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Reply | Quiet Quitting
at 14:44 4 Nov 2026
Yep, I'm a quiet quitter. Or as I have called it, doing the bare minimum. Partly because of the reasons above and partly because I'm nearly 60 and a bit knackered. It helps that I took an easy job mind.
Our governments have, for decades, been ruining this country. They've all been looking after themselves and their friends and there is very little left that us ordinary people are willing to give. So if productivity drops, profits drop, GDP drops the government can blame themselves and take a 2 finger salute. |
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Reply | Portsmouth v Swansea City : Match Thread
at 22:10 3 Nov 2026
percentages always seem to come off against us!
It wasn't luck, we were rubbish for most of that game. Our defence gifted them 2 goals, our keeper had a poor night but then I'd ask (just like at QPR) who had a good night?
Too many players are underperforming, specially away. You've got to wonder why? How can we so good against Blackburn then 4 days later play like a bunch of strangers. |
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Reply | Welsh NHS
at 22:02 3 Nov 2026
Parity with England wouldn't mean an end to free scripts, 89% of Englsih scripts are free because of exemptions so parity with England would save about 80 million, maybe you should check your facts?
Removing dentistry is a shockingly bad idea and reeks of selfishness.
You call yourself a patriot yet want to introduce measures that would make life harder for most Welsh people. If all dentistry were private then a lot of Welsh people would suffer.
When you say " debate enthusiastically" there would be several people who disagree, they would say you spout nonsense with facts that aren't really facts (like the 624 million saving) and when people do disagree with you, you accuse them of being in a clique or a group and picking on you. Maybe you should consider that a debate needs other peoples opinions? |
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Reply | Portsmouth v Swansea City : Match Thread
at 21:27 3 Nov 2026
My feed is devoid of commentators! Not that it helps when we are this poor. Play like this against Brum and we could be 8th Saturday evening.
Elijah Just, I'm not seeing it? What is he bringing to the team? Stamenic has dropped off too. |
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Reply | Where Do You Think We Will Finish This Season?
at 21:15 3 Nov 2026
I think we'll just miss out. We have more depth but we are a bit shy of the quality in depth. For example, we aren't great at right back and up front our strikers aren't really delivering. Maybe that is because of a lack of service but that begs questions of our midfield.
I suppose you could lay it at Matos door though? I don't 433 is the right formation for us. I feel 4231 would be better but I was that good I'd be in the dugout! |
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Reply | Portsmouth v Swansea City : Match Thread
at 20:47 3 Nov 2026
Very poor that half. Widdell isn't a left winger. Too many of them are poor again but it's not as bad as QPR because we aren't 3 down and lucky it's not 5 or 6! They aren't that much better than us and we gifted a goal again. I thought Vigoroux could have done better as well, he didn't hit it very well. Maybe I'm being harsh there!
We are picking up a lot of injuries too, why? Are we working too hard in training? We have several missing tonight, Eom, Eustaquio, Yeo and now Welsh who was a concern as well recently, it's an issue. As is tymons drop in form.
Eustaquio is a big miss for me because Stamenic started off well here but recently he's been right off the pace. Opoku doesn't have the same energy either. |
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Reply | Mahmoods new migrant settlement rules
at 20:50 2 Nov 2026
Tony Blair opened up the flood gates. It was an attempt at social engineering to guarantee Labour stayed in. We have seen Welsh Labour and Plaid have a go at that by changingbour electoral system without a referendum, they reckon Reform or the Tories could never win a majority in this D'Hondt system, it's blatant gerrymandering, both Labour and Plaid should be ashamed but our politicians are largely devoid of shame, and guilt, empathy...knowledge or experience of the real world.
As for Mahmood, I think Labour will be out sooner than they expect, the way things are going. Maybe they'll collpase and a GE will happen, maybe there'll be riots, maybe even a larger war in Europe. I think it's obvious though that things are happening that are taking the world to a darker place again, maybe I shoild dig my garden over ready for a veg patch! |
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Reply | The changing income tax landscape
at 20:41 2 Nov 2026
And I disagree, if you are in full time work you should be able to survive, poverty wages just cause a bigger dependency on welfare.
I think we need to do 3 things,
1, have 2 minimum wage bands, one for small businesses and a higher wage for corporations who make billions in profit.
2, if 1 happens then we can cut welfare because maybe it will cut the number of people on universal credit.
3, increase training and apprenticeships. We have a skill shortage.
One thing, Doc, when you say why hire young people with no experience, it has been that attitude that has helped along the skills shortage and made a lot of people unemployable. If you have no experience you can't get a job, if you can't get a job how do you get experience? A lot of jobs that used to be done by young people have vanished, we got jobs in pubs and cafes for example. There's not many pubs around now. Raising the personal allowance won't help people who can't get a job or won't take a job because the pay is less than they can live on and then where are they, on benefits.
Small businesses need help but the corporations, they need controlling, they have too much power and are causing social, environmental and political problems. |
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Reply | Rachel from Accounts
at 20:23 2 Nov 2026
Politics and football have these two things in common, failure is no obstacle to a better job and constant failure is no obstacle to being offered more jobs. |
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Reply | Is Jay Fulton undroppable ?
at 20:16 2 Nov 2026
Nobody should be undroppable but some players get very close. Jay had his knockers, I was one for a short while, but he's proved his worth.
