They'll be gone soon and then everyone can live in the utopia of the new government.

Red and Blue Army!

I haven't seen anything about that as all the political headlines that I have seen to day are on the subject of "Labour and Starmer accepting thousands from major Just Stop Oil donor"

Gosh, that was hard to find.

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That’s fair enough Maple but just as one instance, to reinforce my own point, upon typing a few words into google I noticed your Indian based source came up as the very first hit which I was inclined to ridicule however you’ve communicated a reasonable stance. I chose the first choice for a source when slightly changing the wording of my search to suit an exaggerated version of my own stance.

To reply and perhaps correlate with your post I would distinguish between an agenda and a subjective opinion. This being an internet forum, albeit a somewhat close knit community bound through one shared interest, I was attempting to infer that threads would revolve around a theme of subjective discussion as opposed to academic debate. I would be inclined to assume most people would read anything I post as the former as I assume for others. When we start attempting to cite academic publications, the validity and relevance of them is a whole different discussion requiring far too much effort and therefore I would dissuade it as (me at my most facetious) I would be inclined to suggest that the world will never look to HoL for intellectual authority or commentary on such sincere matters. For absolute clarity, nothing I have posted have I ever considered to be taken as anything more than ‘one blokes opinion’. I do enjoy the challenge to these when presented in a decent manner as I do try often to laugh at myself whenever I feel too strongly about that I am not well informed on. Again, for me there is a distinction between discussing or disagreeing in this medium and trying to dismiss or insult another user where not entirely necessary if at all.

As for your personal anecdote, I have no feeling beyond wishing the best for the referenced individual. I’ll leave (it all) there and apologise once again to Georgenorman et al!

Now Zaha's got a bit of green grass ahead of him here... and finds Ambrose... not a bad effort!!!!

Maybe time to have a new thread on current Govt performance ?

Edited by HKOwen (11 Jan 2023 12.26am)

Responsibility Deficit Disorder is a medical condition. Symptoms include inability to be corrected when wrong, false sense of superiority, desire to share personal info no else cares about, general hubris. It's a medical issue rather than pure arrogance.

Or, member of the public who is not a Conservative party member criticises Govt.

Slow news day if this makes it into the news.

I am no fan of the current Govt leaders but this is a preposterous " news " item

Responsibility Deficit Disorder is a medical condition. Symptoms include inability to be corrected when wrong, false sense of superiority, desire to share personal info no else cares about, general hubris. It's a medical issue rather than pure arrogance.