[Twosugars]

Originally Posted by arista

Johnson PM Election Thread
this is.

I'm talking about an electoral alliance.
What is your point?

[arista]

Originally Posted by Twosugars

I'm talking about an electoral alliance.
What is your point?

Official?

Or is it Facebook?

[Twosugars]

Originally Posted by arista

Official?

Or is it Facebook?

Bojo welcomed the news.

Again, what's your point?

And why are you posting old squirrel news in bojo pm election campaign thread?

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Twosugars

Well at least we are clear, a trump alliance with Russian money
Nothing we didnt know before but at last it is official

Sit back and enjoy the ****show

you know there is a whiff of Russian involvement with the SNP as well? It would be in Putins interest to break up the UK

[Twosugars]

Originally Posted by Cherie

you know there is a whiff of Russian involvement with the SNP as well? It would be in Putins interest to break up the UK

Salmond was cozy with them wasn't he

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by Twosugars

Salmond was cozy with them wasn't he

no, he just coincidently got a well paid job on Russian state TV..

[arista]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

no, he just coincidently got a well paid job on Russian state TV..

yes RT HD


Virgin media (Owned By LibertyGlobal USA)
removed that channel.

[Crimson Dynamo]

Nigel has just been on LBC with Eddie explaning how his decision will make sure PM Boris delivers Brexit

[Twosugars]

The fact the cons are sitting on that russian interference report is shocking.
We need it now more than ever

[arista]

Originally Posted by Twosugars

The fact the cons are sitting on that Russian interference report is shocking.
We need it now more than ever

Yes Many Labour MP's
are angry.


But its to be Expected as the Election
is Wild and ever changing

[Crimson Dynamo]

Daily Mirror Political Editor, ex-Guardian....


she sounds like a good source for info.....

[The Slim Reaper]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

Daily Mirror Political Editor, ex-Guardian....


she sounds like a good source for info.....

She's quoting, so no source needed.......

[Crimson Dynamo]

quoting a bitter ex tory with a massive axe to grind as if it were a normal mp..

fo sho

[The Slim Reaper]

When any criticism is dismissed as invalid because reasons, then that's how cults act fo sho

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by The Slim Reaper

When any criticism is dismissed as invalid because reasons, then that's how cults act fo sho

its not any criticism its a hysterical attack that most can see is nothing more than a flouncing axe grind.

[bots]

Originally Posted by The Slim Reaper

When any criticism is dismissed as invalid because reasons, then that's how cults act fo sho

i don't like Boris, but one has to question how Nick Boles could possibly know that Boris had betrayed every friend, woman, family member and colleague

I mean anyone with any logic skills would realise that he was talking bollocks

[Twosugars]

As max hastings famously said, people who like bojo dont know him very well
It's clear the guy is a lying narcissist
What accursed times, lying clown and orange moron both in power

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by Twosugars

As max hastings famously said, people who like bojo dont know him very well
It's clear the guy is a lying narcissist
What accursed times, lying clown and orange moron both in power

Insulting people like this day in day out is not great for anyone tbh

[Twosugars]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

Insulting people like this day in day out is not great for anyone tbh

It's descriptive not insulting

[arista]

[The Slim Reaper]

https://bylinetimes.com/2019/11/12/h...he-other-side/

I have a confession to make. In 2016, I blindly voted to leave the European Union. It was my vote and, although not fully comfortable with the way I voted, I felt part of the democratic process.

Sitting comfortably at home with a glass of Jack Daniel’s on the night of the EU Referendum, Nigel Farage popped up on the TV. He conceded that Remain “would probably edge it”. My phone rang immediately and, before looking at it, I instantly knew it would be my dad, gloating. He had spent the referendum campaign urging me to vote Remain – advice, I wish now, I had taken.

“I told you Remain would win” he kept repeating. My automatic comeback to him was “no, ‘project fear’ had won.” We ended the conversation laughing. In that moment, on that night, it didn’t really matter who had won. I went to bed giving the referendum no more thought.

Before getting out of bed the next morning, I took my phone from the bedside cabinet and checked Facebook. It was alight with “freedom”, “we’re leaving” and – unsettlingly – “when can we kick them out?” Jubilant post after jubilant post. Within a few hours, the atmosphere had changed – an atmosphere reminiscent of the Liverpool comeback of 2005. Let me tell you the story of how I came to vote Leave.

Reconnecting
Medically discharged from the forces after suffering a traumatic brain injury – an injury which put me in hospital for a year – my life was beginning to settle down.

