Is opposing Judaism antisemitic? I'd say yes to that, so I'd also say yes to your question.
Islamism is different from Islam. Look them up
Being opposed to Islam isn't islamophobic. It's a religion, and therefore a philosophy, a belief system, and may be opposed. Exactly as you may be opposed to a political philosophy.
Similarly, being opposed to Judaism, the religion, isn't antisemitic.
You oppose the 10 commandments?
Some of them. But in any case people can support elements of a religious philosophy whilst being opposed to some fundamental tenets of the faith itself.
Someone might find a lot they like about the teachings of Jesus but still oppose the religious institutions promoting it, or just not agree with (and so oppose) fundamental aspects of its beliefs (eg that Jesus was the son of God).
Well Jews don't believe Jesus was the son of God
You don't say.
Of course, early Christians also famoulsy argued about the precise nature of Christ too, in their own way.
They still do. The modern literature and scholarship on this, historical, philosophical and theological, is immense and forms a continuing cascade including work of outstanding quality.
It seems to me, by the way, that one has to be oddly unimaginative as a member of our culture to have no interest in what Jesus was like, what he did and said, his history and his social and religious context. Regardless of whether one is a critic of its aftermath.
Kyle Broflovski: Think about it. Haven't Luke Skywalker and Santa Claus affected your lives more than most real people in this room? I mean, whether Jesus is real or not, he... he's had a bigger impact on the world than any of us have. And the same could be said of Bugs Bunny and, a-and Superman and Harry Potter. They've changed my life, changed the way I act on the Earth. Doesn't that make them kind of "real."? They might be imaginary, but, but they're more important than most of us here. And they're all gonna be around long after we're dead. So in a way, those things are more realer than any of us.
(I get all my life lessons from TV shows and movies)
Perhaps I can introduce you to this thing called "Star Trek"...
"What would God want with a starship??"
Fucking terrible film.
Shatner couldn't write, direct or act.
An unbelievably boring film where virtually nothing happens for 2 hours, despite the fact the premise of the plot was potentially interesting.
Is opposing Judaism antisemitic? I'd say yes to that, so I'd also say yes to your question.
Islamism is different from Islam. Look them up
Being opposed to Islam isn't islamophobic. It's a religion, and therefore a philosophy, a belief system, and may be opposed. Exactly as you may be opposed to a political philosophy.
Similarly, being opposed to Judaism, the religion, isn't antisemitic.
You oppose the 10 commandments?
Some of them. But in any case people can support elements of a religious philosophy whilst being opposed to some fundamental tenets of the faith itself.
Someone might find a lot they like about the teachings of Jesus but still oppose the religious institutions promoting it, or just not agree with (and so oppose) fundamental aspects of its beliefs (eg that Jesus was the son of God).
Well Jews don't believe Jesus was the son of God
Not even in a roundabout way ?
Did they have roundabouts in the holy land?
They did when we drove from Jerusalem to Jericho !!!!
If they’d stopped at the stop line, instead of driving round the roundabout 7 times…
Don't go there please
Defintely don't drive round a roundabout 7 times.
You'll get dizzy.
First time I ever got pulled over for suspected drink driving was when I drove round a roundabout three times.
I wasn’t sure what exit to take…
How did ever drive in unknown places before SatNav.
Back in the 1960s, if my Dad was going on a long journey he wrote to the AA who, about a week later, sent him a detailed set of instructions of what roads to take and when and where to turn. The only drawback was that it required my Mum to read it to him. It looked something like this.
If I'm ever driving somewhere unfamiliar, I lool at a map before I go. I chiose a route, and go that way. It's rare any route in the UK is so complicated you can't memorise it at least until the last mile. It wasn't hard in tbe 90s and it's not hard now. Sat navs aren't even that goof at avoiding the traffic because it's sending every other fucker by the back roads too. Yet another innivation we didn't really need.
I check Google Maps and my trusty road atlas and decide on my route. I enter my destination in the sat nav and ignore it until the final mile. I’m convinced the wee woman that speaks the directions gets increasingly annoyed as the journey progresses.
Has there ever been a "Free This Country" movement that was anti-Islamist, until Free Iran?
Has there ever been a "Free This Country" movement less supported by the Left since the Soviet Union?
Square me this circle. Why do British borderline fascists demanding the removal of Muslims from the UK find the Emirates such an attractive lifestyle destination? I'd take Monaco or Porto Fino any day of the week.
How would I know? I've never been there
Tice and Oakeshott are fans.
I have no answers for UKIP. I have never supported them
I voted UKIP in the 2014 Euros. Just that one time!
I hope you went straight home afterwards, like they told you.
Then I voted LEAVE in 2016, and then at the 2019 Euros, just for a laugh, I voted BREXIT Party
@JoeBiden What has unfolded in Minneapolis this past month betrays our most basic values as Americans. We are not a nation that guns down our citizens in the street. We are not a nation that allows our citizens to be brutalized for exercising their constitutional rights. We are not a nation that tramples the 4th Amendment and tolerates our neighbors being terrorized. The people of Minnesota have stood strong — helping community members in unimaginable circumstances, speaking out against injustice when they see it, and holding our government accountable to the people. Minnesotans have reminded us all what it is to be American, and they have suffered enough at the hands of this Administration. Violence and terror have no place in the United States of America, especially when it’s our own government targeting American citizens.
No single person can destroy what America stands for and believes in, not even a President, if we — all of America — stand up and speak out. We know who we are. It's time to show the world. More importantly, it's time to show ourselves.
Now, justice requires full, fair, and transparent investigations into the deaths of the two Americans who lost their lives in the city they called home. Jill and I are sending strength to the families and communities who love Alex Pretti and Renee Good as we all mourn their senseless deaths.
Has there ever been a "Free This Country" movement that was anti-Islamist, until Free Iran?
Has there ever been a "Free This Country" movement less supported by the Left since the Soviet Union?
Square me this circle. Why do British borderline fascists demanding the removal of Muslims from the UK find the Emirates such an attractive lifestyle destination? I'd take Monaco or Porto Fino any day of the week.
How would I know? I've never been there
Tice and Oakeshott are fans.
I have no answers for UKIP. I have never supported them
I voted UKIP in the 2014 Euros. Just that one time!
I hope you went straight home afterwards, like they told you.
I did the same.
Back then it was about putting pressure on Cameron not to go full LD over Europe, so lots of us did.
It turned out Cameron was telling you the truth and UKIP were bullshitting you.
Is opposing Judaism antisemitic? I'd say yes to that, so I'd also say yes to your question.
Islamism is different from Islam. Look them up
Being opposed to Islam isn't islamophobic. It's a religion, and therefore a philosophy, a belief system, and may be opposed. Exactly as you may be opposed to a political philosophy.
Similarly, being opposed to Judaism, the religion, isn't antisemitic.
You oppose the 10 commandments?
Some of them. But in any case people can support elements of a religious philosophy whilst being opposed to some fundamental tenets of the faith itself.
Someone might find a lot they like about the teachings of Jesus but still oppose the religious institutions promoting it, or just not agree with (and so oppose) fundamental aspects of its beliefs (eg that Jesus was the son of God).
Well Jews don't believe Jesus was the son of God
Not even in a roundabout way ?
Did they have roundabouts in the holy land?
They did when we drove from Jerusalem to Jericho !!!!
If they’d stopped at the stop line, instead of driving round the roundabout 7 times…
Don't go there please
Defintely don't drive round a roundabout 7 times.
You'll get dizzy.
First time I ever got pulled over for suspected drink driving was when I drove round a roundabout three times.
I wasn’t sure what exit to take…
How did ever drive in unknown places before SatNav.
Back in the 1960s, if my Dad was going on a long journey he wrote to the AA who, about a week later, sent him a detailed set of instructions of what roads to take and when and where to turn. The only drawback was that it required my Mum to read it to him. It looked something like this.
