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Good Morning Thread

SmithAndJones said:
Good Morning everyone, I've been off the site for two weeks after a serious fall resulted in a shoulder break requiring shoulder replacement surgery involving ten days in hospital. Pretty much ended my VS season as it is very difficult to use the PC or cell with the'wrong hand'.
My op was undertaken a day or so before the Arsenal defeat whereby I was quite philos0phycal after the defeat, that football isn't everything. Two more batterings over the next week though have done nothing to lift my spirits.
Ever since the start of this season, I've adopted an attitude of not commenting on individual or manager performances, concentrate on the team and see what the season brings. WE are however reaching a stage where some conclusions can be reached.
Im left wondering whether we've shifted from being a mediocre, boring team managed by someone who wasn't interested, to a maybe promising team managed by a dud. Certainly we still have a lot of players, who fall far shortof the ability necessary to take us to the level expected by fans. i think that we have to accept that we are a top six Club, anything less than that is unacceptable, but getting back to top three looks pretty distant.
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Kin ell Smiffy , like US I’ve not given this site my full attention for a week of two , I’ve been too busy ….
Sorry to be so late in wishing you a full recovery. Hope everything goes well for you Mate . .

Take care . I’m going to set up a recovery ward page for a few of you … Pompey and You will be the first entrants .

I can’t turn my back for two minutes on here !!!!!!
 
Pompey , hope you are doing ok … you are more of a worry to me than all my money ,

( that was a thing my dear old granddad always said to me as I was growing up , and as we all know , my dear old granddad said a lot of things ! )
Hope you eventually get a grip on all your meds mate . I dont know that I actually trust anyone anymore with medications , especially with my wife’s experiences over the last year .
The amount of pills she has been prescribed over the phone and via E kin Consults is bordering on insanity .
Being diagnosed with Gout to all the joints on her right side , knee , hip, shoulder and wrist was a disaster . One pill causing a reaction that had to be countered by another one which caused water retention and so another pill was prescribed .
Turned out she never had Gout in the first place !
In the end she self medicated by taking herself off all of them , including pain killers , and started again with the help of a Locum who happened to phone her out of the blue .
We have been back and forth to Physiotherapists at the hospitals lately , due the actions of this Locum , sadly we do not know her name , and have now lost contact . These Physio’s have been really good , and are referring her to departments that are actually helping . As one problem is sorted out ,she is being referred to a” specialist “ for other parts . She is going to see a Lower Limb Specialist next week , whilst being looked after by a Shoulder Specialist at the moment

I never knew there were so many Physiotherapist Departments.
These people are so incredibly knowledgeable ….

So ….. don’t give up Pompey , with your wonderful wife beside you , you will get to the bottom of your problems ….. just remember Rome wasn’t built in a day and Tottenham ‘s title challenge won’t happen overnight .

And I will get back to boring the shit out of everyone on here , when my allotment gets itself together and only needs watering and weeding occasionally .

Until then , take care , look after each other and don’t let the buggers get you down .
 
Spursex said:
Read this!

theflowersarespeaking.com

Magnolia’s Journey Out of Deep Time

This is a rather long essay, part of my upcoming book about our Million Year Love Story with Flowers. Settle in with a cuppa, and I hope you enjoy this forage through deep time! “Once all knowledge…
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They clearly achieve an impressive size in their natural home. They are beautiful in bloom, I had a mature tree of about 25-30 feet in height in my garden way back in the day when I lived in St. Albans.
 

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A new report from the Centre for Policy Studies, written by former Immigration Minister Robert Jenrick MP, former minister Neil O’Brien MP, and CPS Research Director Karl Williams argues that the scale and composition of recent migration have failed to deliver the significant economic and fiscal benefits its advocates promised, while putting enormous pressure on housing, public services and infrastructure.


The analysis argues:


  • Large-scale migration has not delivered significant growth in GDP per capita, and has increased the strain on our capital stock, from roads and GP surgeries to housing
  • Net migration accounts for around 89% of the 1.34 million increase in England’s housing deficit (the amount of homes we have underbuilt by) in the last 10 years
  • Pressure has been added to rental markets, as well as affecting home ownership. For example, 67% of private rented households in London are headed by someone born overseas, as were 33% of new social housing lets in Brent in 2022/23
  • Between 2001 and 2021, the share of people in England and Wales born outside the UK increased from 9% to 17%, but this rate of change is set to accelerate
  • On the current trajectory, net migration will amount to annual population growth of over 0.6% across the 2020s – double the rate of the last three decades, and six times the rate of the 1990s
  • Migrants from the Middle East, North Africa and Turkey aged 25-64 are almost twice as likely to be economically inactive as someone born in the UK
  • Earnings, and therefore tax contributions, also vary enormously, for example Spanish migrants typically earn around 40% more than migrants from Pakistan or Bangladesh, but roughly 35% less than migrants from France or America. Migrants from countries such as Canada, Singapore and Australia pay between four and nine times as much income tax as migrants from Somalia or Pakistan

The report includes over thirty recommendations, the vast majority of which can be implemented within the remainder of this parliament. Recommendations include:


