[Tom4784]

Originally Posted by jaxie

Can you back up the accusation of scum with a news report? Or is it just an idle insult because you don't like the person? News reports including those with historic photographs have been posted that call into question Corbyn's sympathies. It's a subject that bears discussion about someone who could be prime minister of this country. Not an insult to your favourite.

This isn't about Brillo, or any issue you might or might not have with her. I don't even remember if she was part of that thread until after all the deletions. I see mention of the far right and calling some us far right as much as Brillo says leftie. You can always find someone who might have said something on both sides of a disagreement but that doesn't mean you, as someone who is supposed to be a moderator and therefore, we hope, impartial should say it. I don't know what else to say to you Dezzy, if you can't see it for yourself.

Personally I've never called Corbyn scum and I wouldn't be that impressed with those doing so in the same way that I wasn't impressed by the Reese Mogg thread. I can only speak for myself but I can tell you that when you ask you are projecting and thinking for people by assuming that is what we would do. Take issue with it when we've said it, not before we've thought of it. I might have said remoaner once or twice back in the early days around the referendum after being called stupid so many times I lost count but once people made a fuss about how they found it offensive I didn't use it anymore.

I explained my opinion that he is scum because of the way he voted against the interests of the vulnerable in favour of protecting his own interests and class in the thread itself, as a response to Brillo rather strangely accusing me of disliking him because he is white and educated? (I don't get it either) In a thread highlighting his dubious voting record no less. his voting history is common knowledge, you don't need an article, you just need google to find out the official voting histories of MPs.

You are entitled to call Corbyn a terrorist sympathiser, I'm entitled to call an MP scum, unless you're saying that I don't deserve an equal right to free speech as you do? Because you aren't arguing against what I said, you're arguing that I shouldn't have said it.

It's about you and the rest coming for me for 'inflammatory remarks; about a politician when you have a nine plus page thread calling Corbyn a terrorist sympathiser and Brillo regularly uses her terms to insult people that think differently to her. Of course it's relevant because it highlights your hypocrisy on the matter. It's okay for you and your friends to use the language you use but when it comes to me calling a politician scum which is ****ing tame compared to calling another a terrorist sympathiser, it's suddenly not okay. That is hypocritical no matter how you cut it.

What exactly do you know about the decisions I've made when it comes to moderating? You don't know anything you've just seen that I have an opposing opinion to you and you've taken that to mean that I can't be impartial although that logic makes no sense and it's based on nothing but a baseless assumption. I'd honestly say that I'm one of the most impartial moderatora on this website, when it comes to moderating people get the same treatment from me regardless of who they are, in fact I'm more prone to infracting friends then people I don't get on with so I completely resent what you said there and what you insinuated especially considering you haven't mentioned any other moderator who comments in debates and have strong opinions and I think that's proof that the issue is not with Moggs or Corbyn or the word 'Scum', it's because people have an issue with me. Always remember that no members aside from the mods are privy to the decisions we make, to make assumptions based on nothing and present them as arguments is pointless.

You might say you wouldn't be impressed with someone calling Corbyn scum but would you truly bring it up as you have here against me? Let's say, for example, Jet said that Corbyn is scum, would you try to pull her up on it like you did me? I don't think you would at all. You would remain silent at best. The problem about the remoaner stuff is that it's not just you, other people still say it and some of those people have gotten up in arms over me describing a politician they like as scum. It's hypocritical for them to take issue with me and it's hypocritical for you to call me out on saying 'scum' not about another member but about an MP in a thread about that said MP but not having a problem when your friends use, ahem, 'inflammatory language'