nodealbrexiteer
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Post by nodealbrexiteer on May 16, 2020 10:41:18 GMT
After how many messages is it 'too late' to introduce yourself After a great deal of closely argued discussion we set the limit at 136 posts. my lips are sealed then!
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Post by carlton43 on May 16, 2020 10:50:07 GMT
After a great deal of closely argued discussion we set the limit at 136 posts. my lips are sealed then! Ah! The lips 'unseal solution' is available in the Forum Club Room from Finso for a small fee to all members who have made 1003 posts but not more than 1007.
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Post by Deleted on May 26, 2020 20:21:13 GMT
As I've been posting on here for a little while now, I thought I would introduce myself properly. For someone who spends a lot of time on a forum dedicated to psephology (particularly looking at the boundaries section), I do not see electoralism as a central part of my politics and activism. I am not a member of any political party. Politically, I am engaged in independent unionism (as in trade unionism), community-led organisations, and mutual aid projects. I'd characterise my politics as left-libertarian, and inspired by such groups as the CNT. I understand that my politics are somewhat fringe, and I am not expecting the populace to embrace them anytime soon (ever). However, I have found that working with small community groups - on issues like housing, gentrification, food poverty - can be a means to make effective change, if only in a locality. Regardless of my politics, I find boundaries and elections incredibly interesting - I am a sucker for historic counties. And I look forward to talking to everyone (whatever their political colours) a bit more! Historic counties are hot-topics here, I assure you.
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European Lefty
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Post by European Lefty on May 26, 2020 20:39:43 GMT
As I've been posting on here for a little while now, I thought I would introduce myself properly. For someone who spends a lot of time on a forum dedicated to psephology (particularly looking at the boundaries section), I do not see electoralism as a central part of my politics and activism. I am not a member of any political party. Politically, I am engaged in independent unionism (as in trade unionism), community-led organisations, and mutual aid projects. I'd characterise my politics as left-libertarian, and inspired by such groups as the CNT. I understand that my politics are somewhat fringe, and I am not expecting the populace to embrace them anytime soon (ever). However, I have found that working with small community groups - on issues like housing, gentrification, food poverty - can be a means to make effective change, if only in a locality. Regardless of my politics, I find boundaries and elections incredibly interesting - I am a sucker for historic counties. And I look forward to talking to everyone (whatever their political colours) a bit more! Anybody who opposes the existence of both Avon and Humberside is alright by me!
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Post by nobodyimportant on May 28, 2020 7:46:19 GMT
Historic counties are hot-topics here, I assure you. As long as people stick to them, I'll be happy. I long for the day Berkshire is restored to it's original boundaries. Original boundaries? So with no Caversham (part of Oxfordshire until a mere hundred or so years ago) and a large hole in the eastern half (in which I happen to live) which was a detached part of Wiltshire until the mid 19th Century?
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Post by MacShimidh on May 30, 2020 19:22:54 GMT
Evening all,
I’ve been lurking on this forum for around a year, and thought now was as good a time as any to join. I’m from the Scottish Highlands originally, and spent five years studying in Glasgow before moving back home for work. I have big plans to help with the Scottish pages of the Vote UK Almanac – I definitely have enough time on my hands at the moment!
My own politics are broadly centre-right, but I’m not committed to any party or ideology. In the last five years I have voted for both the Tories and the SNP, albeit never voting in a particularly marginal seat. I was an unenthusiastic No voter in 2014, and genuinely agonised over the EU referendum before siding with Leave.
Looking forward to making more of a contribution rather than lurking.
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cj
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Post by cj on May 30, 2020 19:26:29 GMT
Evening all, I’ve been lurking on this forum for around a year, and thought now was as good a time as any to join. I’m from the Scottish Highlands originally, and spent five years studying in Glasgow before moving back home for work. I have big plans to help with the Scottish pages of the Vote UK Almanac – I definitely have enough time on my hands at the moment! My own politics are broadly centre-right, but I’m not committed to any party or ideology. In the last five years I have voted for both the Tories and the SNP, albeit never voting in a particularly marginal seat. I was an unenthusiastic No voter in 2014, and genuinely agonised over the EU referendum before siding with Leave. Looking forward to making more of a contribution rather than lurking. Hello, good evening and welcome.