If I'm ever driving somewhere unfamiliar, I lool at a map before I go. I chiose a route, and go that way. It's rare any route in the UK is so complicated you can't memorise it at least until the last mile. It wasn't hard in tbe 90s and it's not hard now. Sat navs aren't even that goof at avoiding the traffic because it's sending every other fucker by the back roads too. Yet another innivation we didn't really need.
Sat Navs are mainly good for avoiding missing the turning. Provided you already agree with the route. I've ignored silly C-roads before.
Except on a roundabout where they are confusing, as they can't update and reorientate fast enough.
You might be approaching the roundabout too quickly.
@Tomorrow'sMPs @tomorrowsmps · 2h 🟢 GORTON & DENTON: it seems Trafford councillor & Green group leader Hannah Spencer favourite to be their candidate for the by-election. Has a plumber ever been an MP, let alone a female plumber?
HS is very well liked inside the party (including by me) but won't have much swing voter appeal. She does do 'human' very well though. The anti-Goodwin in just about every way. Big dog lover which in any English constituency is worth 1-2% regardless of politics.
Anybody saying ZP should have stood does not understand the Greens.
Is opposing Judaism antisemitic? I'd say yes to that, so I'd also say yes to your question.
Islamism is different from Islam. Look them up
Being opposed to Islam isn't islamophobic. It's a religion, and therefore a philosophy, a belief system, and may be opposed. Exactly as you may be opposed to a political philosophy.
Similarly, being opposed to Judaism, the religion, isn't antisemitic.
You oppose the 10 commandments?
Some of them. But in any case people can support elements of a religious philosophy whilst being opposed to some fundamental tenets of the faith itself.
Someone might find a lot they like about the teachings of Jesus but still oppose the religious institutions promoting it, or just not agree with (and so oppose) fundamental aspects of its beliefs (eg that Jesus was the son of God).
Well Jews don't believe Jesus was the son of God
Not even in a roundabout way ?
Did they have roundabouts in the holy land?
They did when we drove from Jerusalem to Jericho !!!!
If they’d stopped at the stop line, instead of driving round the roundabout 7 times…
Don't go there please
Defintely don't drive round a roundabout 7 times.
You'll get dizzy.
First time I ever got pulled over for suspected drink driving was when I drove round a roundabout three times.
I wasn’t sure what exit to take…
How did ever drive in unknown places before SatNav.
The first Satnav I ever had took me off the wrong exit of a roundabout.
Which meant I had to do a full circuit of the ring road to get to where I needed to go.
At rush hour.
In Milton Keynes.
It put me off satnav for years.
Google Maps nowadays is almost brilliant, especially when you’re driving somewhere unfamiliar and have enough to cope with before you get to navigation. I used to rate myself an ace at map reading, but wonder nowadays how I did it, inside large cities (out in the country the decisions come less fast). That said, around Europe in just the last few years Google Maps had me drive into a farmer’s field in Austria, tried to get me to drive into a boating park in Germany, down some steps in Italy, along a bus lane in Norway, on a road that wasn’t there in North Carolina, and offered me the dedicated cycle lane as an alternative route in Finland. Indeed just last week it routed me beneath Westfield shopping centre and almost to the entrance to the John Lewis car park, before turning me around and existing onto the Westway extension, presumably because it thought this was thirty seconds quicker than taking the normal route around Shepherds Bush Green. Not a mistake, but weird to be driving around underground car parks midway through a three hour cross country drive.
That would seem to die that Google Maps is as bad as ever, but you have learnt to deal with it, rather than to be surprised and fazed by it.
I find that it's routine - when travelling to a rural location - for other to warm you about the ways in which satnav will want to lead you astray. I also find that - even now - Google Maps doesn't seem to realise that right turns are more difficult in Britain than left turns.
Given that they've had more than a couple of decades to refine it, the standard that it displays is really lamentably poor.
One thing that struck me, reading Yougov’s combined data for December/January, is that right wing support is now a lot greater among lower earners than higher earners.
That probably means that Gorton will be more fertile ground for Reform than I had first thought.
And now the Workers Party are standing, they’ll siphon off some of the left wing vote from the Greens and Labour.
I’m guessing that Reform will win about 35%; Workers Party 10%; Con and Lib Dem’s 5%.
There’s only one thing I like about Trump: He has an unbelievable capacity to humiliate his most ardent defenders by hanging them out to dry after they’ve defended the indefensible on his behalf.
They compete for his attention and the right to issue orders on his behalf I assume. He may well have a better sense of the public mood than some of them, hence why on occasion he performs an uncharacteristic about turn.
Right now he is sitting in a bar in Iowa being interviewed live repeating all the same bullshit talking points. They are paid agitators. Renee Good's parents were huge Trump fans. He has no clue how this is playing.
That suggests the relatively cautious steps since the weekend have not been driven by him, but he must have consented to it, so it came from someone in the administration with some brains.
Noem is leaking today that all the stupid talking points at the weekend were fully agreed by Trump
That is a career-ending position to take.
Fun when she gets questioned by a Senate Committee. On Trumps impeachment.
Is opposing Judaism antisemitic? I'd say yes to that, so I'd also say yes to your question.
Islamism is different from Islam. Look them up
Being opposed to Islam isn't islamophobic. It's a religion, and therefore a philosophy, a belief system, and may be opposed. Exactly as you may be opposed to a political philosophy.
Similarly, being opposed to Judaism, the religion, isn't antisemitic.
You oppose the 10 commandments?
Yes, of course.
A few of them are just universal good sense, like do not commit murder. But that is nothing special.
Others are not positive at all.
Most are not laws.
We should not put the commandments on a pedesral.
Have you been coveting thy neighbour's ass again?
I thought it was Barty’s neighbours neighbour that was the ass.
One thing that struck me, reading Yougov’s combined data for December/January, is that right wing support is now a lot greater among lower earners than higher earners.
That probably means that Gorton will be more fertile ground for Reform than I had first thought.
And now the Workers Party are standing, they’ll siphon off some of the left wing vote from the Greens and Labour.
I’m guessing that Reform will win about 35%; Workers Party 10%; Con and Lib Dem’s 5%.
Is opposing Judaism antisemitic? I'd say yes to that, so I'd also say yes to your question.
Islamism is different from Islam. Look them up
Being opposed to Islam isn't islamophobic. It's a religion, and therefore a philosophy, a belief system, and may be opposed. Exactly as you may be opposed to a political philosophy.
Similarly, being opposed to Judaism, the religion, isn't antisemitic.
You oppose the 10 commandments?
Some of them. But in any case people can support elements of a religious philosophy whilst being opposed to some fundamental tenets of the faith itself.
Someone might find a lot they like about the teachings of Jesus but still oppose the religious institutions promoting it, or just not agree with (and so oppose) fundamental aspects of its beliefs (eg that Jesus was the son of God).
Well Jews don't believe Jesus was the son of God
Not even in a roundabout way ?
Did they have roundabouts in the holy land?
They did when we drove from Jerusalem to Jericho !!!!
If they’d stopped at the stop line, instead of driving round the roundabout 7 times…
Don't go there please
Defintely don't drive round a roundabout 7 times.
You'll get dizzy.
First time I ever got pulled over for suspected drink driving was when I drove round a roundabout three times.
I wasn’t sure what exit to take…
How did ever drive in unknown places before SatNav.
Back in the 1960s, if my Dad was going on a long journey he wrote to the AA who, about a week later, sent him a detailed set of instructions of what roads to take and when and where to turn. The only drawback was that it required my Mum to read it to him. It looked something like this.
