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Originally Posted by Jaymoss
Are you an activist? do you go out and protest your beliefs? Or do you think as a Patriot you do enough by discussing your beliefs on a technical based forum? If it is how I suspect and you do just express yourself in type then you are sitting by doing almost nothing
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I used to be a Labour Party activist, campaigning for my local MP and acting as an agent for them and local councillor candidates. From 2015 I campaigned actively for Remain and went on most of the big London marches after the referendum. My particular angle was for honouring the referendum, albeit flawed, but to negotiate a customs union deal.
Since Starmer has made it clear that he is Tory-lite, and has used gross dishonesty to marginalise the left, I have left the Labour Party. I was likely to be kicked anyway, for protesting about the treatment of Corbyn. The party is doomed as a socialist force. I have joined the Greens, so now campaign for them in local elections but regularly go door-knocking with Zarah Sultana, our local Labour MP. I support her because she promotes the Green New Deal and she is is a committed socialist. I was out in the rain door-knocking with her yesterday.
Over the last 18 months I have been on protests against the current policing bill in that it attacks your right and my right right to protest peacefully and I have been on marches demanding real commitment from COP 26 members.
Generally, my politics is policy based, rather than tribal.
Any more ill-informed speculations about me?
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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
Yes - you do use facts rationally - until you apply terms like "shabby referendum" to reinforce the facts.
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Phew!
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I am allowed to use some emotive language within the context of the subject, am I not? I thought shabby was a pretty good substitute for ill-thought-out, and you do get a sense of my feelings. At least I attack the issue and behaviors rather than label or demean the person. (That isn't an attack on you.)
Thank you for acknowledging my persistence.
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Originally Posted by pip08456
OK I have no problem with you complaining about something but when you persitently complain in a peevish or irritating way (as you do) then it is whinging.
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As I say, those who disagree with me do find me irritating, mostly because my attention to detail, persistence and rationality unsettles them and their standpoint.
Peevish? That's an understatement. I'm frigging furious!!