The Conservatives have claimed Good Friday

Agree with Suzie and Annie

When did all this start? Was it usual for the government of the day to give seasonal greetings, and it just mushroomed from there?

I wonder if there would be an outcry if any party didn't send good wishes to everybody.

MP’s come and go, for the majority of people who choose faith (as opposed to indoctrination from birth) that faith will last their lifetime.

I can't imagine Jesus getting in a twist over a Twitter post tbh. He would probably be busy elsewhere doing important stuff like changing people's lives for the better.

My point, they can try but they cannot succeed. It's not about them and it never has been and never will be despite their attempts. No one is fooled by a badge on Twitter or an agenda that is clearly all about them.

Gannygangan

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

Crossed posts - sometimes on GN we ( all included) get so wrapped up in arguing about something that we don’t stop and question the basic issue. I mean what on earth are some politicians playing at? Scoring Brownie points?

I agree suziewoozie

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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?

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.

oops - found one:

twitter.com/conservatives/status/1375559378485575683

Boris Johnson wished the Jewish Community Chag Sameach.

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

Not the Conservatives though?

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

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

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?

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.

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

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

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?