Are you forgetting share of gate receipts which also happens in the FA Cup? I think the cancellation of replays with no consultation to speak of with the rest of the football league is shameful and typically selfish from the top 6. Another good example of why i've lost interest in football in recent years.
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@Billy-Tell said in EPL 2023/2024:
Cole Palmer IS Chelsea this season. They would be lost without him. Think Chelsea is summed up by players fighting on pitch about who takes the penalty…
Saw a clip of Delli Ali talking about it - he nailed it. Palmer is the penalty taker, and you didn't see those players squabbling to take the pen in the last minute a few weeks ago when there was jeopardy. Think Pochetino needs to be given free reign to clear out some of the dicks.
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@DaGrubster said in EPL 2023/2024:
I doubt they will disappear as badly as Chelsea have 😂😂
You reckon? I think once Klopp is gone you’ll be mid table at best next season. 😉
Happy to post on this thread after a 6-0 win. Players squabbling on the pitch over a pen looked pathetic though. Have lost a lot of interest in it over the years, think I might be getting old. Always time for a Liverpool jibe though,
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2 points isn't a lot this season IMO, I hope Arsenal bounce back, I hope Liverpool disappear without a trace.
I was at the Bayern Munich game on Saturday, picked a weird weekend to watch Bayern for the first time. One observation though, not having watched a lot of bundesliga before is just how slow the game is compared to the Premiership. Still, what a lovely afternoon, fan environment so much nicer than in England, much more akin to a rugby crowd relationship between the two sets of fans than a Premiership one. Entirely civilised being able to get Stein's served in your seat
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IMO she's only a hypocrite if she's actually intentionally dodged tax, and we don't know if she's paid the right amount, let alone if she's dodged some on purpose. Without sounding like a conspiracy theorist, i tend to think the only reason this is getting this level of continuous coverage in the Mail is because she's a working class female Labour MP.
I also don't agree with you that she's a hateful person, I think she comes across pretty sane on any long form interview, Rest is Politics, Political Party etc, she's had a hell of a life and her journey is testament to a huge personality and force of will. The one off the cuff comment about Tory's being scum was a mistake IMO, but its hardly crime of the century.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in British Politics:
@Dodge said in British Politics:
it is an entirely different scale and potentially entirely different level of intent to avoid than others.
Scale has nothing to do with it - it's the hypocrisy and double-standards on show which is the issue.
so there we part ways, scale and intent absolutely matter to me.
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Yes I saw it, they’re lethal when they switch on, which is how they played just before Christmas. Hoping for the first half version
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Look, if she did something wrong, then fine throw the book, but it seems likely to be a storm in a tea cup. The amount of fuss being made doesn’t seem like it should be equivalent to the non dom and awarding contracts situation of the Sunak’s nor the underpayment by Zahawi etc. it is an entirely different scale and potentially entirely different level of intent to avoid than others.
If she was a Tory, I doubt this would have got a second days coverage
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cracking weekend, Quins game was chefs kiss. Having been at the Toulouse game at the Stoop before Christmas, I can't see how Quins beat them if they front up like they did that day. That said, I thought Quins would get battered in Bordeaux so what do i know
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is it though?
So far, apart from the Mail going on about it, no one has actually identified whether she's done anything wrong. Dan Niedle has been excellent on this subject, likely max tax evaded (which again, we don't know if it was evaded) is about £3.5k.
a. we don't know if anything was owed at all, we don't know which her designated primary residence was (this is a designation, it doesn't matter whether she was living in it at the time), we don't know when she left one to choose the other and whether it was inside 18 months from when she sold it during which time principal residence relief would apply. We don't know if she did any work on the house to improve it which would again would be deductible. Basically, we don't know anything but to this point HMRC haven't been concerned.
b. even if none of the above apply and she did pay the wrong amount of tax, we have no reason to assume that was intentional, making a mistake on tax is not a crime, evasion has to be intentional. Ultimately, this is a personal tax situation and if HMRC are happy then the rest of us don't need to know anything.
The notion that this instance is the same as some of the things the Tories have done baffles me, to me its simply the Daily Mail pursuing what is a minor issue and equating it with Zahawi etc - it is hilarious.
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Saw a good thread on Twitter yesterday, can't find it now, suggesting that the middle east is a constant shouting match where everyone is constantly needing to project enough power and strength not to be invaded so its a game of hitting each other with a stick, going to get a bigger stick, constantly balancing whether the stick you've used isn't big enough to force the other guy to go and get a gun.