  • Abolishing the Graduate route, instead giving foreign students who want to stay in the UK should need to find graduate-level jobs that meet the salary threshold within six months of the end of their studies
  • Substantially revising the International Education Strategy (IES), ending the arbitrary 600,000 a year target for the number on international students
  • Accepting the Migration Advisory Committee’s recommendation to retire the Shortage Occupation List (SOL) altogether, rather than just creating a new, opaque Immigration Salary List (ISL)
  • Setting the salary threshold for health & care visas above the National Living Wage, while raising the minimum hourly wage in the care sector by 20-40p to boost domestic recruitment
  • Creating time-limited exceptions to visa limits for NHS workers, until the NHS Long Term Workforce Plan ramps up
  • Imposing an immediate cap on health & care visas at c.30,000, roughly the level seen in 2021
  • Indexing salary thresholds for visa routes in line with inflation, to prevent automatic liberalisation
  • A Whitehall-wide examination of data recording and transparency to allow comprehensive analysis of the impact of migration on everything from housing and public spending to crime and productivity, led by the Migration Advisory Committee
  • Splitting up the Home Office to create a new Department of Border Security and Immigration Control, with the rest of the department forming a Department for Policing and National Security
  • Reaffirming a national commitment to return net migration to the historical norm of the tens of thousands
  • Instituting an annual cap on each individual visa route, voted on by Parliament as part of a ‘Migration Budget’
  • The preparation of a ‘Migration Book’, akin to the Treasury’s Red Book, which should pull together data from across all relevant departments, looking at the demographic and fiscal footprint of migration forecasts, as well as the net impact on housing, infrastructure and access to public services
 
His facts are devastating, I had to share them.

Read the report for yourselves..

cps.org.uk

Taking Back Control - The Centre for Policy Studies

A new report from the Centre for Policy Studies, written by former Immigration Minister Robert Jenrick MP, former minister Neil O’Brien MP, and CPS Research Director Karl Williams argues that the scale and composition of recent migration have failed to deliver the significant economic and fiscal...
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That's all well and good Ex but who the hell do we vote for that will implement the changes needed? Will the report be adopted by the Tory or Labour party or will it take a new organisation like the Reform party to actually take action? It doesn't feel like we have any strong enough characters in national politics right now who are prepared to stand up to the noisy minority groups and the woke left to get things done.
 
Walthamstow wanderer said:
Kin ell Smiffy , like US I’ve not given this site my full attention for a week of two , I’ve been too busy ….
Sorry to be so late in wishing you a full recovery. Hope everything goes well for you Mate . .

Take care . I’m going to set up a recovery ward page for a few of you … Pompey and You will be the first entrants .

I can’t turn my back for two minutes on here !!!!!!
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Many thanks Walt, the kind thoughts are appreciated.
 
TQ2Spurs said:
That's all well and good Ex but who the hell do we vote for that will implement the changes needed? Will the report be adopted by the Tory or Labour party or will it take a new organisation like the Reform party to actually take action? It doesn't feel like we have any strong enough characters in national politics right now who are prepared to stand up to the noisy minority groups and the woke left to get things done.
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Sadly, I think you're right. Sunak is a decent person, but weak at the knees.

Labour immigration policies are going to be a disaster; even worse than now, if that's possible.

It does just leave reform, which if we vote for them, will make the Tories destruction even worse.

There is still time of the Tories to take action, that may save them from the wilderness, but will they take it? I just don't know.
 
Darts Mike said:
I know that the caffeine in tea & coffee will cause you to pee more than you ingest. Also causing you to lose some valuable nutrients.
So maybe reduce the amount of tea & coffee?
Has your GP sent you for a complete blood test recently - may flag something that needs a boost?

Good luck to Mrs PY, that sounds a particularly nasty illness to deal with.
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Cheers DM, great memories lol!

I have 3 full/everything Blood test in the last 9 weeks, everything (y) up.

Yes Mrs PY's Ailment is the worst Nervous System illness, top of the tree/list, on the planet, its Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy/Complex Regional Pain Syndrome...RSD/CRPS...American Hope website explains all about it.
 
Spursex said:
Sadly, I think you're right. Sunak is a decent person, but weak at the knees.

Labour immigration policies are going to be a disaster; even worse than now, if that's possible.

It does just leave reform, which if we vote for them, will make the Tories destruction even worse.

There is still time of the Tories to take action, that may save them from the wilderness, but will they take it? I just don't know.
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I think you are right, i have personal reasons for being pissed off with the Tories but when push comes to shove I don't think a labour landslide would be quite as big as suggested by the polls. I think there are signs that some of their policies are starting to work, and they have been quick to take credit for improvements that have come about naturally in markets, but they are all at sea (pun intended) over the boat situation. Sunak is looking a complete fool when he keeps telling everyone the number of people coming is down by a third, we all know that is total bollocks.
 
TQ2Spurs said:
That's all well and good Ex but who the hell do we vote for that will implement the changes needed? Will the report be adopted by the Tory or Labour party or will it take a new organisation like the Reform party to actually take action? It doesn't feel like we have any strong enough characters in national politics right now who are prepared to stand up to the noisy minority groups and the woke left to get things done.
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TQ it most certainly will not be the "welcome with open arms" Red Party.

We the British public, or minions in their eyes, have a bloody problem.
 
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