Footie’s future
HOW ironic. The “European Super League” debacle may have proved the best thing to happen to football in years.
The reviled 2021 breakaway plan by greedy club-owning billionaires threatened to tear the heart out of the game.
It was scuppered by a national howl of rage and Government legal warnings.
But the new charter it has triggered would end that existential menace for good. Great news.
Plus, by handing real power to fans it would force all owners to recognise that these clubs are not just profit-making businesses.
They are essential parts of supporters’ lives and the lifeblood of our communities . . . their identities, colours and logos woven into the fabric of historic towns and cities.
We welcome more financial help for the lower leagues — and powers to bar owners deemed dodgy . . . though how exactly will that be defined?
More details will, we hope, be in the Football White Paper published soon.
So far we like what we see.
Strike dunces
HERE’S a question the strikers, their unions and Labour’s picket-line cheerleaders fail to answer.
Where would YOU find the billions for inflation-busting public sector rises?
Our finances are wrecked after the vast borrowing to keep jobs alive during Covid. New money must be found. How?
Tax rises? Our 70-year-high burden is already strangling the economy. The richest will already pay more from April. Labour wants taxes CUT.
Reduce spending, then? On what? Aid? Defence? Welfare? “The Tories wasted money on PPE” is not a serious answer.
Truth is the Left care nothing for balancing books, or the risk of fuelling inflation themselves. Nor about robbing “Generation Covid” kids of yet more schooling.
They just love skipping work to poke Tories in the eye.
That is all this is really about.
Brexit bunkum
LET us debunk the Remainer claims that our jabs rollout was NOT a benefit of Brexit.
How pathetically desperate they are to argue nothing good can come from it.
They are right only on this: During the 2020 transition period we were still subject to EU law which allowed us, in an emergency, to go our own way on jabs.
But Britain only had the nerve to do it because we were so close to leaving.
Previously we would have dutifully rowed in behind every other member, as we did for decades. We would have sat waiting for our share of Brussels’ jabs.
And that appalling delay would have proved as deadly here as it did there.
Remain diehards can split hairs over EU law. What matters is how Brexit affected events.
In this case it saved thousands of lives. Including, quite possibly, theirs.
