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Bit of a stand off in Plymouth on Sky News, but no violence yet. Absolute state of the EDL side of the road. It’s clear which side of the protest the police are keeping a close handle on.

I guess you could say it’s been brewing for ages in the sense the country has been permitting the existence of easily misled knuckle-dragging morons for decades now. I often wonder how much better off we’d be if we enforced participation in a few critical thinking and civil ethics lessons to...

Being born with spina bifida, a doctor once told me about a condition known as “the cocktail party syndrome” (not to be confused with the “cocktail party effect”). It’s actually very serious, despite the name, they don’t understand it particularly well but it is a result of water on the brain...

Yes you are. You can say you’re not but that’s exactly what you’re doing. You are making arguments on their behalf because you don’t approve of the label people are giving them, what else would you call that? If I came on here saying the Taliban aren’t all terrorists, some of them are just...

Can we just make a law that anybody citing Telegram, Liveleak, Twitter or Facebook as reputable sources of information gets a visit from a special constable and are transported to public stocks where they will get laughed at and have rotten produce thrown at them?

Haha shame, there's a sizeable bank of options where they came from. Much more fun to be had. "Spiders will never speak, insists ambassador"

I still watch it about once a week. They really nailed the future of news media consumption with that one. Has to be one of the most prescient skits ever.

You're right, MPs shouldn't pander to their constituent's NIMBYism. And not just when it comes to asylum seekers. Sometimes constituents need to be told hard truths they don't want to hear. Like for instance that they'll get their hotel back once we've fixed the broken asylum system and backlog...

Everything he says is like satire from The Day Today. Except he's deadly serious. "The stretched twig of peace is at melting point. It's war, Chris."

Somebody will be along shortly to discuss how Yvette Cooper needs to be careful to describe this as "attempting to light a hotel on fire" instead of "lighting a hotel on fire" so as not to further inflame the rhetoric.

Well said. I know the mods have an impossible job, and I am all for people expressing their views... in fact I've been openly debating a lot of people's views for the last 24 hours in good faith. I just find it increasingly depressing having to cover off the same badly thought out points...

Yeah it just feels like it’s crazy season and everybody is out spoiling for a fight. Clacton obviously has a reputation and so that doesn’t help and perhaps makes me paranoid but I would much rather she worked from home for a few days and just waited for things to die down. Pray for rain maybe.

The missus is supposed to be in Clacton tomorrow. Really not liking that idea at all the way things are right now - she’s a prime target for these cunts. Eight people arrested down the road in Southend in the last 24 hours because of disorder, some wielding machetes. The whole thing is very...

Can’t you see mate? Won’t somebody think of the poor rioters? The technical distinction between them setting a hotel on fire, and them trying and possibly succeeding for a short time to set it on fire but ultimately failing to burn the whole building down. Extremely important! It’s not like...

We really need to see some kind of legislation around disinformation on social media. I don’t know how to do that, if I’m honest, it’s a hard problem to solve. All I know is it should start with political institutions and corporations not putting their statements out next to brazen propaganda...

No I’m not saying any of those things. You’re like a straw man factory. Claiming people are making arguments they are simply not and have never been making. It’s dishonest and bad faith. I am focused on the mob because there is ZERO justification for setting a hotel filled with innocent people...

What utterly horrendous whataboutery. Shameful. Okay, you listen to the concerns of the people who are setting hotels full of innocent people on fire. Personally, I don’t negotiate with terrorists. Honestly you need to go and have a serious think. You’re suggesting you’re not far right while...

Yes you could make that argument. The whole problem with Brexit is that we’re not really a democracy set up for having referenda (like say, Switzerland). We don’t have mechanisms in place to build policy in that way. That led to the whole vote being shrouded in vagueness and abstract reasoning...

If you’re not part of the solution, then you’re part of the problem. The problem is the far right. If you’re turning up at these “protests” under the pretence of being a “concerned parent”, then you are part of the problem. You’re either far right, or you’re fuelling far right. In which case...

I absolutely agree we need a government that thinks 20+ years ahead and not just over the course of the next parliament. I think it’s natural you’re going to find people are frustrated at the Tories and yes they can post here proselytising and debating the harm they’ve done. While that is going...