Election coverage

Either one asks a genuine question and follows up links and informative suggestions, or one continues to promote the image of 'ditsy airhead'.

Is it sensible to protest that posters use expressions and vocabulary that I don't understand when I don't make any effort to look up the meaning of such expressions?

Is it reasonable to expect that intelligent, articulate posters should 'dumb down' to my level when I make no attempt to raise my own level of debate?

durhamjen and mcem

You might even learn that the Conservative party is also referred to as the Tory party, not "Torie" <sigh>

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What?

That is why I no longer read her links.

Unwarranted attack, soontobe , dj and I may not sing from the same hymn sheet all the time, but I respect her right to express her views and appreciate her informed comment. I believe that she would likewise respect my right to express contrary views(=opposite) and we could debate them without getting personal. If someone has gone to the trouble of providing background reading in the way of an appropriate link, I am grateful. Of course you may choose not to read them but how will you ever expand your knowledge and understanding if you do not have an open mind?

Sometimes I wonder whether certain threads are being de-railed on purpose.

It's pretty obvious that one or two are at the moment, but no doubt sanity will prevail eventually...

Isn't there a word for that?

Yes Soutra but just like the name in the Harry Potter stories, it should never be said (or written in this case) out loud.

dj herself says it. I am merely repeating it.

ok. I think I will stay off all political threads.
I dont want to derail them or be thought of derailing them as I am not.

Good idea. Stop digging!

I can't access that link of djen's, I just get something that looks like a piece of lego and if i tap it nothing happens. It may be this tab.

If someone went to Eton does it necessarily follow that they are Tory (post re Lansdale) ? Many Labourites came from very privileged backgrounds and many Tories from impoverished or humble backgrounds. And surely a good reporter for the BBC or ITV should be impartial whatever his private political thoughts.
Just a thought.

I agree, rose, and I think the idea that most BBC reporters are right-wing is ridiculous. Those at the top are notoriously left-wing, as Jeremy Clarkson said in an interview before he left Newsnight.

If you watch the BBC evening news reports and the ITV ones on the same night, ITV stands out as more impartial.

Which one roseq? The link to Lilygran?
Someone on the link said he could not see it, and Murphy told him to try a different browser. I use Firefox.

An excellent article about Ed Miliband and his stance on non-doms.

www.politics.co.uk/blogs/2015/04/08/non-doms-miliband-has-found-his-voice

Shows the difference between Labour under Blair and Labour now.
If he carries on like this, I might even vote Labour again, although it will not matter, as my Labour MP will get in with or without my vote.

Now if only he'd agree to not replacing Trident.....

Roseq., Lansdale was a reporter at the Times for ten years before he came to the BBC. Not many socialist reporters at the Times, I wouldn't think.
Or are there?

durhamjen
Can you explain why EM agreeing to get rid of Trident would make such a massive difference to how you might vote?
Shouldn't we retain a nuclear deterrent in this increasingly troubled world?

Would we use it? I don't think so.

It was your link djen, on the pc the top was covered by an advert which I couldn't get rid of and on the tab I just got a lego block (but then the tab is weird). I could try chrome as we have that although I dislike it. I am always reluctant to download anything else as the pc is very old and very slow.

djen Re Lansdale, no there are probably not many leftwingers working for the Times but the printed press has obvious political biases; however I would have thought that if you work for the BBC you should not show your political affiliations in an interview otherwise you are not doing your job properly, and I would have thought he would be professional.

Tam Dalyell, known as the Labour MP who was a thorn in Thatcher's flesh over the Belgrano sinking, was an old Etonian and by no means right wing! He was there with an old friend of mine who was on the same wavelength.

Another old Etonian, well known as an environmentalist, and at one time the youngest Labour peer in the Lords, is Peter, Lord Melchett.