Quote from: Scrumpy on Today at 07:13:50 PMI am not in the habit of 'shooting people down'.
But I will stand my ground... and voice my opinion when I wish.. I am not rude to others who choose to do the same.. even if their opinion is opposite to that of mine..

Scrumps of course I wasn't referring to you!!

Quote from: Scrumpy on Today at 07:00:31 PMMy last Covid injection was so painful...
I guess it's the luck of the draw..

Scrumpy, the first time I had one, I was advised to not tense my arm but to let it hang loose 
because the injection was into a muscle, and it worked, so I always do that. 

I am not in the habit of 'shooting people down'.
But I will stand my ground... and voice my opinion when I wish.. I am not rude to others who choose to do the same.. even if their opinion is opposite to that of mine..

Quote from: Scrumpy on Today at 06:55:27 PMEvery forum member should be entitled to an opinion..
We don't have to agree with them..
I don't think it is necessary to be rude to them or about them..

I agree with your first sentence, of course we're all entitled to our opinion.
But it would be sad if a happy friendly forum became over-politicised so that posters stopped posting for fear of being shot down

I agree and I do think it s extra.ordinary that people talk about 'admiring' and 'fans of ' Tommy Robinson as if we were teenage groupies and not a bunch of OAPs .😀

It's possible to have different opinions without resorting to silliness .


I believe in Free Speech surely most of us do , so does Tommy Robinson .
It has been proved that the grooming gangs were almost exclusively Pakistani .
This after years of the truth being sweep under the carpet .
He campaigned ( and was jailed ) for bring  this into public awareness .
Was he wrong ? 
Are all of us who deplore this all racists ? 
He has been accused of being anti Islam of being Islamophobic .
Islamophobia is fear of Islam .
Anyone who does not have a healthy fear of Islam has their head in the sand .

My last Covid injection was so painful...
I guess it's the luck of the draw..

Every forum member should be entitled to an opinion..
We don't have to agree with them..
I don't think it is necessary to be rude to them or about them..

Quote from: CHF on Today at 03:00:12 PMI'm sorry, I haven't explained myself about our flag, which should fly on public buildings,
but because of Tommy Robinson, it is used as a political weapon. He has tramped it into
the dirt. He is a rabble rouser.
He has changed his tune of late, but I'm sure that under the new respectable veneer
he is still the same racist thug he has always been.

But I won't post in political threads in future, especially any admiring Tommy Robinson
or Nigel Farage, or Trump.

It's bad for my blood pressure.

Of course it's not used as a political weapon .
I have one flying in my garden .
You have a poor opinion of your fellow British  if you class them as rabble for going on a peaceful 
march carrying their own flag .
How do you know he is a racist thug ? 
While you are entitled to your opinion without any evidence it's doesn't  really carry any impact.

Quote from: CHF on Today at 03:00:12 PMBut I won't post in political threads in future, especially any admiring Tommy Robinson
or Nigel Farage, or Trump.

Good idea.

Nigel Farage is likely to become our next PM, once Labour have been kicked out.
My personal opinion is that he is the one potential leader who has promised to remove all people from the Third World who have entered our country illegally.
I assume that you do not agree with that, and I'm afraid that you are likely to be rather disappointed.

Tommy Robinson may be a thug in your eyes, but I should like to hear some specific evidence to support that, other than your own personal opinion of him.  It is very easy to pour scorn on someone you do not like, but surely you must specify some specific acts or statements which that person has made in order to justify it.
As for 'patriotic marches', please explain in what way his are not patriotic.

Incidentally, I know the correct way of flying the Union Flag.  Do you, other than others' comments you may have heard?

This is precisely why I loathe Politics.
I have never seen any discussions on Politics or Religion that don't sour the atmosphere.

I'm out of here.