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Week 3 points... Week 3 table...

Would be churlish not to give Johnson a proper send-off before he's kicked out in two weeks time, so while our PM is sunning himself on a beach on his second holiday in as many weeks while the country goes to pot, a reminder of what he said less than a year ago about growing concern of rising inflation... I'll miss the lazy, good for nothing, racist, smirking cockwomble...

Where does it say anything about ''we were fond of'' ? I think a lot of the posts are people just posting the news that someone has died, regardless of whether they liked them or not...

Week 3 fixtures... Saturday 20th August Tottenham Hotspur v Wolverhampton Wanderers Crystal Palace v Aston Villa Everton v Nottingham Forest Fulham v Brentford Leicester City v Southampton AFC Bournemouth v Arsenal Sunday 21st August Leeds United v Chelsea West Ham United v Brighton & Hove Albion Newcastle United v Manchester City Monday 22nd August Manchester United v Liverpool

Week 2 points... Week 2 table...

Barry Bennell is a good Christian...

We live in a short-term age where lots of people don't/can't plan for the long-term. In the workplace a 'job for life' is the exception rather than the rule. Short-term/zero hours contracts have brought about more job insecurity, with people living/surviving from pay day to pay day. People are saving less, pension planning is considered an unaffordable luxury rather than the norm. Less and less people can afford to buy their own home and instead are forced to rent. I live in an area where renters far outweigh home owners, and the renters are extremely transient in nature, there's hardly a week that goes by without someone moving in/out. People have also become used to short-term/instant gratification in their daily lives where everything is just a click away. Added to all this you've now got the uncertainties/economic damage caused by Brexit, Covid, Ukraine etc. How can people plan for the future with such uncertainty? Would they even bother listening to a politician offering a 'long-term vision'? So is it any wonder this short-termism has crept into politics too. Whether by design or accident, populists have tapped into this by offering seemingly quick and easy solutions to difficult long-term problems just to get elected. Of course, they fail but then another one comes along with more of the same, witness Johnson and now the soon-to-be new PM Truss. At least Labour did the decent thing and got rid of Corbyn and his brand of populism, but it would be nice to be able to judge whether Labour under Starmer are any different, but I still don't now exactly what he's offering the country except to say the Tories are rubbish etc. I can understand Starmer keeping his head below the parapet with regard to Brexit, but the cost of living and NHS crises should be fertile home ground for Labour, they should be setting the agenda on these issues. A personal 'long-term vision'...I think the best thing that could happen to UK politics is an end to the First Past The Post voting system. That would shake things up, provide a better format for new/fresh ideas/visions to be heard/discussed, but I can't see the two dinosaurs changing that, certainly not the Tories...

Speak to RDA Architects, fairly sure he did the development next to the Jeannie Avent art gallery on Lacon Road, seem to remember the windows were Velfac, they are specified a lot by architects...

Thanks Joe...

Week 2 fixtures... Saturday 13th August Aston Villa v Everton Arsenal v Leicester City Brighton & Hove Albion v Newcastle United Manchester City v AFC Bournemouth Southampton v Leeds United Wolverhampton Wanderers v Fulham Brentford v Manchester United Sunday 14th August Nottingham Forest v West Ham United Chelsea v Tottenham Hotspur Monday 15th August Liverpool v Crystal Palace

You don't have to know someone personally for their death to have some kind of impact. The footballer who was a little boy's childhood hero. The singer who's song was playing in the background when someone had their first kiss. Do you need to know an author personally to be affected by a book they've written? Do you need to know an artist personally to be affected by one of their paintings? And so on. People we don't know personally can be a part of our lives and affect who we are, so why would anyone not want to remember them? I suspect part of that remembering is a mourning for their own past childhood/adulthood memories rather than the person per se...

There are already millions in fuel poverty and many more will be joining them this Autumn, so for them it's a rather moot point whether it hits £3k, £3.5k, £4k etc come January. Here are some sobering figures... 10m Britons have savings of less than £100. The poorest 25% of households have average savings of just £2000 (scraped together over entire lifetimes) The proposed Truss NI 'handout' equates to about an average of £60 off the fuel bill, and that excludes those who don't even earn enough to pay NI i.e. the very poorest Whoever wins the Tory leadership better have deeper pockets than that pittance...

Spartacus, do you think about all the unnamed victims of cancer who died, on the days when no one well known has died from cancer?...

Jah, like Spurs, off to a flyer. Week 1 points and table...