If I'm ever driving somewhere unfamiliar, I lool at a map before I go. I chiose a route, and go that way. It's rare any route in the UK is so complicated you can't memorise it at least until the last mile. It wasn't hard in tbe 90s and it's not hard now. Sat navs aren't even that goof at avoiding the traffic because it's sending every other fucker by the back roads too. Yet another innivation we didn't really need.
It's a safety thing. Not everyone has your staggering powers of recall and spacial awareness so satnav frees up mental bandwidth for operating the vehicle rather than trying to work out if they should come off at the next exit.
@montie There really is something sulphurous about Matt Goodwin. Incendiary views. Suspect opinion polls. Massive self-obsession. British public life would be so much better without him. https://x.com/montie/status/1820201530256990453?s=20
What I really dislike about Tim Montgomerie is how he always makes things personal.
I agree, but I do have a tinge of agreement with Montgomerie - just a tiny tinge. Matthew Goodwin is a bit humourless and starey-eyed. I don't find him a particularly comfortable watch as a broadcaster, because comes over as 100% polemicist and 0% entertainer.
None of that necessarily disqualifies him as a politician though. We need people who are passionate and single-minded in politics. So I wish him well and if I were voting he'd get my vote.
Is opposing Judaism antisemitic? I'd say yes to that, so I'd also say yes to your question.
Islamism is different from Islam. Look them up
Being opposed to Islam isn't islamophobic. It's a religion, and therefore a philosophy, a belief system, and may be opposed. Exactly as you may be opposed to a political philosophy.
Similarly, being opposed to Judaism, the religion, isn't antisemitic.
You oppose the 10 commandments?
Some of them. But in any case people can support elements of a religious philosophy whilst being opposed to some fundamental tenets of the faith itself.
Someone might find a lot they like about the teachings of Jesus but still oppose the religious institutions promoting it, or just not agree with (and so oppose) fundamental aspects of its beliefs (eg that Jesus was the son of God).
Well Jews don't believe Jesus was the son of God
Not even in a roundabout way ?
Did they have roundabouts in the holy land?
They did when we drove from Jerusalem to Jericho !!!!
If they’d stopped at the stop line, instead of driving round the roundabout 7 times…
Don't go there please
Defintely don't drive round a roundabout 7 times.
You'll get dizzy.
First time I ever got pulled over for suspected drink driving was when I drove round a roundabout three times.
I wasn’t sure what exit to take…
How did ever drive in unknown places before SatNav.
Back in the 1960s, if my Dad was going on a long journey he wrote to the AA who, about a week later, sent him a detailed set of instructions of what roads to take and when and where to turn. The only drawback was that it required my Mum to read it to him. It looked something like this.
If I'm ever driving somewhere unfamiliar, I lool at a map before I go. I chiose a route, and go that way. It's rare any route in the UK is so complicated you can't memorise it at least until the last mile. It wasn't hard in tbe 90s and it's not hard now. Sat navs aren't even that goof at avoiding the traffic because it's sending every other fucker by the back roads too. Yet another innivation we didn't really need.
Sat Navs are mainly good for avoiding missing the turning. Provided you already agree with the route. I've ignored silly C-roads before.
Except on a roundabout where they are confusing, as they can't update and reorientate fast enough.
Yes. The thing with satnavs is to know at which point to ignore them and force them to follow the route you want to follow.
There’s only one thing I like about Trump: He has an unbelievable capacity to humiliate his most ardent defenders by hanging them out to dry after they’ve defended the indefensible on his behalf.
They compete for his attention and the right to issue orders on his behalf I assume. He may well have a better sense of the public mood than some of them, hence why on occasion he performs an uncharacteristic about turn.
Right now he is sitting in a bar in Iowa being interviewed live repeating all the same bullshit talking points. They are paid agitators. Renee Good's parents were huge Trump fans. He has no clue how this is playing.
That suggests the relatively cautious steps since the weekend have not been driven by him, but he must have consented to it, so it came from someone in the administration with some brains.
Noem is leaking today that all the stupid talking points at the weekend were fully agreed by Trump
That is a career-ending position to take.
Fun when she gets questioned by a Senate Committee. On Trumps impeachment.
Indeed - he might use you as an excuse, but he won't necessarily destroy you in doing so. Say it was his fault though?
Sienna Rodgers @siennamarla NEW: Green Party plans for Gorton by-election
— Greens will put Matthew Goodwin’s “record of anti-Muslim bigotry” at the forefront of its campaign — They will also highlight Farage’s links to Trump — Hannah Spencer is favourite to be their candidate (other serious contenders are Mothin Ali and Fesl Reza-Khan) — Your Party could back the Greens
I remember the days when the Green Party used to put the environment at the forefront of campaigns.
I remember the days when we could count on the US as a NATO ally to oppose Moscow's aggression, and when Labour and the Conservatives polled above 30% all the time, and a phone was something you rang people on to talk to them.
Is opposing Judaism antisemitic? I'd say yes to that, so I'd also say yes to your question.
Islamism is different from Islam. Look them up
Being opposed to Islam isn't islamophobic. It's a religion, and therefore a philosophy, a belief system, and may be opposed. Exactly as you may be opposed to a political philosophy.
Similarly, being opposed to Judaism, the religion, isn't antisemitic.
You oppose the 10 commandments?
Some of them. But in any case people can support elements of a religious philosophy whilst being opposed to some fundamental tenets of the faith itself.
Someone might find a lot they like about the teachings of Jesus but still oppose the religious institutions promoting it, or just not agree with (and so oppose) fundamental aspects of its beliefs (eg that Jesus was the son of God).
I’m personally opposed to the whole “you must forgive people who’ve shown no contrition” thing.
It's horrible, difficult, and creates all sorts of problems when you try and run an organisation or country that way ("trespassers will be forgiven", as the Franciscan farm sign says)...
... but it's also the only thing that works, both internally and as a way to stop the eternal back-and-forth of resentment. It's the way that Northern Ireland and South Africa eventually got lucky and Israel/Palestine haven't yet.
Northern Ireland and Israel/Palestine are about “I must kill my enemies before they kill me, round 3,767.”
I don’t have to forgive anyone, to not kill them. I don’t forgive the PIRA (or the UVF and all the other dreary murdering shits) - I don’t see why I should, either. If they apologised, I might consider it. But they won’t.
The Peace Process is about retiring the Men Of Violence, in place. So they all die of old age, eventually. Then we can piss on their graves.
Peace processes also require change from the status quo. In Northern Ireland it was the power sharing agreement. In South Africa it was the end of apartheid. In Israel/Palestine there will have to be some similar sort of agreement that recognises the needs of both sides and makes peace more viable than fighting.
Northern Ireland was Sunningdale For Slow Learners.
Is opposing Judaism antisemitic? I'd say yes to that, so I'd also say yes to your question.
Islamism is different from Islam. Look them up
Being opposed to Islam isn't islamophobic. It's a religion, and therefore a philosophy, a belief system, and may be opposed. Exactly as you may be opposed to a political philosophy.
Similarly, being opposed to Judaism, the religion, isn't antisemitic.
You oppose the 10 commandments?
Some of them. But in any case people can support elements of a religious philosophy whilst being opposed to some fundamental tenets of the faith itself.
Someone might find a lot they like about the teachings of Jesus but still oppose the religious institutions promoting it, or just not agree with (and so oppose) fundamental aspects of its beliefs (eg that Jesus was the son of God).
Well Jews don't believe Jesus was the son of God
Not even in a roundabout way ?
Did they have roundabouts in the holy land?
They did when we drove from Jerusalem to Jericho !!!!
If they’d stopped at the stop line, instead of driving round the roundabout 7 times…
Don't go there please
Defintely don't drive round a roundabout 7 times.
You'll get dizzy.
First time I ever got pulled over for suspected drink driving was when I drove round a roundabout three times.
