Sir Ralph

Maybe I am a prick but people that refuse to actually read things for themselves and make their own minds up without taking the time have limited value in terms of their views. I've given you reasons as to my view (which you challenged) and now I'm the prick.

This is exactly the problem. Why havent you listened to him to form a view? You have just accepted what the BBC have told you and moved on. You may come to the conclusion that he is a racist or maybe you wont but at least take a view from your own experience. You probably should bearing in mind he is having an influence on politics. Just because you might disagree with someone you dont ignore them.

You can say that but you obviously havent read about the background and reasons of the founders of these organisations, so you havent engaged with the point I made, just ignored it. I suspect you have a shallow understanding of the background of these groups other than what you read in the Guardian. When the founders of these groups are self stated marxists or anarchists and some of the other objectives of these groups align with anarchist views (stop funding the police, that the current political system needs to be changed, among other matters), then I fail to see how this isnt a valid point. If there was a group of neo-nazis that started a group and said it was to back Donald Trump, for example, I think I would have my concerns about that.

Brilliant. Call me names because you disagree with me / dont understand, then go home with nothing to say when asked a question. You have entered into a discussion you have no idea about yourself. Another one line wonder on this forum. As i said before, you need to understand the people behind these groups and what their true political ideologies and objectives are. A very reasonable hypothesis is that groups founded by people who openly call themselves Marxists or are supported by Marxist organisations are likely to be radical left wing groups. But you wouldnt know about that because you dont understand the topic you have got involved in, ironically.

I use the word 'they' because I dont align myself with the radical left. I would suggest the use of that word is accurate. Should I use 'we'?! I would maybe recommend reading more about the people involved in this before calling me names. Its easy to find this stuff so maybe its you that doesnt understand the background to these groups. As I asked you before, what is the radical left then? The failure to crush other Left-wing extremists created Palestine Action The Truth About Black Lives Matter | The Heritage Foundation

And I'm the one who doesnt understand radical left. More recently they have tried to portray themselves as moderates but I suggest you read a few more articles about their original intentions.

See above. You explain what the radical left is then

I do understand what the radical left is. I'm referring to groups such as Antifa, Extinction Rebellion, Black Lives Matter, Palestine Action, etc. The ideology of some of these extreme left wing groups has unfortunately filtered down into society nowadays and has influenced some. As I'm such a fuckwit you explain to me the types of groups that are radical left then? I didnt define the far right but its not what SOG refers to.

Glad to see you coming to the rescue of the radical left. I thought you were a moderate. Do you support the radical left? Fortunately they havent been in charge in many countries to be able to mess things up. The closest one is Maduro in Venezeula. North Korea is also a socialist state. Both doing a great job following the authoritarian concept of socialism! The point was about whether people have become more abusive over time - you have conflated two different matters. The examples I was given of the right being abusive was Joey Barton, threats to immigrants and of the rape of women apparently. Large portions of the radical left is are antisemitic, celebrated the death of Charlie Kirk, tried to shut up people highlighting the issues with rape gangs (in fact they werent even radical left), trashed certain cities in the UK during the George Floyd riots....want me to continue. This is before we get onto mad theories around unconscious bias and gender affirming care which has been damaging also. Add to that they tend to have terrible haircuts.

I will when you make a well thought out point, rather than attacking people's character. I disagree with most people on here but at least understand the point they are making. I can't disagree with you because you have never made a point.

Try again. Make a valid point, dont attack character. Its very childish.

Thats fine you can disagree. I obviously never said it was ok to be a dick or threaten people, etc. My personal experience is that people's views havent changed but they are now more willing to confront some of the BS that the woke brigade has pushed unchallenged for the last 10 years or so. There is a lot of shit coming those influenced by the radical left over recent years on social media, accusing quite reasonable people of having said or done terrible things and making threats to people for holding different views to them. It works both ways. Being a dick comes isnt an exclusive trait to people you dont agree with. It also includes people who have the same views as you.

I agree that social media has given a platform for people to stay things in public that they couldnt before but I still think those people would have held the views regardless. If anything I think people are less likely to say / do things that are discriminatory than say 10-15 years ago but maybe the platform is greater.

Observation....you never make a good point ever. Just personal attacks and emojis. Provide a half decent rebuttal if you disagree rather than attacking the character.

Disagree. I dont think people have become less tolerant. The tolerance levels for reasonable challenge has softened, hence you get stupid stuff like the Graham Linehan incident. The police and judiciary are much keener to take action in relation to matters that, 15 years ago nobody would have sniffed at.

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You're lucky. Imagine being born in Liverpool.

Not great second half need to learn to keep up the intensity. People saying Tonda isnt good enough are bloody jokers. We have won 6 in 7. Have they forgotten what it was like about a month ago. Short term memories

Not Aribo!!!

So you will bet on something you dont know the answer to.... Ive been through this before. My family lived below the poverty line in this country. My pareants refused to take beenfits. We batted through, despite having very little. We were fine and probably taught me the value of money and the need to work hard. In my opinion, that is what is currently lacking in the UK.

You cant unilaterally decided you have proven your point! We disagree thats it. You think its too complicated to stop the long term unemployed milking the system and there are too many negative impacts. I dont.

Hence my suggestion to help the 'responsible tax payer'. I've literally just suggested that! There are clearly people taking the piss out of the benefits system, some of whom I know of (but am not friends with). Can you tell me that there arent and what percentage are receiving an appropriate level of welfare? Some on here seem to think its ok for the long term unemployed to milk the system on the two child cap point. I dont.

I didnt say that. A single parent should work 17.5 hours. Of course there are different scenarios and you can't account for them all its impossible. If you wanted to apply for benefits now you have to provide lots of information to be assessed anyway so I dont see whats ddiferent. Where is the scenario covered of the long term unemployed milking the system? It seems you want all persons covered in every scenario which is a huge cost to the responsible tax payer who is not covered / loses out. Who is thinking of the tax payer in these scenarios? Thats half the problem, people expect the state to intervene in too many scenarios at the cost of the responsible tax payer, hence the bloating of the state.

This is where you need studies and specialist input to come up with the detail. You and I dont have this information so neither of us fully know the answers. If this was down to me, the two child cap has been in place so this should only apply if both parents are working at least 35 hours a week between them and they are below £35k. This figures are indicative. In the scenario you mentioned, the relevant couple wouldnt beenfit from the removal of the cap anyway, so it wouldnt make a difference to them and they wouldnt have their help cut off in this respect. If someone below the £35k threshold lost their job, the other could always work. If both of them lost their jobs but had been in long term employment before (e.g. at least 3 years), you could have a 6 month grace period to keep paying this whilst they find a job. There will be some circumstances where the help wouldnt be there for a few people that need it. But you need to balance this negative off against the long terms unemployed who are taking tax payers money having been irresponsible. That to me is a bigger negative. Also the £70k example. In the majority of the country people can get by on less than that. If you are in trouble, you reduce your expenses and expectations to reflect your current position. You dont rely onthe state to maintain your lifestyle. Thats half the problem, people expect the state to intervene in too many scenarios at the cost of the responsible tax payer.

As a starting point, if you have not been employed from the date of the introduction of the removal of the cap for at least 1 year you can't benefit from it. Why would that not work?