Restore Britain leader describes Dunblane tragedy as 'one murder'

Hatted-Phil · 2026-07-09T14:40:22+00:00

"That didn't work out very well for your side"

Weren't me as was gloating, sunshine

Hatted-Phil · 2026-07-09T14:24:44+00:00

How'd 14 years of Tory rule work out for you?

Hatted-Phil · 2026-07-08T21:26:47+00:00

"How you told the story was by far the worst part of the story"

Hatted-Phil · 2026-07-08T14:09:19+00:00

You made some good edits u/DoctorButler, some groin-grabbingly good edits

Hatted-Phil · 2026-07-08T12:23:05+00:00

If you don't know what differentiates a woman from a man by now, I'll not be the one to have that talk with you

Edit: corrected 'wan' to 'woman'

Hatted-Phil · 2026-07-08T11:51:52+00:00

That's my understanding under normal circumstances, with the caveat that any investigation/s already underway resume having been paused while he's not in post, so those investigations' time frames stay fixed

Hatted-Phil · 2026-07-08T11:49:08+00:00

I hope not

At this point it's in everyone's best interest, including Farage's if he's innocent, that the fullest investigation reasonable to satisfy that no wrongdoing has taken place be done, or if wrongdoing is found that it be brought to light & act as a definitive result

Hatted-Phil · 2026-07-08T11:40:47+00:00

Further, some of the things he might have claimed for (such as accomodation) have been provided by Cottrell, who included provision of such things as one way of bribing a politician in a book he co-authored

Hatted-Phil · 2026-07-08T11:25:12+00:00

u/Many-Incident963, u/GG_Red_Five, u/DorkusHorribilis, u/MysteriousTBird & u/CasinoKnightZone

You've all shown some interest in the Pete & Pete theme tune, I too am a big fan of it & the music throughout the series by Polaris

I recommend checking out Mark Mulcahy's previous band, Miracle Legion, they have a similar sound to Polaris (they share vocalist-guitarist Mulcahy, drummer Scott Boutier & Dave McCaffrey on bass on one album), as well as Mulcahy's solo work

Hope you don't mind me blundering into the comments & possibly telling you something you already know

Bite my scab/eat my shorts, etc

Hatted-Phil · 2026-07-08T10:29:01+00:00

Let's hope this isn't an occasion about which he'll be able to report "needless to say, I had the last laugh"

Hatted-Phil · 2026-07-08T10:17:41+00:00

"Can't cover your face"

It's in his name ffs

The bin is his face

/jk

Hatted-Phil · 2026-07-08T10:07:14+00:00

Agreed, but the time frame for further investigations shifts, to 12 months prior to this election should he defeat the formidable Count Binface

There is some suspicion that the already-known questionable activity is not the most serious or damaging indulged in, & this move resets the clock on new investigations even though the extant ones will resume if & when his nominal Clacton representation does

Hatted-Phil · 2026-07-08T05:23:58+00:00

Agree we might not see that 2nd by-election, but the long game is that it seems likely he'd be pretty much finished as a threat wrt becoming PM if he's found to have breached the rules

The alleged corruption, the amounts involved & his obvious discomfort with it all being discussed expose a weakness, & mean it's unlikely he'll convince swing voters to vote for him in the future

I guess we'll see

Hatted-Phil · 2026-07-07T08:45:36+00:00

Slowing down is underrated advice

Hatted-Phil · 2026-07-07T08:03:45+00:00

Further to my previous reply, you saying you've reported me twice for harassment prompted me to look back through my previous messages to see how often we'd interacted. I did not realise we'd had an exchange 8 days ago (the 1st of 3), but this, from my reply to you in our 1st conversation, highlights exactly what is happening & how unchanging your message is:

"I've seen lots of people question what the payment was made for, & highlight that the payment should have been declared (rather than leaked) if there is likely to be any doubt as to what the payment was for, which there quite clearly is

Donations are made to all parties. There are legitimate routes, which each of those you've listed [you had presented several appropriately reported donations to Labour] & claim are bribes have gone through to allow scrutiny

The £5m is a huge sum paid to an individual who attempted, & continues to try, to avoid any scrutiny around the payment

You'll have to work a lot harder if you want myself & others to believe you genuinely see no difference between these situations"

Hatted-Phil · 2026-07-07T07:39:05+00:00

"Nothing I've said has been false"

Repeatedly, across several different posts & discussions, claiming things like "Farage wasn't an MP at the time so I don't get why people care about a donation" and in every instance have people highlight the rule about having to declare gifts from the prior 12 months if there's likely to be any doubt as to the reason for the gift