I wasn’t sure what exit to take…
How did ever drive in unknown places before SatNav.
Back in the 1960s, if my Dad was going on a long journey he wrote to the AA who, about a week later, sent him a detailed set of instructions of what roads to take and when and where to turn. The only drawback was that it required my Mum to read it to him. It looked something like this.
Trump on Renee Good: "I know her parents were big Trump fans. Makes me feel bad anyway, but I mean I guess you could say even worse. They were tremendous Trump people."
Tales from the dark side... I've just got back from the RN Museum at Hartlegrad (did the trip at fucking ridiculous speeds in the i5 M60) and I have Fukker news. They used to have a giant office like a teal painted Mogamma on a roundabout opposite an undertakers. This was very handy for a key tranche of Fukker votes - the over 70s dressed in mismatched tracksuits stood at a rain swept bus stop asking each other if it's Tuesday. IT HAS GONE! The Fukkers have retreated leaving the premises to be occupied by a hypnotherapy centre and one of those places that give you a fake tan by blasting chemicals up your nose. That's it. I am calling "Peak Fukker". If they have abandoned Brexit Ground Zero, what is left?
The undertaker has a Mustang Mach-E hearse, which I thought was interesting.
Tales from the dark side... I've just got back from the RN Museum at Hartlegrad (did the trip at fucking ridiculous speeds in the i5 M60) and I have Fukker news. They used to have a giant office like a teal painted Mogamma on a roundabout opposite an undertakers. This was very handy for a key tranche of Fukker votes - the over 70s dressed in mismatched tracksuits stood at a rain swept bus stop asking each other if it's Tuesday. IT HAS GONE! The Fukkers have retreated leaving the premises to be occupied by a hypnotherapy centre and one of those places that give you a fake tan by blasting chemicals up your nose. That's it. I am calling "Peak Fukker". If they have abandoned Brexit Ground Zero, what is left?
The undertaker has a Mustang Mach-E hearse, which I thought was interesting.
Has there ever been a "Free This Country" movement that was anti-Islamist, until Free Iran?
Has there ever been a "Free This Country" movement less supported by the Left since the Soviet Union?
Square me this circle. Why do British borderline fascists demanding the removal of Muslims from the UK find the Emirates such an attractive lifestyle destination? I'd take Monaco or Porto Fino any day of the week.
How would I know? I've never been there
Tice and Oakeshott are fans.
I have no answers for UKIP. I have never supported them
I voted UKIP in the 2014 Euros. Just that one time!
I hope you went straight home afterwards, like they told you.
I did the same.
Back then it was about putting pressure on Cameron not to go full LD over Europe, so lots of us did.
It turned out Cameron was telling you the truth and UKIP were bullshitting you.
@JenniferJJacobs BREAKING via @CBSNews : Notice sent to congressional officials from U.S. Customs and Border Protection with details on fatal shooting of protester Alex Pretti says two federal immigration officials discharged their weapons, both Glocks. During the struggle, a Border Patrol yelled, "He’s got a gun!" multiple times. There's no mention of Pretti brandishing his gun prior to the shooting. Minutes before, at 9 a.m., a CBP officer was confronted by two female civilians blowing whistles. The women were ordered to move out of the Minneapolis roadway, but did not move. Pretti was pronounced dead at 9:32 a.m. Via @camiloreports
Tales from the dark side... I've just got back from the RN Museum at Hartlegrad (did the trip at fucking ridiculous speeds in the i5 M60) and I have Fukker news. They used to have a giant office like a teal painted Mogamma on a roundabout opposite an undertakers. This was very handy for a key tranche of Fukker votes - the over 70s dressed in mismatched tracksuits stood at a rain swept bus stop asking each other if it's Tuesday. IT HAS GONE! The Fukkers have retreated leaving the premises to be occupied by a hypnotherapy centre and one of those places that give you a fake tan by blasting chemicals up your nose. That's it. I am calling "Peak Fukker". If they have abandoned Brexit Ground Zero, what is left?
The undertaker has a Mustang Mach-E hearse, which I thought was interesting.
Labour have put out a completely disingenuous attack on Goodwin on their social media. Selective editing to make something he said about the Tory conference seem as though he was doing Manchester down. Poor form
One thing that struck me, reading Yougov’s combined data for December/January, is that right wing support is now a lot greater among lower earners than higher earners.
That probably means that Gorton will be more fertile ground for Reform than I had first thought.
And now the Workers Party are standing, they’ll siphon off some of the left wing vote from the Greens and Labour.
I’m guessing that Reform will win about 35%; Workers Party 10%; Con and Lib Dem’s 5%.
That leaves about 50% for Labour and Greens.
20% Labour and 30% Greens, Reform win.
15% Labour and 35% Greens, TCTC.
I suspect the latter more likely. It's probably a coin flip right now.
Has there ever been a "Free This Country" movement that was anti-Islamist, until Free Iran?
Has there ever been a "Free This Country" movement less supported by the Left since the Soviet Union?
Square me this circle. Why do British borderline fascists demanding the removal of Muslims from the UK find the Emirates such an attractive lifestyle destination? I'd take Monaco or Porto Fino any day of the week.
How would I know? I've never been there
Tice and Oakeshott are fans.
I have no answers for UKIP. I have never supported them
I voted UKIP in the 2014 Euros. Just that one time!
I hope you went straight home afterwards, like they told you.
I did the same.
Back then it was about putting pressure on Cameron not to go full LD over Europe, so lots of us did.
It turned out Cameron was telling you the truth and UKIP were bullshitting you.
Is opposing Judaism antisemitic? I'd say yes to that, so I'd also say yes to your question.
Islamism is different from Islam. Look them up
Being opposed to Islam isn't islamophobic. It's a religion, and therefore a philosophy, a belief system, and may be opposed. Exactly as you may be opposed to a political philosophy.
Similarly, being opposed to Judaism, the religion, isn't antisemitic.
You oppose the 10 commandments?
Some of them. But in any case people can support elements of a religious philosophy whilst being opposed to some fundamental tenets of the faith itself.
Someone might find a lot they like about the teachings of Jesus but still oppose the religious institutions promoting it, or just not agree with (and so oppose) fundamental aspects of its beliefs (eg that Jesus was the son of God).
Well Jews don't believe Jesus was the son of God
Not even in a roundabout way ?
Did they have roundabouts in the holy land?
They did when we drove from Jerusalem to Jericho !!!!
If they’d stopped at the stop line, instead of driving round the roundabout 7 times…
Don't go there please
Defintely don't drive round a roundabout 7 times.
You'll get dizzy.
First time I ever got pulled over for suspected drink driving was when I drove round a roundabout three times.
I wasn’t sure what exit to take…
How did ever drive in unknown places before SatNav.
Back in the 1960s, if my Dad was going on a long journey he wrote to the AA who, about a week later, sent him a detailed set of instructions of what roads to take and when and where to turn. The only drawback was that it required my Mum to read it to him. It looked something like this.
If I'm ever driving somewhere unfamiliar, I lool at a map before I go. I chiose a route, and go that way. It's rare any route in the UK is so complicated you can't memorise it at least until the last mile. It wasn't hard in tbe 90s and it's not hard now. Sat navs aren't even that goof at avoiding the traffic because it's sending every other fucker by the back roads too. Yet another innivation we didn't really need.
As someone who used to have to navigate across the country on a motorbike by following a list of towns taped to the petrol tank, I find satnavs (especially Google Maps) a godsend. Though I also slightly mourn a skill lost.
SatNav is awful. It causes people to forget how to navigate themselves.
Tales from the dark side... I've just got back from the RN Museum at Hartlegrad (did the trip at fucking ridiculous speeds in the i5 M60) and I have Fukker news. They used to have a giant office like a teal painted Mogamma on a roundabout opposite an undertakers. This was very handy for a key tranche of Fukker votes - the over 70s dressed in mismatched tracksuits stood at a rain swept bus stop asking each other if it's Tuesday. IT HAS GONE! The Fukkers have retreated leaving the premises to be occupied by a hypnotherapy centre and one of those places that give you a fake tan by blasting chemicals up your nose. That's it. I am calling "Peak Fukker". If they have abandoned Brexit Ground Zero, what is left?
The undertaker has a Mustang Mach-E hearse, which I thought was interesting.
So dignified.
The Fukkers are still there. Proof of their decline is that they now have to hypnotise voters to vote for them
Tales from the dark side... I've just got back from the RN Museum at Hartlegrad (did the trip at fucking ridiculous speeds in the i5 M60) and I have Fukker news. They used to have a giant office like a teal painted Mogamma on a roundabout opposite an undertakers. This was very handy for a key tranche of Fukker votes - the over 70s dressed in mismatched tracksuits stood at a rain swept bus stop asking each other if it's Tuesday. IT HAS GONE! The Fukkers have retreated leaving the premises to be occupied by a hypnotherapy centre and one of those places that give you a fake tan by blasting chemicals up your nose. That's it. I am calling "Peak Fukker". If they have abandoned Brexit Ground Zero, what is left?
The undertaker has a Mustang Mach-E hearse, which I thought was interesting.
One thing that struck me, reading Yougov’s combined data for December/January, is that right wing support is now a lot greater among lower earners than higher earners.
That probably means that Gorton will be more fertile ground for Reform than I had first thought.
And now the Workers Party are standing, they’ll siphon off some of the left wing vote from the Greens and Labour.
I’m guessing that Reform will win about 35%; Workers Party 10%; Con and Lib Dem’s 5%.
That leaves about 50% for Labour and Greens.
10% for the Workers Party without Galloway and with the Muslim Vote and Yaqoob endorsing the Greens seems optimistic to me.
Labour have put out a completely disingenuous attack on Goodwin on their social media. Selective editing to make something he said about the Tory conference seem as though he was doing Manchester down. Poor form
To be fair, an MBA from London Business School is not a proper degree.
What I noticed of his biographies was that they are very light on his early pre-student life compared with others I have read, almost as if he were born at 18. There is now a reference that he grew up in St. Albans raised by a single mother. Any link to Manchester is from university spells at undergrad and a couple of years as an academic. However, for many in this area, southern can equal posh, and middle class people divorce too, so if he comes across all Champagne Supercilious it won't go down that well.
A Birmingham Muslim activist who was jailed for his part in an armed terror plot is seeking election to represent Sparkhill on the city council.
Shahid Butt, 60, says he believes he is the 'ideal candidate' to unite a divided community and city, push back against the far right and defeat Labour in one of its traditional strongholds.
His candidacy has come under immediate fire online amid claims he advocates violence, pushes a strongly Islamist agenda and has a significant history of criminality that should bar him from sitting on the council.
Tales from the dark side... I've just got back from the RN Museum at Hartlegrad (did the trip at fucking ridiculous speeds in the i5 M60) and I have Fukker news. They used to have a giant office like a teal painted Mogamma on a roundabout opposite an undertakers. This was very handy for a key tranche of Fukker votes - the over 70s dressed in mismatched tracksuits stood at a rain swept bus stop asking each other if it's Tuesday. IT HAS GONE! The Fukkers have retreated leaving the premises to be occupied by a hypnotherapy centre and one of those places that give you a fake tan by blasting chemicals up your nose. That's it. I am calling "Peak Fukker". If they have abandoned Brexit Ground Zero, what is left?
The undertaker has a Mustang Mach-E hearse, which I thought was interesting.
So dignified.
The Fukkers are still there. Proof of their decline is that they now have to hypnotise voters to vote for them
If the Greens manage to fully grab the mantle as challenger to Reform, then they will win in Gorton. If they do not, then Reform will win.
How is their ground game? Can they flood the constituency with supporters, and give off a sense that they are in the game and the main challenger to Reform?
One thing that struck me, reading Yougov’s combined data for December/January, is that right wing support is now a lot greater among lower earners than higher earners.
That probably means that Gorton will be more fertile ground for Reform than I had first thought.
And now the Workers Party are standing, they’ll siphon off some of the left wing vote from the Greens and Labour.
I’m guessing that Reform will win about 35%; Workers Party 10%; Con and Lib Dem’s 5%.
That leaves about 50% for Labour and Greens.
10% for the Workers Party without Galloway and with the Muslim Vote and Yaqoob endorsing the Greens seems optimistic to me.
Well, it's what they got at the GE, but I doubt they'll work the area hard and it's quite a different time.
If the Greens manage to fully grab the mantle as challenger to Reform, then they will win in Gorton. If they do not, then Reform will win.
How is their ground game? Can they flood the constituency with supporters, and give off a sense that they are in the game and the main challenger to Reform?
It will probably be a high turnout by election, but I'm not sure whether that helps Reform or the Greens the most. The silent majority could turn out to block whichever one runs the most objectionable campaign.
Tales from the dark side... I've just got back from the RN Museum at Hartlegrad (did the trip at fucking ridiculous speeds in the i5 M60) and I have Fukker news. They used to have a giant office like a teal painted Mogamma on a roundabout opposite an undertakers. This was very handy for a key tranche of Fukker votes - the over 70s dressed in mismatched tracksuits stood at a rain swept bus stop asking each other if it's Tuesday. IT HAS GONE! The Fukkers have retreated leaving the premises to be occupied by a hypnotherapy centre and one of those places that give you a fake tan by blasting chemicals up your nose. That's it. I am calling "Peak Fukker". If they have abandoned Brexit Ground Zero, what is left?
The undertaker has a Mustang Mach-E hearse, which I thought was interesting.
A Birmingham Muslim activist who was jailed for his part in an armed terror plot is seeking election to represent Sparkhill on the city council.
Shahid Butt, 60, says he believes he is the 'ideal candidate' to unite a divided community and city, push back against the far right and defeat Labour in one of its traditional strongholds.
His candidacy has come under immediate fire online amid claims he advocates violence, pushes a strongly Islamist agenda and has a significant history of criminality that should bar him from sitting on the council.
One thing that struck me, reading Yougov’s combined data for December/January, is that right wing support is now a lot greater among lower earners than higher earners.
That probably means that Gorton will be more fertile ground for Reform than I had first thought.
And now the Workers Party are standing, they’ll siphon off some of the left wing vote from the Greens and Labour.
I’m guessing that Reform will win about 35%; Workers Party 10%; Con and Lib Dem’s 5%.
That leaves about 50% for Labour and Greens.
20% Labour and 30% Greens, Reform win.
15% Labour and 35% Greens, TCTC.
I suspect the latter more likely. It's probably a coin flip right now.
I think the data points in that FoN GM poll were interesting that had Ref 36, Labour 24. Compared with Lab 42, Ref 17 for the GE.
Applying an 18 point uniform swing to G&D, leaves Ref 32.1, Lab 32.8, so you can still get a Labour win out of a uniform treatment of current polling. Proportional swing keeps it tight, it would just put both Reform and Labour a bit lower.
This keeps Labour in the game, they are in the mix and they will campaign very loudly that they are the game. I guess the danger is that people don't believe that, Green drift occurs and they hit the tipping point where they seem out of it and it spiral towards a Caerphilly type result.
If Labour do drop here, the crossover point that enables a Reform win is very, very narrow - a tight election on the left could as easily pitch Reform into third as let them sneak through.
What’s the most flagged post? I’m hoping I win the crown. I have the most flags on PB and I’m not afraid to boast about it
Unlikely.
Unlike that SeanT. chap who used to post under a hundred different identities I can only flag one post at a time, which is why all the 574 flags I have awarded you are applied to individual posts.
Tales from the dark side... I've just got back from the RN Museum at Hartlegrad (did the trip at fucking ridiculous speeds in the i5 M60) and I have Fukker news. They used to have a giant office like a teal painted Mogamma on a roundabout opposite an undertakers. This was very handy for a key tranche of Fukker votes - the over 70s dressed in mismatched tracksuits stood at a rain swept bus stop asking each other if it's Tuesday. IT HAS GONE! The Fukkers have retreated leaving the premises to be occupied by a hypnotherapy centre and one of those places that give you a fake tan by blasting chemicals up your nose. That's it. I am calling "Peak Fukker". If they have abandoned Brexit Ground Zero, what is left?
The undertaker has a Mustang Mach-E hearse, which I thought was interesting.
So dignified.
The Fukkers are still there. Proof of their decline is that they now have to hypnotise voters to vote for them
Has there ever been a "Free This Country" movement that was anti-Islamist, until Free Iran?
Has there ever been a "Free This Country" movement less supported by the Left since the Soviet Union?
Square me this circle. Why do British borderline fascists demanding the removal of Muslims from the UK find the Emirates such an attractive lifestyle destination? I'd take Monaco or Porto Fino any day of the week.
How would I know? I've never been there
Tice and Oakeshott are fans.
I have no answers for UKIP. I have never supported them
I voted UKIP in the 2014 Euros. Just that one time!
I hope you went straight home afterwards, like they told you.
I did the same.
Back then it was about putting pressure on Cameron not to go full LD over Europe, so lots of us did.
It turned out Cameron was telling you the truth and UKIP were bullshitting you.
Ok Boomer.
No. I am unusual for a Boomer. I voted Remain.
Someone has accidentally awarded me a flag for a self deprecating post. Fat fingers I guess.
Tales from the dark side... I've just got back from the RN Museum at Hartlegrad (did the trip at fucking ridiculous speeds in the i5 M60) and I have Fukker news. They used to have a giant office like a teal painted Mogamma on a roundabout opposite an undertakers. This was very handy for a key tranche of Fukker votes - the over 70s dressed in mismatched tracksuits stood at a rain swept bus stop asking each other if it's Tuesday. IT HAS GONE! The Fukkers have retreated leaving the premises to be occupied by a hypnotherapy centre and one of those places that give you a fake tan by blasting chemicals up your nose. That's it. I am calling "Peak Fukker". If they have abandoned Brexit Ground Zero, what is left?
The undertaker has a Mustang Mach-E hearse, which I thought was interesting.
So dignified.
My grandfather was pulled to his rest by a Vauxhall hearse. Seeing that arrive got a good show of tears started anyway.
A Birmingham Muslim activist who was jailed for his part in an armed terror plot is seeking election to represent Sparkhill on the city council.
Shahid Butt, 60, says he believes he is the 'ideal candidate' to unite a divided community and city, push back against the far right and defeat Labour in one of its traditional strongholds.
His candidacy has come under immediate fire online amid claims he advocates violence, pushes a strongly Islamist agenda and has a significant history of criminality that should bar him from sitting on the council.
These lads could be running Bradford Council in May.
Death to those who oppose fortnightly bin collections.
If the Greens manage to fully grab the mantle as challenger to Reform, then they will win in Gorton. If they do not, then Reform will win.
How is their ground game? Can they flood the constituency with supporters, and give off a sense that they are in the game and the main challenger to Reform?
It will probably be a high turnout by election, but I'm not sure whether that helps Reform or the Greens the most. The silent majority could turn out to block whichever one runs the most objectionable campaign.
Ironically, by Lab moving the writ in double quick time in order to get the election done and dusted by end of Feb, they have reduced the amount of time available for Goodwin and/or the Green to say something so completely nuts that their support craters overnight.
That thread - while, er, heartening for @JohnO - is depressing in several ways. First it’s still during Covid - the tail-end, mid 2021, but still in the storm even as it dies. Ugh
Secondly it shows how the PB rightwingers have been slowly eliminated. @felix - banned. @MrEd - banned. Etc
Which is why we are left with the bowl of thin gruel that is Modern PB. Weak sauce centrism. The Endless Dads. Heat pumps and roundabouts
How many regular commenters are clear Reform supporters? I think it’s me and @Luckyguy1983 - @isam has returned to the Tories (as is his right, of course)
We probably have ~100 regular commenters. So we have 2% Reform on PB. Yet out there in the UK Reform are the most popular party on 25-34%, depending on your flavour of pollster
We used to congratulate ourselves that PB was a civilised if rowdy venue that represented Britain, politically. That was never entirely true but it was true enough to be encouraging
@JenniferJJacobs BREAKING via @CBSNews : Notice sent to congressional officials from U.S. Customs and Border Protection with details on fatal shooting of protester Alex Pretti says two federal immigration officials discharged their weapons, both Glocks. During the struggle, a Border Patrol yelled, "He’s got a gun!" multiple times. There's no mention of Pretti brandishing his gun prior to the shooting. Minutes before, at 9 a.m., a CBP officer was confronted by two female civilians blowing whistles. The women were ordered to move out of the Minneapolis roadway, but did not move. Pretti was pronounced dead at 9:32 a.m. Via @camiloreports
Is "He's got a gun!" the US version of our coppers "Do you smell gas?". Now that I think about it :
That thread - while, er, heartening for @JohnO - is depressing in several ways. First it’s still during Covid - the tail-end, mid 2021, but still in the storm even as it dies. Ugh
Secondly it shows how the PB rightwingers have been slowly eliminated. @felix - banned. @MrEd - banned. Etc
Which is why we are left with the bowl of thin gruel that is Modern PB. Weak sauce centrism. The Endless Dads. Heat pumps and roundabouts
How many regular commenters are clear Reform supporters? I think it’s me and @Luckyguy1983 - @isam has returned to the Tories (as is his right, of course)
We probably have ~100 regular commenters. So we have 2% Reform on PB. Yet out there in the UK Reform are the most popular party on 25-34%, depending on your flavour of pollster
We used to congratulate ourselves that PB was a civilised if rowdy venue that represented Britain, politically. That was never entirely true but it was true enough to be encouraging
A Birmingham Muslim activist who was jailed for his part in an armed terror plot is seeking election to represent Sparkhill on the city council.
Shahid Butt, 60, says he believes he is the 'ideal candidate' to unite a divided community and city, push back against the far right and defeat Labour in one of its traditional strongholds.
His candidacy has come under immediate fire online amid claims he advocates violence, pushes a strongly Islamist agenda and has a significant history of criminality that should bar him from sitting on the council.
These lads could be running Bradford Council in May.
Death to those who oppose fortnightly bin collections.
Twitter Defence Analysts seem in agreement that Donnie is going into Iran in the next 24-48 hrs.
TACO.
Given he launched that strike on Iran's nuclear bunker and extradited the former president of Venezuela, that's not true is it ?
Right, TACO only applies to situations where there's meaningful resistance. If someone pushes back, or the markets shit the bed, he backs down. If they don't, he carries on.
There was an occasion where a PBer was in a hotel when terrorists were attacking either the hotel or the neighbouring area, I forget which. Can anybody remember who it was? Not one of the Clan Leons
Speaking of Iranian proxies things are still weird in Lebanon apparently.
This is INSANE! Lebanese MTV reports that Hezbollah arrests a Lebanese soldier (LAF) after stopping a truck full of weapons to Hezbollah - coming from Syria. What’s more insane is that they released the soldier after negotiations with the LAF! Yes! YOU READ THAT RIGHT! And no one got arrested. No one! And no arms confiscated on the spot. What!?? Watch the video on @MTVLebanonNews mtv.com.lb/news/1647403
There was an occasion where a PBer was in a hotel when terrorists were attacking either the hotel or the neighbouring area, I forget which. Can anybody remember who it was? Not one of the Clan Leons
@JenniferJJacobs BREAKING via @CBSNews : Notice sent to congressional officials from U.S. Customs and Border Protection with details on fatal shooting of protester Alex Pretti says two federal immigration officials discharged their weapons, both Glocks. During the struggle, a Border Patrol yelled, "He’s got a gun!" multiple times. There's no mention of Pretti brandishing his gun prior to the shooting. Minutes before, at 9 a.m., a CBP officer was confronted by two female civilians blowing whistles. The women were ordered to move out of the Minneapolis roadway, but did not move. Pretti was pronounced dead at 9:32 a.m. Via @camiloreports
@JenniferJJacobs BREAKING via @CBSNews : Notice sent to congressional officials from U.S. Customs and Border Protection with details on fatal shooting of protester Alex Pretti says two federal immigration officials discharged their weapons, both Glocks. During the struggle, a Border Patrol yelled, "He’s got a gun!" multiple times. There's no mention of Pretti brandishing his gun prior to the shooting. Minutes before, at 9 a.m., a CBP officer was confronted by two female civilians blowing whistles. The women were ordered to move out of the Minneapolis roadway, but did not move. Pretti was pronounced dead at 9:32 a.m. Via @camiloreports
Well that clears that up...
The summary is either skipping over a lot or the note has a lot of ...'s covering some pretty crucial moments.
There was an occasion where a PBer was in a hotel when terrorists were attacking either the hotel or the neighbouring area, I forget which. Can anybody remember who it was? Not one of the Clan Leons
bigjohnowls I believe.
Yes, in Tunisia.
It was quite surreal for him to be on PB mid shooting, but not a bad way to find out what was going on.
There was an occasion where a PBer was in a hotel when terrorists were attacking either the hotel or the neighbouring area, I forget which. Can anybody remember who it was? Not one of the Clan Leons
There was an occasion where a PBer was in a hotel when terrorists were attacking either the hotel or the neighbouring area, I forget which. Can anybody remember who it was? Not one of the Clan Leons
Speaking of Iranian proxies things are still weird in Lebanon apparently.
This is INSANE! Lebanese MTV reports that Hezbollah arrests a Lebanese soldier (LAF) after stopping a truck full of weapons to Hezbollah - coming from Syria. What’s more insane is that they released the soldier after negotiations with the LAF! Yes! YOU READ THAT RIGHT! And no one got arrested. No one! And no arms confiscated on the spot. What!?? Watch the video on @MTVLebanonNews mtv.com.lb/news/1647403
A Birmingham Muslim activist who was jailed for his part in an armed terror plot is seeking election to represent Sparkhill on the city council.
Shahid Butt, 60, says he believes he is the 'ideal candidate' to unite a divided community and city, push back against the far right and defeat Labour in one of its traditional strongholds.
His candidacy has come under immediate fire online amid claims he advocates violence, pushes a strongly Islamist agenda and has a significant history of criminality that should bar him from sitting on the council.
These lads could be running Bradford Council in May.
Death to those who oppose fortnightly bin collections.
I don't suppose the Ilkley separatists will take that well.
There was an occasion where a PBer was in a hotel when terrorists were attacking either the hotel or the neighbouring area, I forget which. Can anybody remember who it was? Not one of the Clan Leons
bigjohnowls I believe.
So supporting Corbyn might have been as a result of acute PTSD.
Tales from the dark side... I've just got back from the RN Museum at Hartlegrad (did the trip at fucking ridiculous speeds in the i5 M60) and I have Fukker news. They used to have a giant office like a teal painted Mogamma on a roundabout opposite an undertakers. This was very handy for a key tranche of Fukker votes - the over 70s dressed in mismatched tracksuits stood at a rain swept bus stop asking each other if it's Tuesday. IT HAS GONE! The Fukkers have retreated leaving the premises to be occupied by a hypnotherapy centre and one of those places that give you a fake tan by blasting chemicals up your nose. That's it. I am calling "Peak Fukker". If they have abandoned Brexit Ground Zero, what is left?
The undertaker has a Mustang Mach-E hearse, which I thought was interesting.
So dignified.
The Fukkers are still there. Proof of their decline is that they now have to hypnotise voters to vote for them
To be fair, an MBA from London Business School is not a proper degree.
The Goodwin "Prolier than thou" schtick is surely not going to go down well in Gorton. They know a Southern posh boy when they see one, surely.
Can't they just skewer him on the racism? One single line of attack, he's unashamedly racist, it's not difficult.
All this "has or hasn't he misrepresented his family background" will just end in his opponents having to apologise to the deeply unpleasant racist.
Yes somehow Farage and Reform decided that they needed to find someone with more preening self regard snd even less empathy than Jenrick, and chose Goodwin.
A Birmingham Muslim activist who was jailed for his part in an armed terror plot is seeking election to represent Sparkhill on the city council.
Shahid Butt, 60, says he believes he is the 'ideal candidate' to unite a divided community and city, push back against the far right and defeat Labour in one of its traditional strongholds.
His candidacy has come under immediate fire online amid claims he advocates violence, pushes a strongly Islamist agenda and has a significant history of criminality that should bar him from sitting on the council.
Bonkers people often stand for election, or say they will. Is he standing for an established party? Will he get any votes? Will he even get his nomination papers in?
Speaking of Iranian proxies things are still weird in Lebanon apparently.
This is INSANE! Lebanese MTV reports that Hezbollah arrests a Lebanese soldier (LAF) after stopping a truck full of weapons to Hezbollah - coming from Syria. What’s more insane is that they released the soldier after negotiations with the LAF! Yes! YOU READ THAT RIGHT! And no one got arrested. No one! And no arms confiscated on the spot. What!?? Watch the video on @MTVLebanonNews mtv.com.lb/news/1647403
Remember the port explosion? Well, it was the Hezys being a bit careless with importing Ammonium Nitrate and ending up leaving it in an unventilated warehouse. Next to fireworks. Literally. But they got very upset when the judge investigating had the bad taste to actually ask questions of members of the Hezys.
Speaking of Iranian proxies things are still weird in Lebanon apparently.
This is INSANE! Lebanese MTV reports that Hezbollah arrests a Lebanese soldier (LAF) after stopping a truck full of weapons to Hezbollah - coming from Syria. What’s more insane is that they released the soldier after negotiations with the LAF! Yes! YOU READ THAT RIGHT! And no one got arrested. No one! And no arms confiscated on the spot. What!?? Watch the video on @MTVLebanonNews mtv.com.lb/news/1647403
The thing that seemed weird about it was Hezbollah had taken such a kicking from Israel, and their international backers sufficiently punished, that there was some hope expressed their abililty to continue to do stuff like this might have diminished.
Gorton and Denton instinctively feels to me like a Green gain - combined Lab/Green vote in the GE was 64%. Now granted some of the Labour vote will have gone to Reform, is that enough to stop a figure of “the left” with that kind of constituency profile? I’m not convinced.
Reform’s best chance is in coming through the middle if Labour and the Greens split the vote. But I think it is far more likely that the Labour vote will simply collapse with both Reform and the Greens benefitting, but with the residual Green vote seeing them through. I could be wrong.
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Shatner couldn't write, direct or act.
An unbelievably boring film where virtually nothing happens for 2 hours, despite the fact the premise of the plot was potentially interesting.
What has unfolded in Minneapolis this past month betrays our most basic values as Americans. We are not a nation that guns down our citizens in the street. We are not a nation that allows our citizens to be brutalized for exercising their constitutional rights. We are not a nation that tramples the 4th Amendment and tolerates our neighbors being terrorized. The people of Minnesota have stood strong — helping community members in unimaginable circumstances, speaking out against injustice when they see it, and holding our government accountable to the people. Minnesotans have reminded us all what it is to be American, and they have suffered enough at the hands of this Administration. Violence and terror have no place in the United States of America, especially when it’s our own government targeting American citizens.
No single person can destroy what America stands for and believes in, not even a President, if we — all of America — stand up and speak out. We know who we are. It's time to show the world. More importantly, it's time to show ourselves.
Now, justice requires full, fair, and transparent investigations into the deaths of the two Americans who lost their lives in the city they called home. Jill and I are sending strength to the families and communities who love Alex Pretti and Renee Good as we all mourn their senseless deaths.
Anybody saying ZP should have stood does not understand the Greens.
I find that it's routine - when travelling to a rural location - for other to warm you about the ways in which satnav will want to lead you astray. I also find that - even now - Google Maps doesn't seem to realise that right turns are more difficult in Britain than left turns.
Given that they've had more than a couple of decades to refine it, the standard that it displays is really lamentably poor.
I’m guessing that Reform will win about 35%; Workers Party 10%; Con and Lib Dem’s 5%.
That leaves about 50% for Labour and Greens.
Fun when she gets questioned by a Senate Committee. On Trumps impeachment.
None of that necessarily disqualifies him as a politician though. We need people who are passionate and single-minded in politics. So I wish him well and if I were voting he'd get my vote.
https://x.com/sentdefender/status/2016262773244613010
Reporter: “Sir, was Mr. Pretti acting as an assassin? Do you think he was acting as an assassin in Minneapolis?”
Trump: “Who is that?”
Reporter: “Mr. Pretti. Your Deputy Chief of Staff [Stephen Miller] said that. You don't think so?”
Trump: “No, I don’t think so. With that being said, you know, you can’t have guns. You can’t walk in with guns. You just can’t.”
Reporter: “What about the Second Amendment?”
Trump: “Listen, you can’t walk in with guns. You can’t do that. But it’s just a very unfortunate incident.”
Criticising Islamism gets next to none
I understand that Islamism is much scarier to oppose
@atrupar
Trump on Renee Good: "I know her parents were big Trump fans. Makes me feel bad anyway, but I mean I guess you could say even worse. They were tremendous Trump people."
https://x.com/atrupar/status/2016261213823316184
https://bsky.app/profile/carolinejmolloy.bsky.social/post/3mdgdpjexjk26
The undertaker has a Mustang Mach-E hearse, which I thought was interesting.
So dignified.
I do this quite often. I wonder if there is some truth in the “debunked” medieval “second sleep” idea
BREAKING via
@CBSNews
: Notice sent to congressional officials from U.S. Customs and Border Protection with details on fatal shooting of protester Alex Pretti says two federal immigration officials discharged their weapons, both Glocks. During the struggle, a Border Patrol yelled, "He’s got a gun!" multiple times. There's no mention of Pretti brandishing his gun prior to the shooting. Minutes before, at 9 a.m., a CBP officer was confronted by two female civilians blowing whistles. The women were ordered to move out of the Minneapolis roadway, but did not move. Pretti was pronounced dead at 9:32 a.m. Via
@camiloreports
15% Labour and 35% Greens, TCTC.
I suspect the latter more likely. It's probably a coin flip right now.
@DPJHodges
Just deleted my retweet of the Labour/Goodwin post. Now clear his comments were distorted.
7:39 PM · Jan 27, 2026"
https://x.com/DPJHodges/status/2016234643272446460
Have you got your hyperbolic beer googles on?
@AvaSantina
Striking number of people here at Greens Gorton and Denton rally who say they would have lent their vote to Andy Burnham had he been selected
https://x.com/AvaSantina/status/2016226003920601294
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/convicted-terrorist-standing-birmingham-election-33305321
A Birmingham Muslim activist who was jailed for his part in an armed terror plot is seeking election to represent Sparkhill on the city council.
Shahid Butt, 60, says he believes he is the 'ideal candidate' to unite a divided community and city, push back against the far right and defeat Labour in one of its traditional strongholds.
His candidacy has come under immediate fire online amid claims he advocates violence, pushes a strongly Islamist agenda and has a significant history of criminality that should bar him from sitting on the council.
How is their ground game? Can they flood the constituency with supporters, and give off a sense that they are in the game and the main challenger to Reform?
It was by JohnO telling he was okay after his cardiac arrest.
I think that’s the only post to go past 40 likes.
https://vf.politicalbetting.com/discussion/comment/3404262/#Comment_3404262
He was an extremist who should not have been armed.
You can't walk in with guns.
I have a second amendment right to bear arms.
Applying an 18 point uniform swing to G&D, leaves Ref 32.1, Lab 32.8, so you can still get a Labour win out of a uniform treatment of current polling. Proportional swing keeps it tight, it would just put both Reform and Labour a bit lower.
This keeps Labour in the game, they are in the mix and they will campaign very loudly that they are the game. I guess the danger is that people don't believe that, Green drift occurs and they hit the tipping point where they seem out of it and it spiral towards a Caerphilly type result.
If Labour do drop here, the crossover point that enables a Reform win is very, very narrow - a tight election on the left could as easily pitch Reform into third as let them sneak through.
If only JohnO had combined it with a critique of Theodor Herzl, imagine how many likes he’d have got!
Unlike that SeanT. chap who used to post under a hundred different identities I can only flag one post at a time, which is why all the 574 flags I have awarded you are applied to individual posts.
One single line of attack, he's unashamedly racist, it's not difficult.
All this "has or hasn't he misrepresented his family background" will just end in his opponents having to apologise to the deeply unpleasant racist.
Death to those who oppose fortnightly bin collections.
I'm on Lab at 7.
Secondly it shows how the PB rightwingers have been slowly eliminated. @felix - banned. @MrEd - banned. Etc
Which is why we are left with the bowl of thin gruel that is Modern PB. Weak sauce centrism. The Endless Dads. Heat pumps and roundabouts
How many regular commenters are clear Reform supporters? I think it’s me and @Luckyguy1983 - @isam has returned to the Tories (as is his right, of course)
We probably have ~100 regular commenters. So we have 2% Reform on PB. Yet out there in the UK Reform are the most popular party on 25-34%, depending on your flavour of pollster
We used to congratulate ourselves that PB was a civilised if rowdy venue that represented Britain, politically. That was never entirely true but it was true enough to be encouraging
The idea is now laughable
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vr0bBuI8HKM
" How To Get Around Hunting Laws - SOUTH PARK "
* Well, technically the roads of Arizona and Nevada safer
This is INSANE! Lebanese MTV reports that Hezbollah arrests a Lebanese soldier (LAF) after stopping a truck full of weapons to Hezbollah - coming from Syria. What’s more insane is that they released the soldier after negotiations with the LAF! Yes! YOU READ THAT RIGHT! And no one got arrested. No one! And no arms confiscated on the spot. What!??
Watch the video on @MTVLebanonNews
mtv.com.lb/news/1647403
https://nitter.poast.org/haningdr/status/2015930420542476386#m
It was quite surreal for him to be on PB mid shooting, but not a bad way to find out what was going on.
Glad he's safe. That was an horrific atrocity.
Remember the port explosion? Well, it was the Hezys being a bit careless with importing Ammonium Nitrate and ending up leaving it in an unventilated warehouse. Next to fireworks. Literally. But they got very upset when the judge investigating had the bad taste to actually ask questions of members of the Hezys.
VW suspends $2bn investment in Audi car factory in Florida.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/01/26/volkswagen-threatens-scrap-new-us-factory-trump-tariffs/
Reform’s best chance is in coming through the middle if Labour and the Greens split the vote. But I think it is far more likely that the Labour vote will simply collapse with both Reform and the Greens benefitting, but with the residual Green vote seeing them through. I could be wrong.