Steve - what mates of choice...??? apparently not you.. and certainly not Iains and bob...!!!
I can maintain polite interaction with folks I disagree with,
as well as take the piss when it's battle time...
Even the most loathsome adversaries can occasionally write the most level headed and entertaining posts...
Likewise, allies can write complete wrongheaded bollocks...


Yes I do think you are making a big blustering fuss about something quite trivial
in the greater scheme of matters of real life importance..

..and your jumping to pompous over-extrapolated conclusions,
accusing me of being racist on no sensible evidence whatsoever,
merely on the basis of your own overwraught self important moralistic misinterpretation
of a few hastily written sentences I have posted...
... well...

I stand by my opinions, and won't be bossed around...

Most ordinary folks are not paragons of PC rectitude,
and they certainly can't stand being patronised, dictated to, and controlled..
I can now conclude you are far too out of touch to have any influence
in persuading anyone working class to return to voting Labour..

I have very good friends who have devoted their lives to the local Labour Party.
I have the utmost respect for them.
Together we have been united against racism and the far right for over 40 years

But it is saddening to see the self-destructive infighting that is destroying the party..
Vindictive crucifying of anyone who dares oppose the scheming blairite bullies..
Or won't accept the control freakery of the furthest left academic radical fanatics,
obsessed with politics of identity and representation - symbolism and semiotics..
[or even just petty stupid air pellet targets].

They are the real useful idiots,
alienating potential voters with their antagonistic public displays
of self-indulgent self-rightious ideological extremism...
They are regarded as jokes by the wider electorate,
who dismiss Labour as irrelevant;
and despised as enemies of 'the people' by the increasingly popularist far right...

I never got round to joining the Labour party,
and can't expect I ever will..
knives to the back and front would be stabbing from all directions...
Such sheer stress treading on eggshells all the time...
Daring not speak in case an innocent word enrages any of a multitude of diverse self importanty zealots...

I am becoming even more convinced that we are condemned to many more years of tory misrule...