to ask why several prominent members seem to have vanished?!?

I have been on Gransnet almost from the very beginning but now I don't post often and the reason for this is that many topics broached on new threads have been discussed over the past seven years probably more than once, though new members are not to know this and shouldn't be put off introducing topics that interest them. Please understand that I am not complaining. It's inevitable that the same issues recur time after time.

Maybe Farage and BoJo are better TV, drawer more viewers because they have greater entertainment value, than Corbyn. Had you considered that, jura?

Yes, I am being cynical.

drawer draw

Agree Anno- although Brexit has never been discussed before ;)

I won't know who has been insulted and who has left as I never get involved in political threads, and now I know exactly why.
However I do miss PRINTMISS and Imperfect and Swanny who frequented the kitchen and it slightly niggles me that we will never know why they left.
There are of course others further back especially a couple from my neck of the woods and I do wonder about them too.

I suppose it would be nice if people said goodbye when they left and gave a reason. Is the term used 'ghosting? ' It would be good if we did know why they left, but also might be sad if they were ill or worse. We wish them well.

Well yes- but then some will make virulent attacks on them to which they can't respond. And they will be accused of 'flouncing to attract attention'.

Sadly we can't ask them- as they are no longer contactable by pm. But yes, I do wish them well, and miss their knowlegeable input and well researched links. I live abroad, and I do not have anyone here to exchange info and opinions about political issues in the UK- despite being directly affected by them, and our family and friends too.

Got plenty of people here for a good chinwag, coffee, glass of wine, meal, walk, visit - etc, so it is not what attracts me to GN.

Whitewave did say goodbye
....... So goodbye to those folk who I have enjoyed reading.......
5th April on the controversial thread.

We know ww chose to leave, I just hope Dj is well

I used to like the political threads but I don’t read the ones that are just Corbyn bashing or how marvellous our government and the daily Mail is, as it just gets so repetitive. I miss some of the better informed contributors who seem to have disappeared. Maybe I’ll just stick to the fluffy non controversial threads.

ah thanks, as said, been busy and had not seen that post mostly.

Annie- how do you know others have left - could you please share your info- thanks.

Stirring - pulled - hmm why?

Geri- I don't really need the fluffy stuff- so GN would lose all its attraction and interest for me.

Well I have seen very few posts about how brilliant the government is and how good the DM is. I must be reading the wrong threads.

I haven’t seen any threads recently at all about ‘ how marvellous the government is’ ( although compared to Corbyn....)
And none about the DM either.

jura, left the politics thread , not the forum, and I certaintly will not name anyone

lemongrove, you clearly wrote

'They chose to leave ' - so it is fair to ask how you can ascertain this, apart from the one who did say goodbye.

The very idea that GNHQ is somehow being influenced by shady people, who are also influencing the BBC would be funny except it isn't.
I'm watching Channel 4 news as I type (so no doubt I'll make errors). Ch4 is my go to news channel, it's so much better than any other news channel imo. I suspect because it simply focusses on the news of the day and is a once a day news programme. The BBC now has poor news coverage, regurgitating the same brief news coverage endlessly. CH4 analysis and its great journalists makes it the business so far as I'm concerned.

You don't read those threads, Geri because they are not there to read, so you are not missing anything by avoiding them.
There are many threads about how marvellous Jeremy Corbyn is - that certainly gets repetitive. Maybe the posters who have vanished became bored with repeating themselves?

so will we be left with folk who are slightly to the left of Attila the hun? Anyone left wing left?

Depends on what you see as left wing paddyann. I've always voted Labour, at times been active in the LP but left a year after JC was elected Leader. I saw him speak at the hustings 3 times, he spoke well and had huge support from the audiences. I didn't 't vote for him because I want a Labour government and lived through the Foot years and onwards. I did not believe JC could convince enough none left leaning voters to vote for a party that would result in him as PM. My views have been very unpopular amongst many other left leaners. So I may not be left enough I fear but I'm certainly not a tory.

Thank you, Elrel

We will be left with a mix of people from across the whole spectrum from left to right, paddyann. Losing three from one end of the bell-curve out of the hundreds (thousands?) of GN members won't change what the rest think. It may be that any posting vacuum will be filled by people who didn't post much before. Those may be from left, centre-left, centre, centre-right, right, or zig-zagging from side to side. Until they post, we won't know.

Elegran, you are right in saying that "we will be left with a mix of people across the spectrum from left to right", but forgive if I'm wrong in this, but surely that is based on political threads?

There are threads on other topics, where surely ones political inclinations are of no relevance?

(I've yet to meet a pet with political leanings)

That's quite right, phoenix. Which is why I questioned the op's 'prominent posters' wording.

My Jack Russells are anarchists. Does that count?