As Douglass Adams would say, we're 'mostly harmless', even if we don't always believe our peers are.
Good luck and enjoy the club room, unfortunately there is no bar at present.
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Post by gillsteph65 on Jun 9, 2020 21:20:42 GMT
Hello, I’m Gillian Stephenson- i’ve decided to join a forum as I am becoming increasingly more interested in the election results and would love to know more details. I’m personally Labour-leaning but I’m willing to hear thoughts from anybody and I can’t wait to get started hearing about different opinions on current issues in this tricky political climate.
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Post by bjornhattan on Jun 9, 2020 21:24:33 GMT
Hello, I’m Gillian Stephenson- i’ve decided to join a forum as I am becoming increasingly more interested in the election results and would love to know more details. I’m personally Labour-leaning but I’m willing to hear thoughts from anybody and I can’t wait to get started hearing about different opinions on current issues in this tricky political climate. Well, you picked the right time to become interested in election results - since we aren't even getting any by elections for the foreseeable! Nevertheless it's always great to see new faces, so welcome.
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Post by finsobruce on Jun 9, 2020 21:34:50 GMT
Hello, I’m Gillian Stephenson- i’ve decided to join a forum as I am becoming increasingly more interested in the election results and would love to know more details. I’m personally Labour-leaning but I’m willing to hear thoughts from anybody and I can’t wait to get started hearing about different opinions on current issues in this tricky political climate. Welcome, Gillian . If you want to join the Labour room just let me know .
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Post by manchesterman on Jun 9, 2020 21:35:38 GMT
Welcome Gillian.
You join at a time when the debate is more raucous than usual - whether this is a good thing or a bad thing I will leave it to you to decide. We are generally a friendly bunch though, err most of the time!
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Post by gillsteph65 on Jun 9, 2020 21:53:50 GMT
Welcome Gillian. You join at a time when the debate is more raucous than usual - whether this is a good thing or a bad thing I will leave it to you to decide. We are generally a friendly bunch though, err most of the time! I see, that sounds exciting yet slightly unnerving!
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Post by hengo on Jun 13, 2020 20:49:09 GMT
Having been here a few months now, perhaps I should introduce myself! Particularly as in social media there is a tendency, from which I am not excluded, to make assumptions about people’s attitude towards everything by extrapolating from what they may say about something(s). If anyone has noticed my comments it should not be surprising to them to hear that I am Conservative leaning. Not enough to have ever joined the Party, but usually enough to vote for them, and to wish them success. In terms of my views on things , I would on some questions find myself on the Right of the party, but more the traditionalist right rather than the libertarian ,while on others , well to the left. For many years the politicians I admired included Heseltine and Clarke. Heseltine for his views on local government , in which I have an abiding interest which has usually left me at odds with the trend of thinking in the Party; Clarke, whom I met and liked, as a decent pragmatist, a good man and effective Minister, ( though we disagreed on Education when he had that portfolio).
Then came Brexit, and I found myself a marginal Brexiter, I suppose- one who was opposed to the referendum, but bound , since Parliament had passed the buck to the voters, to try to vote for what I thought would be most in the country’s interest , when I found the arguments for both sides fairly balanced. And almost immediately following the result, all balance was abandoned and I found myself to have become an ignorant, ill informed, poorly educated racist, in the eyes of people I thought I knew better than I did. And ever since , until perhaps the last few weeks, that beyond everything else has been the great divide, cutting across usual allegiances..
The so called “ culture wars” find me very much now on the traditional conservative bench. On the range of issues which may form part of these tedious battles,I, rather worryingly in a way , find my opinions have scarcely altered a jot since I first formed them , perhaps 50 years ago, which I have to concede may argue a rather inflexible mind. The benches themselves of course have shifted. I haven’t turned into Sir Herbert Gusset, not in my mind anyway, it’s just that the broadly liberal set of positions I adopted then and still hold to are now either old fashioned or seen as stuffy and outdated by those now calling themselves liberal.
