You have forgotten, Nicki, that under the new rules of populist democracy all those who voted for the losing side in any election or vote have to immediately concede that the other side was right all along and should lock themselves in a dark soundproofed room for the foreseeable future. Opposition parties and dissenting voices will no longer be tolerated, and the winning side is thus able to claim 100% support for every measure decreed from that point onwards.
I agree with some of what you say there Pete. I love the banter but to be honest I don't think many Wittoners see a "proper" rivalry with 1874, like we used to with the V*cs in the good old days. There are many reasons for that such as the decline in supporting non league football generally, you playing in a different town, V*cs still being around etc etc. Maybe that is one of the reasons more Witoners don't come on here, I don't know. As for sense of humour there has been a couple of idiots (from whatever green side of town they are) that crossed the banter line and were quite rightly, in my opinion, banned from our forum.
Mostly we talk about football on our forum. We are a football club first and foremost that our fans care about passionately, i'm not sure how that fact makes us inward looking? And I would have thought there are more relevant forums to talk about things like the election of President Trump or Brexit if you feel so strongly about it.
....... Ah, those were the days! I think it's easy to blame the media for accurately reporting what he says. Yes, they are hostile towards him but with good reason. No one has made Trump say what he has but Trump himself. I was reading a piece in the Guardian the other day which outlines some of exactly what he said towards Mexicans, Muslims and women. Towards Mexicans - "When Mexico sends it people, they're not sending their best... They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people." Towards Muslims - "Donald Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States." Towards women (arguably the most indefensible) - "I moved on her like a b****, but I couldn't get there. And she was married." All these comments are pretty outrageous. There's no media manipulation that I can see. There are comments he made towards gay people and the disabled which I can dig out as well. As for a ban on the BBC, thank god we have the Beeb so they can keep a lid on the dominance of the right-wing establishment press. There's a reason why Murdoch wants its shut down - and that's because he sees it as a threat to his own commercial dominance.
Yes, I'd agree - the left do need to find a mainstream, anti-establishment alternative to that which the right offer. The rise of populist left, anti-establishment parties has happened to a certain extent in Greece with Syriza and in Spain with Podemos but not reaIly in Britain. I think Labour do need to be a party which represents the working classes once more, as they seem to have become a "middle-class clique" under Corbyn. It's easy for these types of people to dismiss people's concerns about immigration and the EU as they're not affected themselves. However, I do think Corbyn was right to campaign to stay in the EU, as polling data show that 2/3 of Labour voters voted to Remain in the EU and the overwhelming majority of the party's members.
I'm afraid he should have thought about the way the media treated him before he opened his mouth and made the numerous offensive comments he has made.
Sadly, I feel he will it change from the inside out for the worse. I wonder what great Repulican leaders such as Abraham Lincoln would make of Trump and his hi-jacking of the party . I think he would be appalled and ashamed.
Trump is supported by KKK. That tells everything you need to know about him.
Again, I'm afraid I totally disagree. In Trump, you've got a man who has called for a ban on all Muslims, who has said "I'm Gonna Bomb The Sh** Out Of ISIS", and who is friendly with Putin and no doubt endorses Russia's disgraceful actions in Aleppo in killing innocent civilians in hospitals and other public spaces and deliberately targeting aid coveys. I fear that Trump's inflammatory and divisive rhetoric would put the world at a greater risk of terrorism and threaten not the only the national security of America, but also potentially that of Britain and the rest of the western world. My view is that Clinton was by far the better and more qualified of the presidential candidates. She would also have ensured some much-needed stability that is so badly missing currently.
