Daf Smith

I think the reason it doesn't happen is that the 6 Nations was set up as a company at some point, and each of the nations owns an equal share in it.
It's how they vote to allow new nations in, like France all those years ago (twice) and Italy from 2000.
I don't like it, but that's the reason I think

Yeh Japan had so many chances. We were lucky.
But then again, if they deserve to be in the top 12, they need to be taking those chances and not squandering them.

I argued exactly this point when Italy hadn't won a game in 15 years or something.
Would be a bit on the nose to kick Wales out now when Italy were so poor for so long and got away with it.
But I'd feel hypocritical not standing by my principles. Oh well.

Not really getting my point are you, but that's standard for SM these days.

I've called for relegation and promotion in the 6 nations for years. Still stand by it. But, I don't make the rules.

IoM comment, reductio ad absurdum employed clumsily.

If you hadn't won at Twickenham for 2 years, you'd celebrate beating Namibia.

Amazed at the score line between Wales and Japan. By every metric Japan are playing better than us.

Those at the WRU should hang their heads in shame they've let us fall to this standard.

This is painful to watch. We are shocking.

#WALvJPN

Cillit Bang proudly sponsored this U-turn.
Bang, and the policy is gone.

How long does an idea need to be out there for its reversal to be considered a U-turn?

And they'll be denying another U-turn soon when they row back on weaponising fiscal drag, a guaranteed election loser.

In this demographic, many in 2024 lent their vote to Labour to crush Tories and stop Reform.

Now they're being punished for it.
If Labour bring this in they'll plummet in the polls, and Starmer and Reeves will have to go if they are going to avoid one of the biggest losses in history.

Weaponising fiscal drag is easily the stupidest idea put forward for this budget. It's a guaranteed vote loser when people on or around £40-£50k all of a sudden are paying even more tax.

Tax wealth and assets. Raise capital gains. Tax billionaires and millionaires. Tax banking bonuses.

Remember when he was in opposition holding CEOs of the Post Office and others feet to the fire in select committees?

Then he got into power, stopped doing the good stuff he did before, and now he's soiling himself that someone with better principles is taking both his schtick and his seat?

Can you imagine any of the other current leaders doing this coherently and actually managing to make people laugh at the same time?
I can't.

He's crossed the Channel more times this year than I can afford to.

Laughing at the idea that Starmer thinks he can demand anything from anyone.
Can't even demand the loyalty from his own voters.

Did he sign the letter with the same signature he used on his transcript with Epstein?
Bless.

Does Trump think he's owned the libs by gloating over a Tory resigning?
This is blue on blue.

So the left should just put up with whatever you tell them to do because...?

At the BBC, change is far more likely than implosion. Just need those in positions of authority to make the right decisions to clean it up.
If they don't, the blame for its downfall lies with the board, not the left.

Everyone will have their own agenda. I'd prefer change, but there again, I still pay my TV license anyway.

And it's not really impotent given all the articles across the media about how it is running out of funds.

If you don't like the service being provided, taking your custom elsewhere is a fundamental right.

Forcing people to pay for something that is objectively corrupt, and shaming them for not wanting to accept said corrupt service, reeks of an authoritarianism that no-one wants.

I agree.
Boycotts are for change too. I don't want to bring down the BBC, but it needs fundamental change, especially as its funding is enforced in the UK whether you watch the BBC or not.

I also wouldn't disqualify the right from being fools for wanting the BBC brought down either.

RIP Tim Davie. AKA Aphex Tim.

Surely the point of boycotting it is to weaken it?
If it didn't shamelessly plug Reform, Tories, Israel for years, it wouldn't be boycotted.
What do you expect the centre or left to do? Rise thru the ranks at the politically-appointed BBC board and change it? 😂

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Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …

Tim Davie resigning from the BBC over the edited Trump video is like Al Capone being jailed for tax evasion: sometimes the right thing happens for the wrong reason.

Tim Davie (very right-wing) resigning is a good thing.

He's done it now cos his BBC has offended his Dear Leader. Davie cared more about Trump's opinion than anyone else's, especially the British public.

He was a biased DG, but not towards the way the loudest voices think.

Great work to come back with a performance like this after a disappointing midweek loss.

Incredible.
Where was this on Tuesday?