On economic questions though I have changed my opinions. I disliked Thatcher and was dampish if not wholly wet when those were the tests of what kind of Conservative you were. I think now I was wrong. Not just based on the economic recovery after the grim days of the 70s, but from my own experiences. I no longer believe for example in the “ mixed economy” as once I did, and would be opposed to the renationalising of services , where once I opposed their privatisation.
Where I most disagree with most of the Party concerns local government. I believe the long decline in its importance - over many decades now- though hardly ever seriously discussed ( other than by Michael Heseltine , for which- despite Brexit- I retain regard) has been a slowly evolving disaster for the good governance of the country. This is my hobby horse!
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Post by manchesterman on Jun 13, 2020 23:15:56 GMT
Belated welcome hengoI think we've clashed once or twice IIRC here and there, but it's certainly useful to have this little pen-portrait to get a better understanding of the individual. An enlightening insight! I hope we will have many more debates in future but maybe agree on other issues too (as I would describe myself as Centre-Left and agree with your thoughts generally on Heseltine, Clarke, Thatcher(!) and local government.
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Post by tonyhill on Jun 14, 2020 5:55:39 GMT
Hi hengo - I frequent this forum because I enjoy intelligent political discussion, and your posts typify this, whether I agree with them or not. Your post above reminds me that I promised a friend of mine who runs groups focussed on ageing that I would write an article for his website on the way one's political attitudes change as we get older. My views are quite a long way from yours, except with regard to local government, but I too have the sense that while I have stayed consistent in my beliefs the world has shifted around me. Perhaps it was ever thus.
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Post by yellowperil on Jun 14, 2020 8:11:12 GMT
Welcome Gillian. You join at a time when the debate is more raucous than usual - whether this is a good thing or a bad thing I will leave it to you to decide. We are generally a friendly bunch though, err most of the time! I see, that sounds exciting yet slightly unnerving! I think many of us will be more than delighted to have anothe female member as this whole site is so overwhelmingly masculine it's a total embarassment, and a lot of us will welcome someone who leans leftwards as so many of our most recent additions have done more than lean in the opposite direction. I hope you will soon be able to get your teeth into some political discussion on something more interesting than.... statues.
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cj
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Post by cj on Jun 14, 2020 8:17:51 GMT
I see, that sounds exciting yet slightly unnerving! I think many of us will be more than delighted to have anothe female member as this whole site is so overwhelmingly masculine it's a total embarassment, and a lot of us will welcome someone who leans leftwards as so many of our most recent additions have done more than lean in the opposite direction. I hope you will soon be able to get your teeth into some political discussion on something more interesting than.... statues. Now grab a weapon and get in a trench!
Only (half) joking.
Its not a normal time in politics so welcome to the home of not normal, whilst seeming reasonable, politics
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Post by BossMan on Jun 14, 2020 9:27:34 GMT
Having been here a few months now, perhaps I should introduce myself! Particularly as in social media there is a tendency, from which I am not excluded, to make assumptions about people’s attitude towards everything by extrapolating from what they may say about something(s). If anyone has noticed my comments it should not be surprising to them to hear that I am Conservative leaning. Not enough to have ever joined the Party, but usually enough to vote for them, and to wish them success. In terms of my views on things , I would on some questions find myself on the Right of the party, but more the traditionalist right rather than the libertarian ,while on others , well to the left. For many years the politicians I admired included Heseltine and Clarke. Heseltine for his views on local government , in which I have an abiding interest which has usually left me at odds with the trend of thinking in the Party; Clarke, whom I met and liked, as a decent pragmatist, a good man and effective Minister, ( though we disagreed on Education when he had that portfolio). Then came Brexit, and I found myself a marginal Brexiter, I suppose- one who was opposed to the referendum, but bound , since Parliament had passed the buck to the voters, to try to vote for what I thought would be most in the country’s interest , when I found the arguments for both sides fairly balanced. And almost immediately following the result, all balance was abandoned and I found myself to have become an ignorant, ill informed, poorly educated racist, in the eyes of people I thought I knew better than I did. And ever since , until perhaps the last few weeks, that beyond everything else has been the great divide, cutting across usual allegiances.. The so called “ culture wars” find me very much now on the traditional conservative bench. On the range of issues which may form part of these tedious battles,I, rather worryingly in a way , find my opinions have scarcely altered a jot since I first formed them , perhaps 50 years ago, which I have to concede may argue a rather inflexible mind. The benches themselves of course have shifted. I haven’t turned into Sir Herbert Gusset, not in my mind anyway, it’s just that the broadly liberal set of positions I adopted then and still hold to are now either old fashioned or seen as stuffy and outdated by those now calling themselves liberal. On economic questions though I have changed my opinions. I disliked Thatcher and was dampish if not wholly wet when those were the tests of what kind of Conservative you were. I think now I was wrong. Not just based on the economic recovery after the grim days of the 70s, but from my own experiences. I no longer believe for example in the “ mixed economy” as once I did, and would be opposed to the renationalising of services , where once I opposed their privatisation. Where I most disagree with most of the Party concerns local government. I believe the long decline in its importance - over many decades now- though hardly ever seriously discussed ( other than by Michael Heseltine , for which- despite Brexit- I retain regard) has been a slowly evolving disaster for the good governance of the country. This is my hobby horse! I congratulate the hon. Member on his maiden speech.
