General Election, June 8th

[Sharpe's Fox]

7 minutes ago, LiberalFox said:

I assumed it was fake news but apparently someone got access to his twitter and wrote that. 

"Got access" yeah and posted just the once which happened to be in reply to an obscure British Humanist post which also happened to be in line with Farron's own beliefs.

 

This is the sort of stuff that gets tweeted when a troll "gets access" to an account 

 

[DJ Barry Hammond]

16 minutes ago, LiberalFox said:

I assumed it was fake news but apparently someone got access to his twitter and wrote that. 

 

Better excuse than Joleon Lescott I suppose!

[The Horse's Mouth]

yeah that is bullshit, his whole twitter feed would be an absolute mess. 

[LiberalFox]

People actually believe he wrote that? .

[Guest MattP]

31 minutes ago, Sharpe's Fox said:

Tories we're going to put a vote through but the SNP said they'd vote against it when usually they wouldn't even vote on English only issues so Tories backed down in the meantime.

Total fcuking hypocrites as well given the laws on hunting are more relaxed in Scotland than here under their watch. 

[Guest]

If may thinks foxhunting is a big and important enough issue that it warrants any sort of mention given brexit, the state of the nhs and the state of public services in general, then the woman clearly has priorities that are hugely wrong.

[Guest MattP]

14 minutes ago, toddybad said:

If may thinks foxhunting is a big and important enough issue that it warrants any sort of mention given brexit, the state of the nhs and the state of public services in general, then the woman clearly has priorities that are hugely wrong.

She was asked a question and answered it.

 

She hasn't mentioned it in a single speech.

[Rincewind]

1 hour ago, toddybad said:

If may thinks foxhunting is a big and important enough issue that it warrants any sort of mention given brexit, the state of the nhs and the state of public services in general, then the woman clearly has priorities that are hugely wrong.

But bringing the subject of foxhunting up takes the public and media attention away from the NHS, social services etc. Credit where its due. She has a good team of advisers.

'Ms May avoid debates, the public Keep criticising JCs dress sense and on any media questions on the NHS answer 'under the last Labour government blah blah blah  and you have this election in the bag.

[Sharpe's Fox]

6 hours ago, MattP said:

Look at this bloody bus, you can barely see the word Conservatives.

 

It's "Theresa May" v "Labour".

 

Ironically is the same bus as the one used in the Remain Campaign

 

[Guest MattP]

26 minutes ago, Sharpe's Fox said:

Ironically is the same bus as the one used in the Remain Campaign

 

And to think I once said you couldn't recycle anything into something good.

[Jon the Hat]

3 hours ago, The Blur said:

I remember that Cameron announced that he will intend to repeal fox hunting ban after he got reelected, what happened afterwards? Did MPs vote to keep the ban in the place?

 

It is ironic how people are appalled at fox hunting but will happily eat animals who were treated inhumanely in slaughterhouses. 

It isn't ironic at all.  We don't eat foxes.

[Jon the Hat]

2 hours ago, LiberalFox said:

People actually believe he wrote that? .

Who else wrote it?  You can't tell me Farron is relevant enough to anything for someone to bother to post it

[LiberalFox]

2 minutes ago, Jon the Hat said:

Who else wrote it?  You can't tell me Farron is relevant enough to anything for someone to bother to post it

 

You don't think anyone would have a motive to discredit the leader of the Lib Dems? He'd just been made party leader and spent considerable time talking to LGBT+ groups to reassure them, I don't believe he'd randomly blurt out homophobia over his official twitter. 

[Guest Dirkster the Fox]

3 hours ago, The Blur said:

I remember that Cameron announced that he will intend to repeal fox hunting ban after he got reelected, what happened afterwards? Did MPs vote to keep the ban in the place?

 

It is ironic how people are appalled at fox hunting but will happily eat animals who were treated inhumanely in slaughterhouses. 

I fully get the reason for being appalled at fox hunting. I also get that many living in urban areas (large towns / cities) tend to be the greater % of those appalled and it just so happens that the greater % of voters in large towns and cities tend to be Labour / liberal voters. Hence Labour introducing it.

 

It also just so happens many of these "townies" appaled at the whole fox hunting process, love their McDonalds and KFC burgers, red/white meat and so on......so I agree with your point here.

 

Rightly or wrongly it is/was for the most part an attack on the more conservative countryside way of life, hidden behind virtue signalling those on left love to do so much... like you say, eating animals through processed death is just fine, but a toff on a horse (like the previous 200 years) and suddenly inhumane death is shocking.

 

[Bryn]

35 minutes ago, Dirkster the Fox said:

I fully get the reason for being appalled at fox hunting. I also get that many living in urban areas (large towns / cities) tend to be the greater % of those appalled and it just so happens that the greater % of voters in large towns and cities tend to be Labour / liberal voters. Hence Labour introducing it.

 

It also just so happens many of these "townies" appaled at the whole fox hunting process, love their McDonalds and KFC burgers, red/white meat and so on......so I agree with your point here.

 

Rightly or wrongly it is/was for the most part an attack on the more conservative countryside way of life, hidden behind virtue signalling those on left love to do so much... like you say, eating animals through processed death is just fine, but a toff on a horse (like the previous 200 years) and suddenly inhumane death is shocking.

 

 

What's your point? Is it a bad thing to attack things which are mercilessly, unnecessarily cruel?

 

If that's conservative countryside values then people with conservative countryside values are cretinous cvnts.

[Foxxed]

5 hours ago, Sharpe's Fox said:

 

The cure for needing a drink is having a drink. The cure for needing sex with men is having sex with men. I have solved it. Tell the born again christians that I have found their cure. It is manufactured in large amounts in Manchester, Brighton and in smaller amounts throughout the country. Also, are photographed tweets stone cold solid evidence? I am politically naive and would appreciate guidance.

