Election Year or Fear!

[ramAnag]

This whole "being offended by next to nothing" has, IMO, got completely out of hand. I do realise that some on here are pot stirring but to consider "gammon" or "gaslighter" or referring to someone as a "Karen" as being a hate crime is incredibly absurd. Whatever happened to context? Whatever happened to freedom of speech?

I fear that we are close to the point where the name calling and the complaining about being "offended" will move on from the verbal to the physical. All driven by those who would divide and conquer. Maybe it's time to stamp, metaphorically (although some might think, literally), on Tommy Ten Names and those who fund him and those who encourage him. There's more of us than them and it's time WE took control of matters before the "wrong" revolution hits the fan and the majority end up in 15 minute cities amid a great reset.

I've long thought the 5% were ensuring they remained exactly that by having politicians in their pockets and that they organised themselves into the WEF to make sure they remain in control. I am now starting to think that day is not far away when they do own everything and, as Schwab wrote, we'll have nothing and we'll be happy.

Basically, the enemy isn't those fleeing conflict and deciding to come to the UK or elsewhere in (geographically) Europe. It's not those of a different colour or of a different religion. It's the 5%. The elite. The rich. Call them what you will. They saw population in Europe falling. That would affect their trade. Growth could not be sustained. That would hit the size of the dividends. No, that can't happen. The only way to keep growth going is to increase population and population growth. Hence the great need for immigration. The richest of them fund wars that ups the number of refugees and asylum seekers. The 5% are the ONE group that benefits from mass immigration. They also control politicians and through that they control the police and armed forces.

Is the above a mere conspiracy theory I've concocted or something that has been creeping along for ages and is now close to reaching the point of no return?

Talking about the ‘wrong revolution hitting the fan’…I see the fox hunting fraternity are attempting to have themselves categorised as a protected ethnic minority. Seriously…for fox sake!

P.S. Their leader is a guy called Swales, but I very much doubt it’s ‘ours’!

[ramAnag]

I'm not planning to enter the debate of what is and isn't a hate crime but just ask, for my own clarity, why gammon doesn't constitute a "hostility or prejudice based on a person’s race or perceived race" as you define it, Swale.

I've never seen the word used to describe anyone other than a white race person: the notion of a black gammon (isn't that a gambling game?) is one I've not encountered, although I have met right wing / brexiteers of all race and hue - especially South Asian - and not heard gammon used in respect of them.

Yet only white folk seem to be defined as gammon, despite the political beliefs being distributed across the racial spectrum. Maybe the ruddy complexion is not so obvious on non white faces?!

This would suggest it is a "hostility or prejudice based on a person’s race or perceived race" and therefore, by the definition you cited, a hate crime?

Lol…considering you’re ‘not planning to enter the debate on what is and isn’t a hate crime’ that’s a far from succinct post on…why it’s a hate crime.

[Geoff Parkstone]

Lol…considering you’re ‘not planning to enter the debate on what is and isn’t a hate crime’ that’s a far from succinct post on…why it’s a hate crime.

I honestly don't care what it's called, they are just words at the end of the day. I'm simply struggling to understand the denial of the obvious, but that's up to the denier.

I also rather liked the idea of blackgammon in truth! Also when growing up we had saddleback pigs (black and white for the uninitiated) which made lovely mixedracegammon.

[Geoff Parkstone]

Ah…the rear gunner reappears.

You might at least try to figure out an original slight!! Perhaps Heckschwein?

[ramAnag]

You might at least try to figure out an original slight!! Perhaps Heckschwein?

Figure it out? I know you’re often randomly obscure but it really didn’t take much. One rule for one…perhaps.

[Geoff Parkstone]

I have no idea what you mean. I was suggesting you use an original nickname, rather than using your own. That nickname must remain uniquely yours, you've earned it.

Hence my suggested alternative of Heckschwein which essentially means the same.

[ramAnag]

I have no idea what you mean. I was suggesting you use an original nickname, rather than using your own. That nickname must remain uniquely yours, you've earned it.

Hence my suggested alternative of Heckschwein which essentially means the same.

Would have thought my nickname’, as you put it, is rA…which could stand for the Egyptian God of the Sun or - rather less flatteringly - rheumatoid arthritis. Take your pick.
‘Rear Gunner’ isn’t a ‘nickname’ it’s a term which just you, TTR and, more occasionally, AF turn to when my agreement with or defence of Swale irritates you.
I make no claim to its exclusivity so when you, rather more alarmingly, are found agreeing with or defending TTR it seems only fair to make the same claim but if you prefer ‘tail-end pig’ that’s up to you.

[Andy_Faber]

Would have thought my nickname’, as you put it, is rA…which could stand for the Egyptian God of the Sun or - rather less flatteringly - rheumatoid arthritis. Take your pick.
‘Rear Gunner’ isn’t a ‘nickname’ it’s a term which just you, TTR and, more occasionally, AF turn to when my agreement with or defence of Swale irritates you.
I make no claim to its exclusivity so when you, rather more alarmingly, are found agreeing with or defending TTR it seems only fair to make the same claim but if you prefer ‘tail-end pig’ that’s up to you.

It was I who coined that phrase, your defence of obergrupenfuhrer Swale never irritated me, merely amused, but I’m over it now it just ‘seems a bit 1980s’ as the gen z’s say

[MadAmster]

IMO, nowt tedious about gammon

https://www.coop.co.uk/recipes/ham-egg-chips-and-peas

[swaledale]

No wonder Farage is not interested in serving the people of Clacton as a constituency MP!

Nigel Farage appears to have become the highest-earning MP, having made almost £1.2m a year from GB News.

In the first register of interests of the new parliament, the Reform UK MP declared that he was earning £97,900 a month as a presenter for GB News, the channel co-owned by the hedge fund billionaire Paul Marshall.

Farage also revealed that his visit to the US on 17 July – in the aftermath of the assassination attempt on Donald Trump – cost £32,000 and was funded by Christopher Harborne, a Thailand-based crypto investor who previously gave millions to the Brexit party. The purpose was recorded as “to support a friend who was almost killed and to represent Clacton on the world stage”.

A further £9,250 trip to the National Conservatism Conference in Brussels in April was funded by George Cottrell, an unofficial aide to Farage.

Cottrell, a high-profile figure in Farage’s entourage, spent eight months in an American jail in 2017 after being convicted of offering money-laundering services on the dark web. The crime was committed in 2014, before Cottrell worked for either the anti-EU party or Farage.


Of course all these people paying him are very obviously deeply concerned with the plight of the average person in the UK! How can Thicky and his ilk be so deluded?