The validity of views is not in question. I believe I have already said that, apart from some obvious obnoxious views, peoples opinions should be respected. I am not going to get into specifics as this is not what this thread is about. The point about being unable to make a reasoned reply has already been addressed. There is only so many times that a person will try reasoning with the unreasonable. At that point the reasoned responses have all been made and the person giving them has already proven the point. Being unable to give a reasoned response and being unwilling to bang your head on a wall any longer are two entirely different things.

I agree that outrageous lies have no place in civil debate but all I have seen on these debates are distortions of truth, manipulation of statistics and misleading statements. These are things that all politicians do and seem to be the accepted norm amongst many posters on here. Libel is a different matter and needs to be addressed in a court of law. I suspect a legal expert would reject any of the claims of defamation from here so, until such a time as a case is proven, I can only assume that this is another of those misleading statements.