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Post by carlton43 on Jan 20, 2023 22:48:15 GMT
I have less than zero interest in the genitalia of strangers, unless out life drawing; then I try to 'get them right'! Let's hope there's no transgender models in your life class! Why? I draw what is there or 'Not' there, in which case it is not drawn. Art is not about polemic it is about a personal view of reality expressed in an individualistic manner. I have drawn a fat man who we thought had serious infection of pox, and a very old thin man with a dripping cock. I know my genitalia. I have been round the studio more than once!
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Post by carlton43 on Jan 20, 2023 22:20:13 GMT
In my opinion, which I fully appreciate many of you won't share, Rosie Duffield has been very fortunate to retain the Labour Whip without any warnings in the last 2 to 3 years. I'm no extremist on either side of this debate, but to me sometimes she has been very close to crossing the line of what I and many Labour Party members regard as acceptable language on this issue. I naturally have huge sympathy for her in terms of her being a victim of coercive control, and that's where her bravery was really shown - in her frank address to the House of Commons describing her awful experiences. That however doesn't alter the fact that I think some of her language has at times either crossed the line, or been very close to it, and I for one will be relaxed about the prospect of her not standing again. Yes. We don't share it. And your opinion is totally vile but in your defence, your party is going through a particularly stupid and vile sequence of vileness. Anti-Semitism on a wholesale scale not enough and now you hound people not subscribing to total blithering idiocy over gender.
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Post by carlton43 on Jan 20, 2023 21:54:08 GMT
You have quite a talent for utter gormlessness there. You must cherish that and nourish it. It may be all you have? constructive... Thanks. I like to be of service and to please.
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Post by carlton43 on Jan 20, 2023 21:14:31 GMT
And inversely , about you! That he doesn't have an unusual fascination with the genitalia of strangers ? I have less than zero interest in the genitalia of strangers, unless out life drawing; then I try to 'get them right'!
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Post by carlton43 on Jan 20, 2023 21:03:33 GMT
You are just doubling down on the silliness. My point is general and the odd individual is irrelevant as you well know. One can take issue and place a high priority on them even if they have no personall relevance. Get over it. The males who made a life's work over women's suffrage for instance. I am entitled to consider the culture war at large to be my peiority. didn't realise I was talking to a man who has made it his life's work to fight for women's suffrage You have quite a talent for utter gormlessness there. You must cherish that and nourish it. It may be all you have?
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Post by carlton43 on Jan 20, 2023 16:48:28 GMT
That is nit-picking silly and you know it. I mean that an issue can be of vital importance without it actually affecting your own life. You know that is what I meant and you know that it is perfectly reasonable, possible and true. Stop havering. I don't think it is nit picking anybody can find themselves in poverty and homeless. I've definitely not been able to pay my rent and bills You are just doubling down on the silliness. My point is general and the odd individual is irrelevant as you well know. One can take issue and place a high priority on them even if they have no personal relevance. Get over it. The males who made a life's work over women's suffrage for instance. I am entitled to consider the culture war at large to be my priority.
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Post by carlton43 on Jan 20, 2023 16:33:48 GMT
Poverty and homelessness is a major issue to Labour MPs of course and rightly. Does it actually affect them? some of them yes. Jayne Dunn who stood for central was homeless for a time That is nit-picking silly and you know it. I mean that an issue can be of vital importance without it actually affecting your own life. You know that is what I meant and you know that it is perfectly reasonable, possible and true. Stop havering.
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Post by carlton43 on Jan 20, 2023 16:20:41 GMT
a major issue to people it affects the least Poverty and homelessness is a major issue to Labour MPs of course and rightly. Does it actually affect them?
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Post by carlton43 on Jan 20, 2023 16:09:45 GMT
I don't see what's so brave about taking an anti-trans line that'll have practically the entire British media falling over saying you're right. Standing up to the majority in your party who are giving her a hard time and in certain cases intimidation and open abuse for what she believes to be right and correct.
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Post by carlton43 on Jan 20, 2023 15:40:12 GMT
That may say more about you than about the issue. And inversely , about you!
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Post by carlton43 on Jan 20, 2023 15:30:43 GMT
It's a profoundly tedious culture war that distracts from real issues. In many respects it has become THE major issue to many of us.
