Isabel Oakeshott for Prime Minister

Just because a persons political affiliation is different does not make them vile or bad
I m afraid it does if they are part of a political persuasion who preach race hate, division of the country, mysongeny , (the Andrew Tates Nigel Farages of the world) people who want to divide the country and put hatred in peoples lives who want to destroy temples and mosques who want Britain to be white and women back behind the kitchen sink
Reminds me of Enoch Powell, Hitler spreading hate and the people followed and probably at the time a lot said he’s not bad just wants the best for his country

I don't know this lady, but I have found, generally, that when people say "He/she talks a lot of sense" what they mean is "says things with which I agree" .
There is nothing wrong in this, but it doesn't make one set of utterances more "sense" than any other.

Just because a persons political affiliation is different does not make them vile or bad.

This is very true. I've known people whose political views were diametrically opposite to mine, but they were lovely people and we simply agreed to disagree. Having met and, as I said, worked beside IO, albeit for a short time, I judge her on how she treated those around her - and it wasn't nice.

Baggs

^You never judge a person by their sitting room manners for heavens sake!!^

Course you do!

Among other things.

The point GG's making though is that it's possible to "violently" disagree politically without being uncivilised.

And most people, even most gransnetters, are like that.

Thank you Baggs

Perhaps I am not explaining myself well today.

Baggs

^I am just so over all of the mud slinging and abusing of anyone who isn’t in the same political bubble as our own.^

One of my lodgings in Oxford was at the house of a famous psychology professor and his wife. When there was an election, one of them put up Conservative posters and the other put up Lib Dem posters. They stayed married and were very civilised.

My parents 😃
One Labour, very vociferous , one quietly Tory.

I voted Liberal when I was old enough.

You never judge a person by their sitting room manners for heavens sake!!

Course you do!

Among other things.

The point GG's making though is that it's possible to "violently" disagree politically without being uncivilised.

And most people, even most gransnetters, are like that.

I am just so over all of the mud slinging and abusing of anyone who isn’t in the same political bubble as our own.

One of my lodgings in Oxford was at the house of a famous psychology professor and his wife. When there was an election, one of them put up Conservative posters and the other put up Lib Dem posters. They stayed married and were very civilised.

OK then Trump and the Proud boys, Bannon and white supremacists.

I expect that they are all jolly nice when you meet them.

But their actions always belie their apparent niceness.

You never judge a person by their sitting room manners for heavens sake!!

Whitewavemark2

gg13

Hitler, Mussolini, Putin, etc are all known for their conviviality etc.

It is actions or actions as a result of rhetoric that matters.

Farage has been implicated by the security services for stirring violence this week.

How can you separate the two?

I wouldn’t compare Nigel Farage to those three for a start.

Hitler and Mussolini were of a totally different time, not really comparable to today’s world.

Putin, well I wouldn’t compare anyone to him other than Kim Jong-un, they both rule by fear and relying on the masses not to be aware of the world outside of their own.

(I met Nigel Farage years ago, not recently)

I am just tired of all the nonsense that if someone isn’t in my gang they must be bad. It’s not good for the country or the world in general.

Life's a bleach!

gg13

Hitler, Mussolini, Putin, etc are all known for their conviviality etc.

It is actions or actions as a result of rhetoric that matters.

Farage has been implicated by the security services for stirring violence this week.

How can you separate the two?

Whitewavemark2

She is pretty awful though.

Is she though?

If you didn’t know her politics and met her you might get on with her.

Nigel Farage used to drink in one of our friends pubs, people who had no idea who he was thought he was a top bloke

He was definitely convivial, extremely intelligent and articulate. I disagree with his politics but honestly couldn’t say that in person he was vile, awful or bad

I am just so over all of the mud slinging and abusing of anyone who isn’t in the same political bubble as our own.

I have friends of all political perspectives, they are not vile individuals because they do not vote the same as I do.

Partisan bias is the root of many problems here in UK and around the world, look at the USA.

She's often on GB News. She toned her speech since the start of the election campaign I think.

She is pretty awful though.

Ms Oakeshott, has achieved many things in her life, one in particular was persuading Vicky Pryce to implicate her husband the Lib Dem MP and Cabinet Minister Chris Huhne in having committed the offence of perverting the course of justice. Leading to the case of Pryce v Huhne. Both were convicted and imprisoned.

She has been Political Editor of The Sunday Times, Daily Mails Editor-at-large.

Amongst other things the New Statesmen named her as the 32nd most influential right-wing political figure in the U.K.

Just because a persons political affiliation is different does not make them vile or bad.

If you live in an area with a high crime rate I suppose they offer some sort of answer, right or not. I really sympathise with people who are afraid to live amongst violence and crime.

BlueBelle

Janejudge me neither I ve not heard of her but if she’s anything at all to do with awful Reform I m glad I haven’t heard of her
Hideous people

I know several people who voted reform out of frustration with the other parties, they are not and never have been hideous people

Is she the youngish blonde woman who appears on YouTube?
I wouldn’t want her as a PM but she would be a good opposition MP because she talks well, whether or not you agree with her view. A bit like Nige really.

BlueBelle

Janejudge me neither I ve not heard of her but if she’s anything at all to do with awful Reform I m glad I haven’t heard of her
Hideous people

Yes!

Janejudge me neither I ve not heard of her but if she’s anything at all to do with awful Reform I m glad I haven’t heard of her
Hideous people

JaneJudge

I don't stay up late enough these days

You can watch it earlier on iplayer now- though it isn't back until September!

Although I had never heard of her, I imagine she one of those who live in the past wanting 'my country back', whatever that means as no one person owns a Country. They fear immigration and stir up any discord they can dredge up.

Callistemon213

MissInterpreted
This could be fun!

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It could indeed!

My bad, I tend not to keep up with her shenanigans

Callistemon213

She's often on Question Time.

I’ll have to try and stay awake. 😂💤😴