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[Yournamehere]

4 minutes ago, Saw-sick Steve said:

So you're equating the couple of hundred people who turned up to protest at state visits granted to the leaders of two of the most oppressive regimes on the planet with the quarter of a million who marched to voice their opposition to the democratically elected POTUS? Fair enough, you're entitled to your opinion - though IMO that's a textbook example of a false equivalence right there...

I'm not equating anything.

You said there wasn't; I did two google searches that took less than two minutes and found that there was.

If you are going to make claims of any sort at least do some basic research.

 

Thankyou, my opinion is that you are lazy, that you make stuff up to suit your argument, that you don't research your claims and that you are an unreliable source of information.

 

Happy days

[Mick Dempsey]

8 minutes ago, Yournamehere said:

I'm not equating anything.

You said there wasn't; I did two google searches that took less than two minutes and found that there was.

If you are going to make claims of any sort at least do some basic research.

 

Thankyou, my opinion is that you are lazy, that you make stuff up to suit your argument, that you don't research your claims and that you are an unreliable source of information.

 

Happy days

No, he said (first) ’where were these people?’

Edited July 17, 2018 by Mick Dempsey

[Yournamehere]

1 minute ago, Mick Dempsey said:

No, he said ’where were these people?’ 

Oh!

[eggsarascal]

On 15/07/2018 at 21:19, kevinjohnsonmbe said:

What is tradition Labour then?

 

Tony Benn?

Arthur Scargil?

Tolpuddle Martyrs?

Tony Blair?

Momentum?

 

there seem to be so many variants of what Labour thinks it is, and what people think it should be....

 

What is your definition of traditional Labour ? and is it available today??

 

 

I've come back to this one. It's not about who's running political parties, it's about the values each person believes in. I do things in my community to try to make it a better place for everyone, socialism. Why do you "work" on the Parish Council? To better things for Your area, or to better things for your cronies? Conservatism.

[Lucan]

I hope May is going to get those Labour Brexiteers a bottle of something nice. Kept her in a job and avoided another general election.

[difflock]

https://imgur.com/gallery/VixByie

[eggsarascal]

3 minutes ago, difflock said:

https://imgur.com/gallery/VixByie

Looks like the brickies are getting down wif da kids.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/jun/22/teenage-boys-wear-skirts-to-school-protest-no-shorts-uniform-policy

[eggsarascal]

On 15/07/2018 at 14:37, eggsarascal said:

I wonder if Mr Trump will tell Putin where he's going wrong tomorrow.

Oh well, that big tuff Mr Trump ran around Europe telling leaders where they are going wrong, yet failed to tell the US's most hated enemy where he was going wrong, better still he believed Putin over his own security forces. He doesn't think some people are mugs, he knows it. Better still some of you still buy into it.

 

You couldn't make it up.

 

Watch the video. Putin stood there hardly able to hold back his amusement. When was the last time you sore him doing that when speaking to another political leader?

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

47 minutes ago, eggsarascal said:

I've come back to this one. It's not about who's running political parties, it's about the values each person believes in. I do things in my community to try to make it a better place for everyone, socialism. Why do you "work" on the Parish Council? To better things for Your area, or to better things for your cronies? Conservatism.

I've been pondering it too but I didn't feel qualified to try and define what the Labour Party of today actually stands for.  Perhaps it is an impossible ask but I like your take on it. 

 

I can answer the question about why I waste my time with the PC though.  Some of the Cllr's do considerable and admirable work in the community, some, I'm not quite sure what they do or why they do it.  For myself, I hate wastefulness and squander of tax payers money so my personal cause celeb within the parish is expose the ineptitude, inefficiency and incompetence of PC decisions as relates to scandalous waste of tax payers money - that's my 'service' to the tax payer and it's a thankless, uphill struggle against the inequities of long established cronyism within the PC and deep rooted public mistrust (with due cause) of Local Authority.

 

If anyone is interested, I created a Facebook page (to the immense displeasure of the PC) which can be viewed here:

 

https://www.facebook.com/StCleer/?ref=bookmarks

 

For a relatively small village / parish it currently has 161 "likes" and 171 "follows" which far outstrips the "official"  PC facebook page and that of the Ward Councillor.  It's made me no friends within the PC though, within the past couple of months there have been attempted harassment charges brought to D&C Police (dismissed out of hand), Code of Conduct Complaint to the LA (partially upheld but a shallow victory since I consider it to be meaningless), an attempt at an aggressive take over of the Facebook page by the PC (you can imagine my reaction to that), an article in the parish rag due this week and threats of legal action from the PC's solicitor.  It's ruffling a few feathers and making some people very uncomfortable - that is my measure of success and the harder they try to suppress the more I'll bring into the public domain.  If the cretinous incompetence of some of the decisions made at this local level are multiplied by the number of PCs in the land, then multiplied again by LA town, district, unitary areas, then multiplied again at the party political level, electoral wards and national government level, and then multiplied again by international organisations such as the EU, NATO, UN, etc...  The amount of money being pissed up the wall would be truly, eye-wateringly, unbelievably staggering.

 

That's why I do my bit and for as long as I'm getting the clicks and support via the FB page I'll continue.  Hope all well up there Mr ?and you're on the mend after the Heath....  ?  

 

[Mark J]

4 hours ago, eggsarascal said:

Oh well, that big tuff Mr Trump ran around Europe telling leaders where they are going wrong, yet failed to tell the US's most hated enemy where he was going wrong, better still he believed Putin over his own security forces. He doesn't think some people are mugs, he knows it. Better still some of you still buy into it.

 

You couldn't make it up.

 

Watch the video. Putin stood there hardly able to hold back his amusement. When was the last time you sore him doing that when speaking to another political leader?

You're overreacing mate, he clearly mis-spoke: