December 5, 20195 yr I'm looking forward to it, it means I won't be able to follow it with the site though :( You'll have my eternal gratitude if you manage to sneak the word "Battenberg" into your coverage somehow :P .
December 5, 20195 yr Things move so fast on election night and I usually record the results so I usually don't get to check BJ too much. Why you in the local radio Coi?
December 5, 20195 yr You'll have my eternal gratitude if you manage to sneak the word "Battenberg" into your coverage somehow :P . I highly doubt there will be any opportunity to do that!
December 5, 20195 yr You'll have my eternal gratitude if you manage to sneak the word "Battenberg" into your coverage somehow :P . What happened to you running as a candidate for the Battenberg Party? x
December 5, 20195 yr What happened to you running as a candidate for the Battenberg Party? x If he did I'd have had an easy opportunity to say it. If the party idea fails, standing as Lord Battenberg would work too! :lol:
December 5, 20195 yr What happened to you running as a candidate for the Battenberg Party? x I'd actually filled in the forms to stand in the election as an independent candidate in Belfast North in this election, as I am really not happy with any of the candidates that are running in my constituency. However, after talking it over with my family, I decided not to proceed (they more or less begged me not to). I don't rule out actually doing so in the future - a few people who have been involved with one of the main Northern Irish parties have said that they would help me out if I wanted to stand as a councilor when it rolls around again (which would be in 2024).
December 5, 20195 yr I'm looking forward to it, it means I won't be able to follow it with the site though :( For your own sanity, I think that's for the better.
December 5, 20195 yr You realise that won't change the result... :rolleyes: No, really? I hadn't realized that. Thank you for informing me enlightened one. :rollseyes: To clarify...by avoiding social media, I will be avoiding the vicious back and forth that will inevitably take place between family and friends. Funnily enough I had suspected that it might not magically change the course of reality. Thank you for confirming that it won't . Honestly, I know the whole overbearing, patronizing, eye rolling "You do realise...." act followed by magically vanishing when challenged is your y'know....."thing"... but you don't half over do it sometimes. Edited December 5, 20195 yr by mald487
December 6, 20195 yr Honestly, I know the whole overbearing, patronizing, eye rolling "You do realise...." act followed by magically vanishing when challenged is your y'know....."thing"... but you don't half over do it sometimes. We all have our own posting styles, it's just that me & Chris seem to get more flack - even Michael with his bizarre anti-Tory rants doesn't get as much...
December 7, 20195 yr Michael can be OTT but there is nothing bizarre about being anti Tory. Is that also true of being anti-Corbyn?
December 7, 20195 yr Don't you mean anti-Labour? And no, there is not an equivalence between the two parties as things stand. One party is responsible for the homelessness and poverty and austerity in the country. One party is responsible for the division of the country into battle lines based on a failure to control its internal struggles. One party is filled to the brim with right-wing morons who provably lie and stutter their way through any public appearance given. One party has the media covering them for every mistake they make. Perfectly normal to be anti-Tory. Anti-Labour and you might want to ask yourself why billionaire media owners are running scared to make you so scared of a leader who always performs well in the public eye, is publically campaigning against further division of our society, has high support amongst the young and is proposing spending plans that aren't even as much as Sweden and France just to get some investment back into the country again.
December 7, 20195 yr Don't you mean anti-Labour? Definitely not! It is the direction he has taken the Labour party in that I oppose. If/when they move back towards the centre ground, I will support them again. I was a Labour member in the mid-90's, don't forget.
December 7, 20195 yr Definitely not! It is the direction he has taken the Labour party in that I oppose. If/when they move back towards the centre ground, I will support them again. I was a Labour member in the mid-90's, don't forget. How about you finally explain what it is about Corbyn that provokes this reaction?
December 7, 20195 yr How about you finally explain what it is about Corbyn that provokes this reaction? Are you serious? I've explained many times - he is too left wing for me.
December 7, 20195 yr The Labour party's purpose is to be a party that advocates for the worker, that reins in the extravagances of neoliberal capitalism, not to advocate for it. I haven't always agreed with Corbyn but I've always stood by that he represents what the Labour party should be and is. A left figure proposing what is really a social democratic form of government, on par with other soc-dem parties in the EU, whose countries are not currently collapsing. So don't even try with the 1970s, can left government work now with better technologies and a better potential economic situation? Yes, right government certainly isn't working for anyone except those at the very top. See it's not bizarre to be anti-right based on the right's trail of destruction over the country over the last nine years. It is bizarre given that same history to be anti-left.
December 7, 20195 yr The Labour party's purpose is to be a party that advocates for the worker, that reins in the extravagances of neoliberal capitalism, not to advocate for it. I haven't always agreed with Corbyn but I've always stood by that he represents what the Labour party should be and is. A left figure proposing what is really a social democratic form of government, on par with other soc-dem parties in the EU, whose countries are not currently collapsing. So don't even try with the 1970s, can left government work now with better technologies and a better potential economic situation? Yes, right government certainly isn't working for anyone except those at the very top. See it's not bizarre to be anti-right based on the right's trail of destruction over the country over the last nine years. It is bizarre given that same history to be anti-left. Being left-wing is all very well, but if you can't get elected on that platform, it's all for nothing.
December 7, 20195 yr @1203073439520710658 Why do you think the media keep bringing up the quite frankly bullshit and self-fulfilling trait of 'electability' and 'Prime Ministerial'? It's to frame the narrative in the favour of the incumbent to edge the votes away from those they see as a threat*. Debate polls too, remember that ITV debate where all the polls showed Corbyn as the winner, aside from YouGov which was presented as neck-and-neck. Guess which one the MSM ran with, and which one is perceived to be the truth? *worth saying this is not a British or Corbynite phenomenon, it's being seen all over the world as capitalist forces react to stop successful left movements, from the coup in Bolivia to the minimising of the Chilean protests to the 'moderates' in the Democratic primaries
December 7, 20195 yr It’s unlikely I’ll stay up this year - I did for 2015 and most of 2017 but on the basis I have work followed by the Christmas Party on Friday night...I don’t think I want to do that to my poor body.
December 7, 20195 yr It’s unlikely I’ll stay up this year - I did for 2015 and most of 2017 but on the basis I have work followed by the Christmas Party on Friday night...I don’t think I want to do that to my poor body. You're so old.
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