[Youngian]

A cross section of modern Britain

[satnav]

I can't believe all the nutters on Facebook and Twitter who think that it is possible to deport millions of people just like that.

For the last year GB News and TalkTV have banned Rupert Lowe from appearing on their channels so it will be intersting if they now start to platform him again. Surely without these two channels backing him his party will struggle to get much exposure.

[Youngian]

I can't believe all the nutters on Facebook and Twitter who think that it is possible to deport millions of people just like that.

Many of those will be botfarm posts. Lowe isn't out to attract deep thinkers so he can say what he likes.

[Abernathy]

Surely they must be running out of names for all these brand new far-right crank parties ?

At this rate, the next one could well be the “Re-plaster Britain” party.

[satnav]

Apparently there were three Tories on the advisory board which helped to set up the new party. Susan Hall, Nick Timothy and Gavin Williamson were all on the board but they have quit now that the party has been launched. Is Kemi Badenoch really going to stand for that or will she reprimand them in some way?

[Abernathy]

Advisory board ? What sort of political party was ever founded on the basis of an “advisory board” ?

[Youngian]

Will she fuck. Because Brexit is the disaster everyone with any sense predicted, what have the British right got left? An auction as to who can be the most cuntish toward foreigners that's what. Which was mainly what Brexit was about.

[davidjay]

Will she fuck. Because Brexit is the disaster everyone with any sense predicted, what have the British right got left? An auction as to who can be the most cuntish toward foreigners that's what. Which was mainly what Brexit was about.

And because she's too afraid of the membership to do anything like disciplining dissidents. Even Jenrick only got kicked out because he was leaving anyway.

[Tubby Isaacs]

She sees the Conservative Party as basically the same as all these other parties anyway.

[Samanfur]

Strong sarcasm from whoever's running Bedford Borough Council's social media.

[Youngian]

Strong sarcasm from whoever's running Bedford Borough Council's social media.

I can see Stewart Lee reading that out.

[Youngian]

I can't believe all the nutters on Facebook and Twitter who think that it is possible to deport millions of people just like that.

Everything's simple when you're simple. Illegal migrants are deported if discovered due to not being legal migrants.

[davidjay]

Can anyone remember ever being wished a Happy Lent or even seen any mention of it before this year?

[Killer Whale]

Is having a 'happy Lent' even a thing? (Or even a 'happy Ramadan', come to that).
And while we're at it, how come the Chinese New Year is suddenly being described as the Lunar New Year? Everyone seems to be at it, but I can't remember getting the blanket memo.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

Perhaps someone should point out to the mouth-breathers that something that Ramadan and Lent have in common is that they are a period for reflection and self awareness.

And is Lent meant to be happy? I think not...

[Andy McDandy]

I'd imagine that we refer to Lunar New Year because increasing numbers of people with Chinese ancestry living in the UK have never set foot in China (or Taiwan, or Hong Kong etc...). Just as we increasingly refer to people of recent subcontinental descent as Desi rather than British-Asian. So it takes the "here's a weird thing they do in China and now they're doing it over here" aspect out of it.

[Rosvanian]

Perhaps someone should point out to the mouth-breathers that something that Ramadan and Lent have in common is that they are a period for reflection and self awareness.

And is Lent meant to be happy? I think not...

Lent is most certainly not meant to be celebrated, it is a solomn period that should be observed.
When I was a kid, we'd all troup off to church on ash Wednesday for the priest to stamp his ash thumb print on our foreheads which we'd proudly display all day. I suspect the new 'Christians' of the right haven't got a fecking clue about any this.

[Youngian]

Perhaps someone should point out to the mouth-breathers that something that Ramadan and Lent have in common is that they are a period for reflection and self awareness.

And is Lent meant to be happy? I think not...

They were periods of shortages in the northern hemisphere until fresh crops flourished. Easier to stick to the rules before industrialised agriculture ended food scarcity.

[Killer Whale]

I'd imagine that we refer to Lunar New Year because increasing numbers of people with Chinese ancestry living in the UK have never set foot in China (or Taiwan, or Hong Kong etc...). Just as we increasingly refer to people of recent subcontinental descent as Desi rather than British-Asian. So it takes the "here's a weird thing they do in China and now they're doing it over here" aspect out of it.

I understand that it's a more sensible name, but why has everyone suddenly started doing it like the Illuminati or someone have issued an edict? That was the real question.

[I'm not ruling out that it's me that hasn't been paying attention to a gradual change, BTW]

[Malcolm Armsteen]

Perhaps someone should point out to the mouth-breathers that something that Ramadan and Lent have in common is that they are a period for reflection and self awareness.

And is Lent meant to be happy? I think not...

They were periods of shortages in the northern hemisphere until fresh crops flourished. Easier to stick to the rules before industrialised agriculture ended food scarcity.

The 'hungry months' were early summer, before the harvest and after the stored food had run out.
Commonsense history check: how could medieval people celebrate 'Fat Tuesday' if they were short of food?