hypochondriac

Some people think they wouldn't be able to do much damage in five years. I don't agree.

Yes from memory I think I voted lib dem in 2010.

I've only ever voted Conservative twice before in my life. I'm certainly not a hardcore Tory. I definitely don't think everyone not voting for Corbyn means they don't want a society that is kinder or fairer.

Eh? I'm voting Conservative I would have thought that was obvious.

I meant the smug, the self-satisfied, the woke, the Marxist, the reactionary, the envious and the identity politics brigade. The list goes on.

Personally I woild have preferred that they had nothing star wars related and just left it all alone, but given that they are intent on doing it, it's been the most authentically star wars piece of media that Disney have done so far. Vastly preferable to the films even if as I said I'd rather they did none of it.

Thanks. Not sure how reassuring it is though when I get a couple of people ringing me asking me how they should vote. People really should do their own research rather than relying on others who are more politically engaged and asking someone else on the day, of the election. My reply was simply to vote however they liked but if they wanted my opinion it should be anyone but Corbyn.

I've done my part. I got three people to vote this morning who weren't going to.

"stalk" lol.

Vote Labour for Diane Abbott in charge of immigration.

Vote Boris and annoy all the right sort of people.

If you love the Jewish people, hate communism and support democratic votes then you know what to do.

Amazing. Jeremy has changed my mind with this one! Jeremy Corbyn FINALLY reveals his pronouns, just in time for the general election. I think this might just tip the scales in his favour.[emoji1696] https://t.co/sPu4NNF487

He sounds exactly like every fbpe reply I see under every tweet from Laura kuennsberg.

Which is a big reason why things like this will keep happening and keep surprising you.

I expect you were dumbfounded why anyone would vote trump or brexit as well.

Innocent until proven guilty you say?

Couldn't disagree more. People are completely free to believe whatever made up nonsense they like and indeed wear whatever they like within reason but you have no more legitimacy or freedom from ridicule if you claim to follow a religion than you do if you don't and are just wearing something that makes you look ridiculous for the sake of it. That's what freedom is.

You could apply the same principle to a sikh turban or a habit yes. All religious garments should be fair game for ridicule though obviously aggressively confronting anyone in the street should never happen. I think many pieces of religious clothing look silly but the burkha in particular looks mad because it covers the entire body and is just impractical as well as oppressive as I already mentioned.

Nope I don't think aggressively confronting a woman like that in that fashion is acceptable. Not in any way the same thing as highlighting how ridiculous they look in an article which had a wider context.

I don't consider it healthy to hold people responsible when thick people do things in their name unless it's a direct call for violence and even then the ultimate responsibility lies with the people commiting the acts. If some right wingers use a comment about letterboxes to be bigoted towards some Muslims then that responsibility lies entirely with them, I wouldn't want responsibility to be abdicated to others. The point stands- we should absolutely be free to criticise or laugh at Islam and all its supposed trappings in the same way we can do it to Christianity and the aburd things that go with that. Actually there's not much more British than poking fun at a religion and its pomposity.

What difference does it make if its a religion? Ignoring the fact that Islam doesn't require you to wear a burqa.

An article that correctly identified the garment as ridiculous (and oppressive) yet nevertheless defended the right for people to wear it even though they could be subject to ridicule for doing so. I agree with that 100%. It's actually the polar opposite of what I opposed which was the stifling of religious criticism under the guise of Islamaphobia. A relative of my wife faces pressure to wear the niqab and I think it's abhorrent.

I think the ill defined definition of Islamaphobia as "an expression of racism that targets expressions of Muslimness or perceived Muslimness" is an incredibly alarming definition that Labour want the country to adopt. Its one of the reasons I don't want them in power.