To think that there are a lot more pressing legislative issues than footballall

[BlowDryRat]

Apparently PM Johnson is looking at using legislation to stop English clubs joining the European Super League - BBC News. I can't help but think that there are issues that have been waiting for years for legislative attention and should be prioritised over sodding football. The state of the housing market, sexual crime reform, women's rights, child poverty...

AIBU?

But that means we pay billions more to consultants when we are all in dire straits money wise

A little bit hyperbolic to say billions, dispite yours and the OP's apparent lack of understanding of Government process, Keir has also come out against it:
mobile.twitter.com/Keir_Starmer/status/1384442684618813440

[quote Justanotherlurker]But that means we pay billions more to consultants when we are all in dire straits money wise

A little bit hyperbolic to say billions, dispite yours and the OP's apparent lack of understanding of Government process, Keir has also come out against it:
mobile.twitter.com/Keir_Starmer/status/1384442684618813440[/quote]
I nearly said millions but given that Johnson spent £60m just planning a bridge that was impractical, billions seemed a more realistic figure 😂

Seriously, I don't get why it's government business. If they have an opinion, sure, voice it. But I cannot see why Parliamentary time or taxpayer should be spent on it.

I nearly said millions but given that Johnson spent £60m just planning a bridge that was impractical, billions seemed a more realistic figure

Not relevant at all.

Seriously, I don't get why it's government business. If they have an opinion, sure, voice it. But I cannot see why Parliamentary time or taxpayer should be spent on it.

You may not like football (which is obvious) but it is a the top sport globally, it is culturarlly relevant to the UK and Europe, they haven't spent any time or money on it (hence why I pointed out that you and OP don't understand Government process), in fact it could be said that since both Labour and Conservative and other EU governments have come out with comments about it, then it looks like it would be scrapped.

The time to be outraged and champion your own pet project is lost on so many levels that it would have been better to not be worked up at all, those obvious critical thinking skills you have is why you made such hyperbolic statements over something you do not really understand and just want to make a cheap shot at 'the evil tories'.

just have you confused me with someone else?

I've nothing against football, think fandom and immersion are great things, and I am an evil Tory!

Or is this what you get for trying to discuss politics here?

I am too old for social media!

Although YANBU, the "football crisis" is important and the opportunity to do something about it is right now. The government could use existing legislation to spike the proposals, there may be no need for new legislation. The Broadcasting Act 1996 gives the government the power to force sporting events to be shown on free to air channels (eg. Wimbledon Finals, Football World Cup, Grand National) so they could just add the European Super League to the list.

Football is a massive industry. The Premier League alone (2017 figures) contributes £7.6bn GVA to the UK economy and paid £3.3bn in taxes. It supports 100,000 jobs (about half seem to be TV pundits). It attracted 700,000 visitor trips to the UK who spent £555m.

For comparison the fishing and fish processing industry contributes £1.4bn GVA and supports 24,000 jobs, and a massive amount of parliamentary time has been devoted to fishing over the last few months.

jcyclops thank you, those are interesting figures.

Some degree of sense has prevailed and the six English clubs have withdrawn from the proposal, so no need for legislation yet.

@jcyclops I had not thought of using the Broadcasting Act, interesting idea if ever a stupid idea such as this ever came to fruition. Interesting to know that Manchester United fair weather friends bring over £500m to the UK.

Well of the fans weren’t so eager to hand over £100 a month to Sky every month, the club owners would never have even tried this. The government can threaten all they want too but there wouldn’t be much they could’ve done.

Shame they can’t be even 10% as active and exercised about racism and homophobia in football. Maybe if they threatened to burn their shirts and stop supporting clubs, something would actually be done.