Through determination, a lot of tears and with a lot of laughter and love from my family, in 2014 my life was beginning to settle down. Waking from a coma some years earlier, unable to talk, walk or even recognise my own family, I had rehabilitated to the point where I was starting university.

What made 2013 more significant for me was that military veteran groups were appearing on Facebook and I was reconnecting with people I had lost contact with, some for more than a decade. We bantered like we had never been apart, used old nicknames that had been lost in a civilian world and my old life in the forces had now been resurrected on social media.

I was invited to a group reunion in Birmingham. I told my family, who were reluctant to let me go. Posting on the group that I would not be attending, due to my family’s apprehension, I was flooded with offers of people wanting to take me. Finally, a friend turned up at my door, put my family at ease and we departed for Birmingham. I felt I belonged to something again, something we all had respect for – a belonging I was missing.


Fast forward a year and the secret Facebook group began to take structure. There was a hierarchy of ‘admins’ who kept us under control. Every now and then someone would post a below the belt but comical image. Admins reported the image to Facebook. The platform had bans raging from seven days up to 30 for repeat offenders. As a collective, we all giggled about it.

I cannot pinpoint the exact time, or the how, but the humour gradually became darker. The group’s admins were punishing more and more people. They were stamping their foot of authority down and the members respected them for it.

Away from Facebook, my dad would grumble about the rise of UKIP in our area. My dad was an old union rep and Labour flowed through his veins. “Where were UKIP during the strikes? Where was Farage then?” My dad instantly hated Nigel Farage, so much so that he would change the channel if he appeared on the news.

On Facebook, the odd anti-Muslim post would appear, usually shared by a UKIP supporter. I came to expect it and, with ignorance powering my thumb, I scrolled past without taking any notice. I ignored the slow rise and popularity of UKIP, much of which was powered by Facebook.

Disconnecting
In June 2016, everyone turned into a politician, everyone had an opinion and they were always right.

On the military veterans’ Facebook groups – which felt more like home than my physical home – anti-Jeremy Corbyn images appeared. One was of the Labour leader alongside Gerry Adams at an IRA funeral. The hatred for Corbyn went nuclear. Like the UKIP ads, I ignored it. My dad was a huge Corbyn supporter and it was easier for me to just not get involved. One bloke did try to intervene with “it isn’t Corbyn” but he was instantly ambushed and bullied out of the group with accusation after accusation.

A tsunami of anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant and anti-Corbyn images swamped Facebook. There was no escaping it. Back then, I needed Facebook – I needed the life it gave me; a belonging I longed for after becoming detached from the forces and society. At the time, I felt I was me again and living the life I should have had if it wasn’t for this wretched brain injury – an injury that has left me reliant on my family. On the Facebook group, I was the black sheep of the flock and not fully comfortable with this new, dark humour. Yet, like an ordinary sheep on that fateful day of 23 June 2016, I put my ‘X’ next to Leave.

I deleted my Facebook account the day Boris Johnson became Prime Minister this year. Everyone had turned into a politician again. More images were appearing and the threads that followed were horrendous. It was a repeat of 2016, but on steroids.

A few days ago, curiosity got the better of me and I resurrected my deleted account. Instantly, I was bombarded with anti-Corbyn images. I knew not to comment on the posts as I witnessed the rage if anyone did. Instead, I reported them to Facebook for being fake news. Slowly, they disappeared but I am filled with dreaded angst that they will turn up again and, like 2016, we’ll have yet another Facebook Election.

[Crimson Dynamo]

About the Bylinetimes content:


There are political articles about far right activists and billionaire backers of Trump fuelling anti-Muslim propaganda in the UK and US, about the failure of the Metropolitan police to investigate misconduct in the Brexit referendum, about leading figures in the Leave campaign and their agenda, and about racism and identity politics.

http://www.transparencyproject.org.u...to-journalism/

:/

[The Slim Reaper]

Thinking that's a bad thing

[bots]

The Labour Party says there has been a "sophisticated and large-scale cyber-attack" on its digital platforms.

Labour said the attack "failed" because of the party's "robust" security system and no data breach had occurred.

The Distributed Denial of Service attack floods computer servers with traffic to try to take it offline.

A Labour source told the BBC "tens of millions of attacks - mostly originating from Russia and Brazil" had been detected.

DDoS attacks direct huge amounts of internet traffic at a target in an effort to overwhelm computer servers, causing their software to crash.

They are often carried out via a network of hijacked computers and other internet-connected devices known as a botnet, the owners of which may be unaware their equipment is involved.

DDoS attacks are not normally recognised as being a hack as they do not involve breaking into a target's systems to insert malware.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2019-50388879

[The Slim Reaper]