Let's Get Political!

[Pax Romana]

I didn't mean your post Horlock, all the previous crap

[4D]

This thread really is unbelievably self-obsessed.

For "Let's Get Political" read "Let's go round in circles trying to prove that I'm better and wiser than you are" whilst ironically proving exactly the opposite.

 

[pauld]

BBC News and Current Affairs continuing to demonstrate why the whole unit needs scrapping and relaunching, and doing it's best to undermine support for the BBC at a time when it's under govt attack. This time it's interviewing Farage on Newsnight about coronavirus. It's arguable whether he has any relevance to politics any more, he certainly knows less than fuck all about epidemiology.

[StfcRusty]

This thread really is unbelievably self-obsessed.

For "Let's Get Political" read "Let's go round in circles trying to prove that I'm better and wiser than you are" whilst ironically proving exactly the opposite.

Actually several posters were lamenting the absence of Chalkie’s Shorts, a pro Tory, pro Brexit poster who actually made coherent points that were thought-provoking, intelligent and interesting.
Contrast that with LL’s lack of engagement save from ad hominem personal attacks, homophobic slurs, “we won, you lost” style taunting and champions league level whataboutery.

PaulD and Horlock are regular posters but they also regularly criticise Labour. Whereas LL seems to treat this thread like it’s a Swindon v Oxford matchday thread where no ground can be conceded to the enemy.

[horlock07]

BBC News and Current Affairs continuing to demonstrate why the whole unit needs scrapping and relaunching, and doing it's best to undermine support for the BBC at a time when it's under govt attack. This time it's interviewing Farage on Newsnight about coronavirus. It's arguable whether he has any relevance to politics any more, he certainly knows less than fuck all about epidemiology.

Although TBF as someone pointed out on Twitter, its just their normal balance editorial standard in that the BBC has tried to understand the story from the point of view of a parasitic, destructive virus that forces its host to self-isolate from its nearest and dearest at great financial cost.

[pauld]

Although TBF as someone pointed out on Twitter, its just their normal balance editorial standard in that the BBC has tried to understand the story from the point of view of a parasitic, destructive virus that forces its host to self-isolate from its nearest and dearest at great financial cost.

[Pax Romana]

Actually several posters were lamenting the absence of Chalkie’s Shorts, a pro Tory, pro Brexit poster who actually made coherent points that were thought-provoking, intelligent and interesting.
Contrast that with LL’s lack of engagement save from ad hominem personal attacks, homophobic slurs, “we won, you lost” style taunting and champions league level whataboutery.

PaulD and Horlock are regular posters but they also regularly criticise Labour. Whereas LL seems to treat this thread like it’s a Swindon v Oxford matchday thread where no ground can be conceded to the enemy.

Fair point though I think that the "no ground can be conceded to the enemy" comment could reasonably be attributed to rather more of us than just LL.

[RobertT]

This thread really is unbelievably self-obsessed.

For "Let's Get Political" read "Let's go round in circles trying to prove that I'm better and wiser than you are" whilst ironically proving exactly the opposite.

Welcome to the internet.

[Pax Romana]

Although TBF as someone pointed out on Twitter, its just their normal balance editorial standard in that the BBC has tried to understand the story from the point of view of a parasitic, destructive virus that forces its host to self-isolate from its nearest and dearest at great financial cost.

 Excellent  .

[pauld]

This thread really is unbelievably self-obsessed.

For "Let's Get Political" read "Let's go round in circles trying to prove that I'm better and wiser than you are" whilst ironically proving exactly the opposite.

I'll put my (repeatedly washed) hands up here. Baiting LL personally on the Islamophobia thing was a bit twatty. Apologies to both LL and those who waded through the last page.

[StfcRusty]

Fair point though I think that the "no ground can be conceded to the enemy" comment could reasonably be attributed to rather more of us than just LL.

Understood.

I’m sure that, like Chalkie’s Shorts, if a poster with right-wing and/or pro Brexit views was prepared to engage without resorting to name-calling or point-scoring, they’d actually find many posters willing to engage too and maybe even find some common ground. Very few issues are black or white and this thread could be constructively used to discuss the nuances in between.

[pauld]

Official govt handwashing guide

[horlock07]

Official govt handwashing guide

The advice doing the rounds up here is to wash your hands like you have been chopping chillis and feel the need to knock one out.

[McGurk's Missus]

The advice doing the rounds up here is to wash your hands like you have been chopping chillis and feel the need to knock one out.

or the cleaner (no pun) version is "...chopping chilis knowing you've got to put contact lenses back in again."

The burn would be felt all round and in any case 

[RedRag]

Even if a majority of members don't like this thread, does it really matter?  This really is overall a relatively very civilised politics thread and a credit to TEF-ers.  Chalkies' influence?  Dissenting members have other threads, can create their own new ones or simply not return, with or without a flounce.

No one here is going to change the world or win the internet.  We do all actually know that.

Racism and xenophobia (as I see it  ) is my personal bugbear, so apologies in advance for where I may in the future overstep the mark in any exchange.  Hypocrisy is always a laugh and I think most of us can see that in all parties, even if we more easily see it in our political opposites (if any).