Well, it would be helpful if we actually had a functioning Government rather than the PM and Chancellor both away on holiday at the same time during a major economic crisis that's about to blow-up and get out of control come the autumn. Instead the country is being spammed daily for weeks on end by a ridiculous Tory/PM leadership contest, with the protagonists more concerned with a manufactured culture war so they can throw red meat to a selectorate that is probably one of the most insulated against the effects of the cost of living crisis. Neither of them has a coherent plan how to tackle the crisis, and during these 'debates' not enough time or even the right questions are being asked as to how they are going to deal with it. Before last night's latest 'debate' the Telegraph journalist Juliet Samuel suggested some questions that should be asked... 1. How will you keep the lights on, factories running and homes warm this winter? 2. What are you/the government doing to ensure we have access to enough gas imports if Europe cannot supply us with the gas we usually rely on every winter? Are we signing new supply contracts? Why not? 3. Do you believe there's a realistic prospect of getting significant gas supplies flowing from the North Sea or British shale this winter? 4. What are you/the government doing to reopen British gas storage facilities as quickly as possible so we can stock up for winter, as Europe is doing? 5. Are you prepared to reopen coal plants temporarily to see us through the winter? 6. How can the government launch an emergency insulation scheme to insulate as many homes as possible this summer/autumn/winter? Especially in social housing and private-rented, the worst-served sectors 7. Will you announce more welfare for households struggling with extraordinary energy and food bills? On what scale? 8. What will you do if the "Don't Pay UK" energy bill strike reaches scale? Will you support the bill strikers? Would you bail out our biggest energy suppliers if needed? 9. How will you stop the NHS falling over this winter, given that it's already in acute stress? Or, of course, they could go with the usual mix of fatuous, pointless question about shoes, earrings, "quick-fire", "your naughtiest moment" and "trust in politics". My understanding of the "Don't Pay UK" protest is that people will initially stop paying their monthly direct debits and then wait for the quarterly bill to arrive and decide how much they can afford to pay, taking into effect other bills, in particular food bills. Seems a perfectly reasonable and rational thing to do to me, if people haven't got the money to cover all their bills then they have to prioritise, and no parent is going to put a heating bill before making sure their child gets fed. Unless the new PM gets on top of this very quickly, then yes, I can see this becoming the Gov's 'Poll Tax moment'...

That's because you've clicked on the thread title, which also happened with the old system. If you click on the little grey icon to the right of the latest poster's name that will take you to the latest post...

Woohoo! Good luck everyone. Week 1 fixtures... Friday 5th August Crystal Palace v Arsenal Saturday 6th August Fulham v Liverpool AFC Bournemouth v Aston Villa Leeds United v Wolverhampton Wanderers Newcastle United v Nottingham Forest Tottenham Hotspur v Southampton Everton v Chelsea Sunday 7th August Leicester City v Brentford Manchester United v Brighton & Hove Albion West Ham United v Manchester City

Thanks for your feedback OOF, fortunately I've found a way to delete unread messages. At the bottom of the page there is a default setting of 'Mark/Unmark as important'. If you click on the drop down menu symbol next to it, it brings up the option 'Delete marked', click on that to change the setting. Then mark all messages you want to delete (If you want to delete all messages, click on the 'Mark All' button to save time, otherwise select individually which messages you want to delete), and then click on the 'Go' button. This will take you to new page asking if you want to delete the marked messages, click on 'yes' and they are deleted and you're then returned back to the message page...

Time for some pre-season musings/predictions. Hard to see beyond the top two again, they were 18pts clear of Chelsea, the same distance that Chelsea were clear of West Ham in 7th. That's a big gap to close no matter how well clubs below them have done in the transfer window. But...this is going to be a very unusual season in that we have a World Cup smack bang in the middle of the season, an unknown factor which could lead to injuries, fatigue etc. But could it also benefit key players that aren't going such as Salah? I thought City didn't look as flowing or cohesive as normal with Haaland up front, he'll score goals for sure but I don't think City are going to blow away everyone else on the strength of just his signing. Nunez however looks a better fit into LFC's system. With the WC I think it will be important to get off to a good start and I therefore think this will favour....due to club allegiances I'm forbidden from saying anything more. Spurs could be the closest challengers, only 3pts behind CFC and have bought well. Arsenal have also bought well and had a very good pre-season, but I'll go with Spurs 3rd and CFC 4th. Utd will play better (not difficult) but will need this season to adapt to ETH's system and get the players he wants...I'm currently in Barcelona attempting to kidnap De Jong. West Ham will concentrate on and win the Europa Conference League...

I agree with KK that most of these 'proposals' are all bluster, red meat to a miniscule section of the public that live in a parallel universe to everyone else, but it's telling nonetheless. Which is to deflect from 12 years of Tory rule and underfunding of the NHS and all that entails, and instead point the finger of suspicion as to why 'some people' can't get an appointment because 'some people' don't turn up for appointments...

I've received and sent a PM without problems, but I did notice that I've received new unopened versions of all the previous read PM's I'd received under the old system. I'm ok with that, these things can happen with a change of server etc, but there doesn't appear to be a way of deleting these messages unread like you could before, and instead I would have to open each message and then delete individually, which will take ages. So if anyone knows a shortcut, spread the love!...

That's JL, RC, AM and myself signed up. Sounds like DF, LG and maxxi intend to, so that just leaves Parky from the originals. Anyone else interested just go to https://www.predictaddict.co.uk/ and sign up, it's free and easy to play...

First post on the new forum...hope it works! I've set up a new Predict Addict league, here are the details... No need to edit a post to see an attached image = new and improved Forum!...

Not personally, but did see a headline about a hay fever 'bomb' arriving as it's peak season, so maybe to do with that...

I had the same problem when I wanted to get to 10k on the 10th anniversary of my retired account. I'm afraid it calls for drastic action...the word games!!!