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Then finally, having reached Nirvana, they can be reincarnated as Transport Secretary after the next reshuffle.

I think you've cracked out. Perhaps she sees the homeless as wandering mendicants akin to Siddhartha. She didn't want to take their tents due to callous indifference but rather she was worried a shelter was incompatible with a truly ascetic lifestyle. By ensuring they go without, she's helping...

I know for a fact that some Buddhist monks don't adhere to it either.

There's a lot of "She may be a **** but we're ****s too. She speaks up for the silent ****s all around the country!"

I wasn't wilfully missing the point but perhaps I misunderstood you. When you said certain posters would "jump on" one of your points if you tried to express a balanced view, I assumed you meant people would disagree with one side. All I was saying was the Israel-Palestine thread has been...

This. It's bollocks to suggest 4-8 people would leap to defend Hamas. On the Israel-Palestine thread, most posters have been fairly balanced in their views.

I concur. Also, appreciate the use of person rather than bitch.

Football Lads have a right to defend themselves?

How about Suella and Tommy's Useless Pindicks?

I believe "useful idiots" is an appropriate aptonym here. Or should it be "useless"?

I think you're misremembering. I went on the big Iraq demo in London on a bus with fellow protestors from Bristol. Upon returning to the west country, we we greeted by a mob of police filming each one if us as we got off the bus. Here's a snapshot of some of the media coverage. "As a million...

The war started in 1948 when 700,000 Palestinians were displaced.

And here's Braverman to highlight this: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/nov/08/suella-braverman-accuses-police-of-double-standards-on-rallies

I hope @goldstone reads this and feels utterly ashamed. I don't expect him to retract his comments but hopefully he realises his trolling/idiocy/fuckwittery has gone too far.

One way tickets to Botswana, perhaps?

Meanwhile: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/nov/05/uk-poverty-levels-simply-not-acceptable-says-un-envoy-olivier-de-schutter

Who wants a house with a roof, shower, sofa and radiators when you can enjoy the pavement under the stars?