If he goes on to coach here maybe it will be that return to the Swansea way that many idolise, the growing from within, the stability matched by good football. I thought that when Rodgers left it'd be a long time before we had a manager as good for our club again but here we are, Matos could be that man. We had some very good managers in a row, Flynn, Jackett, Martinez, Rodgers, we were very lucky, maybe they weren't always great elsehwere but they were great for us. |
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Reply | Rachel from Accounts
at 19:26 2 Nov 2026
And yet we haven't so far had mass protests and violence in the UK this year unlike France, Italy and Germany, Spain , Portugal and Greece.
As for being poorer, maybe there is a lot more to that than brexit, after all France is, right now, a financial basket case. Germany has had recent struggles, it's economy has turned sluggish with many of the same problems the UK has; It has an ageing popualtion (median age 47 versus the UK's 40) which is causing problems for it's pensions and healthcare systems with a shrinking ratio of workers to retirees driving up public spending and social security, it suffers from de-industrialisation and high energy costs.
Does that sound familiar? Meanwhile the UK GDP hs grown more than expected, we are second in Europe. [Post edited 2 Nov 20:20]
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Reply | Poland
at 18:59 2 Nov 2026
The Warsaw uprising was the Nazi's but yes, Poland and Russia have a lot of bad history. One thing I know, the Poles will fight, if Russia comes they will fight, I'm not sure the UK will, too many of our young would refuse. From what I've read a lot of veterans would refuse these days too. |
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Reply | Poland
at 18:56 2 Nov 2026
Poland joined the Schengen agreement on December 21st 2007 for land and sea borders, on March 29th 2008 for airports.
Poland the country has grown richer, it's GDP per capita GDP has increased from under 50% to over 80%, it's been the largest benefactor of EU structural and investment funding at around 160 billion. Even so, I wonder were most of that wealth is? Is it with the workers or the 1%? |
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Reply | Should the British state apologise for slavery?
at 18:48 2 Nov 2026
Our Royal family were obscenely rich before the transatlantic slave trade. They got that wealth from the people of this country, they took it, they enobled their friends who took some for themselves from our forefathers.
If "our" King (because I abhor monarchy) wants to apologise for something, apologise to every British person for stealing land from the people, for taking their wealth, for subjugating and using us for centuries (where we were little more than slaves ourselves) for keeping us in ignorance, lying to us and living lives of luxury while millions in this country struggled. |
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Reply | Welsh NHS
at 18:39 2 Nov 2026
First paragraph, the NHS could be much better managed, the changes to trusts has been a cock up and more money is wasted than before with outcomes getting worse too.
Second paragraph, private healthcare doen't reflect the real costs of treatments are but shows what happens when profits are put before outcomes. For example, you can buy a box of paracetamol in a chemist but when a doctor prescribes the same size box the cost is around 15-20 times more. It's a bloody poor management and governance, these contracts were signed meaning the NHS pays a lot more than off the shelf at chemists and supermarkets and it makes me wonder who profited from these deals, besides the big pharma companies.
Last paragraph, those older people in big houses with no mortgage, they are most likely OAP's struggling to get by and cannot afford more. The pragmatist in me says they should sell up and downsize, use the spare cash to live on and have a more comfortable retirement but many people feel an attachment to the family home and can't face leaving. Maybe I am too much a pragmatist? I'd sell up and move and use the spare cash for lots of holidays!
A final thought on the over all content, if you expect Westminster to give us loads more then you will be disappointed. If you expect the enedd to do better, you will be disappointed. If you think it is simply a case of pay more get better then you are on the wrong track.
The NHS needs root and branch changes, better structure, better management, better oversight from politicians, in other words there's no chance. The poor staff do their best with limited resources, well the good staff do. There atre too many these days who don't really care, it's a pay packet these days to many, not a vocation. |
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Reply | Welsh NHS
at 18:24 2 Nov 2026
My wife is NHS too and I can back you up there., she often moans about people taking the piss In fact I've heard (from friends who work there) that whistleblowers often come off worse and end up leaving with a pay off, after signing an NDA while the source of the whistling is left to carry on. One of my friends, a nurse had to move sites after making a complaint, the person she complained about remained, she felt she was punished for raiising a concern. |
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Reply | Poland
at 20:03 1 Nov 2026
I don't see any Pole being pro Russia in any way. We used to have some Polish friends, our kids were in school together, they hated Russia with a passion, Katyn is still strong in Polish memories.
Put another way, the Polish army is being built up and quickly too, I only see one reason for doing that, the threat Russia poses to them.
https://www.realcleardefense.c |
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Reply | Should the British state apologise for slavery?
at 19:51 1 Nov 2026
We defintely shouldn't apologise, acknowledge it, say how wrong it was but also point out nobody alive in Britain today is responsible for the transatlantic slave trade AND it was the British who did the most to stop it.
Why should innocent people pay reparations for slavery to people who have never been slaves? Why shoud the innocent pay for crimes they didn't commit? Why should people who weren't the victims get reparations? |
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