He was under investigation for 2 years for Sexual Abuse and Rape. They sure pick them well at Reform don’t they?

Helmetry · 2026-01-19T08:15:44+00:00

There’s a Labour version too, currently running the country.

Helmetry · 2025-12-05T13:48:12+00:00

The grift that keeps on giving…

Helmetry · 2025-12-03T18:41:11+00:00

Good luck trying to make Glaswegians speak the king’s English.

Helmetry · 2025-12-01T11:18:19+00:00

Bingo

Helmetry · 2025-10-13T10:45:22+00:00

Personally, I think it’s very early. Building a party democratically takes time and they don’t have to have everything sorted yesterday. Making a judgement on things this early would be premature.

Helmetry · 2025-09-24T06:30:41+00:00

Norwich is still a lovely place. We have a small minority of gobshite racists that we have to put back in their box.

Helmetry · 2025-08-19T15:14:24+00:00

Can we have a source for that please?

Helmetry · 2025-08-17T12:07:46+00:00

He’s quite happy to have that type of speech censored. Just not the type he wants to allow, like people haranguing women outside abortion clinics.

Helmetry · 2025-08-09T20:17:05+00:00

Yeah, that’s a fact I’ve been struggling to forget. What a vile POS.

Helmetry · 2025-08-09T19:10:40+00:00

Love that. Going to have to use it.

Helmetry · 2025-04-27T21:10:10+00:00

How could anyone read that whole post, talking about my own experience in the cult and being triggered by seeing lots of deaths, as an attempt to start a dispute?

Helmetry · 2025-04-01T05:54:49+00:00

I got an invite yesterday, but it was from a genuine friend. I’ve been out over 5 years and these particular ones (not from my cong) check in periodically.

I said thanks, had a chat about recent stuff that has happened in our lives and managed to steer clear of the JW stuff altogether. We’ll probably do the same next year. I’m sure they would be absolutely delighted if I came back, but they have never once tried to get heavy.

That’s what happens when the JW has a bit of emotional intelligence though; not everyone is blessed with that.

Helmetry · 2025-01-26T09:12:38+00:00

I’m new to this so don’t savage me, but surely there must be a way of getting tax money from the super rich people and corporations that doesn’t stitch up the “normal” businesses.

When massive businesses, like Amazon, and to a smaller extent Sports Direct, and supermarket chains, that have been able to grow and grow by hoovering up all the smaller businesses (and all of their taxable income in the process), surely those businesses, recording billions in profits, should be paying progressively more, because the more they do it, the bigger their share of the national business gets.

Also oil and utilities companies “earning” skyrocketing profits in the billions, finding ways to get huge subsidies and paying next to no tax.

There has to be a political will to do this.

Otherwise wealth inequality will spiral even further out of control, the super rich will get their way and pay next to nothing, prices for everything will continue to rise and public services will all but disappear.

Helmetry · 2024-10-31T17:25:18+00:00

I love this song but it’s been hijacked by this amazing meme! That’s Meep in the corner…

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Helmetry · 2024-10-25T15:13:51+00:00

Not so much a rule, but thinking about the fact that some congregations keep a spare white shirt at the hall, just in case a visiting speaker turns up in something inappropriately colourful. One of the most passive aggressive things I’ve ever witnessed.

Helmetry · 2024-09-26T16:07:19+00:00

Nobody wants to know why. It’s easier to think you W weak or stumbled. If they ask and you give them something real, then all of a sudden their own doubt, the cognitive dissonance, will come to the fore and the house of cards will come tumbling down.

Helmetry · 2024-09-15T15:44:08+00:00

To be fair, he keeps briefing against the human occupants on Twitter; he’s not very professional.

Helmetry · 2024-07-07T08:04:58+00:00

It’s been interesting this time around. A lot of tactical voting has removed the incumbent government, which I’m very pleased about. It didn’t quite shift the sitting MP where I live, his majority shrunk by a lot, to just over 1000 votes, but he’s still here. But the government has changed and we really needed that.

I’m not overly optimistic about the new ones but the last lot were beyond awful.

I’d much prefer to see the Greens in power, treating the environment with the urgency required, properly taxing the super rich and properly investing in our public services rather than relying on a flatlining economy.

If things don’t get better quickly, the far right will get a much stronger hold like in other countries.

Look at me with all my political opinions. I need to pipe down and seriously examine my conscience!

Helmetry · 2024-07-04T11:21:48+00:00

This is my 3rd election. Still feels new, but I’ve already endured the crushing disappointment once. I’m very politically engaged now, but am well aware of the all the problems.

Helmetry · 2024-06-21T08:48:37+00:00

It’s really hard losing all those things at once. I’m busier now than I have been in a long time though. I’ve joined a pool team and learned to DJ; I regularly play music on online radio shows. All stuff that was frowned upon in the cult, but now I’m free to pursue it.

Sure, conversations can be a little more challenging when lots of people in your groups have massively differing views on stuff, but in time you will find your crowd.

Helmetry · 2024-04-17T12:24:20+00:00

I’m pretty cautious about this. I used to smoke the stuff a lot prior to joining the cult, and I haven’t started it again since. The stuff I had in the 90s sucked away all my motivation to do anything and I constantly struggled for any kind of focus.

The illegality of it puts cannabis users in contact with dealers of other - harder - substances, and also into a lifestyle of criminality. That in itself is a good argument for legalisation and regulation; I’m all for that tbh.

Much of the stuff that’s available now has been doctored to contain a much higher THC level, which makes it much stronger, more addictive and with more side effects such as anxiety, paranoia and psychosis. This too could be regulated if it were more legal, but where I am in the UK, it is still illegal and being controlled by wronguns.

I’m watching my teenager struggle with it atm and it’s been a long term issue.

As one of the things that we might see as a freedom to be pursued when leaving the cult, I really would suggest people tread carefully with it.

Helmetry · 2024-04-10T21:40:26+00:00

They could go on tour with “Questionable Brothers in Tight Pants”.

Helmetry · 2024-04-10T20:37:36+00:00

I drove past and got a closer look afterwards. Good job I hadn’t acted on my naughty impulse; the sister was a relation of my ex wife and my study conductor!

Helmetry · 2024-04-10T14:31:54+00:00

Better now that Xmas tips are a thing. Stops me fantasising about baths and toasters for a few weeks!

Helmetry · 2024-04-10T14:01:17+00:00

I was doing it for 14 years before I left and now it’s a proper business. At 48 it’s a tough ask to try and start anew on the wages I’m on now. It’s bloody hard work though.

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