@zatzi I would love to buy a wool duvet but it is so expensive compared to the ‘hollowfibre’ one. Not quite sure what ‘hollowfibre’ is but it costs around £20 compared to the £500 wool one.
@RupertLowe10 Me neither. I definitely don’t have sympathy - in fact I am overjoyed that he is gone. I just hope he fully feels the humiliation and that he’s a failure and a loser who was the worst PM Britain has ever had, and that the vast majority of the British population just loathe him.
@Quantumquillion@RupertLowe10@Asmongold How many is OK then? 10?
If you saw proof of 10 girls - children - being raped and tortured and abused by Muslim men would you be outraged then?
10 is 10 too many in my mind
Well the Americans are paying more attention to us than our own government is - the government seem to be hell bent on making us accept our young girls - and boys - being stabbed to death in the streets or at dance classes and hundreds of thousands of the girls being given to men to rape and abuse.
If we complain about it we are thrown in prison pretty quick.
No wonder the Americans are horrified. Why aren’t more British horrified?
@sappholives83@ecclesiastes999 I totally agree Diana - this country cares more about the appearance of being ‘kind’ to violent criminals and psychiatric patients than it does about innocent toddlers and young working class girls and 18 year old boys being stabbed to death in the street.
@CamillaTominey No Camilla - you used rape gang victims to get a dig in at Rupert Lowe. You do that with Tommy Robinson also.
This is not respectful or caring or supportive of the girls - it is about your class hatred.
We can see that no matter what you say you mean.
@KingBobIIV I’m with you. Reform women are so vicious and nasty - so are the men. So are a lot of the supporters actually.
I would rather vote Tory than Reform - especially since most of the most objectionable Tories are now in Reform anyway.
@JamesEsses@amscanlon They also believe that if those 11 year olds are female, white, and working class then enabling gangs of Muslim men to rape, torture and abuse them is not a big deal.
A recent discussion about the grim realities unfolding across Britain left me more than usually reflective. The fact is I no longer have any interest in the reactive, superficial churn of political discussion in the media or on X.
Academia offers little new insight either—at best a post-mortem analysis long after the facts are obvious, at worst more posturing dressed in scholarly robes. I’ve long since grasped the trajectory of affairs which are developing as I guessed they would, perhaps faster.
I turned instead to the Bible to help centre my own thoughts and for broader context and grounding. As often happens, I came across something illuminating:
‘For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.’ .(2 Timothy 4:3-4)
I thought this captured the condition of Britain with uncomfortable precision. The grooming gang scandals, now documented across dozens of towns and cities over decades, provide the clearest contemporary example.
The figure of at least 250,000 victims—mostly vulnerable girls subjected to organised, racially motivated group rape—is not a ceiling but a floor.
Every serious inquiry has described its own numbers as conservative. Under-reporting, destroyed records, deliberate institutional reluctance to record ethnicity or pursue patterns, ongoing intimidation of survivors, and the simple passage of time all point in one direction: the true toll is substantially higher. The evidence is not ambiguous.
Yet the deeper problem is structural and psychological. There is no normal political solution available because the system that enabled and then concealed this horror lacks both the capacity and the will to correct itself.
It retains ample institutional inertia and self-preservation instinct to maintain the status quo—managing narratives, suppressing dissent, kicking cans—until the accumulated contradictions make continuation impossible.
At that point it shatters.
Many people sense this in their bones. They register the scale of betrayal, the demographic and cultural fractures, and the hollowing of legitimacy.
At the same time, the drive to shield the psyche from a reality that would demand painful recognition and action is extraordinarily powerful.
What we are witnessing is not ordinary normalcy bias but something more deliberate: a willed incomprehension. It is self-protective cowardice dressed as prudence and not hastening to judge.
History shows the pattern clearly. Civilisations rarely collapse from external pressure alone. They implode because problems that were soluble at one stage were deferred through aversion to discomfort and cost.
The result is rarely gentle adjustment. It is violent over-correction after the window for measured response has closed. Britain is not exempt from this ancient dynamic.
@calvinrobinson Willful ignorance.
They stick their fingers in their ears and sing LaLaLa when there is something they don’t want to hear or that is contrary to their preexisting beliefs.
My 86 year old Dad has a fish pond in his garden. My brother spent 8 hours draining it, cleaning it, and refilling it. Five days later the stupid thing is green again.
Green just happens - but having a blue base is sure going to make it look better than having a grey base.
I can’t believe this is even an issue we have to discuss. Do they really think that President Trump should be attacked for not sufficiently overcoming the laws of nature?
He is severely learning disabled - but I agree he should be put in a secure mental health facility and not allowed out at all.
This country is stupid. They are much more concerned with the rights of violent offenders and mentally deranged people than they are with the rights of children not to be stabbed to death at a dance class or thrown into a crocodile enclosure or raped and used as sex slaves for years.
And even worse - the vast majority of the population REFUSE to look at this or accept that it is happening. Willful ignorance.
@TheBritishIntel@francesweetman Well you have to remember that place has voted Labour forever - also it could be that the people hate Starmer a lot and just wanted the only person who has a chance of replacing him.
Don’t lose hope. It wasn’t the GE.
I know he is disabled but do we not have secure mental health facilities where he can be detained?
Or should we just let all mentally ill and violent incapacitated people rampage through our society killing innocent toddlers or stabbing little girls to death?
How much difference is there between this guy and Axel Rudakabana
They are trying to distract from the horror of the real issue. Total red herring.
Even 10 girls gang raped and tortured is 10 too many.
I was raped and nearly murdered by a serial rapist when I was 17. I have a lifetime of observing people’s reaction to such an event. There are very few people who can truly understand, and be there for and support the victim of such an atrocity.
Most people just want to deny that it happened, or blame the victim, or find some other excuse to avoid engaging with it.
It is best not to argue on their terms and refuse to argue about stupid things and just keep returning to the actual issue like you said, and force them to engage.
Something like “How many is OK for this to happen to then? 2? 10? 1000?”