I have no idea whether this is a big problem or not. Or whether it is a problem at all.
Keir Starmer has called for a review into late kick-offs at football matches, warning they are increasing costs for supporters who want to travel to games.
The problem, if there is one, is that this twat thinks that this is something that government should be involving itself in.
The Labour leader told the Guardian’s Football Weekly podcast he wanted a new football regulator to look into whether the Premier League should be allowed to hold games late in the evening, such as at 8pm on Saturdays.
You see what I mean here? This issue has bugger all to to with the government. There is no need for yet another regulatory body stuffed with the usual suspects snuffling at the trough kindly filled with taxpayer cash to come up with more useless rules and regulations that were never needed in the first place. But, then, this is a politician. A mediocre, facile thinker who sees government as the cure for a disease that doesn’t really exist. And, God help us, this cretin is likely to be our new prime minister. He makes Sunak look good and that is a very low bar indeed.
Some Labour policy wonk spent ages “strategizing” that one, and calculated that it could win them 3562 net votes at the General Election. Then you went and dismissed it just like that …
Bit of a genuine issue for those of us poor saps who like to go and watch games live. However, the games are live on tv, but we don’t need some more gubmint prodnoses telling us what is good for us.
You can guarantee that once the door for bureaucratic interference is opened many more prodnosings will follow. All for the good of the fans, the game and the country after all.
And they may just happen to notice that the majority of footie fans are of White English extraction. More diversity will be needed to counterbalance this and so on.
A football regulator (and support staff natch) is not required for ‘the football’ but for the patronage that could be bestowed on such a body. Yet another pint of gravy on the gravy train – for the deserving few, of course.
Then we will need a regulator of music concerts because they are often in the evening, then the theatre, school concerts, late-night supermarket’s, the opportunities are endless…..
I call this Performative displacemnt activity, which seems jargony enough to be a good tag. The point beeing they can’t do any of the duties of government properly, and they can’t even do the stupid things thy took on in previous years and shipped out to a qango or ofwhatthefuck regulator.
Starmer couldn’t care less about costs to supporters. The only reason the powers that be do not like late games, is because the supporters are totally wankered by the time the game begins
Yet more non-jobs under a Socialist government, all probably paid for by the tax payer. This tool maker’s son is a bland non-entity who, if Labour form the next government, will find himself pussy whipped by Angela’s ginger growler and will slowly sink into fetid mass of Labour policies. Reform for me, I think.
The system is designed to have mediocre individuals eventually rising to the top, so no surprise there.
I mean, this guy did spent some time on this, all the while he’s a pawn of the MIC pushing for unnecessary wars with everybody. When your priorities are that screwed, you don’t deserve anything.