I'd like to apologise for a disturbingly high proportion of my half of the species, and congratulations on your achievements.

We've been giggling like kids over here - probably similar to you when our Prime Minister was a Johnson?!

Probably. A non-sweary word for a fart that you can use around young children and they would find it funny.

100% true.

Please can our politicians stop running to extremes to pander to people who are so far gone they're very unlikely to return to any sort of sense.

I don't follow so much these days but did get into watching it for a few years.

I always just answered the 'but it's all fake' by asking, "what are your favourite films, dramas or soap operas?"

Then just wait for the penny to drop!

Just drives me to despair that the votes of people who are clearly in your 'follower' group, observably thicker than the walls of a nuclear reactor when you engage with them, count the same as those who at least try to understand the myriad issues and policies involved in the world. ☹️

The thing that worries me about the "right wing" cultists is that I find a far lower number with even a basic ability to hold civil or rational conversations for any period of time than with religious folk.

This might not be representative of the total - just the self selected social media users.

It was on Facebook in a group that was just a fat right echo chamber - so an increased chance of being a bot. Was totally polite - never stood a chance with someone who has chosen willful ignorance, suspect the block was to hide my comments from the other nodding dogs in there as much as anything.