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hypochondriac

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Just now, Sheaf Saint said:

Congratulations on demonstrating spectacular ignorance by dismissing both gender dysphoria and mental illness all in the space of one sentence.

No wonder you consider transphobia to be an invented term. Saves you from having to see it in yourself.

Anyone who considers themselves a they and non binary is clearly having mental health problems. If someone were anorexic, how we would treat them is most likely to give them therapy and over a period of time help them to accept themselves for who they are and learn how to live without the desire to starve themselves. We certainly wouldn't play along with their delusion and tell them how fat they were. 

It's infinitely kinder to understand that these people need compassion but they also need to learn to accept themselves for the man or woman that they are and not ask the world to change entirely to fit themselves into a made up category that they decided to invent five minutes ago. 

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Just now, Fan The Flames said:

Not getting into mate, google it and work it out for yourself.

It's bollocks mate. There's one definition and the fact that Labour can't articulate that makes them look ridiculous to the average voter. They are lucky that the Tories are so awful but this sort of thing certainly doesn't help them. 

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4 minutes ago, Fan The Flames said:

I didn't want to open it all up again, but you can be a women (or man) by birth or you can legally have your gender reassigned. That is the legal position in this country. They are two different things and the problems arise when people try to fudge it to mean the same thing.

None of that is a definition of anything. If you believe sex and gender are different then you have to accept that:

  1. You aren’t assigned a gender at birth and you only have one if you choose to have one. What’s bemusing there is people who claim to be non-binary are effectively saying they don’t identify as something they’ve made up. I don’t choose to identify as a man and I’m not attracted to anyone based on gender. IF you want these rules to apply, then I am by definition a non-binary pan sexual and so are 99% of people.
  2. If sex and gender are different then there should be no issue at all. Separate society, where necessary (I.E. prisons, sports, changing rooms) based on sex and say that all genders are welcome in, for E.g. a woman’s changing room. The problem is that the very people who are insisting that they are different then immediately conflate the two by campaigning for the male sex who gender identify as female to be allowed in women’s spaces. Well, which is it? Are they the same thing or not?
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3 hours ago, Tamesaint said:

What exactly did he do that was so appalling? 

Parking the invasion of Iraq, this country was infinitely better off under Blair as PM than it has been under the subsequent Tory PMs. Wherever you look things were so much better. Education, the NHS, public services, still in the EU, pretty much everything was better. How anyone can claim that he was a worse PM than the shitshower that had followed him is beyond comprehension. Does anyone remember people talking about how the country was broken and that nothing worked under Blair? That is all you hear now and it isn’t hyperbole. I didn’t like Blair and didn’t vote for Labour in those days, but by any metric he was far  better for internal UK politics and the UK population than Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss (😜) or Sunak.

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2 minutes ago, sadoldgit said:

Parking the invasion of Iraq, this country was infinitely better off under Blair as PM than it has been under the subsequent Tory PMs. Wherever you look things were so much better. Education, the NHS, public services, still in the EU, pretty much everything was better. How anyone can claim that he was a worse PM than the shitshower that had followed him is beyond comprehension. Does anyone remember people talking about how the country was broken and that nothing worked under Blair? That is all you hear now and it isn’t hyperbole. I didn’t like Blair and didn’t vote for Labour in those days, but by any metric he was far  better for internal UK politics and the UK population than Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss (😜) or Sunak.

How about we don’t park the invasion Iraq?

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6 minutes ago, sadoldgit said:

Parking the invasion of Iraq, this country was infinitely better off under Blair as PM than it has been under the subsequent Tory PMs. Wherever you look things were so much better. Education, the NHS, public services, still in the EU, pretty much everything was better. How anyone can claim that he was a worse PM than the shitshower that had followed him is beyond comprehension. Does anyone remember people talking about how the country was broken and that nothing worked under Blair? That is all you hear now and it isn’t hyperbole. I didn’t like Blair and didn’t vote for Labour in those days, but by any metric he was far  better for internal UK politics and the UK population than Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss (😜) or Sunak.

Do you think that might have something to do with the fact social media hadn't taken off when Blair was PM?

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3 hours ago, badgerx16 said:

 

Rory Stewart is a fraud. He tries to portray himself as a ‘nice’ Tory but he’s a fucking awful man. Deep down he’s a really good little Tory boy and behind the plummy act he’s a bit of a horror.

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Interesting that BBC lead with Starmer rebellion when the PM has basically said doesn’t like the law so wants to change it. And spunked millions pursuing when apparently any lawyer worth their salt could see this coming as needed treaty with Rwanda in place at least.

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37 minutes ago, Weston Super Saint said:

This makes no sense - half finished sentence!

Enlighten me to the point....

I cannot enlighten you but draw attention to what you seemed to miss.  What was your point about not being in power? This was the query not that he thought they were in power. So somewhat pointless reply. HTH

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25 minutes ago, whelk said:

I cannot enlighten you but draw attention to what you seemed to miss.  What was your point about not being in power? This was the query not that he thought they were in power. So somewhat pointless reply. HTH

My point was (as you clearly seemed to have missed it), that Labour front benchers are happily deserting the ship over a vote that was never going to achieve anything meaningful and in complete opposition to the party leader's instructions.

