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I’m beginning to think YOU are an AI agent at this point would be less troubling than you actually believing all this stuff

out of interest, any ballpark figure on how many reactions you have done today? Seems like a software blip rather than a likely restriction (didn't someone else start a thread recently along same lines?)

I mean this is definitely true - but it rather overlooks the endless angry energy that comes from the right - and not even the far right. Just pick up any issue of Telegraph or Spectator. Or have a look at Priti Patel discussing starving the Irish when Brexit negotiations weren't going well for them. Or some far right idiot killing Jo Cox. Or newspaper articles talking about the need to "kill Corbyn" https://www.medialens.org/2016/killing-corbyn/ left vs right aside for a moment - one thing I already know but this thread proves - you have to be some kind of either lunatic or legend to want to become a councillor. The amount of vitriol (again, from all sides to all sides - but primarily just from average voters) makes it an impossible task for negligible reward or even achievement

I would be extremely surprised if that was true - what are you basing it on? That being said, even if it was true I would genuinely be interested to know what the numbers were (10 posts a day? 5 reactions?) - and then I would go "ok that's the forum limit" - I probably wouldn't cry about speech not being free, or my speech being limited

What does “rate limited” mean?

I no longer live in SE22 but as someone significantly older than 40+ I have started playing walking football down in Lewes and can heartily recommend it. It's not as sedate as you might think and the social aspect is great is well if that's something you are into So despite having no affiliation with the OP I'm heartily endorsing this event

Happy Dan Hannan day everyone https://substack.com/home/post/p-166594385

I came soooo close to being able to make it up to London this evening - but alas no. Hope everyone has a good time and the start of regular meet-ups again

what time are people meeting?

Bishop was the Forester's Arms

good spot Spartacus - emerged in my timeline today and I should have checked the date

so here we are in 2025 many years after the referendum where import/exports costs are indeed much higher and (checks notes) arch Brexiteer is now lobbying for a European Commonwealth including Turkey Mad baby of a country https://www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/uk-wants-to-include-ukraine-in-european-commonwealth-report/2599081

Your post was an attack on the tax I didn’t address or mention you in my reply. Just pointed out the problems with the article you then told be I wasn’t invited. In no way am I bullying anyone. The reverse is true if anything

Do let me know when you understand how a public forum works in the meantime, apologies for inconvenient truths clogging up any ill-conceived “partying”

MSN is an aggregator. Not a news source the source is a Nick Gutteridge article in the Telegraph so, closer to reform than BBC (I would question BBC news reliability these days mind you) It would be difficult to describe gutteridge as objective. But it would be easy to claim he is frequently wrong, bordering on bonkers https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/n/nf-nj/nick-gutteridge/ There is no physical reality where, as we run out of fossil fuels and turn to whatever will replace them, where existing fossil fuels don’t become more expensive not this country, not any country - you might see some short term ups and downs as politics plays its part - but to whine about your political enemies tackling the dwindling fossil fuels is both childish and playing with people’s lives

Whatever the merits of lack of of chains, supermarket express shops opening up everywhere is grimly depressing they are very expensive. Often seem to attract sketchy characters and need a security guard doesn’t matter if it’s se22, Crouch End or Ludgate Circus. Ugly banality

Being scammed is horrible. So first of all, sympathies to you there but fair play for the details and the extra thought on subsequent posts and additional comments from others - genuinely helpful seeing a generic “I got done - be careful” is the kind of thing we all nod along with but think wouldn’t happen to us. But I feel these extra details would inform any potential future experience I might have and might save me money and hassle

all this to say, and staying on topic, that the sunlit uplands are never coming, they never existed and the liars and frauds who pushed this poison on the country are being found out But to watch even tiny slivers of engagement with the EU result in such weird, intemperate outbursts (have you SEEN the front pages of Mail/Express/Sun etc today?) show just how dysfunctional this country has become

So Boris Johnson goes on an unhinged rant about the deal using violent gimp imagery (an image repeated by other brexiteers), and I comment on it but it’s MY language you are policing? how come it’s not Johnson and his language you are commenting on?

That’s not how life works jazzer if you accuse anyone of anything you have to be able to back it up besides. I thought you were “done with me”. Yet here you sir plucking accusations out of the air but without any backbone or evidence

So no. It’s just vague hand-waving and accusation. And no ability to directly quote. standard mo

Which bit of my language is offensive and why? quote me

Seems a bit off. If two countries have a majority of dumbos why do we get to offload ours? Instead of us taking in theirs The corporation reports the whole thing as a soap opera with characters. Instead of reporting the actuality. bbc is as culpable as anyone in this whole shitshow

Update May 19: Jesus wept. The response to starmer’s negotiations today. Wartime “surrender”. Multiple “gimp” references. Much media wailing! tories (and presumably reform) promising to reverse ALL of the gains A deeply deeply stupid country When you are this chippy, this stupid, this bitter ”feels like we never left” yes sweetie, because you being in the eu was never the reason for your problems. But even now you are too dim to realise it https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/may/17/essex-thurrock-grays-views-brexit-eu-referendum?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other