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The reference to the treatment of racism crimes vs huge financial fraud crimes was to show that huge financial fraud is treated as a more serious offence than a racist remark in criminal procedures (and this wasn’t some football quirk). Racism is obviously mortally repugnant and no one disputes that

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The argument is that what City have been accused of is a more serious offence under Football’s rules than what Suarez was accused of, and City are defending their behaviour in an (IMV) obnoxious/thoughtless way.

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I’m gonna leave this though because I enjoy your politics posts and think football allegiance inevitably brings out the worst/clouds judgment

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I don’t disagree that the Suarez stuff has been memory holed, but City have still been accused of a more serious crime than Suarez was. Any court would impose a harsher punishment on a multi million pound fraudster/embezzler than someone who said something racist in the street to a passerby

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No - you’ve misquoted a question i posed which I left that unanswered.- I said it had a more significant impact on other players and managers

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So is your view that City’s punishment should be less than LFC’s for the Suarez incident? Fine if so, but I think that will be a fairly lonely position amongst the footballing community

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Also - the football authorities clearly view it as a more serious incident given the sanctions being contemplated vs the punishment of Suarez. One could argue LFC’s response brought game into disrepute but no one at the time was saying it merited points deduction or relegation

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I said it’s impact on the game , fellow players and managers was more significant - I didn’t comment on the relative morality of the two incidents

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I mean Carragher came out and said they got the Suarez stuff wrong. Much as I dislike Chelsea, they came out self reported and admitted they got it wrong…

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It’s cheating (and is also not limited to inflated sponsorship) - you guys were financially doping on an industrial scale for a prolonged period! Is it more of a stain on a club than the Suarez stuff - its impact on the game, fellow players and other managers is clearly more significant

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The current antics are going to make the Liverpool reaction to the Suarez ban look positively thoughtful

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The proper reaction to winning this game 3-0 (with everything that is ongoing) is probably akin to the tennis player who wins the game when his opponent retires injured… Have any past players or managers of the cheating era come out and condemned what went on though?

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Some contrition, some protest at what was done, some humility?

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It’s not worse than flying as shown by the fact Eurostar has an 80% market share on London to Paris

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Interesting because 1 and 3 would suggest having no children not fewer children. curious the extent to which lower birth rates are attributable to couples having no children vs having couples having fewer children.Fewer children could also be attributable to there being fewer people in relationships

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True but haven’t those things got cheaper relatively over time (they were once the preserve of the rich) which probably isn’t true of having kids

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Yes but historically how many of those children were actually wanted given historically (I) women didn’t have free access to contraception, (Ii) there was more hostility to female workplace participation and (iii) having more children was a hedge against one or more of them dying?

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Agree people are having fewer of them but don’t think it’s attributable to societal hostility to kids in public spaces as the article suggests. Much simpler explanation would be they are expensive!

Because many people on c100k cut back their hours so they benefit from free childcare and don’t face a tax rate in excess of 100k

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The article doesn’t seem right either - We’ve got a six month old in london and have tried to do a lot of the same stuff we did before whether going out to eat or travelling (both things renowned for alleged adult hostility to kids) and haven’t seen any hostility to kids(quite the opposite in fact)

jwmcp.bsky.social @jwmcp.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

He did - but as unpleasant as that test was, it was a test that any ethnic minority could, in theory, satisfy. He didn't blankly say, you can never be English/British.

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It’s not a capacity issue - in the UK, this is about the state issuing vouchers that can be used for childcare. It’s about the state not wanting to pay for these things!

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Absolutely insane that their motion rejected post apartheid South Africa and instead talks of an Algerian solution…

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Well if it’s not a Jabotinskyist expansionist version of that ideology then they’d rely on the fact that a two state solution is their ideal endpoint (and ignore what occurred in 47/48). bear in mind that the Greens advocate an Algerian solution which would be ethnic cleansing of the Jewish pop.

Instead they paired it with Burghart (who I believe voted remain!) doing an interview saying any improvement in relations with the EU would be cancelled by the Tories - completely insane behaviour

A comment that left wing/labour people have a reason to support the policy and then others have another reason to support the policy!

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Well Labour have been more right wing on immigration and trans rights than the Tories were in government, so they may take the view that they don’t like either party but would rather have the free childcare! w

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Didn’t say you were - It still creates a massive marginal tax rate though, Which centre/centre right people are typically against!

Presumably they should be against it because it creates a massive marginal tax rate, and the other solution to that is to abolish free childcare, which they see as unattractive

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Well there’s a thing called universalism that Labour people used to be in favour of. Leaving that aside it creates a massive distortion in the tax system where people (particularly doctors) choose to work part time to avoid going above the 100k threshold because it’s a tax rate of over 100%

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Surely untenable for the leader not to vote on such a seismic motion?

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This policy appeals to me and many of my colleagues but with their policy on the EU, it feels like they’re expending political capital on people who still won’t vote for them because of that

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Did the MPs vote for or against the motion (and do they agree with it)? This is actually unclear to me

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jwmcp.bsky.social @jwmcp.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It would but does not tie at all with all their recent rhetoric on anything EU related

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Who is it going down badly with?

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jwmcp.bsky.social @jwmcp.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Probably Labour voters though!

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jwmcp.bsky.social @jwmcp.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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jwmcp.bsky.social @jwmcp.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Wouldn’t put it past the government to do what Blair did over the BAE Saudi corruption scandal

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jwmcp.bsky.social @jwmcp.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Completely agree - but the punishment is going to cause a major diplomatic incident, so will be interesting to see Labour try to navigate that.

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jwmcp.bsky.social @jwmcp.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

No they weren’t - they were introduced in the wake of Portsmouth and Leeds bankruptcies where clubs lived beyond their means

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jwmcp.bsky.social @jwmcp.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Pursuing the dr facto status quo ante the Supreme Court judgment doesn’t feel like electoral suicide or even hugely ambitious tbh

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jwmcp.bsky.social @jwmcp.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Nah - it’s the British entry check so you don’t do it in the uk. It’s the French exit check that is, if anything, pointless

jwmcp.bsky.social @jwmcp.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The bbc pushed a bunch of newsreaders to do this who then got completely screwed by HMRC (talking 100s of thousands), so doubt she would try anything like that tbh

jwmcp.bsky.social @jwmcp.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Is this to stop the vote on Brexit red lines?

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jwmcp.bsky.social @jwmcp.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Yes but I feel like it has become a favourite of your Neil O’Brien / Rob Colville types who see themselves as pseudo intellectuals