If they are willing to do that for a meaningless vote, imagine what they would do when they finally come back to power and the vote actually means something.

It highlights (contrary to certain posters' current views), that when Labour take back power sometime in the next 12 months, that it won't all be rainbows and unicorns and that self serving politicians will continue to be just that and will always put themselves first rather than the 'needs of the people'.

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8 minutes ago, Weston Super Saint said:

My point was (as you clearly seemed to have missed it), that Labour front benchers are happily deserting the ship over a vote that was never going to achieve anything meaningful and in complete opposition to the party leader's instructions.

If they are willing to do that for a meaningless vote, imagine what they would do when they finally come back to power and the vote actually means something.

It highlights (contrary to certain posters' current views), that when Labour take back power sometime in the next 12 months, that it won't all be rainbows and unicorns and that self serving politicians will continue to be just that and will always put themselves first rather than the 'needs of the people'.

Depends on your point of view - many of them voted precisely because their constituents wanted them to vote for a ceasefire so in that case it was actually putting "the needs of the people" first.

It was a pointless vote but nevertheless.

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Perhaps Starmer should have allowed his MPs to vote with their conscience (or for the will of their constituents) but I can see why he did what he did. He is positioning himself as the next PM and showing an appetite for leadership and the ability to take a difficult decisions that Sunak so plainly lacks. The vote doesn’t change a single thing in the real world though, which means that the self sacrifice of Jess Phillips, who was doing a great job about DV against women, was always going to be for nothing.

A cease fire is not going to happen at this time. Surely better to call for something that is more likely to happen and will give a small amount of respite and resupply of aid for the civilians with the possibility of more pauses which could lead to a full ceasefire in time?

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The problem is, if Starmer backs a cease-fire then the Israeli lobby over here will cry 'antisemitism', the Tories will follow suit and you end up with 'LABOUR ANTI-SEMITSM' headlines in the gutter press again. It's a difficult call but whatever we do our here won't make the slightest difference to what Israel do anyway so he's probably doing the right thing for the Labour Party.

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2 minutes ago, aintforever said:

The problem is, if Starmer backs a cease-fire then the Israeli lobby over here will cry 'antisemitism', the Tories will follow suit and you end up with 'LABOUR ANTI-SEMITSM' headlines in the gutter press again. It's a difficult call but whatever we do our here won't make the slightest difference to what Israel do anyway so he's probably doing the right thing for the Labour Party.

He should stick to his guns/principles/beliefs, yes. Given it was a vote for the pantomime season.

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1 hour ago, Weston Super Saint said:

My point was (as you clearly seemed to have missed it), that Labour front benchers are happily deserting the ship over a vote that was never going to achieve anything meaningful and in complete opposition to the party leader's instructions.

If they are willing to do that for a meaningless vote, imagine what they would do when they finally come back to power and the vote actually means something.

It highlights (contrary to certain posters' current views), that when Labour take back power sometime in the next 12 months, that it won't all be rainbows and unicorns and that self serving politicians will continue to be just that and will always put themselves first rather than the 'needs of the people'.

I wasn’t taking time to miss your point, just picking up on your obtuse reply to poster. You could have answered that initially 

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More posts strangely deleted by the mods. God only knows why  my post pointing out that those recently sacked from the Labour front bench would not be sacked for long was considered to be suitable for deletion. 

I think the power of deletion has gone to the heads of mods. Mind you, I bet this post will be deleted as it criticises the mods. 😁😁

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13 minutes ago, Tamesaint said:

More posts strangely deleted by the mods. God only knows why  my post pointing out that those recently sacked from the Labour front bench would not be sacked for long was considered to be suitable for deletion. 

I think the power of deletion has gone to the heads of mods. Mind you, I bet this post will be deleted as it criticises the mods. 😁😁

I have no idea what you’re on about.

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3 hours ago, Tamesaint said:

It makes you wonder how long the suspensions from the front bench will last for the likes of Jess Philips. A meaningless vote. 

Yep, really, well and truly deleted. Gone. 

1 hour ago, Tamesaint said:

More posts strangely deleted by the mods. God only knows why  my post pointing out that those recently sacked from the Labour front bench would not be sacked for long was considered to be suitable for deletion. 

I think the power of deletion has gone to the heads of mods. Mind you, I bet this post will be deleted as it criticises the mods. 😁😁

 

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1 hour ago, Lighthouse said:

I have no idea what you’re on about.

 

1 hour ago, Lighthouse said:

I have no idea what you’re on about.

Apologies. I can see my post now. It definitely wasn't there an hour or so ago. 

I am out of the country atm in a part of the world where the Internet can be dodgy. My only explanation. 

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Weston Super Saint

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3 hours ago, Tamesaint said:

 

Apologies. I can see my post now. It definitely wasn't there an hour or so ago. 

I am out of the country atm in a part of the world where the Internet can be dodgy. My only explanation. 

If you stumble across Portishead pier on your travels give us a shout - apparently it doesn't exist anymore in Portishead ;)

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