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The “offense” as you put it is making it very clear that you would have a major problem if your wife were Muslim. Surely, if you loved her enough to marry her and build a life and a family with her, her religious beliefs should not be an issue. On another point, if Hamas had come out and said that their aim on 7th October two years ago was to kill Israeli soldiers on the basis that they have been suppressing the rights of Palestinians and that the civilians killed and taken hostage were just collateral damage, would you have been ok with that? You might also recall having a go at me when I said that not all Muslims were responsible for terrorist acts. Your view as posted at the time was that they were all responsible because they weren’t going to the police with information that would help prevent the acts. You didn’t seem remotely interested in the idea that most of them have no idea of terrorist plans being made by extremists and we’re just as horrified by their actions as anyone else. Just man up and admit it. You hate Muslims and have zero empathy for what the occupants of Gaza and the West Bank are being subjected to by the IDF and the so called Settlers.

No surprise at the ruling, which has come too late, or by the response which, as usual, claims anti-semitism. What those claiming anti-semitism seem to ignore is that the ruling used many comments made by Israeli leaders for its conclusions. Four out of five boxes ticked in the test for a genocide ruling. Some legacy Netanyahu and his cronies is leaving for the state of Israel.

Of course there should be. Can you imagine the meltdown amongst the Gammons if one of their MPs or councillors left Reform for the Labour Party? If you stand as a representative for a certain party you owe it to the people who voted for you to have a choice to carry on supporting you or not. If you cast your vote for a Tory and they are elected, why should you end up with that person representing another party without another vote?

The guy who currently cuts my hair is from Iraq, so not black. My dentist is black though if that helps? We wouldn’t have a polite conversation. All of my conversations are polite but I wouldn’t give you the time of day. I avoid people who go out of their way to support the views of certain extemists with certain political views or who clearly hate certain people because of their religious views. Your use of the alt right avatar is not forgotten and this pretence that you are some kind of even handed liberal is a total facade. Your famous quote that “Socialism is dangerous” sums you up perfectly. You go out of your way to “be fair” to people with extreme right wing views whereas you immediately jump on anyone with liberal views. You hate left wing liberal views and you hate Muslims. You would have us believe that you are actually an even handed decent bloke yet at the same time you kick off about the ULEZ charge (brought in my a Muslim no less) because you have to pay because you brung in a car that pollutes the air that your gramps breathes every day. Here’s a thought, put his health before your own selfishness. “Thank God my wife isn’t Muslim”, another of your infamous quotes. If anyone is a bellend it is you. We have absolutely nothing in common other than we support the same football club. I would no more have a polite conversation with you as I would the morons throwing firebombs at hotels housing asylum seekers or lobbing bricks at the police. As for listening to people with different viewpoints, how does that work when you yourself shout down posters that you don’t agree with as you do almost daily? You have a very long history on here of supporting far right views and posting against those who speak out against them. I’d have far more respect for you if you had the balls to admit where you are coming from. I am way more likely to have a “polite” conversation with Duckhunter. At least he doesn’t pretend to be anything other than he is.

Wow. If it isn’t bad enough being stalked by nutty nic on here he is following me around the internet too. 🥴 Make your mind up nic. Am I a racist or not? You seem to be confused. Mind you, you seem to be confused about a lot of things. No surprise given that people with a low IQ tend to follow Trump and Farage. I am guessing you are the bloke on TUI who is further right than Rupert Lowe? Tell me, do you get agitated every time that Trump, Farage and Jenrick bring race into conversations too?

Nothing about Trump adds up or makes sense so why would that stop a lot of people voting for Farage? We have already voted to cripple ourselves financially by Brexit. What’s to say there aren’t enough idiots who will vote in Farage as the next PM? I hear plenty of people saying that they cannot do any worse. Oh yes they can.

It will just be dismissed as anti semitism, blood libel or some other nonsense by Netanyahu and his cohorts but it doesn’t bode well for them with an international court ruling coming early next year too. What is the current saying? It is “not a good look” to be found guilty of committing genocide.

