@JackHUFCC Can anyone explain how he’s a step up from featherstone? I’ll wait to see how he gets on but it seems like a sideways move all things considered.
@dannyhufc Not sure on names but I hope anyone we do get gets given plenty of time. This whole three managers a season crack has to stop. We need someone to come in and be given 2-3 seasons and be properly backed otherwise we’ll be stuck in the same cycle.
@Official_HUFC Didn’t take long for the fans to turn on Nicky like. 11 years at the club and everyone wants him gone after 18 games, with one of the highest win percentages of any manager in recent years. Yes some performances have been terrible but that was the same under DC. Give him time.
@1908pools I agree. Back him in the summer and give him time. The two cup losses are the big worry for me and it seems like the team struggle against lesser teams. However, any squad he puts out should beat the Anstey Nomads so I think players need to take the majority of the blame.
@StellingRobbie Reid was very poor today. Passing and link up play was terrible. Didn’t have much service but had two good chances near the end which he had to score. Didn’t think we were bad in the second half.
We are broke.
Our national debt is over £2.9 trillion, up from £1.6 trillion a decade ago. Interest payments alone now cost far more every year than the entire defence budget. For every pound raised in tax, a huge chunk is immediately swallowed just to pay for yesterday’s ludicrous spending.
It’s disgusting. This debt doesn’t just disappear. My grandson will be paying for our recklessness, and his grandson too likely.
The difference between total public sector spending and income was £20.7 billion in June 2025, the interest payable on central government debt was £16.4 billion in that month. These numbers are INSANE.
The problem isn’t that the British people don’t work hard enough or pay enough tax - the problem is the size of the state and the political addiction to spending money we just do not have.
Governments of every colour have built an unsustainable system of endless welfare expansion, ever-growing bureaucracy, and BS vanity projects - while the fundamental basics like policing, border control and infrastructure are left to rot.
We must live within our means. Like every family in the country. Every pound borrowed today is a pound our children will have to pay back tomorrow with higher taxes, lower growth, and fewer opportunities.
The legacy we are leaving for our children and grandchildren is sick, all because politicians don’t have the courage to say that benefits need to be brutally slashed back because it will cost them votes.
Let’s get back to basics. A state that does less, costs less, and focuses on what matters. Defending our borders, protecting our people, and creating the proper conditions for enterprise and prosperity. Spend what we little we have on the British people, not global welfare.
That means cutting waste, stripping back bureaucracy, and ending the culture of unfunded spending.
A painful, but necessary process.
The British people live within their means every single day. They know what it’s like to budget, to make sacrifices, to plan for the future. It’s time the state was forced to do the same.
No more foreign aid. No more illegal migrants. Slash benefits, drastically reduce the size of the state - and I mean drastically. Milei will look tame in comparison to what needs to happen in Britain. ..
Ban QE. I proposed a bill in Parliament to do exactly that. The Government MUST be forced to only spend what it earns. If it can just print money to dig itself out of a hole, the economy will catastrophically implode.
Not forgetting public sector pension liabilities, trillions on that too - unfunded and unaffordable. Stick that on the balance sheet, and it all looks even worse. Slash it, and then slash it again. It's the only way.
The state should be as accountable to us as we are to them.
We can’t afford to fund Motability cars for people feeling a bit down, or endless breakfast buffets for Pakistani illegal migrants. We just can’t. Scrap it all.
There is no other way to put this.
WE ARE BROKE.
Brutal, deep, and far-reaching cuts are required.
It’s about time politicians started being honest about it.
It won’t win many votes, but it’s the cold truth.
10-year-olds cannot be prostitutes. They are rape victims.
Suggesting otherwise is revolting. But this is the sort of thing social workers convinced themselves to avoid facing up to the truth of these crimes.
None prosecuted for letting this happen.
National inquiry. Now.
It was so great to catch up with successful business leader Shelley Hammond recently to discuss her many exciting plans for our town. Hartlepool born and bred, she’s a true champion for our community. I look forward to continuing to work with her.