I read the news today oh boy! Page 2,953

Quote: Billy Bunter @ 26th March 2025, 10:37 AM

Yet it is becoming the norm to preface every report of wrong-doing with "right-wing..." as if that is he only reason that they act as they do. .

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Is it?
I'm not so sure.
When it happens, I think the wrong-doer is often judged by the company they keep.
If your fellow-travellers are bigots, racists & alt-right agitators, then anything you say that is even a little bit along those lines will be amplified by association.
Choose your friends wisely, I guess.

Kemi Badenoch accepted a £14,000 week-long "residential" for her family and shadow cabinet, courtesy of the chair of climate change denying lobbying group Net Zero Watch. Weeks later she announced that she has ditched her party's commitment to reaching Net Zero

Oh and Rachel Reeves got a couple of concert tickets

Hmm

Two tier media focus on donations

The mail/express scream blue murder when a Labour mp receives small gifts - deafening silence when their mates in the tory party get away with murder to the tune of thousands and thousands of pounds

Quote: Steve Sunshine @ 25th March 2025, 11:45 PM

I mean Laurence Fox does seem like a repellent human being, but I don't know him so I can't say for sure
but this so called "Sex crime" is being a bit sensationalised

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TBH, I think it is a bit over-played.
And from an avowedly 'raving looney left' (© SG) position, I would rather he was out and about.
His outburst are quite comical - and there's nothing they hate more than being laughed at.
To quote John Lennon :
The establishment will irritate you - pull your beard, flick your face - to make you fight.
Because once they've got you violent, then they know how to handle you.
The only thing they don't know how to handle is non-violence and humour.

Quote: Lazzard @ 26th March 2025, 10:49 AM

Is it?
I'm not so sure.
When it happens, I think the wrong-doer is often judged by the company they keep.
If your fellow-travellers are bigots, racists & alt-right agitators, then anything you say that is even a little bit along those lines will be amplified by association.
Choose your friends wisely, I guess.

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Doesn't remotely address my point though.

Quote: Billy Bunter @ 26th March 2025, 2:17 PM

Doesn't remotely address my point though.

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I thought you were saying that you don't always have to cite someone's political beliefs when describing their 'actions'.
Not always - no.
No-one would dream of saying "Conservative-voting Lucy Letby accused of murdering babies."
Or " Lib-Dem driver kills child whilst drunk"
But if those actions are driven by political beliefs I think it's entirely legitimate to point this out.
"Holocaust denier punches Rabbi" for example.
Certainly adds context.

Exactly. "Holocaust denier punches Rabbi". Not "Right wing bricklayer punches Rabbi"

Only two months gone and the backlash against the mob of stupid f**king clowns stinking up the white house has already begun....

"Democrats on Tuesday lodged a massive upset in a Republican-held state Senate district in Pennsylvania, flipping a seat that Donald Trump carried by 15 points and sending a massive warning sign to Republicans that the 2026 midterms could be brutal for their party."

Quote: Billy Bunter @ 26th March 2025, 3:14 PM

Exactly. "Holocaust denier punches Rabbi". Not "Right wing bricklayer punches Rabbi"

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That because his holocaust denying was relevant to the crime.
Similarly, I count Far-Rightedness as an aggravating factor and would feel it appropriate to use.
Reading back, I think it might be that I rather, as you say, lazily used the. term "the Right."
In my head that doesn't mean Conservatives, it means people a deal further to the Right of them.
Perhaps I should have been clearer and used the term 'Far-Right' - a group whose views I do not believe to be 'perfectly legitimate'.
There are limits.

But of course, in the case of Joey Barton's wife-beating and Laurence Fox's alleged "up-skirting", their politics has nothing to do with the crimes in question . And yet, in both cases, the posts in question clearly emphasised their "right wing" politics, which are irrelevant. I think this is where we came in...

All I would add is that the Far-Right tend to have a rather uneasy, some would say antiquated, relationship with Women's Rights, tending to file it under 'Woke'.
But I take your point that there are nasty pieces of work on all sides of the political spectrum

Quote: lofthouse @ 25th March 2025, 10:00 PM

And the opportunity for people like you to once again defend criminals

I'll stick to calling out violent, racist, perverted criminals, you carry on defending them over and over again

Lovely decent kind hearted chap that you are

Does it make you feel 'big' and 'hard' defending these scumbags? Makes you feel like a big man?

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Oh grow up!

Rachael from accounts is getting a coating from all angles again.
I suppose that if you lie on your CV and get promoted above your skills level, this is what happens.

Major Donor to Reform U.K. Party Sold Weapons Parts to Russian Supplier

The aerospace company H.R. Smith Group was an early backer of the party after Nigel Farage became leader. Reform has faced criticism over comments seen as supporting Moscow.

"Patriots" would refuse this dirty money...

Greedy Putin praising scum would keep it.

Ah, the Reform party, already scaring the pants off the liberal left.

And you don't mind them being funded by people who are helping to arm Russia

Another "patriot"

Pathetic