Israel hits the embassy (reasonable size stick), Iran replies with missiles (slightly bigger stick) it knows will be shot down, does enough damage to claim a victory to its own people, both sides indicate they consider it to be the end of the process etc (i.e. no one is going to get a gun). At this point, hopefully its just hitting each other with sticks but no question its on a bit of a knife edge.
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The last part of that exchange is iconic.
Lawyer: Ms Tickle is a woman, isn’t she?
Sall: Tickle is a biological male.
Lawyer: Even where a person who was assigned male at birth transitions to a woman by having surgery, hormones, gets rid of facial hair, undergoes facial reconstruction, grows their hair long, wears make up, wears female clothes, describes themselves as a woman, introduces themselves as a woman, uses female changing rooms, changes their birth certificate – you don’t accept that is a woman do you?
Sall: No.
Lawyer: I suggest to you that in Australian society, the normal meaning of a woman is someone who has changed their birth certificate to say woman, what would you say to that?
Sall: I don’t agree
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Tickle vs Giggle started yesterday in Australia, CASS report published today in the UK.
Reading the tribunaltweets2 account today of the process is genuinely infuriating and ridiculous in equal measure. Hearing the AHRC argue that not only can men become women, but that males can also become female shows how far down the rabbit hole these organisations have fallen. Given the appalling capture of the legal system post Gillard's bill, I can't see how Sal Grover wins this case but assuming she's still committed to the appeal to the Supreme Court it may be a necessary step to peak the Australian public and eventually get the law reexamined.
As for the CASS report, holy shit, what a vindication of people like Graham Linehan who've been cancelled for stating exactly what this report has found. That Gender affirming care, puberty blockers and hormones prescribed to children were based not on a medical evidence base but on a social pressure. I hope this is the beginning of the end of the concept of Trans kids and the immediate end of what at this stage can only be thought of as child abuse.
The world is waking up but the TRA lobby will not go quietly.
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It’s genuinely staggering that JK Rowling has single handedly blown up this law and its policing in just 24 hours. The woman is a fucking machine. The TRAs are now claiming it was never going to be a crime or even an NCHI to misgender someone, and everyone knew that, except they didn’t, the government and the police have both refused to confirm this before this week. The Scottish government actively refused to accept an amendment that would protect women’s rights to say it on the behest of the trans lobby.
JK Rowling by stating loud and proud that trans women are men, by challenging the state to arrest her, by highlighting how farcical the whole thing is, by drawing global attention to it, by offering to repeat any other woman’s claim who gets investigated for similar has single handedly cut it off at the knees. Outside of Martin Johnson and Jonny, I don’t really do hero worship but fuck me she’s amazing.
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I saw a stat that suggested he’s played in 24% of all the AB tests in history. That’s insane.
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No NCHI logged apparently. This new law is already not being policed as it’s written, their actions are inconsistent with what was happening before it passed - it’s all bat shit mental.
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re the last point, Murdo Fraser (Scottish Tory MSP) is currently taking this to court having discovered he has a NCHI recorded against him from the back end of last year - lets hope that brings the end of this nonsense sooner rather than later
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Transgender debate, in sport, in general:
After Scotland's Hate Crime law comes into force (it apparently makes calling a trans woman a biological male - even in private - a potential criminal offence), JK Rowling calls 11 trans women biological males and dares the police to arrest her.
this was all over by tea time yesterday with Police Scotland confirming that no laws had been broken in the above thread, i.e. its still legal to say a transwoman is a man (i still can't believe i need to write that down in 2024).
One caveat however, we have yet to find out if the above has been recorded as a non crime hate incident (what even is that for fucks sake?). Problem with these for normal people is that they will be recorded and accessible and can be used in the future to monitor a pattern of behaviour etc. Personally i find it outrageous that the police will record these however I also think its unsustainable and will disappear in due course.
As crazy as Scotland is, I am still grateful to be living in the UK rather than Canada or Australia. Still watching Tickle vs Giggle with interest.
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interestingly, speeding the ruck up properly made the box kick so much harder to execute as players were able to charge it down as the guards weren't in place and the scrum half didn't have as much room at the back of ruck. As people have suggested previously, if this was enforced in every game, rather than just on a Pearce whim then the box kick would become a genuine skill again
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was a great match and whilst i applaud some of Pearce's attitude and decisions to speed the game up (he made the caterpillar almost impossible to construct with two players in a line at the back of the ruck as he enforced the 5 second law properly) i fundamentally disagreed with him speeding Finn Smith up to take a kick - in the laws he has 90 seconds for a conversion, he is allowed to take them, but more importantly Pearce wouldn't have done that to Farrell and if he had done so, OF would have told him where to go.
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