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[Johnsond]

No, divisive politics doesn't work... and instead should be working together to go for a common goal that is not "they are bad, they support the opposing party", but perhaps "we are all people, lets all be the best people that we can".

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Posted by a total hypocrite who liked a post celebrating the death of a man based upon nothing but political ideology. 

[Steve Bullman]

2 hours ago, Steven P said:

 

Reading this, I would tend to agree with the conclusion - should be rejecting violence as an answer - noting that the previous 3 or 4 presidents set out statements this week condoning the attack, imploring this sentiment - the current presidents tone was very very different - he thrives on divisive politics, 'Us vs Them' works well for him but pushes the extremes both ways.. and the further apart the left and right become then more people will decide that direct action such as this is the only solution.

 

No, divisive politics doesn't work... and instead should be working together to go for a common goal that is not "they are bad, they support the opposing party", but perhaps "we are all people, lets all be the best people that we can".

‘Previous ‘presidents’, what do they count for? 
 

Did you see the video of the current senate and their disgusting behaviour when asked to observe a minutes silence?

[raafbeard]

Divisive politics always works.. that is politics… 

[tree-fancier123]

4 hours ago, raafbeard said:

Divisive politics always works.. that is politics… 

reminds me of when Anne Widdecombe said Michael Howard had 'something of the night about him'

 

The putdown—in her own words, a character assassination^[16]—was seen as an attack on Howard's personality, and played into contemporary views that he had "a ruthless streak",^[8] was "stern and sinister", abrasive, forbidding and remote.

 

Contemporary reactions

Widdecombe's colleagues had other interpretations. To Emily Blatch, it indicated that Howard's character was "not as it seems".^[31] Oppenheim admired the "well-crafted" soundbite, saying she "carried it off brilliantly. She turned herself from being a fringe middle-ranking politician, whom no one had very much time for and who was considered a right-wing weirdo, into being a chat show character, with something to her."^[31] Howard's response was to go "hopping mad".^[31] Conservative MP Jerry Hayes suggested that Widdecombe's phrase "struck a chord" with the public; he also wrote approvingly of the subsequent sketch by impressionist Rory Bremner, in which the latter compared Howard to Dracula.^[

[Mark J]

Patriots who love our country.

[rapalaman]

1 hour ago, Mark J said:

Patriots who love our country.

When you’ve got to go you’ve got to go! I bet there isn’t a single one of us who hasn’t done the same when we’ve needed to

[Mark J]

18 minutes ago, rapalaman said:

When you’ve got to go you’ve got to go! I bet there isn’t a single one of us who hasn’t done the same when we’ve needed to

Police hurt during Tommy Robinson's Unite the Kingdom rally in London

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Some 25 arrests are made after "unacceptable violence" at demonstrations in central London, police say.

 

[JLA1990]

12 minutes ago, Mark J said:

Police hurt during Tommy Robinson's Unite the Kingdom rally in London

WWW.BBC.CO.UK

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Some 25 arrests are made after "unacceptable violence" at demonstrations in central London, police say.

 

What’s the point of these posts may I ask? If we can break down your last two posts - some men peeing on a wall by your logic means they’re not patriotic? Could it not be like everything in this country that the council/organisers didn’t properly organise ahead of the protest? And your second post - reportedly between 150-200 thousand people turned out and 25 arrests were made that’s 0.017% hardly a lawless far right rally was it. I don’t have a dog in any fight in particular but lazy, unintelligent reposting of news stories to fit somebody’s narrative has just become accepted and the new norm. Do the posts give you sense of wellbeing (you might even get a like further entrenching your opinion) or have I got

it completely wrong and you just enjoy

cut and pasting in your free time? 

[Mark J]

31 minutes ago, JLA1990 said:

What’s the point of these posts may I ask? If we can break down your last two posts - some men peeing on a wall by your logic means they’re not patriotic? Could it not be like everything in this country that the council/organisers didn’t properly organise ahead of the protest? And your second post - reportedly between 150-200 thousand people turned out and 25 arrests were made that’s 0.017% hardly a lawless far right rally was it. I don’t have a dog in any fight in particular but lazy, unintelligent reposting of news stories to fit somebody’s narrative has just become accepted and the new norm. Do the posts give you sense of wellbeing (you might even get a like further entrenching your opinion) or have I got

it completely wrong and you just enjoy

cut and pasting in your free time? 

It's more an attempt to point out that there are bad actors throughout the political spectrum, and that it might be disingenuous to solely concentrate on the loony left. 

Edited 1 hour ago by Mark J

[5thelement]

I heard a rumour that one of the Police officers was injured in a fall when his horse tried to mount Katy Hopkins.