Quote Originally Posted by ramAnag View Post
Apologies. I wasn’t suggesting that you typically support Tricky’s views…just on this occasion you have offered fairly outspoken criticism of Rachel Reeves which happens to appeal to his dislike/hatred of all things Labour. Something which has turned into something of an obsession since last July.

He did, on this occasion, lash out at Sith, as he invariably does at anyone who doesn’t share his political views, referring to his post as ‘absolute bull****’ when it just seemed very fair to me and - having fact checked as far as possible - it was your own timeline details which (again on this occasion and not generally) appeared to be exaggerated.

No ‘moderator bee in my bonnet’ and I don’t know what needed ‘putting to bed’…my observations just lead me to conclude that Tricky is likely to be much less antagonistic towards you than the four or five forum members who more regularly criticise/correct him.

P.S. Having asked the question and seen the responses where do you now stand on the RR issue?
Not looking for an apology, I was just clarifying. I'm not especially a fan of RR, although IMO she's just a mouthpiece for people in the shadows making actual policy.

My timeline comment was arguably right, and maybe my post was phrased in a way to raise the temperature/promote discussion a bit, but in any case the issue was her not me and her 'best part of a decade' comment was pure deceit, borne I would guess more out of vanity than an attempt to impress her employer

I'm neither pro- nor anti- Tricky when he's putting a point over, providing he does it in a controlled manner. He's struggled with that recently, but we've had problems with others here in that regard and it blows over. Sith did get IMO unwarranted stick recently but he seems able to stick up for himself and I received no complaint.

Where I stand is she's no Gordon Brown technically (just a hunch) and comes across really badly as a person (both reinforced by her approval rating), I think she'll be seen by KS as damaging the brand and she'll be gone in the first reshuffle. Is that where I stand? maybe that's just a commentary. She does scrub up well