She’s gone

A bunch of “9 pinters” who have just fallen out of the Farage Arms ale house and are on their way to tie some flags to lamp posts. If they want to deter asylum seekers from coming here perhaps they should show them these type of clips before they climb aboard the dingies. Meanwhile it takes an American to put Farage in his place. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/nigel-farage-washington-jamie-raskin-free-speech-b2819428.html

The question we need to ask is why are two different parties expected to be held to different levels of accountability? Surely it should be the same for all but the bar for Labour seems to be a lot higher than that for the Tories in recent years. Integrity went out of the window when Johnson got rid of any hint of propriety from his party. Remember the “form a square around the Pritster” comment? There are still people in opposition who have gotten away with worse, many know having been elevated to the Lords, but guilty of deliberately not paying the proper amount or not, as housing minister her position is now untenable. If she does resign it will not change anything though. Labour will still be expected to be held to a higher level of behaviour and accountability than the Tories (or Reform).

Did the same people who are calling for her resignation make the same amount of noise during the years of Tory corruption, especially during the PPE free for all? I suspect not. If the investigation concludes that it was a genuine mistake then I don’t see why she would have to resign. Nevertheless, honourable people who have gone through a similar process have resigned even though they were innocent. I wouldn’t be surprised if she did go before the conclusion of the investigation as the media will whip up a storm whilst it is going on. It’s a shame, she has the Tories for breakfast and would be handy against Farage as the next election approaches. Zahawi’s situation was different. https://taxpolicy.org.uk/2023/01/19/zahawi_story/

And you are supposed to have a massive intellect? The government have a legal requirement to accommodate asylum seekers. The previous government put more and more of them into places that used to be hotels. This government had already said that it plans to move asylum seekers out of these buildings by the end of this term (within the next 4 years). It clearly cannot move out everybody until firm plans are in place as to what to do with them. That will take time. The appeal judge clearly took this into account when making his judgement. It was the local council, who used money that could have been spent on fixing potholes and other very essential local services, who started these legal proceedings leaving the government with no choice. You don’t like asylum seekers so you have chosen to attack the government for spending money on legal action when it was initiated by the very people who have more of a problem with asylum seekers than they do with people who think that it is perfectly ok to intimidate in large crowds. I don’t suppose that you bothered to listen to the people who live locally and said that there wasn’t a problem with the inhabitants of the building. They were more concerned with the number of outsiders turning up outside the building. We have a system in this country whereby anyone suspected of breaking the law is dealt with by the police within the Criminal Justice System. A baying mob is not a part of that system. They clearly have your sympathies but without them, the money spent on legalities could be better spent elsewhere, could it not? Go on, have a chuckle.

But it wouldn’t be a proper transfer window without hypochondriac whinging about our lack of signing a striker every other post and breaking out the antidepressants!

It’s not just Farage. Tice, 30p Lee, previously Lowe…the party attracts plenty of deeply unpleasant and untrustworthy people. You just have to look at what is happening in the US to see what would happen here if Reform win the next election. Hopefully the mess they are currently making of running many local councils will put off protest voters. You would like to think that those who have had enough of the two main parties would give their vote to the LibDems rather than Farage, yet despite already making a mess of this country by championing Brexit, some people still think he worthy of trusting with their vote. Didn’t he say that he would leave the country if Brexit wasn’t a success? Why is he still here? He has a proven track record as a disrupter and destroyer but a zero past reputation as someone who can fix things. His plan to deport all those arriving on dinghies is a case in point. Where to Nigel? The plan was picked apart in minutes as being unworkable and he had to backtrack on women and children immediately. Any idiot can spout populist nonsense and get the hard of thinking to support them (you only have to read some of these posts). Fixing a broken country takes time, money and unpopular decisions. We all want better services and a better infrastructure but no one wants to pay for it. Taxes will have to rise. The idea that things will improve without tax rises is a nonsense. Starmer would do well to stop worrying about Badenoch and Farage with a u turn on tax increases and start preparing us for them now. Bring in fair and proportionate tax rises across the board. Spell out exactly where the money is going, hit your targets over the next 4 years and win over the trust of the floating voters. If Farage wins power outright or forms a coalition with Badenoch, God help us all. If you think we are currently a divided nation, you ain’t seen nothing yet. Laughing emojis, people shinning up lamp posts with flags and spotty kids running local councils will be the least of our worries.

If Archer had scored that at the other end, a fine angled drive that went in just inside the far post, we would be talking about the quality of the finish, not a goalkeeping error.