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Post by yellowperil on Jun 14, 2020 13:10:07 GMT
Having been here a few months now, perhaps I should introduce myself! Particularly as in social media there is a tendency, from which I am not excluded, to make assumptions about people’s attitude towards everything by extrapolating from what they may say about something(s). If anyone has noticed my comments it should not be surprising to them to hear that I am Conservative leaning. Not enough to have ever joined the Party, but usually enough to vote for them, and to wish them success. In terms of my views on things , I would on some questions find myself on the Right of the party, but more the traditionalist right rather than the libertarian ,while on others , well to the left. For many years the politicians I admired included Heseltine and Clarke. Heseltine for his views on local government , in which I have an abiding interest which has usually left me at odds with the trend of thinking in the Party; Clarke, whom I met and liked, as a decent pragmatist, a good man and effective Minister, ( though we disagreed on Education when he had that portfolio). Then came Brexit, and I found myself a marginal Brexiter, I suppose- one who was opposed to the referendum, but bound , since Parliament had passed the buck to the voters, to try to vote for what I thought would be most in the country’s interest , when I found the arguments for both sides fairly balanced. And almost immediately following the result, all balance was abandoned and I found myself to have become an ignorant, ill informed, poorly educated racist, in the eyes of people I thought I knew better than I did. And ever since , until perhaps the last few weeks, that beyond everything else has been the great divide, cutting across usual allegiances.. The so called “ culture wars” find me very much now on the traditional conservative bench. On the range of issues which may form part of these tedious battles,I, rather worryingly in a way , find my opinions have scarcely altered a jot since I first formed them , perhaps 50 years ago, which I have to concede may argue a rather inflexible mind. The benches themselves of course have shifted. I haven’t turned into Sir Herbert Gusset, not in my mind anyway, it’s just that the broadly liberal set of positions I adopted then and still hold to are now either old fashioned or seen as stuffy and outdated by those now calling themselves liberal. On economic questions though I have changed my opinions. I disliked Thatcher and was dampish if not wholly wet when those were the tests of what kind of Conservative you were. I think now I was wrong. Not just based on the economic recovery after the grim days of the 70s, but from my own experiences. I no longer believe for example in the “ mixed economy” as once I did, and would be opposed to the renationalising of services , where once I opposed their privatisation. Where I most disagree with most of the Party concerns local government. I believe the long decline in its importance - over many decades now- though hardly ever seriously discussed ( other than by Michael Heseltine , for which- despite Brexit- I retain regard) has been a slowly evolving disaster for the good governance of the country. This is my hobby horse! I congratulate the hon. Member on his maiden speech. Certainly worth congratulations , and welcomes, but given hengo is showing post no 174 , he's hardly a maiden.
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Post by Disgusted Of Tunbridge Wells on Jun 23, 2020 1:19:37 GMT
Historic counties are hot-topics here, I assure you. As long as people stick to them, I'll be happy. I long for the day Berkshire is restored to it's original boundaries. Then you'll agree with me! I am also a fervent Berkshire irredentist and will not rest until the Vale and South Oxon west of the Thames is returned to its rightful place!
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