I sat next to the Pig and Kwesi on the way back from Frankfurt once

It must have been nice for him to travel over with someone who appreciated who he was too, Trig.

And as for Postie’s post - another 2-5 defeat.

Yep honeymoon in Italy got back 3am Monday morning then left for LA (for work) 10am and got back yesterday afternoon. Not going to the Charlton friendly 😊

Thought you were in Italy

Sat next to Rai Benjamin on my flight home from LA yesterday. He’s off to compete in the Olympics. Second fastest man in history over 400m hurdles and wants gold this time out. Thoroughly decent young man very humble and was happy to give up his time and chat with any of the passing passengers who knew who he was or noticed his US Olympics team hoodie.

Two teams, one with A Trialist, ref was rubbish, we should have scored, piggy was unlucky, JJ learnt something from the game, cost to much for what it was, we need a left back or two... anything else ?

Ok,prediction for Tom game

Have all the old bores gone home yet? I’d rather discuss the Olympic opening ceremony than monetary policy and both can be equally dull

Indeed, but the Bank of England has the independence to enact monetary polices it sees fit to meet its objectives. QE is one such Bank of England monetary policy. So it's not correct for Leftred to suggest QE was/is a Tory tax policy to make rich matey more wealthy.

Administered KD, the government could have stopped it any point because it was not an interest rate decision, the only decisions that the Chancellor cannot interfere with. I'm not sure which bit of "a mandate to support the economic policies of the government of the day" escaped you?

Thank you for confirming QE is Bank of England, old fruit. It should also be pointed out QE is a BoE monetary policy and not a governmental fiscal policy.

We need some Christmas spirit - promotion (or was it relegation?) will be confirmed by then!

I love how “wholly” turned everything all Christmassy… 🎄🎅🏻

Actually the independence of the Bank of England is to set interest rates. In 1998 it became an independent public organisation, wholly owned by the Treasury Solicitor on behalf of the government, with a mandate to support the economic policies of the government of the day. QE was administered by the BoE but basically fitted with the policies of the governemt. Most BoE decisions will now be based on Reeves' policies, which may worry or enthuse you.

Leftred - QE is Bank of England. When a central bank invokes a policy that inflates asset prices, those with assets will be better off. Not much can be done about that.

Martin Edwards of the post office getting properly duffed up

The previous government preferred that money go to the already super rich and raised taxes to pay for it.

Tell me about it. Need an IT consultant to order a card from Moonpig these days. Does my head in.

I have Cpt. Louis Renault levels of shock that Labour will give above-inflation pay rises to their voters who suckle on the state teat, and will raise taxes to pay for it [Link]

The sensible ones.

The really poor working class people don't live in this country. Which political parties wants to slash aid to these people?

OI I don’t think a lot of people on here are modern internet users

Lurker - guess I'm not internet ready then.

CW - To be honest Ranulph Fiennes set such a high bar on that kind of stuff that it weirdly doesn't seem as bad. [Link]