Ohh.. my morality has been called into question. I am shaken to the core! Any specific violent act that I neglect to condemn on a forum thread read by a dozen people (if that) I am complicit in. How could I have been so blind not to see that, bearing in mind the blinding logic of that assertion.

Is there not a little voice in your head saying ‘Hang on, this really is bollox that I am typing now’?

John, you may wish to use these events for a rant against.. whatever it is you are ranting against, ten billion peace loving muslims, was it?

Please don’t be upset that nobody else here does.

There are some lovely forums out there where you can get together with like minded souls who rant about blacks, arabs, jews, women, liberals, or whatever. Try the comments pages on Russia Today. Or just google “Right wing hatred chat room”.

Mr. Green – Not sure I follow

I don’t recall anyone on this forum ever being an apologist for any terrorist act. So now you are crowing about people who have never been apologists not being apologists again?

Is that all you have? I refer you to my question in the Brexit thread.

John. We have just spent some time discussing how appalling the Liverpool Militant brand of ‘Socialism’ was, as exemplified by Mr. Hatton. Admittedly off-topic. Why would anyone be a Hatton ‘lookalike’ by virtue of suggesting that Brexit has a negative economic effect? There is a very tortuous connection in your mind that I cannot make myself.

Stock market indIces rise as an overall trend. That is the point of the market, it wouldn’t exist if that didn’t happen.

When things happen that are likely to affect the broader economy negatively, whether finite or unbounded in effect, the market reacts by falling temporarily. That happened.

Damn, that was funnier than mine.

Well, that’s all a bit weird. Remember all of that – except the inverted dwarf racing.

I was always in Flannagans basement in the early nineties, drinking stupid amounts of Guinness (it was the law). There were some seriously good bands on down there, or it seemed like it anyway.. Started going to Guinans after my mate was barred from the Jac – sure you’d have gone there too. If you ever went downstairs there you’d probably have had to suffer me doing crap, p*ssed Doors covers on open mic night (which was most nights?). I got thrown out of there myself once for arguing over.. something, might have been a jumper. Bouncer took me out the back door first, to teach me not to argue – then out the front, where I landed on my head. Things were different then, no-one got sued, my mates told me I probably deserved it and I went home happy enough and bleeding.

Other places – Flute on Hardman Street, Pilgrim, Ye Cracke, Dr Duncan’s, Dispensary (that came later), Grapes, Phil of course, AJ up by the Uni, the Cambridge (getting more bohemian this way), Peter Kavanagh’s.. and more. Loads more in fact.

But here’s the one. Do you remember Casablanca when it was a proper dodgy club, not a bar (ex-dockers bar at that)?

Yep.

I was never in those ranks though, John. I don’t know the words to the Red Flag.. I end up singing ‘Oh Tannenbaum’.

Jonesy, your theory about ‘nicking dole money’, along with earlier comments.. are there 17 million on the dole, then? Sorry, but you seem to have lurched into DM made-up-land, where maths or logic need not apply as long as we can find a scapegoat.

Lefties are people worried about losing their dole? Thatcher’s lot did such a number all those years ago that there still seem to be very few, even among intelligent commentators like yourself, who remember what the word Labour means. It is a workers party – it’s just that a lot of these workers got laid off. The effect of the resulting frustration and disengagement has been to move these communities to the right, not left.

If their kids are getting jobs they are told they’ll lose them if they even think of joining a union. So very few have any idea of what ‘left’ even means (apart from a vague sense it’s something bad that involves 1970’s hair and Russia), never mind actually being it.

This was encouraged by decades of courting by the Conservative party via their ‘news’ outlets, while New Labour pursued the middle-class.

You surprised me earlier by equating EU membership with reduced social provision, when in reality the ‘hard right’ are loving Brexit because it gives them a free hand to screw everyone already relatively badly off without basic legal restraint.