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Post by carlton43 on Jan 20, 2023 12:32:33 GMT
A very valuable MP and quite a brave woman to be standng up to the many dreadful bigots in her own party and across the whole spectrum of our present utterly disgusting society bent on supporting filth and perversion wherever they see it. This is a culture war and it has to be won to preserve sanity and decency. It is of vital importance. Lloyd Russell Moyle is the most disgusting piece of shit ever to 'grace' the HOC in my entire life. He uttely beneath all contempt and.
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Post by carlton43 on Jan 17, 2023 16:46:20 GMT
This is a large consituency covering a central portion of Highland Council area. At about 12,000 square kilometers it must be much the same as the whole of East Anglia. It stretches from an extensive Atlantic coastline on the West to a more restricted North Sea coastline largely being the Black Isle just to the north-east of Inverness. It has the most northerly SFL team 'Ross County' at Dingwall the former county town of Rossshire. It is the largest of all Westminster constituencies. Its sheer size causes problems with the max and min criteria for constituency creation, so as to maintain electorate size and to attempt to constrain max area. That has led to a number of iterations since initial creation in 1832 (from the previous two seats of Ross-shire and of Cromartyshire) into the single seat of Ross and Cromarty lasting from 1832-1983. During that 150-years there were just 12 MPs spanning Whig, Conservative, Liberal, Crofters' Party, Liberal National, National Labour, Independent Liberal, and National Liberal. It was Conservative held by Hamish Gray (who held various ministerial positions) at abolition. The second iteration was as Ross, Cromarty and Skye 1983-1997 during which time it was held by Charles Kennedy who won it for the new SDP as a young man and held it for the LDs until abolition. The third iteration as Ross, Skye and Inverness West 1997-2005 was also held by Charles Kennedy for the LDs during his Leadership of that party. The fourth iteration has been as Ross, Skye and Lochaber 2005-to the present with the long-serving Charles Kennedy losing his seat in the crushing SNP rout for so many Scottish MPs of 2015 that saw Ian Blackford win by 5,124 (12.2%) majority, from that party's previous narrow 15.1% of poll 3rd place only 2-votes behind Labour! A quite stunning victory upon which the party has built to the present position. It became the 9th different representaion as label for the MP of this seat. It has had notable representation and seen many strong characters and big political events. The famous 1936 by-election between the winner Malcolm MacDonald (son of immediate former PM Ramsey MacDonald) and of Randolph Churchill (son of shortly to be PM Winston Churchill) who crashed to a poor third behind a strong Labour challenge. Also the decisive victory of a young Kennedy for the young SDP in what otherwise was the excellent Conservative year of 1983. Plus the Crofters' Party decisive win in 1885 against an official Liberal in a straight fight! There have been heady days for a discerning and involved electorate who are very concerned with policies and character quite as much as with party. This seat has mixed terrain from some good farmland in the extreme east to the predominant open sheepwalk and increasing forestation in much of the rest. The Torridon mountains run through the constituency. Most of the electorate lives in the Black Isle townships, Greater Dingwall, the Lochaber coast and in the townships of the well populated and very large Isle of Skye (now tenuosly connected by a road bridge at the extreme southern end). Despite the huge size the population is largely quite homogenous and with many interests and concerns in common. It is an area with high incidence of 4WD vehicles, trailers, shotguns, chainsaws, generators and holding down multiple part-time jobs depending on season and local requirement. These are quiet, steadfast, competent people who know how to cope against adversity. It has hundreds of miles of single tracks roads with passing places, huge open vistas, intimidating hills, very high rainfall, many periods of very high winds and much winter snow away from coasts and on any high ground. It is an amazing area. It has often given the feeling of a settled state consituency with stolid support for its MP; yet will then change to another persuasion with a seamless transition. The Conservative, Liberals/SDP/LD and now SNP have looked very secure for a time! Just at present the SNP appear to be perfectly safe. The proposed alterations made for the new constituency are unlikely to make much difference. The surrounding seats are SNP strong (even when not held by them) and possibly still trending towards them. But deeper medium term to long term ..... literally .... who knows?
