Straight from the Guardian reader's handbook I see!
Sorry but I just don't subscribe to left wing total nonsense...if that upsets people enough to put me on ignore it says far more about them than me.
In all the years I've been visiting internet forums I've never once put anyone on ignore no matter how obnoxious they came across in their posts toward me nor have I ever reported a post made by someone.
It says an awful lot about their character or should I say lack of it that they have to put someone on ignore because they disagree with other party's perspectives.
If they feel hurt enough to put someone on ignore simply for disagreeing then might I suggest that they refrain from involving themselves in subjects like politics as it usually means there is likely to be a conflict of opinions and we wouldn't want any of them to feel hurt now would we?
No matter what I type here - remember one thing as you read it through - that it will all be written politely. Dispassionately and factually. But above all, politely. And in my view - that's more than can be said for your postings.
The issue is this, Tony - if people have put you on ignore it
isn't because they disagree with you - far from it, people are generally not like that - so there must be more going on - if indeed people have put you on ignore as you suspect. Like you, I have never ever in my many years of discussing topics with people of all views on forums put anyone on ignore. I confess to having considered that on
only a single individual! But I haven't. I choose not to. Partly because like I mentioned somewhere before - you may or may not have read or remember - I choose to keep myself informed from all sources - no matter how awful, disgusting, untruthful and deliberately misleading they are. I choose not to dwell in an echo chamber.
So, what is the issue you may be asking yourself? Quite simply it is that you are openly aggressive and insulting, on several levels,
and refuse to take on board the true facts when they are presented to you in an evidenced fashion, instead apparently preferring to continue to propagate known lies. ( <- Written politely, as promised - I have not insulted you, this is an evidenced observation.)
Look at your post above. Calling people "obnoxious" and calling their character into question if they have chosen to dissociate with you (and you must know if they have you on ignore, that they can't read or respond to what you are saying about them - so why even do that?). Not cool, bro. You are also openly hostile, demeaning and insulting about "the left" (as some kind of homogenous entity - as if that is even a thing - it is reminiscent of Liz Truss's attitude when you say those things - and you have seen how she comes across when she says those things). You are also hostile, demeaning and insulting about particular people that you clearly have some kind of (anger?) issue with, calling them "stupid", etc,,, (when quite clearly the individuals quoted are far from being "stupid" in any
objective sense).
On the matter of spreading lies -> In a recent post you claimed (again) that there was no such thing as the £22bn black hole - because "everyone knew it existed". I've tackled this point with you myself, probably on more than one occasion. Whether you are doing so intentionally or not, what you wrote is tantamount to a lie. Amongst the other evidence, which I'm sure I've provided before, which if you've read, you've chosen to disregard - the head of the OBR is on Public Record - this time quoted from the recent Treasury Select Committee, (as well as writing an official letter about the situation which I'm sure I've previously linked to) -
spending commitments (projected overspend of allowable budget)
within the previous government - and I quote "
were not disclosed to us [the OBR]
, as part of our usual Budget preparations [March Budget]
, which under the Law and under the Act, they [Tories]
should have done".
The truth is really simple - it has been confirmed by the Head of the OBR that unbudgeted, unfunded spending commitments were deliberately hidden from the OBR (and therefore hidden form the public, and from the opposition) by the previous government. The previous government acted outside of the Law. Ergo, the black hole is proven to exist and it is proven that it was not foreseeable by a new govt, because the truth was unlawfully hidden from scrutiny.
So if anyone has indeed put you on ignore it is probably because you can be unpleasant to engage in discussion with and/or refuse to look facts in the face when provided, which probably makes it difficult for people to want to interact with you - particularly when you don't acknowledge reality and instead continue to subscribe to, and actively
push, some mistruth or other.
That's all I have, matey - take it or leave it. Up to you. I trust that I didn't come across as obnoxious to you.
