[user104658]

Next you'll be telling me he's not violent any more "because he doesn't drink any more" . 'twas the demon in the bottle, I tells ya, not his own actions .

[Good King Glennceslas]

People now excusing domestic abuse. Some people just aren’t worth the air they breathe.

[Good King Glennceslas]

These people excusing domestic abuse are the same people who are making such a noise about women’s rights

[Christmas Dynasnow]

[Christmas Dynasnow]

[Parmy]

Oh no..no more classics like cock pushups, or **** her gently, sang in a clown outfit..

What's the world going to do!!

[Cherry Christmas]

I nearly totalled the car today when someone rang in to Ben Kentish to say his experience in jail will make him a better MP cause he has experience of how they are run from the inside


He spent a WEEK in young offenders 20 years ago

Why not have a few rapist MPs or some shop lifters or fraudsters to give us that lived experience...oh maybe we have had a few of those already

[Parmy]

No cherie..a toolmakers son as PM is all we need for them all to resonate with the public.

[Parmy]

17 yr old kid commits assault and does his time...still a bad man 25 years later.

17 yr old kid commits assault on farage, it's funny.

That's SB to a T.

[user104658]

Originally Posted by parmnion

17 yr old kid commits assault and does his time...still a bad man 25 years later.

17 yr old kid commits assault on farage, it's funny.

That's SB to a T.

"Throwing a milkshake at a stranger is the same as being physically violent towards your girlfriend"

I guess that's Parmy to a T? very weird comparison, telling on yourself an awful lot these days Parmy. Angry angry little man.

Anyway - I didn't say that someone who made a mistake 25 years ago couldn't change and be a better man. He certainly could regret his actions, and I'd accept that if there was any sign of that. However, 25 years later he has become an MP for the Gammon, Beer and Misogyny party so I'm fairly confident that he has not changed one bit.

[bots]

The reform party paid an outside agency to select and vet their candidates. That agency didn't do their job. That's why some of the candidates ended up being problematic. That's the reality of what happened. Ultimately, Farage has to take responsibility for the quality of candidates selected because it's his party, he actually owns it.

[user104658]

Originally Posted by bitontheslide

The reform party paid an outside agency to select and vet their candidates. That agency didn't do their job. That's why some of the candidates ended up being problematic. That's the reality of what happened. Ultimately, Farage has to take responsibility for the quality of candidates selected because it's his party, he actually owns it.

Meh. They rushed through a policy of "we'll take literally anyone" as a scattershot in the hopes that, by the numbers, they'd squeak a few through the door if they had a candidate in every single constituency. That "plan" was a success but it really was inevitable that the quality of the candidates was going to be in the gutter. Not one of those blokes was voted for, as an individual, by the voters... They were voting for the party name, or basically, voting for Farage-by-proxy.

I bet 90% of the people who voted for these chaps wouldn't remember their name today if you asked them, without looking it up . "It was... Uhh... Y'know... The guy... The Nigel Farage party one..."

[bots]

Originally Posted by Soldier Boy

Meh. They rushed through a policy of "we'll take literally anyone" as a scattershot in the hopes that, by the numbers, they'd squeak a few through the door if they had a candidate in every single constituency. That "plan" was a success but it really was inevitable that the quality of the candidates was going to be in the gutter. Not one of those blokes was voted for, as an individual, by the voters... They were voting for the party name, or basically, voting for Farage-by-proxy.

I bet 90% of the people who voted for these chaps wouldn't remember their name today if you asked them, without looking it up . "It was... Uhh... Y'know... The guy... The Nigel Farage party one..."

i think that applies to all the political parties, most certainly for all those up against the big names that lost their seats

For example, the only thing i remember about the Jacob RM election was that he stood next to a guy with a baked beans hat

[Cherry Christmas]

My gripe with this is that he won by 98 votes, maybe all those were females who might not have voted for him if this was common knowledge, if he had won by some massive margin it might not be so bad but 98 votes?

[user104658]

Originally Posted by Cherie

My gripe with this is that he won by 98 votes, maybe all those were females who might not have voted for him if this was common knowledge, if he had won by some massive margin it might not be so bad but 98 votes?

I was going to say there'd probably be males who would have thought twice if they knew about it but then I remembered they're Reform voters, so probably not.

[Liam-]

The outside company that was paid doesn’t do the vetting, they supply the network for companies to do the vetting themselves, which they make very clear on their website, Farage is a loser that in reality has no idea what he’s doing, it blames everyone but himself for his own failures and if anybody really thinks that he’s unhappy with the swarms of racists and thugs they chose to let stand, I’ve got a lovely chocolate teapot to sell you

[Parmy]

Throwing a milkshake at a stranger is the same as being physically violent towards your girlfriend"


By law. Yes. Yes it is.

[user104658]

Originally Posted by parmnion

Throwing a milkshake at a stranger is the same as being physically violent towards your girlfriend"


By law. Yes. Yes it is.

"By law" luckily we're not in a court Parmy so can freely state that throwing a milkshake at a public figure is absolutely nothing like battering your wife. Don't be dim.

[Parmy]

Originally Posted by Soldier Boy

"By law" luckily we're not in a court Parmy so can freely state that throwing a milkshake at a public figure is absolutely nothing like battering your wife. Don't be dim.

What if it was your wife you through the milkshake over?

[user104658]

Originally Posted by parmnion

What if it was your wife you through the milkshake over?

It would be far worse (morally) than throwing one over a stranger, in the same way that name-calling is a form of domestic abuse in a relationship that doesn't apply when you're talking to someone else, however in any scenario throwing a milkshake is blatantly not the same as an act of violence intended to cause actual physical harm.

[Parmy]

Originally Posted by Soldier Boy

It would be far worse (morally) than throwing one over a stranger, in the same way that name-calling is a form of domestic abuse in a relationship that doesn't apply when you're talking to someone else, however in any scenario throwing a milkshake is blatantly not the same as an act of violence intended to cause actual physical harm.

Mental abuse for some is worse than physical abuse.

[Parmy]

So because they are politicians they must accept the abuse, even though we are supposed to see them as equals. That dont make sense to me.

[user104658]

Originally Posted by parmnion

So because they are politicians they must accept the abuse, even though we are supposed to see them as equals. That dont make sense to me.

"They" don't have to accept anything, but framing a milkshake being thrown at a politician as similar in any way to domestic abuse is utterly bizarre. You're free to consider it a form of assault. To reiterate for the 5th or 6th time, it bears absolutely no similarity to a bloke physically assaulting his girlfriend.

[user104658]

I don't know what the argument even is, to be fair - as far as I'm aware, the girl who threw the milkshake hasn't become an elected member of Parliament?

[Oliver_W]

Originally Posted by Soldier Boy

I don't know what the argument even is, to be fair - as far as I'm aware, the girl who threw the milkshake hasn't become an elected member of Parliament?

Apparently there's a hierarchy of abuse and assault, and it's very important to establish where everyone fits on it?