Election Year or Fear!

[Geoff Parkstone]

Agreed. Matthew Parris - a decent and compassionate Tory - has suggested that ‘if one was to remove ambition from the core of Robert Jenrick he would collapse like a boneless chicken’. There are far too many who fit that description.

....and if you were to remove ambition from the core of everyone, the economy and then society would collapse. Ambition drives entrepreneurship and even the simple act of getting out of bed. If noone had ambition....everything would collapse indeed. its a ludicrous comment IMHO to criticse anyone for having ambition as if its a bad thing

[ramAnag]

Correct no PM function even for mods. No idea about TTR's whereabouts. Mod privileges have been curtailed drastically in the past couple of years so I can't 'interrogate' (it used to be down to Ip address level which was a bit 'off' IMO and I only used it once when chasing a rogue user), including whether he's just quiet (he posted about a month or so ago) or left - there is no 'latest activity' date on his profile which might suggest he's deactivated his account but I think not revealing activity was an option when I first joined, might be wrong on that.

Not been pushed by me, he'd had a few yellow cards and warning PMs when I had that 'power' but he wasn't even top of the list for expulsion, but for some time mods appear not to have any sanction power at all

So you can’t fix anything, can’t get a reply from the owners, your ‘privileges have been curtailed’ and you no longer have any ‘sanction power’. Begs the question, is there any longer any such thing as a moderator?
Maybe MAGA stands for Make Andy Great Again.

[Geoff Parkstone]

As there's no PM function these days, I'll ask the question here. Is TTR back in Thailand or has there been something happen that I missed and he's left (or been pushed)?

When I started to read this I thought it was another anti Starmer post in the making....

[Andy_Faber]

So you can’t fix anything, can’t get a reply from the owners, your ‘privileges have been curtailed’ and you no longer have any ‘sanction power’. Begs the question, is there any longer any such thing as a moderator?
Maybe MAGA stands for Make Andy Great Again.

Please don't start the tiresome moderator bashing again, it doesn't reflect well. I was just offering RP as comprehensive a response as I could.

[Andy_Faber]

When I started to read this I thought it was another anti Starmer post in the making....

Faber for PM

[Geoff Parkstone]

So you can’t fix anything, can’t get a reply from the owners, your ‘privileges have been curtailed’ and you no longer have any ‘sanction power’. Begs the question, is there any longer any such thing as a moderator?
Maybe MAGA stands for Make Andy Great Again.

Agreed, these are basically now unregulated forums (fora?). Can we go back to East Fife again

[ramAnag]

....and if you were to remove ambition from the core of everyone, the economy and then society would collapse. Ambition drives entrepreneurship and even the simple act of getting out of bed. If noone had ambition....everything would collapse indeed. its a ludicrous comment IMHO to criticse anyone for having ambition as if its a bad thing

God you’re so extreme and use the tactic of misinterpretation so regularly.

Who has said that we should ‘remove ambition’? Who has criticised anyone for having ambition? MP’s point was that when ambition outweighs ability, as it clearly does, imo, in Jenrick’s case, then you have a problem. My point was, that I’ve come across many people in many walks of life who’s ambition has unrealistically exceeded their ability - from kids at school who think they’re going to be pro footballers to Liz Truss believing she’d be a successful PM - and it invariably ends in tears.

[ramAnag]

Please don't start the tiresome moderator bashing again, it doesn't reflect well. I was just offering RP as comprehensive a response as I could.

I’m not. I’m just lightheartedly checking. ‘Joshing’, if you prefer. Anyway I can’t bash something that doesn’t exist and, as far as I understand, the position of moderator is no more.

[Andy_Faber]

I?’m not. I?’m just lightheartedly checking. ?‘Joshing?’ if you prefer. Anyway I can?’t bash something that doesn?’t exist.

Thats OK then. Wasn't sure you understood the concept

[ramAnag]

Thats OK then. Wasn't sure you understood the concept

Hardly complex is it? You’re a moderator, in name only, seems to about sum it up.

[SithHappens]

SO Nigel Farage failed to declare on time more than £380,000 of outside earnings in the parliament’s register of interests. This is blatant ignorance of parliamentary rules.

I feel sorry for the people of Clacton, because it also proves that he is more interested in lining his pockets with outside work like appearances on GB News than representing his constituents.


Yet this is the man who wants to be prime minister. A man who called for by-elections for party defectors before the General Election yet now does the opposite after. And a man who claims Britain is broken even though more than half of his MPs were part of the very government that broke it.

What a shambles of an MP and what a shambles of a party.

He was called out this week in an interview about the by election. He said it was 12 years since he said that, they pointed out that wasn't true and its only a couple if years since he said so in an interview, his response was well we aren't doing it.

The 380k is a scandal. That him and the media were all over Rayner to resign for her administration error, and its barely been mentioned about farage.

He should resign but he wont.

[Ram Pant]

Please don't start the tiresome moderator bashing again, it doesn't reflect well. I was just offering RP as comprehensive a response as I could.

Ta for the reply on TTR AF, much apprceiated.

This one to rA is, IMO, out of step with the tone and feel of rAs post. Line 1. I think the you isn't referring to AF but to moderators in general. Line 2 reinforces that thought. Line 3 shows that it's a lighhearted post. I see it as an over reaction.

[ramAnag]

Ta for the reply on TTR AF, much apprceiated.

This one to rA is, IMO, out of step with the tone and feel of rAs post. Line 1. I think the you isn't referring to AF but to moderators in general. Line 2 reinforces that thought. Line 3 shows that it's a lighhearted post. I see it as an over reaction.

Appreciated, RP.

[Ram Pant]

Back to the politics. Fantaface strikes again. Following his verbal slurry of a word salad, later in the day he announced his Board of Peace. To join countries have to deposite ONE BILLION DOLLARS. Will much of that money end up in the Fantaface not so secret account in Qatar? It wouldn't surprise me.

Then he went many miles too far when he said NATO troops weren't on the front line in Afghanistan. Fact - 457 UK soldiers died. Fact - 2200 UK soldiers wounded, many seriously so. The vast majority of those were in Helmond Province, the Taliban stronghold. That was the frontest of front lines. His words are as disrespectful as you can get to service personnel. Trump's grandfather left Germany to avoid national service and he was later permanently banned from Germany for failing to have done his national service. Trump's Dad never served in WW2 as he was in construction building homes and barracks which allowed him to avoid call up. Fantaface himself avoided call up 5 times due to heel bone spurs, the presence of which can't be proven or disproven.

Fantaface ought to apologise, he won't.

[SithHappens]

Hes just a vile awful excuse for a human being.