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Misleading forum posts

Am really fed up with many people going 'off piste' on posts.  Will Sweet started off ok then went on to many different themes.  120 posts.  Comparatively few re Will Sweet.  What had Dianne Abbott to do with anything.  I had already put up a new post re Dianne Abbott and son yet there were many comments under Will sweet.Plenty of other comments not really to do with him but incompetence of Tories in general and Diane Abbott in particular. Please, please,please, stick to the subject

Barbara Shillabeer ● 2533d33 Comments

Good luck with that Barbara.

Paul Doorly ● 2533d

I agree with you, the ‘Will Sweet’ thread has turned into an absolute goulash. A ‘Putney hunt’ that twists and turns like a hare on the run.....and the pack has broken loose. Not sure that blowing your whistle will make much difference now.Good fun though.

Paul Doorly ● 2533d

I have pointed out deviations before but without success so I've given up and just go with the flow allowed them 😺

Michael Ixer ● 2533d

Agree that there’s not much you can do when a thread takes on a life of its own, and goes wherever the mood takes it.It is a pity though, that some good points get buried deep in the thread.Maybe they will surface again in a more focussed debate.

Paul Doorly ● 2533d

"Am really fed up with many people going 'off piste' on posts." "Please, please,please, stick to the subject".Perhaps Jonathan Callaway would be willing to chair the Forum, after his success with the hustings?

David Ainsworth ● 2533d

David would be a good chair to the forum but every time there is an important issue like a GE, he goes to the cinema for the night :-)

Paul Game ● 2533d

My fees are very reasonable!

Jonathan Callaway ● 2533d

"My fees are very reasonable!"You'd need an incentive?

David Ainsworth ● 2533d

@BarbaraA thread headed Abbott was started yesterday so why the need to start another one on the same subject today? And why such a nasty personal attack on her and her son?

Jane Carter ● 2533d

I fully agree, Jane. The gratuitous attack on Diane Abbot was below the belt.In keeping with the spirit of focussed threads, did you see Boris being interviewed by Peston a short while ago?My impression is that Boris has revealed his absolute inability to engage and respond to questions put to him. He gurns, blusters and repeats his slogans as if we are all utter morons. If he really had a compelling case to make, then now is the time to do it. He fails disastrously.Talk about the Maybot! What is Boris? He’s ten times more robotic than May. Anyway, again, in the spirit of a focussed thread, I think Fleur Anderson would really carry on Justine’s work as regards opposing the Heathrow expansion and be a very competent and passionate representative for Putney.

Paul Doorly ● 2533d

Daily Express 4/1/19:-"Brexiteers left fuming over harsh Jacob Rees-Mogg message in idyllic countryside spot.Brexiteers were left fuming after a giant sign appeared on a slag heap in Midsomer Norton saying: “Get Mogg out”."So a slag heap is an "idyllic countryside spot."These two headlines are one above the other. The Tories couldn't lie straight in bed!

David Ainsworth ● 2533d

"He gurns, blusters and repeats his slogans as if we are all utter morons."He despises us all, the 52% and the 48%.

David Ainsworth ● 2533d

Absolutely David. Boris, and his now hard to find father, Stanley, consider us ALL, a pack of illiterate peasants.Yeah, right guys, let’s see how that works out for you!

Paul Doorly ● 2533d

Social media is the bane of the Western and possibly the whole world.  This forum is only the tip of the iceberg.  It's changing our lives, our values, our politics and so much more.  It was at first our Brave New World but now I'm not so sure.  Seems to highlight ignorance rather than enlightenment.

Bunny Payne ● 2532d

I agree wholeheartedly about social media being a curse in general but this forum’s nowhere near the tip of an iceberg. It’s an inconsequential part of the morass. If you think anyone beyond the possible twenty or so regular contributors are speaking to anyone but each other you’re sadly mistaken. .

Freddie Francis ● 2532d

hahaha, yes Freddie I'm sure you're right!!

Bunny Payne ● 2532d

There may be few contributors but there are many more readers.  Best choose your words carefully (memo to self!).

Jonathan Callaway ● 2532d

As I'm not going into politics, and provided I say nothing libellous and I'm not too personal or hurtful I will continue as usual

Barbara Shillabeer ● 2532d

Prudence is the best policy anywhere you post on the net. ‘Jouralists’ lurk in dark corners.

Freddie Francis ● 2532d

@Bunny 01.11"When did the great British public get so sensitive and whiney"This malaise has now been given the medical term 'Snowflake Syndrome'. Originally it only affected uni students who whined about everything, and then ran to safe spaces whenever they were challenged or told to grow up. 🙀However the condition, being highly infectious soon spread like wildfire! 🔥 The MSM and the Press were particularly susceptible and the Guardian is considered to be a terminal case.  Middle aged pedantic men and stroppy feminists seem to have the least resistance to the virus which is so rampant it has even spread to unimportant local forums. 😉Several huge pharmaceuticals are currently working 24/7 to develop a combative vaccine. When fully trialled and passed by NICE (in about 30 years🙄) it will be made available to priority patients who were not cured by the short sharp shock treatment; 'Fgs you pathetic snowflake, get a bloody grip!!  However, I fear it will be too late. 😩

Sue Hammond ● 2532d

Journalists that should have been. Had my fat fingers on. 🙄

Freddie Francis ● 2532d

Good for you Barbara, don't ever be put off.

Sue Hammond ● 2532d

Be offended first and the mostest!It gives you an attacking advantage!---------------------------------“Don't trust the meek for they know that they will inherit the earth” (1975-ish? Not me originally).

David Ainsworth ● 2532d

The Grauniad will put that one in their spell checker, Freddie 🙂

Michael Ixer ● 2532d

Ha!

Katy Brody ● 2532d

@Michael. Yes we’ll I’m rather prone to the odd typo 😬

Freddie Francis ● 2532d

Grauniad?  Spellcheck??  Why change a lifetime of tradition?

Jonathan Callaway ● 2532d

Would I be right in thinking some of the posts on this thread have gone off piste ... (Stanley Johnson?!)

Michael Ixer ● 2532d

Well and truly!

Lucille Grant ● 2532d

Sue, I fear the antivaxers will invent alternative facts to warn people off the vaccination before herd immunity is achieved  😺

Michael Ixer ● 2532d

Off piste? A good discussion, like a good skier, often go off piste. It’s more exciting.Nick

Nicholas Evans ● 2532d

Nick, exciting isn’t a word I would use to describe the Forum, on or off piste.

Martine Guy ● 2532d

Well said, Sue.

Martine Guy ● 2532d