excess nutrients in the water (normally feterliser or effluent). |
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Reply | OMG
at 18:25 30 May 2024
I remember him trying to bully Taarabt when he turned up with Cardiff, that didn't end well for him either. |
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Reply | General Election Thread
at 12:58 30 May 2024
I think the issues are greater in certain areas. They recently did a survey of the number of discharges per year into rivers and seas from the various water companies and I think the worst was up at 300+, so nearly every day just flowing untreated out into the environment.
It certainly seems to have got worse recently where I am in the South East with regular reports of beaches being shut or swimmers getting sick, beaches losing blue flag status etc. |
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Reply | General Election Thread
at 19:42 29 May 2024
Politicians generally make promises that they think are popular to get votes, I imagine that they would probably like to follow through with it if it was viable to make the next election easier. Fundamentally reducing immigration isn't the job of a moment, you need to keep public services running and try to avoid damaging the economy with inflation. Both of those risks would be a concern if you quickly stopped immigration. So once elected on these promises they are faced with the reality that if they follow through with it they'll have a load more problems and definitely won't get re-elected. So there best bet is to backtrack on the promises to cut immigration, no great mystery. |
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Reply | General Election Thread
at 07:54 29 May 2024
Maybe he just thinks it's ironic that people hail the democracy of the referendum but refused to have a further referendum once the options for what Brexit looked like were fleshed out.
If it's so great why don't we turn the general election into a referendum. It would have to be a yes/no type question s I guess do you want to stick with the conservatives or not? If/when conservatives lose we'll leave it to the MPs to decide what happens after that and the public just have to live with it.
The Liberal Democrats want to stop companies polluting our rivers and seas. It's a shame that when politicians were saying that leaving the EU will allow us to set our own rules they weren't clearer than it meant lowering our water standards so swimmers would get sick and we'd have to send bottled water to Devon. Who could have seen that coming? |
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Reply | General Election Thread
at 09:03 26 May 2024
I don't think the fact he was in that position means he ignored an injustice. At that point we're the PO still lying to the government? He may have been misinformed about the situation for all we know. If you can find anything that shows he knew the true situation and decided to bury it then you might have a point, but so far it's just assumptions.
I think it's fair to say the majority of MPs are decent people trying to do what they think is right for their constituency. It seems to mainly be the one's that want more power or to be celebrities that are more likely to be less honest as they try to wriggle their way into fame and power. But that's a handful out of the 650 MPs rather than the majority.
Also regarding journalism, is it the journalists fault that the public weren't interested until it was dramatised on ITV? If you can sell more papers publishing irrelevant nonsense about the royal family or predictions of snow, who's fault is that? |
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Reply | General Election Thread
at 14:45 23 May 2024
To be fair, if you've not been deterred by handing over a load of money to a shady people trafficker or the potential death crossing the channel in a small boat, I doubt your eligibility for asylum is going to make a blind bit of difference. Oooh you'll be ineligible for asylum when you get there... bothered. Should stop wasting time on them and focus on the people traffickers. |
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Reply | First voted in 1985 as a naive 18 year old
at 19:04 22 May 2024
Once the manifestos are out, I like to do the vote for policies thing where you blindly select the policies you think are best without knowing which party they belong to. Normally gives me a good idea of who's at least talking the best game, whether they're able to deliver it is an altogether different conversation. |
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Reply | Departures in the development squad
at 09:11 21 May 2024
I like to think he sits down with the player in question, spreads a load of cards over the table with stock phrases on it and asks them to pick two they want including in their leaving statement.
SDM- "inquisitive mind sounds good"
Nourry- " are you sure, we've had that recently" |
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Reply | End of Term Report 23/24 – Goalkeepers
at 10:28 18 May 2024
But the stats are adjusted for that and he was 3rd worst in the league. Based on the shots our opponents managed to get in with an average goalkeeper we should have conceded 7 less goals.
Conversely Dykes's stats are average, he's marginally under the number of goals he's scored for the amount of goals expected from the shots he's had. We still want/need better and he's average, why should Begovic even be entertained as being adequate or even worse for a new contract. [Post edited 18 May 10:30]
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Reply | End of Season Review - Live Now On The Patreon
at 08:05 11 May 2024
Good podcast, it's interesting to think back to when Ainsworth was here and just how certain it seemed that we would be relegated. Puts into focus what a good job Marti did.
I'm excited for the summer and kind of agree with the bloke who said he wouldn't mind a full squad clear out, I trust Marti to bring in good players so the more the better to a certain extent. Financially it might be the right time to cash in on JCS, Field and a few others.
Be interesting to see what deals we make and how well organised the preseason is going to be. |
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Reply | Joe Walsh
at 16:01 5 May 2024
Whoever the first choice is I think they will benefit from competition for places. Walsh has shown he can step in so to my mind that means we can take a risk on a new goalkeeper (like Stanley Nwabali) and assess them both in preseason. I wouldn't be going back in for Begovic personally. |
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Reply | Ilias Chair
at 15:31 29 Apr 2024
I like Chair, as said by others he's hard working and skilful, not a common pairing. The court case makes me cautious about "building a team around him" for next season because it seems like he may be suddenly removed from the team. If we got a good offer for him I'd take it personally. I think he deserves a crack higher up and think this might be a good time, while rebuilding under Marti, to get a few young replacements or unknown players like Anderson in to see who can step up to his level. |
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Reply | Begovic has done alright!
at 17:52 28 Apr 2024
TBF I think he's been hard done by, his name deserves to be top 5 at least. |
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Reply | Begovic has done alright!
at 17:52 28 Apr 2024
I liked the analysis by the young lad did scouting goalkeepers and think the Lincoln goalkeeper Jensen would be a good option. |
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Reply | Begovic has done alright!
at 17:24 28 Apr 2024
I think he's 7th based alphabetically.
If you order by goals prevented he's 3rd worst in the league. I believe goal prevented looks at the expected goals vs goals conceded. So if you're getting loads of clean sheets because the teams neutralising the attempts of the opposition it's allows you to look more at the goalkeepers contribution. |
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Reply | Willock - Will He Stay?
at 17:56 27 Apr 2024
I think it's probably best all around if he moves on. If we keep him we'll only end up pointing at next season's L1 player tearing up the championship and say why didn't we get him. He's a good player but not irreplaceable and age and injury record suggesting it would be a bad bet to chuck all our money on.
Not sure what Ainsworth has to do with the conversation, poor manager but Willock was poor for Critchley before he arrived. |
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