The immigrants kept them in power. Invite 'em over, subsidise their lifestyle, who else are they going to vote for? Helped get Labour a third term in the short run (they must have expected a caning over Iraq) but in the long run I think the tide turned and it sowed the seeds of today's issues. I th...

No politics here please thank you. I hate to admit it but I do tend to mute or unfriend people if they start going on about politics on social media. It's just not fun to be posting about what's wrong with the world on a regular basis. I have often described myself as a political researcher who hat...

I know that the accepted narrative has become that TVF had to close because of the toxicity that sprung up in the last 12 months, but, although I've usually enjoyed my time at TVF, there has always been an undercurrent of certain members who flout the rules or start arguments about things they know ...

but I'm contemplating whether to ditch the mocks and requests sections, as they're the most troublesome. I don't think that many people would shed a tear for the requests forum - while there a few good nuggets on there, it is more often than not a hotbed of 'I want it now!' levels of entitlement - ...

I'm really starting to get bothered by the handful of forumers who are 'over-kudosers'. I've tended to use the kudos function to say 'thanks' or 'well done' or 'I agree with this' without posting a full reply. But there are a few - particularly newer - members who seem to feel the need to kudos ever...

Regarding the 2021 predictions thread, I can’t work out if people are posting ridiculous or weird stuff as a laugh or if they are being serious It's a real case of Poe's Law for some of the posts in that thread. I'd say it's a mixture of some (largely older) members taking the piss and some (predom...

UKIP aren't the biggest losers in terms of seats, though, going by this graph I saw on Facebook (posted by a Lib Dem supporter): Though I presume you mean in percentage terms. Yeah I did mean %s, where UKIP are down 6.4%, compared to the Lib Dems who are up over 9%, Labour and Conservatives down ro...

I'll remind everyone at this point that I was banned because I said Top Gear was "no place for a woman." Personal bias clearly got in the way. Or perhaps it was your casual sexism. Yes, I think it was that. Given that comment I'd say overt rather than casual, but the point still stands.

What Momentum who have infiltrated the Labour Party fail to realise is that Corbyn is not PM material and need to attract floating voters who tend to vote Conservative, which is how Tony Blair got into power. Labour's core northern vote could be eroded to UKIP and they've lost Scotland to the SNP w...

It's like reading a comment piece in the Daily Wail! Ah that catch all comeback for any attack on the left. It's like how socialists like to point out the Mail's support of the Nazi party, not understanding that it's a German abbreviation for, er, National Socialism. I don't read the Mail because i...

I know this would probably be better on TVF, but it is in connection to the ITN/The Day Today links which got locked on TVF and it is hardly worth starting a thread about - but if anyone is interested some of the stings from the pilot episode (the ones which don't use The Day Today motif) are actual...