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[JackyJoll]

Political parties are a fucking terrible idea.

I mean, they're a really good idea 'cause it allows people with generally aligned concepts to stand on a common platform and pool their talents.

But they're a fucking terrible idea in that they encourage this sort of malarky, politicians playing around with the country and our lives so they can be boss of their little club.

Is there a form of government anywhere that doesn’t involve a few terrible ideas?

[Cousin Jack]

I am available as a benevolent dictator. I am also life limited, so if you don't like me I will self destruct in a maximum of 25 years, and probably a lot less.

You know it makes sense.

[Mr. Dazzle]

I dunno. What's the one in Star Trek?

[JackyJoll]

I dunno. What's the one in Star Trek?

The Klingon Empire.

[irie]

And if they do listen and change their minds they are shouted down for being weak and populist.

A sign of intellect is the ability to change your mind in the face of new facts.

A mark of wisdom is refusing to let the fear of admitting you were wrong stop you from getting it right

And who is Adam Grant? Should I have heard of him?

And in regard of the above, are the politicians cleverer than their voters?

It doesn't matter who he is, it was important to credit him with what he said.

Which (unsurprisingly) I happen to agree with.

[irie]

Political parties are a fucking terrible idea.

I mean, they're a really good idea 'cause it allows people with generally aligned concepts to stand on a common platform and pool their talents.

But they're a fucking terrible idea in that they encourage this sort of malarky, politicians playing around with the country and our lives so they can be boss of their little club.

We have politics because in their absence the only way open to people who disagree is to physically fight each other.

[Buckaroo]

Wonder what Benjamin Netanyahu will think of our marches.

Bring the bulldozers in and hoike the road up.

That's what the delightful IDF do.

They can then stop the protests and the Palestinians.

[Mr. Dazzle]

Political parties are a fucking terrible idea.

I mean, they're a really good idea 'cause it allows people with generally aligned concepts to stand on a common platform and pool their talents.

But they're a fucking terrible idea in that they encourage this sort of malarky, politicians playing around with the country and our lives so they can be boss of their little club.

We have politics because in their absence the only way open to people who disagree is to physically fight each other.

I think Iccy is right about you What's your point? I didn't say we don't need politics.

[demographic]

Political parties are a fucking terrible idea.

I mean, they're a really good idea 'cause it allows people with generally aligned concepts to stand on a common platform and pool their talents.

But they're a fucking terrible idea in that they encourage this sort of malarky, politicians playing around with the country and our lives so they can be boss of their little club.

We have politics because in their absence the only way open to people who disagree is to physically fight each other.

It's one day at a time with dementia isnt it? Bad days and some worse days.
Could you possibly articulate in another language? That helps sometimes.

[Yorick]

For a while folk discussed things here.
Now back to the usual.

I'm right. You're wrong. Idiot ....

Ad infinitum

[cheb]

Yet you keep coming back and poking the "idiots". Curious behaviour.

[mangocrazy]

To the best of my knowledge "Hitting old poppy sellers and vandalising war memorials" is merely a product of Potter's overwrought brain and is firmly in the realms of fiction...

I've only caught the news very briefly and it's been on enough times that I don't need to make stuff up, the poppy sellers were attacked and war memorials have been vandalised in the last few days, IIRC Rochdale was one of them reported on the news yesterday, a war memorial was painted with Palestine flag colours and sprayed with graffiti.

You must literally be in utter denial to anything that doesn't suit your very peculiar view of the world.

Nothing about denial, I just don't bother with 'news' that much. Whatever your view on a particular topic there is a news site somewhere that will reinforce whatever opinion you currently hold.

[irie]

Political parties are a fucking terrible idea.

I mean, they're a really good idea 'cause it allows people with generally aligned concepts to stand on a common platform and pool their talents.

But they're a fucking terrible idea in that they encourage this sort of malarky, politicians playing around with the country and our lives so they can be boss of their little club.

We have politics because in their absence the only way open to people who disagree is to physically fight each other.

It's one day at a time with dementia isnt it? Bad days and some worse days.
Could you possibly articulate in another language? That helps sometimes.

Calm down demo, you're having one of your moments.

[Mussels]

The story is a fairly common Russian spy one, what got me was this bit. As if being arrested for being a spy isn't bad enough he was caught in a three star Great Yarmouth hotel.
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/11/ ... urt-a83072

arrested in a three-star hotel in the seaside town of Great Yarmouth

[mangocrazy]

These poppy sellers clearly haven't seen the memo...


https://uk.yahoo.com/news/poppy-sellers ... 01491.html

[asmethurst99]

Jeez
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... -mushrooms

[irie]

https://www.herald.wales/north-wales/gw ... cam-fraud/

The incident had concerned an “advance payment” made to a person called Oluwafeni Odunuga.

It was said that this was “to carry out consultative work” for the council and an advance payment would be required.

A payment to "Oluwafeni Odunuga", what could possibly go wrong?

[DefTrap]

These poppy sellers clearly haven't seen the memo...


https://uk.yahoo.com/news/poppy-sellers ... 01491.html

It's a shame that the right wing press are desperately trying to make an unfortunate situation much worse and it's nice to see that the British Legion are resisting being sucked into it. There's some surprisingly gullible folk around.

[Felix]

Pavement parkers days are numbered. I read its coming to the rest of the Lothians also and about time to.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland- ... e-67381938

[cheb]

But it's already illegal to block a pavement by parking a car on it. Why not use that piece of legislation?