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Post by carlton43 on Jan 17, 2023 14:51:48 GMT
It would be really helpful, now there are only four Scottish seats left without a profile of all the 650 in the UK, if we could definitively clarify: - whether Clark is still intending to do as profile of Gordon as he suggested above on 5 October 2022? - whether carlton43 is still intending to do as profile of Ross, Skye & Lochaber as he suggested in the thread with that title on 20 May 2020? - whether someone really did do profiles of West Aberdeenshire & Kincardine, and Banff & Buchan, as the existence of those threads suggests - I believe The Bishop thinks @uhacalthing did - and whether these are to be restored or re-done by the original author? Now if the answers to any of the above are 'no', I am prepared to have a go (if no one else is). However I really do believe that all those mentioned above are much better qualified than myself because of their extensive local connections and knowledge, so I would prefer it if they could be so kind as to help. If not, then I'm afraid it might have to be me, simply for the sake of completeness! Thank you for the prompt Robert and apologies for the delay. I shall do it soon.
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Post by carlton43 on Jan 16, 2023 8:50:03 GMT
Has she changed party allegiances or is it more that she’s got contempt for all politicians now? Surely the more obvious conclusion is that she has not changed one whit, but the bloody awful Conservative Party has given up any pretence of being in any way conservative about anything?
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Post by carlton43 on Jan 14, 2023 13:36:59 GMT
I didn’t mean electorally, more in terms of the towns and countryside within the seat. It was an attempt to spark a discussion about which seat would be the most boring to live in! Surely that's almost entirely down to personal preference? If you don't drive and you're not interested in the outdoors, living in Ross, Skye, and Lochaber would be rather boring; if you're an introvert and don't like cities then you'd not want to live in Battersea. Personally, I'd say the most boring seat would be somewhere like Luton North - it doesn't even have much poltical interest any more, and most of it is rather bland suburbia of a not especially interesting town. It does get a few points for having the source of the River Lea, but loses them for having (IIRC) the fewest pubs out of any seat in England.
But even then, I'm sure there is something interesting going on there - very few places are objectively boring. Even the Fens, whose defining trait is the utterly flat and monotonous countryside, becomes interesting by virtue of just how dull the terrain is!
I agree entirely, especially about Luton North. And I actually lived in both your other choices and agree your reasoning.
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Post by carlton43 on Jan 12, 2023 13:29:27 GMT
He's a fat git! We all know it. He's also 100% correct in his statements, and those clumsily accusing him of direct speech rather than reported speech are guilty of crimes against rhetoric. Very few people are ever 100% correct on anything ever. His mode of expressing his view was shall we say less than optimal? Never invoke a comparison with Hitler, Holocaust, or the SS.
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Post by carlton43 on Jan 12, 2023 0:00:36 GMT
I've met him a few times. He doesn't really fit your c (but certainly not a or b!!). He led a pretty successful business. He's sharp as opposed to clever (but he's run into severe problems with his business since both his divorce and his taking a back-seat role). He has some wrong-headed opinions (in my view), expresses them loudly, and has a strong sense of entitlement. He may well have put on a bit of weight but he wasn't fat when I knew him. He is short and there are some who think there's a "small man syndrome". He displayed some of its supposed characteristics. He's perhaps portly rather than outright fat. He's a fat git! We all know it.
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Post by carlton43 on Jan 11, 2023 23:37:38 GMT
No. He really is quite that thick. The Conservatives went through a phase of recruiting a) smooth, well-spoken, well-connected, liberal, total airheads; b) smooth, well spoken, fairly erudite, Metopolitan, fairly woke managerialists; and c) thick, fat, gormless, ill-spoken but very right-wing total plonkers. Guess which he is? Dare I ask how long this phase lasted? I suppose the core Cameroonism?
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Post by carlton43 on Jan 11, 2023 15:41:25 GMT
The parliamentary equivalent of ‘suicide by cop’? Bridgen must have known these comments would be too hot to handle and he’s not exactly in credit anyway. Sounds more like a plea to be released than anything else. No. He really is quite that thick. The Conservatives went through a phase of recruiting a) smooth, well-spoken, well-connected, liberal, total airheads; b) smooth, well spoken, fairly erudite, Metopolitan, fairly woke managerialists; and c) thick, fat, gormless, ill-spoken but very right-wing total plonkers. Guess which he is?
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