draculina

Another straw n the wind today wiht the Seaford by-election,. Unlike Richnmond and Witney, this is a strong Brexit seat.

I can’t imagine the Tories being defeated here, but Labour is under pressure for the second place, and the result is important for them and for UKIP.

Sleaford may be a bad poll for Labour. They duck the issue of the EU -…[Read more]

Trump is going to make a huge difference to us.

He and his treasury man (by the strange name of Mnuchi – pronounced Minuchi) are planning a $1 trillion boost to the economy through tax cuts for the wealthy and infrastructure spending, among other things.

This is likely to give the US economy a serious boom, wiht inflation and a rise in interest…[Read more]

I had been on a US chat site when I briefly lived there, so I was used to the anonymity which stumps so many people when they first use chat, along with some of the strategies used to adapt.

People who are on jc for any length of time soon use those strategies too – not least the deceivers and the rest of us who learn to put up with the malicious…[Read more]

lol @ gallows humour

If you’re right, then there’s no problem.

I wouldn’t be so certain if I were you, though.

It all depends on the terms of trade, not on trade. There is more to trade than cars.

Everything I read spells trouble at the moment – if Article 50 is revoked in march, then tehre is six months before negotiations proper can begin. They have to be…[Read more]

funny how perceptions differ, arc. I was thinking of the topic rather than any personality, though inevitably like all the rest of us it’s coloured by my own personal experiences.

No categories?? where would be be???

I’ll do what I’ve always done, though, and your ignor9ng any political posts would still have the same effect as creating a…[Read more]

Jo Cox would have liked the Nazis to be so inactive.

Actually, the white supremacists, fascists etc  are a small minority but they work within the Right now. I beleive UKIP has a (ex) nazi infusion. I know of one person in JC who has expressed admiration for hitler and white supremacism and belongs to UKIP.

To talk of nazis on the Far left is…[Read more]

you hope, Pete!

Everybody trades – even Zimbabwe.

If you’re right, then no problem is there? Any attempt to revers Brexit will fail miserably.

If you’re not right, especially if you’re bigtime not right..then people will prefer to live in poverty and sink to the level of Franco’s Spain, or not…If we are a democracy, they’ll make the decisoon.

Nope. This byelection was only about brexit. The attempt to make Heathroow the issue didn’t wash, as no major candidate opposed Goldsmith on Heathrow. It was a referendum on the EU, and on hard brexit in particualr. All the campaign literature was about that. That was how the papers reported it, and my lad fully confirmed it. He would agree with…[Read more]

Even more simple…just ignore the political threads.

I ignore most of the music threads, and a lot of the jokey threads, and a lot of the personally nasty threads..

They most certainly have a place here. A lot of people enujoy them. But not me, usually..I just ignore them.

Though some are good.

Ang has a nice, dry sense of humour, and I like…[Read more]

Does that mean that Americans think you look like a rapist???!!!

That was a joke..honest.I was thinking of Trump on mexican immigrants.

A religious war in the physical sense of the turn is highly likely to turn into a race war. It would be horrible even if it didn’t.

The reason is that while some white Brits have become muslims (I…[Read more]

H, you’ll be telling me that Jews steal English babies and drain the blood out of them.

That is the type of scarifying post-truth world that has been created by brexit and Trump. The mail Online specialises in that kind of politics; so does the Trump-supporting altright group in between their sieg heil salutes. Take some complex issue and…[Read more]

If this isn’t clutching at straws, I don’t know what is. If Theresa May is foolish enough to stick her head in the UKIP-lite bucket of shit and imagine that the strong brexit Tory minority won’t repeat what they’ve done at Witney and Richmoond, then she deserves to lose. I don’t get the impression that she is so politically naive.

Sorry,…[Read more]

I’m addressing the relevant arguments in Ms K’s post, drac, and trying to make it less personal. As you know, I don’t hold any personal animus against you. I can’t speak for ms K in terms of personal reaction; she’s very good at making her feelings plain when it comes to that *hides.

But your arguments on the koran are very formal. There are…[Read more]

drac,

I could present arguments on democratising the EU, and of the rejoining of the EU without joining the eurozone, but it would be a waste of space and time. We are leaving, and unless we decide to rejoin, then it would involve a discussion of the relations of the EU Parliament to the Commission, amendments of treaties such as Maastricht etc,…[Read more]

Ms, K, two excellent posts there, apart from the last phrase of your second post. I don’t see drac as the problem – she presents her views clearly and with as much rationality and willingness to engage in dialogue with her opponents as you could want. Some others here, whose arguments collapse into an emotional whoosh of accusation and personal…[Read more]

so, BB, you want an all-out religious war? Or what??

As I am a muslim or a hard-left progressivist, the same thing in your view, and too many people like Ms K live here, how are you going to deal with us? You going to kill us, imprison us?

My understanding is that your posts on Jo Cox were banned from the site – I believe it was from fear of…[Read more]

then toughen up, unfuck your head, and tell him in no uncertain terms to keep his dirty mind to himself

It could be invalid – we don’t know.

If Brexit is a catastrophe, then we need to rejoin the EU. If the EU doesn’t exist, or its price for rejoining is unacceptable, then we don’t rejoin. No problem, though we will need to work to build a much more democratic and accountable EU rather than the bureaucratic mess that exists at the moment.

We are…[Read more]

drac,

we’re already at war with radical islam. It’s a difficult war, too. At home it involves keeping guard against terror and it involves police work rather than military activity.

A religious war against the majority of Muslims would involve our society being torn apart and a lot of peaceful muslims lining up to fight with the radicals to…[Read more]