[Alf Bentley]

4 hours ago, Sharpe's Fox said:

Ironically is the same bus as the one used in the Remain Campaign

 

 

 

As she was a Remain supporter at the time, maybe Theresa May was in that bus when it wore its previous livery?

She only supported Remain timidly, though, as I recall - cunningly protecting her personal careers, whichever side won.

 

Almost a mirror image of Boris, who seemed to end up on the Leave side out of personal ambition (did you see that his father, brother & sister all supported Remain?)

What would the referendum result have been without his decision (with Gove, IDS, Fox & Gisela, plus a semi-detached Farage)? British politics might have been somewhere very different...

 

[Alf Bentley]

 

Another shameless publicity stunt by Corbyn...

 

[Foxxed]

3 hours ago, Alf Bentley said:

 

Another shameless publicity stunt by Corbyn...

 

Don't discount the high voting turnout demographic of The Fall fans. "Well I was unsure if we should tax those struggling on 80k a year but after I saw he appreciates the drunken ramblings of Manchester's oldest punk I decided to mark my cross in the Labour box while listening to Totally Wired on my refurbished Sony Walkman."

[Guest Dirkster the Fox]

9 hours ago, Bryn said:

 

What's your point? Is it a bad thing to attack things which are mercilesIsly, unnecessarily cruel?

 

If that's conservative countryside values then people with conservative countryside values are cretinous cvnts.

I agree Foxes can be mercilessly unnecessarily cruel. Well documented they kill everything in sight to eat one thing.

 

just because your way of life probably involves nothing around running a farm or dealing with livestock, doesn't mean generations of other individuals don't. I guess until you live in a world where the fox harms your livelihood, you can look on the whole process with sanctimonious scorn you obviously have. Easy to have that view.

 

My point is I'm a townie, I eat my processed death meat, but have foxes in my garden and don't like the idea of what happens to them. I also get the political motivations behind the ban and also appreciate it is not my own personal way of life, you know living on a farm/in the countryside.

[Charl91]

10 hours ago, Dirkster the Fox said:

I fully get the reason for being appalled at fox hunting. I also get that many living in urban areas (large towns / cities) tend to be the greater % of those appalled and it just so happens that the greater % of voters in large towns and cities tend to be Labour / liberal voters. Hence Labour introducing it.

 

It also just so happens many of these "townies" appaled at the whole fox hunting process, love their McDonalds and KFC burgers, red/white meat and so on......so I agree with your point here.

 

Rightly or wrongly it is/was for the most part an attack on the more conservative countryside way of life, hidden behind virtue signalling those on left love to do so much... like you say, eating animals through processed death is just fine, but a toff on a horse (like the previous 200 years) and suddenly inhumane death is shocking.

 

 

If I invented a sport that beating stray dogs with broken bottles while chasing them down with a moped, it would, quite rightly, be illegal.

 

But as soon as you bring "tradition" (and more importantly, rich people) into the equation, then it's "Muh noble sport!!" and a "way of life". Don't talk about it being an attack on "Toffs", as if they're somehow getting the rough end of the stick. The only reason it has been allowed to go on for so long is BECAUSE it's a "toff" sport; if this had been a sport enjoyed by the average working class folk, do you even think there would be the remotest possibility of it being unbanned?

 

 

[Guest MattP]

8 hours ago, Alf Bentley said:

 

 

As she was a Remain supporter at the time, maybe Theresa May was in that bus when it wore its previous livery?

She only supported Remain timidly, though, as I recall - cunningly protecting her personal careers, whichever side won.

 

Almost a mirror image of Boris, who seemed to end up on the Leave side out of personal ambition (did you see that his father, brother & sister all supported Remain?)

What would the referendum result have been without his decision (with Gove, IDS, Fox & Gisela, plus a semi-detached Farage)? British politics might have been somewhere very different...

 

Or she was just a closet leaver who knew she couldn't campaign for it being the Home Secretary and keep her job as it looked likely Remain would win?

 

Although I suppose that was also protecting her career...either way, who knew politicians were cynical

[Guest MattP]

Matt's cartoons have been tremendous over the last few weeks

[Rincewind]

There were sports involving ordinary folk. Dog fights cocker fighting to name two and all have been banned and fox hunting remained. Why? Because those voting  may have taken part.

[Bryn]

2 hours ago, Dirkster the Fox said:

I agree Foxes can be mercilessly unnecessarily cruel. Well documented they kill everything in sight to eat one thing.

 

just because your way of life probably involves nothing around running a farm or dealing with livestock, doesn't mean generations of other individuals don't. I guess until you live in a world where the fox harms your livelihood, you can look on the whole process with sanctimonious scorn you obviously have. Easy to have that view.

 

My point is I'm a townie, I eat my processed death meat, but have foxes in my garden and don't like the idea of what happens to them. I also get the political motivations behind the ban and also appreciate it is not my own personal way of life, you know living on a farm/in the countryside.

 

So control the population then, if we must, but don't ****ing chase them until they're petrified then tear them to pieces.

 

Your argument is retarded, it's like saying we shouldn't have resisted Mussolini because he wasn't as bad as Hitler.

 

My ex-girlfriend's father was a farmer and landowner in Powys, he and most of his community despise fox hunting. They park their Range Rovers all over his land, block thoroughfares, destroy hedges and fences, terrify the livestock with the noise and commotion and treat the landowners with utter disdain. It's got nothing to do with population control and everything to do with being selfish, elitist, cruel people who think they can do whatever they want. Just like most Tories.