The Conservatives have claimed Good Friday

As regards finding out how to leave. You stop logging in. I've done it a couple of times, it's very effective.

If you come on the Politics threads, expect a debate, there's no point in complaining if you're in a minority or out-argued. There are lots at threads where you can have a cosy chat. Personally, I like The Terror one. Or Line of Duty.

Anniebach

GransNet hasn’t been a nice place for sometime, hence the loss of many posters who were here from the start.

Well that was certainly true when we had multiple anti- MM threads full of gossip, rumour, speculation and bile. Or did I miss the Christian charity, forgiveness and love with which they were overflowing?

GrannyGravy13

We are only allowed our opinion if it fits with the anti-Conservative rhetoric which has taken over the N & P threads so much so that they are now effectively an echo chamber.

Try starting an SNP thread. Then you'll see venom ?

GrannyGravy13

We are only allowed our opinion if it fits with the anti-Conservative rhetoric which has taken over the N & P threads so much so that they are now effectively an echo chamber.

It wouldn't be the only forum here that is an echo chamber, GrannyGravy13.

It's very sad to see people entrenched in their own beliefs who are so threatened by anyone believing anything differently that they either get abusive, ignore or get offended /angry/upset. In the Estrangement forums, for example "the wounded" are going round in circles of pain and not helping each other but enabling each other to stay the same. It's not a support forum, but a discussion forum for the same few people to chat about their lives.

I won't be silenced by people who try to silence me. Unless I find a way to delete the account, I'll pop up now and then just to be annoying haha.

"I won't be silenced by people who try to silence me. "

Have a wee check of this thread and see who was told to "give it a rest", and by whom.

Clue: it wasn't the Conservatives who were being told to be quiet.

It's important that none of us are silenced and all of us are heard. We have all lost enough of our rights and freedoms this year already. We need to fight against anyone who tries to edit us because we will not be edited. We are valid. Our thoughts are valid. Our feelings are valid. Anyone who tries to invalidate those are the ones with a problem.

I suppose there will always be people who aren't tolerant or understanding of anyone who isn't a carbon copy of them (I hope I never become like this) I might have missed something and don't have the time to check back at the moment as I have to go out. Can you message me or quote it please Alegrias1?

What’s changed is no longer Is it - attack the post not the poster

Ramadan commences 12/04/2021 no doubt all parties will post messages of support.

I won't be re-posting OnwardandUpward and I won't be PMing it to you either. Neither of those seem very wise.

Politics threads are very rarely about invalidating people's feelings. They often end up being about pointing things out to people almost ad infinitum when they either fail to understand a simple post or continue down their own little alley which doesn't make any sense at all.

Say, for instance, not being able to understand the difference between cultural appropriation and sending people good wishes on their religious festivals.

Well they didn't mention Passover (27th March-4th April) so I don't suppose they remembered the Jews either.

I might be wrong, but don't think its a party-wide thing. Just someone's Twitter banner? He probably made it himself to reflect his own beliefs?

OK Alegrias1 I will read it more and see if I can figure it out. Thanks for your honesty and wisdom.

Political parties mentioning Passover:

www.libdemvoice.org/ed-daveys-message-for-passover-chag-sameach-67369.html

twitter.com/theSNP/status/1375774398658002944

www.jpost.com/diaspora/uk-labour-leader-wishes-jews-a-happy-passover-663393

Not the Conservatives though?

If you google Conservatives and Passover you get a whole different set of answers to what I was looking for.

Boris Johnson wished the Jewish Community Chag Sameach.

oops - found one:

twitter.com/conservatives/status/1375559378485575683

MaizieD
janeainsworth
I’ll just leave this here.....perhaps we should leave the politicians to their dirty point scoring and cultural appropriation and let them get on with it.
Yet another poster who has completely missed the point

Seeing something differently = completely missing the point.

I’m suitably humbled, as I’m sure all the others who have missed the point are.

GrannyGravy13

Ramadan commences 12/04/2021 no doubt all parties will post messages of support.

You’re still missing the point imo. And I’m not even sure that messages of support are routinely posted for Ramadan by political parties but for Eid. But who knows what will happen this year?

Just because I do not agree with you suziewoozie does not mean that I have missed the point

This caused an upset a few years ago. Let's not just blame Conservatives. As has been mentioned, maybe all political parties should steer clear of religious festivals.

www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/labour-under-fire-for-tweeting-passover-message-featuring-bread-a4122131.html

Why can it not be accepted, no one can own/ claim Good Friday, Christ died for all.

suziewoozie

Anniebach

GransNet hasn’t been a nice place for sometime, hence the loss of many posters who were here from the start.

Well that was certainly true when we had multiple anti- MM threads full of gossip, rumour, speculation and bile. Or did I miss the Christian charity, forgiveness and love with which they were overflowing?

My thoughts exactly SW. It has been said on this thread that atheists think of Jesus and Santa Claus in the same way and that wasn’t very nice. As for the OP, I see it as an unthinking gaffe with no particular political agenda.

Anniebach

Why can it not be accepted, no one can own/ claim Good Friday, Christ died for all.

Hear, hear

I did wonder about the wording of the OP

Imo I think it might be better all round if political parties weren’t jumping on the ‘happy everything’ bandwagon which has grown exponentially in recent years, fuelled by Twitter. Imagine the terror now of missing one festival out and the opprobrium that would rain down as the omission was analysed and dissected as to its meaning. If individual MPs felt they absolutely had to post their best wishes for the world ( or at least their followers) to see they could no it with whatever image they wanted without the name and logo of their political parties.
Messages from the Pope, A of C and any other leader of a Christian group are imo the only truly acceptable ones to mark important Christian festivals. The politicians should just butt out or at least leave their party logos at home.

I agree suziewoozie