I Blame Brexit,

[gulliver1]

Things are getting better by the day in the lead up to the General Election.  For Labour. Professor Sir John Curtice has delivered a dire warning to The Tories as they continue to languish behind Labour in the polls.The Tories have now slumped to its worst state since Truss and her disastrous budget.The Prof says Labour now has a 99% chance of forming thev next Govt. ..🤣Yippee🤣.

[Pegasus16]

Not very very weak bitter losers?

[Sven666]

Yeah.  Bloody Brexit.  Which happened about 8 years ago and which the majority of the voting population voted for because they didn’t want their country controlled by largely unelected bureaucrats from foreign nations whom they couldn’t ever remove from their positions of power.  Idiotic Brexiteers who wanted to be governed by the people that they actually voted for and could subsequently remove from office should they fail to live up to the electorate’s expectations or that particular politician’s promises.  Selfish, stupid Brexit gammons who seemed to moronically think that being part of a Europe-wide programme to homogenise, dilute and ultimately disenfranchise the average working man and woman was a positive thing, just goes to show how myopic their racist views were and still are.  For as we know, all is well in the EU and there are no problems whatsoever.  The EU is a literal eutopia and anyone who says different is a racist and a gammon.  And a fascist.  And a Nazi.  And a transphobe.

[naomi24]

^There you are, gulliver.  Try giving a genuine Best Answer - one that's not from one of your mates.

[1ozzy]

Wow, answer removed  guess it didn't suit a precious mod

[1ozzy]

And some people wonder why Answerbank is dying a slow death🤔

[ichkeria]

Luckily, Answerbank isn't about gunge like this

[1ozzy]

So what is it about, freedom of speech, opinions of all, or just what certain moderators deem to be a disagreement with themselves?

[newmodarmy]

moderators are just posters like us with opinions and views on many topics.  I don't see an issue inless mods start to remove posts simply because they don't agree with the views expressed

[1ozzy]

//I don't see an issue inless mods start to remove posts simply because they don't agree with the views expressed//

 

SNAP

[BamberLamb]

Mods on here will try to provide an extremely tenuous link to Site Rules in order to justify removing a reply that they simply don't agree with. I hardly contribute to this site, but I look in quite a lot and this is one thing I have noticed. Users are correct when they say this site is dying. Mods are one reason for that.

[ichkeria]

"So what is it about"

It's about people asking questions and giving answers. That's the core business. And there's some other stuff around the edges like News and chat wihich justifiably means a lot to people including me, that's why I relented and said I'd be happy to pay a small sub to keep it going despite the fact that the vast majority who use the site probably wouldn't and probably aren't even aware of the question.

The sort of stuff that this poster posts is at the low end of the periphery, and sadly it brings out the worst in all of us, me included.

[gulliver1]

Have to agree with Iozzy 07.13.The MODS are slowly but surely killing this site of .Perhaps that's what Ed wants ,Who knows.If a mod does not like your answer they will tell you but they also warn you . If you answer them you will be suspended.  Proof of the pudding ....yesterday news section only 5 posts. CB section only 3 posts and one of those shut down.Not looking good for AB Unless  the ED takes a firm grip.   No doubt this answer will be removed also.

[mushroom25]

there's a lot of chatter on social media from those with a left-leaning outlook (their politics easily identified, they give themselves away by describing anyone with a right of centre view as "scum", "gammon", "bigots", etc) about how they wish for a labour government to initiate a new EU referendum. 

Labour have no need to initiate a referendum, all they need to do is put "Rejoin EU" in their manifesto and campaign on that platform. If that's what their supporters really want, why won't the party commit to it?

[davebro3]

In a recent speech Peter Mandelson has asserted that Labour will not propose a new EU referendum. There is no appetite for such a repeat fracas in the population at large. 

[naomi24]

Labour isn't honest enough to hold another referendum.  If anything they'll just slide us in quietly via the back door.

[gulliver1]

Mushroom 09.51 Yes you are correct .If Labour promised another EU referendum .They would sweep into Power at the GE.  The result would be a huge massive majority to rejoin the EU. Labour would be in Govt then "Things Can only get better" as the Brits bask in the Sunny Uplands of the EU once again.

                                   🤣Oh happy Days🤣

[naomi24]

According to you, gulliver, you're already basking in the sunny uplands of the EU - which can't be that great because you spend the vast majority of your days on here.  

[Sven666]

naomi24

Thanks.

I do find it amusing just how shrill the voices of the remain camp are these days.  They’re still clinging desperately to the notion that if only we’d voted to remain in the EU, all would be well in the world and the UK would be a land of milk and honey.  It’s laughable.  Particularly when you consider the current state of the EU both politically and economically.  But what really makes me laugh is the warped notion of democracy that many in the remain camp appear to have.  It’s so weird.  Speaking generally, they claim that the in/out EU referendum was [a] not truly democratic because not everyone voted; [b] not legally binding and therefore shouldn’t have been implemented; [c] not of a sufficient margin of difference to be compelling enough to warrant implementation; [d] not debated honestly by the Brexit side; [e] too complicated an issue to allow the proletariat to have a vote on the matter.

All of which are just pathetic copes.  Not one of which stands up to the slightest bit of rational argument.  And yet if the vote had gone the other way, I absolutely guarantee that the same people who currently decry the fact that we even had a referendum would be endlessly espousing the integrity of the democratic system in the UK whilst being simultaneously oblivious to the fundamentally anti-democratic nature of the EU.  The mind boggles at the cognitive dissonance of the remain camp when it comes to the notion of democracy.

[jno]

hey, gulliver, did you get one of the "Easter surprise" knighthoods Sunak's dishing out?

Yours for just £5m

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/mar/28/mohamed-mansour-who-donated-to-tories-knighthood