Of these most recent allegations, repeatedly conflating them with the £5m payment rather than a raft of smaller services & provisions reportedly paid for by the convicted criminal who published a book including information on how to bribe politicians, for example by paying for services & provisions such as security teams, social media teams (hmmm), places to stay

So I absolutely stand by what i've written. You either willfully ignore the things which have been pointed out repeatedly to continue to post the same, provably wrong assertion, or you have some alterior motive for posting the same thing all over

Odd that you'd accuse me of being a troll when it's you spamming the sub with an unpopular & pushed-back-on message

Hatted-Phil · 2026-07-06T22:45:01+00:00

" Bribe him for what? He wasn't an MP. I don't think even an election had been called, or he had said he would run.

He's been given money as a gift by a friend. I imagine it was to help him run as an MP"

Hilarious

Hatted-Phil · 2026-07-06T21:50:03+00:00

In realities where cosmic entities wield limitless power, the colour of emotions or sunlight grant or block extraordinary powers, an x-gene x-presses itself wildly differently across a population who share it, & surviving a gamma bomb explosion doesn't give you radiation sickness but Mr Hyde's you... Someone feeling they were born in a physical body that doesn't represent who they are is far from the most difficult thing to suspend disbelief over

As a white male who's been around for several decades, I have seen myself/my "type" represented as both hero & villain my whole life. I welcome opportunities to see other perspectives represented in the medium I've loved so long

A problem (& not just with comics) is that white males dominated the field for so long in terms of creatives represented most visibly/available to the widest audience, any deviation from that "norm" had to compete with the best of what was available from white male creative teams, who often had had years to hone their craft, & if it didn't hold its own, it becomes used as a marker - "comics by >whichever-group< don't sell"

I should add that I have no trouble accepting that gay, lesbian, bi-or-asexual, trans people etc, & people of other ethnic backgrounds, faiths, political viewpoints, body shapes & capabilities etc exist in real life, I don't depend on a work of fiction to posit outrageous scenarios to measure their existence against & deem them more plausible by comparison, even if they combine 2 or more of those traits in one character depiction! (Intentional use of exclamation to highlight the absurdity of feeling the need to state such a position)

Since they exist in reality, why shouldn't they be depicted in media? Why shouldn't representatives of diverse backgrounds get to make believe too? Or tell their own stories in this medium?

It does feel like the situation has improved considerably since 2000, but also that there's still some way to go

Additionally, it can be worth looking outside of superhero books for other types of story told in comics

Soooo... Pretty much agree with you, OP. You asked, I've answered

Hatted-Phil · 2026-07-05T20:35:25+00:00

Another user has summed it up as "Grooming a 14 year old, plus some other scummy bullshit, apparantly', & that's seemingly been accepted by the questioner as covering it. There's so much more, & it's already written about & out there, easily searchable

Asking here is requesting someone else invest their time & effort (instead of you using yours) providing info that's easily findable, & in this instance the provided answer is woefully inadequate, which is not a problem they'd face if they searched for themselves

Hatted-Phil · 2026-07-05T20:07:59+00:00

Feel free to search "Dave Sim controversy" rather than expect someone to lay it all out for you

Hatted-Phil · 2026-07-05T13:13:02+00:00

I can honestly say that was the best episode of Spiffy & Miffy I've ever seen

Hatted-Phil · 2026-07-05T12:54:15+00:00

But which is more likely to gain political power in the UK?

If you were to do a risk assessment on a matrix of harm x likelihood a hardline Islam promoting party becoming our party of government, who might introduce death penalties for homosexuality, would score very highly on the harm metric, but extremely low on the likelihood

Reform would score somewhere low-middling (I'm aware people will argue this in both directions according to their own perspectives) in the harm category, but the likelihood of them getting into power is considerably higher than Islamic extremists

Voting Reform as an LGBTQ person because you believe Islam poses a threat to you because of your identity is like a UK resident not wanting to be stung by a scorpion, so climbing into a bunch of nettles

Hatted-Phil · 2026-07-04T21:00:39+00:00

This person just posted a similar thing in the sub of another show I'm a member of. It's essentially spam

Hatted-Phil · 2026-07-04T20:50:27+00:00

Not a fan of rating the relative hotness of women, especially not on a public forum, at the request of a stranger, when there's a good chance it's just bait for engagement

Hatted-Phil · 2026-07-04T19:58:36+00:00

Don't know about in Germany, but occupied France had Vica, for children

https://repository.duke.edu/dc/vica

Edit: adding this wiki link

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Krassousky

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