I do that every time! Sometimes the typo is so bad that I just delete and start again, feeling sorry for the pride who liked it early.

Welcome Tina!

A very compelling question. Who funds these surveys?

Have people gone stark staring bonkers? Who the hell really wants medieval punishments back?

I wish news outlets would just be honest and admit that do everything for the views and clicks, and nothing for education or information.

And then people bleat “oh but you never do anything. We never see you in the media”. It’s enraging and hypocritical.

You just have to see how painfully long it was before so-called political commentators seemed to realise that the
LibDems were the third largest party in Westminster, and not even by much- months. It’s as though a spell been cast over them.

I guess it’s up to us alone to fight the rise of the authoritarian far-right then, if political commentators prefer to showcase them.

These people are like the school bullies- wanting all the good things and prepared to shove other people aside to get them.

I don’t believe that all reform supporters are racist, it’s just not the deal breaker for them that it is for others- and of course by ignoring or accepting that racism, they are helping drive it.

I think people always have the capacity of turning on each other- it takes a particular kind of operator to stir them up and get them focused on blaming each other for the problems rather than the actual perpetrators.

I think people are living unbelievably stressful lives with many services gone and housing unaffordable, and they become easy targets for far right populist stirrers.

These views are being comforted by people who really ought to do better, and not join the bigotry.

If people in power were tackling the *causes* of people’s dissatisfaction, a lot of this would not be happening.