It’s not an identity crisis, it is an idiot impersonating me as it is very easy to do on this site.

Planeshift
“Straight from the BNP’s “how to describe yourself online” section of the manual.”

Would i find it necessary to even attempt to describe myself here but for the standard “liberal lefties” habit of playing the man rather than the ball ?

Reading from the comments policy of this site.

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I had to laugh at this, especially the last sentence.”..quality over quantity” .
I see little evidence of either here.

Whether The Sun thinks this is being ‘soft’ is immaterial. I don’t read The Sun. Nobody I know reads The Sun. I live and work in Liverpool and nobody here would wipe their arse on it. On the other hand the Government does reach us and it is for them I reserve my contempt.

Straight from the BNP’s “how to describe yourself online” section of the manual.

“b) think that when mentally ill people do terrible things due to their illness, hanging, drawing and quartering them before using their entrails as party garlands might not always be the most appropriate solution?”
Bit of a straw man being set up there. The comment is also rather sick considering what Greg Davis actually did.
Lets hope none of you are about next time he forgets to take his medication.

BenM
“Ex Leftie reminds me why I’m glad I’m not a foaming reactionary rightwing nerd.”

I ve used that moniker because i m happy to be ex-communicated by all self- anointed Popes of “the left”.

Although, I could conceivable be labeled “right-wing” on a couple of issues, i would say that i m generally to the left of New Labour.
I just don t feel the need to self- identify with anyone or group describing itself as “Left” or “Liberal Left” any more.

One thing that annoys me is that people that so identify have always excelled in ad-hominem attacks and the fake clairvoyance of ascribing to people (they do not like) views they do not really hold, often in the form of a “when so-and-so says this- they really mean this” type of argumentation.

But then the left/liberal-left for some time have shown every sign of being at least as blinkered, bigoted and knee jerk as parts of the right.

P.S.Here s a couple of things you might not want to read.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fallout-Guilty-Liberal-Lost-Innocence/dp/0099507854/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1258647259&sr=1-1

http://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2654565/Stricken-former-soldiers-turn-to-crime.html

Mind you, The Sun is talking about Our Brave Lads here, so it’s OK to use social and psychological factors to explain their behaviour, even if that suddenly becomes dangerous trendy liberal nonsense when applied to the rest of us.

Thanks for reminding me why the “liberal left” make me sick.

Because we a) care about factual accuracy b) think that when mentally ill people do terrible things due to their illness, hanging, drawing and quartering them before using their entrails as party garlands might not always be the most appropriate solution?

Thanks for reminding me why I hope never, ever to be able to describe myself as ‘ex-leftie’…

“I presume they’re counting on Gregory Davis, as a prisoner, not having the wherewithal to challenge their libellous labelling of him as a murderer.”

What an absolute disgrace !

http://www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk/news/4742704.Double_killer_s_strolls_in_the_city/?ref=rss

No not the above, but that the poor double killer and disembowler should be unjustly labeled a murderer rather than with the common and more politically acceptable term of “manslaughterer” .

Thanks for reminding me why the “liberal left” make me sick.

I don’t think that was what was meant, no. Bullshit should be challenged, whether you agree with a premise or not.

The point of the article seems to be ‘lets contradict The Sun even if it means we support a police state’.

Or am I missing something?

And yet prison population is up 20,000 – but such is LibCon’s knee-jerk response to The Sun they’d rather defend Labour’s draconian reaction to crime and ‘anti-social behaviour’ than argue we should be shutting prisons down not opening them.