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Maybe to someone who is absolutely opposed to the bill and the premise that terminally ill people who want to die with dignity shouldn’t be allowed to make that decision for themselves.

Surely the man has to resign. This is another in a very long line of cover ups in the Christian church. If this was an Asian grooming gang we can imagine the outrage but, for some strange reason, there doesn’t seem to be the same outrage when Christians do it. Go figure? https://amp.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/nov/12/justin-welby-urged-resign-solidarity-church-of-england-abuse-victims-john-smyth

Looking back over his career isn’t he entitled to be self satisfied and smug?

It sounds like Gary Lineker is leaving MotD at the end of the season. That will please the anti-woke brigade.

Our previous PM doesn’t think that it’s a bed of roses nowadays. Nor does the previous Foreign Secretary and former PM. https://londonlovesbusiness.com/sunak-warns-the-uks-in-the-most-dangerous-times-ever-seen-and-our-lives-is-going-to-change/ https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/david-cameron-foreign-secretary-world-economic-forum-davos-bill-gates-b1132849.html

Utter twaddle. As ever you base your assumption on your own blinkered version of “life” as it applies to other people. Do you think people in Gaza, Ukraine, many parts of Africa, Valencia, people here who rely on food banks, people here waiting years for necessary operations, people here waiting for mental health appointments,Americans who value democracy and decency etc etc etc think we are living in the best times ever. Muslims and Jews around the world afraid for their safely every day all around the world. Best times? Everything is relative and whilst “times” have been worse, to claim they are “the best they have ever been in human history” shows a level of naivety that underlies your entire posting history on here. Uniquely terrible? It depends where you live and upon your own circumstances, but if you bother to pay attention to world news on a daily basis it is very obvious to all that we are certainly not living in the best times ever.

You must have taken it badly when you found out that there is no Santa Claus, Tooth Fairy or women who will have sex with you without being drunk or in exchange for cash. You seem to have grown up with the impression that everyone is lying to you. Strange that you think the people who actually do, like Boris Johnson or Nigel Farage, are the people you are prepared to believe. You need to re-calibrate your pony detector.

So no truth in the rumour that Bowie was originally toying with the idea of Ziggy Stardust and the Ponies from Mars?

Turning to drink wouldn’t be too bad as most of us are probably there already. Not so sure about religion? The problem is that when times are hard, those who are good at telling people what they want to hear get a bigger platform, a bigger audience and a bigger proportion of the votes. Trump and the rise of Farage are evidence of this currently but we have seen it so often before in history. Starmer will do well to heed what has just happened in the US and to take the threat of the Faragists more seriously. It helps that Badenoch is the new Tory leader as there will be little to choose between the Tories and Reform, but the liberal centrists need to show that they are listening to people’s concerns, get a grip of the issues that the far right try and exploit so that we don’t end up like the US.

I know most people here don’t think that all Muslims are murderous terrorists but this a reminder for those who do. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj4vw1l8xvdo.amp

If Starmer had said that the money raised from the vat on public schools, the stopping of the winter fuel allowance and the inheritance tax on farmers was all going to be spent on defence, can you imagine the reaction? Badenoch had the brass neck to call Starmer out for not spending on defence in the budget (spoiler alert, he did) yet the armed forces have been under funded by her own party for the last 14 years.

No, just more knuckle dragging morons which, sadly, the sport of football still attracts.

Absolutely, after all, we really didn’t need their help in WW1 and WW2.

It has started

News coming out that the Iranians were planning to kill Trump before the election.

Let’s see if the forum sociopaths think this worthy of a laughing emoji. Bingo.

What a choice eh? Either oppressed by Muslim men or blown to pieces by Israeli men.

Probably. Doesn’t mean that they should be wiped off the planet now though. Ethnic cleansing https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-army-prevents-return-forcibly-expelled-palestinians-north-gaza You have to be a particularly sick individual to find this funny, so no surprise that hypochondriac does.

There was an in depth discussion about why certain people voted for Trump who you wouldn’t expect to. It comes down to looking after number 1. They are more worried about their personal circumstances than those of others. So what if he thinks that people of the same background are “cockroaches” , they are here and they want to survive here. If there neighbour is in danger of being deported, so what, that is there problem. Bernie Saunders makes this point very well. The far right, in this case Trump, are very good at looking after the rich and powerful (the minority) by dividing the rest of us and setting us against each other. Immigrants, single mothers, benefit scroungers, trans people, gay people, Muslims etc. These are the reasons we are told that prices are going up, we can’t get housing, we can’t get a job, we can’t get promotion etc. The same is happening here and it works. When people refer to those who aren’t Trump’s normal demographic voting for him as “thick” they are really saying that they have been sucked into his grift. Divide and conquer. It worked here perfectly too with Brexit. We were led to believe that we were worse off in the EU when, very clearly, we are by far worse off being outside the EU. Turkey’s voting for Christmas again. Now sit back and watch as Trump, Musk and chums rip off their own country.

It so strange that a grown man can be so obsessed by a complete stranger on a social media forum isn’t it? But narcissists hate it when it is pointed out that they are not as wonderful as they think and they will happily spend hours trying to get their own back, even if it makes them look like obsessive stalkers. I expect that he upset because I didn’t mention him earlier!

We can still have a point of view though, yes? Especially as American policies have such an effect on us on this side of the pond.

Perhaps it should be relevant that someone convicted of rape/seriously sexually assaulting another person should automatically be barred from standing for high office? Semantics? The issue here is that in New York, the definition of rape is penile penetration whereas elsewhere it includes digital penetration. They were unable to determine whether it was penile or digital penetration, but although he was not found guilty of rape technically, as the Judge clarified, he did in fact rape Carroll, so calling him a rapist is accurate. There are many other outstanding charges against him which, if found guilty for (if he ever stands trial for them) should probably also preclude him from standing for, let alone actually being sworn in, as President.

I know that this is tough for Trump apologists to handle but here we go… In July 2023, Judge Kaplan clarified that the jury had found that Trump had raped Carroll according to the common definition of the word. In August 2023, Kaplan dismissed a countersuit and wrote that Carroll’s accusation of “rape” is “substantially true”. As for the lower burden of proof, you still have to prove it in court. Would you argue that OJ Simpson did not really kill two people just because the verdict was made with a lower burden of proof?

Seriously? You don’t think the many champions of the right don’t have superiority complexes? You only have to look at the likes of Trump and Johnson to know that is the case.

John Crace nails it again. https://amp.theguardian.com/politics/2024/nov/06/hypocrisy-student-politics-and-scoring-cheap-points-kemikaze-gets-to-work