Everything posted by Soy Adrián
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Summer Transfer Thread
Good for his long term career prospects. May only have to wait a year until he gets to play in the Champions League. No brainer really.
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The Official Labour Foot-Shoot Thread, Mk II
Job losses from us leaving will affect every sector and every pay grade. You're clueless.
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The Champions League Thread 2016-17
I thought Celtic played with a lot of character last night.
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The Official Labour Foot-Shoot Thread, Mk II
Owen Smith could be great. My Corbynite friend said last autumn that he was probably the shadow minister closest to me in views, which was meant to be vaguely complementary. If nothing else, we could swap John Oliver in for him for PMQs and aside from the accent no one would notice.
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England's next manager
He would have been good ten years ago, but the game has moved on. Back then he was taking decent Premier League teams and pushing them into Europe - now he's taking crap teams and making them decent. He wouldn't be a disaster, but we could do a lot better. As a West Ham fan, the fact that Bilic's name was being thrown around makes me feel underwhelmed by Big Sam.
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Euro 2016 Discussion Thread
Best team in the tournament? They were exceptionally well organised when it mattered, for sure. But on a game by game basis I'd argue France, Germany and Italy were all better.
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OPINION POLLS 2017
Manchester, Trafford and Stockport will be game. Annex Salford Quays and we're all set.
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Your Votes/Predictions for Tory Leader and UK PM
I see that word of the day toilet paper is paying off.
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Your Votes/Predictions for Tory Leader and UK PM
That was the first thing that sprang to mind for me as well. Big businesses will always look for loopholes.
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Your Votes/Predictions for Tory Leader and UK PM
I think it's pretty clear that this was almost an accident for the right of the Tories as well. A month ago, they'd have probably thought the best they could hope for would be Boris offering them a few chunky policy concessions.
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Chilcot
I doubt the cricketers would do much about it.
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Game of Thrones (Season 6)
Apparently filming for Season 7 has been delayed because it's not cold enough in any of their filming locations. Some winter.
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The Official Labour Foot-Shooting Thread
For the majority of our party, it did. And then some. Shame the leader wasn't playing ball.
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The Official Labour Foot-Shooting Thread
Not in the slightest, I'm just intensely bored of the same old line about the poor, innocent Lib Dems getting shot by both sides.
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The Official Labour Foot-Shooting Thread
It would be a lot easier to agree with you if you weren't so salty about being reduced to eight MPs.
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The Official Labour Foot-Shooting Thread
That would be supported by a grand total of about three MPs. Sorry to get you excited. And they're quite welcome to piss off and join the Lib Dems, by the way.
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The Official Labour Foot-Shooting Thread
Where did this idea that it would be the HEADLINE POLICY? The reason they were "banging on about it" was because there happened to be a referendum, you might have missed it.
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The Official Labour Foot-Shooting Thread
It's hardly writing off those seats though, is it?
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The Official Labour Foot-Shooting Thread
Yeah, that method is a load of balls because it assumes that every constituency in a local authority area voted the same way. You would think it'd even out, but there are more areas like Sheffield and Birmingham, where the authority narrowly voted leave but a few constituencies will have voted Remain, than there are like Leeds, which is the opposite.
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Summer Transfer Thread
Realistically though, he went for £30m last summer and had a largely crap season. Maybe his true market value might be a little higher than 25 but you're not going to get it. There are other strikers on the market so you can't ask for too much - City won't be demanding that much for Bony, for instance.
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Game of Thrones (Season 6)
I largely agree with this. It would be a bit of a cop-out if they were dealt with way before the end and there weren't serious casualties on all sides. That said, I always feel like the show's human villains are more interesting and would rather than it ultimately came down to them following a devastating battle against the White Walkers.
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The Official Labour Foot-Shooting Thread
Let's set aside the fact for a second that many Labour members (including a lot of Corbyn's supporters) feel passionately that we should be a part of the EU and would actually have been prepared to endure a medium-term hit to the party's election prospects if it meant Remain won. There's less of a case for this in Scotland, but even then there's an argument that our collapse in Scotland following the referendum was potentially a lesser evil than breaking up the United Kingdom provided that Scotland remained in broadly progressive hands. But all of that is besides the point. I don't believe for a second that, had Corbyn campaigned properly for Remain and we'd won, our support would have collapsed anywhere near as much as it did after the referendum. Like I said before, only 24% of our voters voted for Leave despite the fact that a lot of people had no idea what our stance was. Even if all of those Leave voters abandoned us - a similar proportion of our 2015 voters have said they probably wouldn't vote for us under Corbyn anyway. What on earth did he have to lose?
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The Official Labour Foot-Shooting Thread
Yeah, I'd take Lewis over Corbyn at this stage any day of the week. I just did a mini-rant in a Facebook message thread which summarises my thoughts as to why I think Corbyn could have done more in the referendum and it's probably relevant enough to post here: It's a response to this article, by the way.
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The Official Labour Foot-Shooting Thread
As has been said multiple times, the equivalent results are 2012. 2011 isn't comparable in any meaningful way because different seats were up, which fundamentally changes the results.
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The Official Labour Foot-Shooting Thread
Minimal. It's AV. Assuming Theresa May is now the favourite to win that other leadership election, it's looking likely that we won't have an early election. That removes one of the reasons not to have a leadership election in order to ensure unity. It now becomes imperative that we make sure the leader going forward to 2020 is someone who can 1) keep the party together, 2) maximise our chances next time and 3) take advantage of another four years of a tiny Tory majority.