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Friday night game plus Brucie Bonus mid-week games. Week 10 fixtures... Friday 14th October Brentford v Brighton & Hove Albion Saturday 15th October Leicester City v Crystal Palace Fulham v AFC Bournemouth Wolverhampton Wanderers v Nottingham Forest Tottenham Hotspur v Everton Sunday 16th October Aston Villa v Chelsea Leeds United v Arsenal Manchester United v Newcastle United Southampton v West Ham United Liverpool v Manchester City Tuesday 18th October Brighton & Hove Albion v Nottingham Forest Crystal Palace v Wolverhampton Wanderers Wednesday 19th October AFC Bournemouth v Southampton Brentford v Chelsea Liverpool v West Ham United Newcastle United v Everton Manchester United v Tottenham Hotspur Thursday 20th October Fulham v Aston Villa Leicester City v Leeds United

Week 9 points... Week 9 table...

Bizarre seeing Truss being more sensible and progressive re European relations, while simultaneously being her usual; batshit crazy when it comes to domestic/economic issues. Is she an undercover Lib Dem agent?...

Predict Addict have got the World Cup Group fixtures up, so I'll set-up another EDF Mini-League and give out the details of how to join. Only 6 weeks to go!...

Week 9 fixtures... Saturday 8th October AFC Bournemouth v Leicester City Chelsea v Wolverhampton Wanderers Manchester City v Southampton Newcastle United v Brentford Brighton & Hove Albion v Tottenham Hotspur Sunday 9th October Crystal Palace v Leeds United West Ham United v Fulham Arsenal v Liverpool Everton v Manchester United Monday 10th October Nottingham Forest v Aston Villa

Week 8 points... Week 8 table...

The Labour Party 'forced' the country into having Gordon Brown as PM without a GE, so it's disingenuous to paint this as solely a 'Tory thing'. However, there is clearly a problem when a replacement PM takes a completely new direction of travel like we're seeing with Truss, going against what they stood for at a GE. Not only does Truss not have mandate to do these things from the country, she doesn't even have a mandate from her own MPs. Rightly or wrongly, we don't have a written constitution to prevent something like this happening, instead relying on MPs to 'do the right thing'. The whole parliamentary process needs overhauling including the House of Lords and the ''First Past the Post'' voting system...

Rats in the sack latest.... Widespread dismay at the fact that 3 years of work has effectively been put on hold. No one asked for this. C4 sale, online safety, BBC licence feee review - all signed off by cabinet all ready to go, all stopped. If Liz wants a whole new mandate, she must take to the country. - Nadine Dorries

Cat, please spare us the ''I know 100's of people'' anecdotes. I'm surprised that with this large social network of yours, who all happily divulge their intimate financial details to you, that you can find the time to bless the EDF with your presence...

In theory, but the reality is that these high earners employ 'creative accountants' (tax deductible) and via tax avoidance schemes this revenue is just as likely to end up in an off-shore fund than the Treasury's coffers. What the Tufton St lot don't understand is the 'politics' of all this, it's seen as intrinsically unfair, a 'reverse Robin Hood tax', and today's Telegraph headline about the Gov prepared to cut benefits in real terms will feed into that narrative. And that's before we even get the full details of the ginormous spending cuts needed to fund this plan i.e. Austerity 2.0...

Week 8 fixtures... Saturday 1st October Arsenal v Tottenham Hotspur AFC Bournemouth v Brentford Crystal Palace v Chelsea Fulham v Newcastle United Liverpool v Brighton & Hove Albion Southampton v Everton West Ham United v Wolverhampton Wanderers Sunday 2nd October Manchester City v Manchester United Leeds United v Aston Villa Monday 3rd October Leicester City v Nottingham Forest

What we're seeing, once again, is what happens when this extreme version of Brexit eventually meets reality. The UK has now become a petri dish for the fantasy libertarian economics of the IEA et al while the rest of the world looks on aghast. It's no longer a cult, it's become a deathcult. All self-inflicted, all totally unnecessary, all consumed at the altar of Brexit...

Kwarteng on borrowed time...

Call me a cynic, but something tells me this post isn't going to age well...

Also a huge difference as to how the borrowed money would be spent. I'm guessing tax breaks for the wealthy and removing the cap on banker's bonuses wouldn't have been top priorities for those opposed to austerity...

Indeed, listened to him on Manchester's Piccadilly Radio when he was playing, then, non-commercial Chicago House...

Huge difference in borrowing costs i.e. interest rates/inflation rate, between then and now...

Week 7 points... Week 7 table... International break, back in about 10 days time...

Predict Addict are calling this Week 7, starting with 2 matches Friday night. Week 7 fixtures... Friday 16th September Aston Villa v Southampton Nottingham Forest v Fulham Saturday 17th September Wolverhampton Wanderers v Manchester City Newcastle United v AFC Bournemouth Tottenham Hotspur v Leicester City Sunday 18th September Brentford v Arsenal Everton v West Ham United

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News cycle obviously being dominated by Queen/King events, but what's going on in Ukraine in recent days is incredible, Ukraine taking back control of territory from the Russkis at an unprecedented rate. This video is already out of date...

Sad news. Strange seeing a reference to ''The King'' for the first time...

I hope we can all agree that right now and in the coming months, probably even subsequent autumn/winters, the poorest need financial help far more than moderately/very wealthy people. And we're not just talking about people on benefits, zero-hour contract workers etc, I'm sure most have seen stories of nurses and teachers relying on food banks etc. There are millions of people who have no safety net and won't be able to pay bills and/or keep up with inflation galloping ahead like it is. What I'm saying is that there are better ways to target and distribute money so it goes to the neediest, rather than what a cut to NI would provide. It doesn't have to be via a tax cut. Give them a further rebate off their energy bill, and/or some food vouchers. Food banks are running out of food, spend the money set aside for a NI cut on keeping them stocked during the crisis. Free travel for low-paid workers. Anything really that will target those that are struggling. The other problem I have with a NI cut is that it's being done for ideological reasons. i.e. Tory party = tax cuts, and they are simply playing to 'their' crowd rather than the country as a whole...

No chopping and changing required. Tax cuts benefit the wealthiest more than the poorest. Tax rises hit the poorest more than the wealthiest. And Truss thinks her proposed NI cuts are 'fair' in a cost of living crisis which is already hitting the poorest hardest. Righty Ho! The above 'fair' comment from Truss tells me everything about her merits. No 'Tory bad' narrative from me, just an 'anti-incompetence/not fit to govern' narrative. The current incarnation of the Tory Party have been in power for 12 years, this is on them, no one else. In the past I've ripped into Corbyn and his unfitness to be leader of the Labour party let alone PM. If the Tories had a decent leader and manifesto at the last election I would've voted for them over Corbyn, but with Johnson they managed the impossible and outfuckwitted Corbyn. At least Labour has since seen sense and returned to more moderate ground. The Tories yet again get another chance to do likewise, but no, they continue to veer right towards the sunlit uplands of small state libertarian 'fwee twade' cakeism. Dream on. Excuse me if I pass on yet more confected Daily Mail pearl-clutching at it's finest. Frivolous at best...